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Sunday, May 31, 2009

DIAPERING DIFFICULTY

I really dont know how to diaper Jenna,if ur wondering what is so difficult in diapering a baby.. its not the diapering which is difficult ,its the task of making her lay still for putting on a diaper... Nowadays she resists diapering so much that it is driving me nuts.. once i lay her to put on a diaper ,she sits up from her laying position and starts crawling away from me...believe me it takes me atleast 5 minutes to put on a diaper for her.. i give her toy to play with while diapering but within a minute she throws it away and will flee immediately... any mommy out there reading this please give me tips on how to put on a diaper for an active baby..?It will help me big time and many other mommies too...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

PENDING VISIT

We had to go today for Jenna 's pending 6 month well baby check up,we missed the appointment since we were in India at that time.. Now she is almost 8 months... She weighed 19 pounds and is 27 inches in height.Our regular ped was missing today so we had another doc to check her.Jenna was tugging at the doc's stethoscope while checking her heart beat.She wanted to see her crawl and kept a book faraway from her and Jenna at once crawled super fast and picked the book..she made mommy proud.Then we had one of her pending shots today and SURPRISE ....she never cried today. She was looking at the nurse so intently that she never realised she had a shot .... so todays dr visit went well.. btw i was so tired for the past two days that i didnt feel like blogging.. Jenna is up at odd hours in the night due to jet lag and wants to play so i give her company... but sweetie pie rests in the morning but i have to cook for her daddy and i get tired by the evening... waiting for the jet lag to go away and have a goodnights rest

Monday, May 25, 2009

REACHED

We reached u.s yesterday.. Jenna was doing great in the flight ... much better than the last time.She slept in the bassinet,played ,ate and slept,i can tell confidently that she was the best baby in the flight..since other babies were cranky and crying.She even earned a compliment from a co-passenger who was sitting with us that she is a happy girl and doing well in such a long journey.Im missing my family terribly ,even Jenna .......,yesterday we video skyped with my folks and when she saw my mom she started crying and was moving towards the laptop... i stopped the video chat immediately,i didnt know what to do,i became so overwhelmed and started crying with her... poor hubby had to console both of us.. She didnt sleep properlytoo,she is waking in the middle of the night and is sitting up and crying...i guess the change in the enviroment..she is crying so much even when i get up to drink water...she is so cranky.. me too.SIGH!I wish I was back home: (

Saturday, May 23, 2009

GOING TO BE HOMESICK

In another 5 hours we will be boarding the flight to u.s leaving back loads of memories.....i really dont want to go back leaving my family but we have to. Jenna is going to miss everybody , i dont know how she is goin to adjust to a house full of people,bustling with activity to an empty house...the next one week is goin to be difficult for me and Jenna...as she was hardly ever with me in India, she used to be playing with my nephews and neices,or in my neighbour's house.... she never missed me at all.I hope she soon adjusts to the old enviroment and is not fussy....Back home i will have to start my routine like cooking ,laundry and tending to basic domestic stuffs.... no more pampering from my mom :( Last time i felt this low was when my mom left from u.s to India, i was not myself,i sat crying with Jenna beside me at my empty home... hope this time i dont feel so home sick and get back to my normal self again....

Thursday, May 21, 2009

JENNA 'S FIRST HAIRCUT

Jenna had her first official haircut in the hair salon .The unofficial haircut was given by my hubby when she was four months old. If you have been following my blog you would find in all the photos Jenna having considerable amount of hair.After coming to India she started sweating a lot mostly in the back of her head ....so we thought of giving a haircut,we chose a hair salon because the last haircut given by my hubby was disastrous and i wouldnt want him touching her hair again. So we left to the salon and she sat in the salon chair and anyone who looked at her that time will think she was the best behaved baby in town but once the hair stylist kept the scissors on her head everything turned upside down... she screamed bloody murder and didnt coperate at all..the hair stylist did whatever she can in the little time she sat straight but she cut so much that i cannot even use the hair bows and clips on her head anymore.She looks so much like her dad now ,there are people asking me whether she is a boy,though she is dressed in pink and wears a hairband..(i dunno from when did boys started wearing pink??? )duh! I reallly get irritated when they ask me whether its a boy ,not that i dislike boys,i jus dont like people changing gender.. even if i had a boy i wouldnt want anyone calling him a girl... anyways her summer haircut is done and im planning not to cut her for the next one year atleast.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

GIRLS DAY OUT




Its a long time since i went out with my friends ,this month i went out with my school buddies not once but twice .I have a special liking for all my school friends mainly because i ve known them all my life and we have no boundaries between us.. i can talk what i like and know that they wont judge me for anything i do or say.We met last weekend for dinner and were talking till it was actually time to close the restaurant. This is the last time im meeting them since we are travelling back to the u.s of a this weekend...and im really goin to miss them a lot.Its nice to go out with friends once in a while,leaving all your mommy chores at home and enjoying for a few hours and getting back feeling rejuvenated and ready to carry on with ur routine work again. I usually avoid going out fearing Jenna will start crying when im not there but that doesnt happen ... dont know whether to be happy or disappointed that she does not search for mommy...but when im back after few hours she is all smiles and jumps from the arms of my hubby or mom ... the happiness in her face when im back cannot be described by words...it just melts my heart....mommyhood is definitely an experience of a lifetime.

Monday, May 18, 2009

SILLY FIGHT

Yesterday,me and my bro while playing with Jenna started to fight about who she likes the best ? I said since im the mom she will like me the best but he refused to understand since every time Jenna sees my bro,she gets excited and crawls to him.. so we decided to test and see who she likes the best .We stood few feet away from her and each of us decide to call out to her,to whomever she crawls and comes to is liked the best.. i started calling'' Jenna ,come to mommy'' and he was calling out to her ''Jenna ,come to mama(uncle)''..... she started crawling towards us... i was super confident that she will come to me..after all babies like their mom the best, but all of sudden she looked at us and turned back and went in the other direction leaving us dumbfounded.......

Thursday, May 14, 2009

CRAWLING

There was a time when i wished Jenna would start crawling sooner,so that she will busy on her own and i can have time for myself,little did i know that once they start crawling i wont have any time at all... she is crawling non-stop, pulling telephone wires,picking up the tiniest of objects(not yet mouthing it)thank god!She follows me wherever i go,even to the kitchen and restroom.. her knees have become dark and bruised due to crawling on the floor... she also started pulling up to stand and hurts herself everytime... im constantly behind her and i tell infinite number of ''no Jenna ''to her... i dont know whether she understands 'no' but i do still tell her and she stops for a second and continues to do what she is doing again.... sometimes my back hurts so much....(back ache due to tailbone injury during delivery)it gets aggravated when i bend too much,too many times...my mom keeps saying ''wait till she starts walking u will have no rest then''..so i guess its now time to shed the last few pounds gained during pregnancy...

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY


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Sunday, May 10, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME....

Today is my birthday,i m 24 years old now.. this birthday is special since Jenna is here with me and im in India to celebrate and yayy.. mother 's day falls on my birthday..but one thing i was sad about is that my family was not here with me on my birthday :( , they left for my cousin' s marriage..My brother had surprised me with a yummy chocolate truffle cake and had got a dress.. my darling hubby got me a pearl and gem set with a bracelet,the best gift of all was Jenna s card for Mother 's day with her thumb print on it... (Jamil s idea) isnt that chweet? In the evening all my girlfriends got together and they surprised me again with a cake and had given me a beautiful anklet.. this is the first time i m celebrating with my friends since most of the time i wouldnt be in town for my birthday.. Lot of my old friends had remembered and had called to wish..All in all it was a great day... a memorable one i would say..if u guys are reading thank u for making me feel special ...

Friday, May 8, 2009

ISSUES

People who see me always comment about one thing thats my weight, until i was pregnant they used to tell me im very thin and i will disappear if i dont eat properly , believe me i used to eat well but i was one of the very few lucky ones who never seem to put on weight .... pregnancy packed a few pounds say 30 pounds but it was never an issue because i was not weighing the normal weight for my height. Post partum I shed nearly 20 pounds...in a month.Now people are still commenting about my weight like'' u have put on weight..blah blah......,some people go to the extent of saying i have become fat which is totally absurd because i weigh only 124 pounds which is normal weight for my height.... i seriously have a doubt, all along my life they said i was very thin and finally when i gained weight they say im fat.. phew.. do they expect me to be a size zero or what?I m happy with my weight and i love my post partum body.When i see my old photos i feel i looked bad then........ so all you people next time u see a new mommy who is finding difficult to shed those last few pounds,first of all,dont comment about their weight,and dont say u have become fat... its a very sensitive issue for many...but for me i really dont care.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

7 MONTH MILESTONES


Jenna has turned 7 months and she is constantly busy..following are the milestones she has reached


1.first of all, she started crawling.. yay! she is busy crawling and exploring things... but its become difficult for us since we are constantly behind her


2. She is now saying two words together like thatha,pappa,abba,kaka...


3.Interesting part is if someone takes her things say for example her toy or even her dirty diaper she starts saying thatha which means give me in Tamil(its our language spoken at home)i dont know whether she knows what thatha means but she says that when she wants something.

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4.She claps her hand and says kaap kaap... i will post video of this soon.its so cutee..


5.She pulls herself to stand but falls down.


6.She sits without support.


7.She started eating indian foods like dosa,curd rice.. she loves it..


8.Her favourite song of this month is ava enna thedi vantha anjalai from vaaranam aayiram..(its a tamil song)


last month for her has been very busy... sitting up,crawling,pulling herself to stand....the coming months will be very busy for us since we have to start running behind her.

Monday, May 4, 2009

AM I ?

Lately i have become such a germ freak.... i carry hand sanitizers in my hand bag anad diaper bag.. (i know most of them do have sanitizers in their bag)but do u guys do it to the extent of carrying lysol disinfect spray pocket pack wherever u go... i do... i keep washing my hands more than the necessary times...i went to the extent of not allowing my bro to touch her since he showed signs of cold... everyone ridicules me but i dont want to catch an infection and spread it to Jenna.People here get offended easily when all i say is to wash their hands and carry her. The sole reason i do this is for Jenna ,no one will want their children to get infected.. With all this hype about swine flu i m getting scared to return since all the newspapers here advise not to travel to u.s and mexico.. but it is even expected to spread in India.. we cant runaway from viruses CAN WE?all we can do is protect ourselves.There were times when i have handled patients without even wearing gloves now i wont take a risk,(oh!for people who are wondering what patients? btw i am a dentist now on a extended maternity leave i would say) And we had a free dental camp in which i participated along with my cousin who is also a dentist... it was nice to see patients again though i didnt do any treatment ,we just screened patients and explained the treatment to be done.. just to create awareness and yes even here after every patient i was continously sanitising my hands....