Feb - Sudha's 2nd birthday. And her realization of all things pretty, including herself when dressed up in Indian clothes and bangles. She was still a nighttime terror, and she hated being put to sleep. I had to draw out her bedtime routine to almost 1.5 hrs, with minimal success.
March - Sudha's ever expanding vocabulary and suddenly talking in full sentences! She had her first bike ride and Atlanta had its first (almost) tornado along with the first sunshine of the year. Sleepwise, I realize I need more patience and decide to have dinner with her inorder to store my ammunition for the night.
April - The beginning of a new adventure. In Sleeptime news, I'm off to bed with Sudha at 8pm and usually fall asleep before she does so I have no idea how things go.
May - Zero energy for anything. Morning sickness hits full time. Sudha finally has tiny tuffts of hair after her all out haircut in November and loves getting her hair done at school.
June - Some return of my energy, but still pukey. Sudha now recognizes almost all colours all of a sudden. She talks a lot and has some funny mis=pronounciations. Temperature peaks and she enjoys in the water of her kiddie pool. I am hunting for an awesome bed to tempt her into sleeping on her own.
July - Sudha freaked out at the fireworks show at Lenox mall. Her new words were "yeah" and "I wanna .. " both of which grate on my preggo nerves. She saw her first movie on TV - the Lion King and loved it. I took her swimming almost every evening after I come back from work. We tried moving her back to her crib in our room, with 50% success.
August - A very eventful month! We went on a 7 night cruise vacation to Bahamas, St. Thomas and St. Martin, along with a day trip to Ruby Falls, Chatanooga. After a very stressful start of the month, I quit my job. Well ... I asked to go part-time and they offered to contract me. Whatever. I give up with the crib and Sudha and let her sleep in our King bed.
September - Sudha and me have lots of fun filled days, going to the Aquarium, the Zoo, etc. I took up a short term contract which pays well, but brings in its own set of stress. Kannada Koota had its 30th anniversary and Sudha took part in the fancy dress. Too pukey to handle Sudha's diapers, Potty training is in full swing and we are having some success.
In a last ditch effort, I decided to do an underwater theme room, a la 'Finding Nemo'. I got a toddler bed and bed spreads from IKEA to make a "bubble toddler bed" and "Fish twin bed" so she could choose where she wanted to sleep.
October - I change my practice to Margaret/Kay at ISIS. We have a very low key Navrathri. Guru has his second round of dental surgery and Sudha has a tantrum when I dont let her go trick-or-treat, until I finally cave in. After the bedtime routing of books, songs, etc, I started telling Sudha that I needed to go out for 5 min for laundry, or restroom, or eating or, something everyday like. It took about 2 weeks, but it worked !!! She finally finally finally started sleeping by herself in our bed.
November - My mum comes to help me out, Sudha and Ajji bond immediately. We go to The Wiggles concert. My due date looms near, I have a lot of false BH alarms and I'm more nervous than excited.
December - The best gift of all. Swapna Brinda Gururaj is born after just 1.5 hrs of labour in an amazing waterbirth. Unlike last time, I feel like I could run a marathon the very next day.
Could it get any better? :)
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