Monday, August 30, 2010

Happy 3rd Bday My Child

My little baby turned 3 last week. Unlike the past 2 birthdays where we had a huge bash with all friends and family in town, we decided to keep it very cozy and close knit only with immediate family this time around. We wanted to take full advantage of the fact that now that we are in the same country, we can actually share such events with parents and let them have the joy of seeing their little ones grow too. So we booked a trip to Bombay and took a week off from work just so we can be with family.

We enjoyed seeing N bonding with her dada-dadi-bua, nana-nani and even took time out to visit my brother in Pune so that she could see her mama-mami and some of our cousins in Bombay and Pune. Overall nice quality time with family was spent and new memories of the child's 3rd bday were created. Her day started with a visit to the Ganpati temple with her mom-dad-dada-dadi and then cake cutting in the evening. Later we took her to McDonalds for dinner so that she could hog on fries and ketchup to her heart's content!

Got back yesterday and each of us had withdrawal symptoms of getting back to our usual grind this morning :-) The little one kept saying "I don't want to go to school" and "Mamma don't go to office" until she asked what was in her dabba. When I mentioned apples, she asked for cake. And when I actually agreed, she was overjoyed. She was thrilled at going to school with cake in her snack box and actually got ready in a jiffy. She surprised me by even saying her prayers without being prompted to (which is a never before activity btw). I have been saying the Gayatri Mantra with her each morning while starting our drive to school and she helps me finish it. Today she said the whole thing (obviously in her cute childish language) all by herself and pranced around to go to school. But then at the school gate, she actually had tears in her eyes when I dropped her there. I am sure she'll be fine in a few days time as she meets her friends that she has missed over the last 9 days. Already last night was a blast when she just refused to be separated from her best friend A and insisted we go out to dinner with them as well! So a nice Italian dinner was had - courtesy her friend A and our child N who refused to be separated on meeting each other after 9 long days! Another milestone of sorts was had last night when she actually kept her promise of not sucking her thumb if we took her out with her friend A with whom she so wanted to go to the restaurant. She surprisingly did not suck her thumb throughout dinner even though she got sleepy and tired by the end and kept saying "I want to go home and sleep" coz she knew she had promised not to suck her thumb at the restaurant. Even at bed time we insisted a little and she kept the promise well. I am proud of her for keeping her promise this time although it was very difficult for her.

May she grow to make herself and us prouder of her each day...each year...forever. Love you to bits my little one.

6 comments:

Hetal said...

Belated Happy Birthday Niki!!
Lovely post Divya! My only advice to you is just enjoy each and every moment with her and feel proud about it. Sooner than you think she will start pulling pranks on you. Just this morning I was so surprised to see IP go to the bus stop on his ripstick. He has really nailed it down and it looked like he was sailing away. I didn't even realize when did he grow so much!! Even SP gives me his share of 'jhatkas'
Lots of love to Niki and God bless her!!

Divs said...

Thanks HVP. Wow - they grow up so fast! I cannot imagine my baby doing ripstiks soon :-) How are your kiddos doing otherwise...i mean SP's health issues and stuff?

Diary Of A Stardusted Dreamer said...

Ohhh nooooo you were in Pune??? I wish I'd known, we could've met! Let me know if you visit again. And a very happy birthday to N, hope she has a wonderful year ahead!

Divs said...

Oh newmum - I somehow always thought you lived in Blore! Wierd :-) Nyways...we couldn't have met even if we wanted to...we were there for a day and barely had time to meet our own family. Maybe next time for sure or when you are in this part of the country...

Jyoti said...

hey, read your post after a long time... completely forgot Nikki's bday... belated happy bday to her...

Divs said...

Thanks Jyo!