PULLING UP TO STAND

I m feeling so tired, i had a very busy day running behind Jenna who is constantly pulling up to stand holding all the furnitures she comes across... even right now as im typing this she is pulling out all the dvds from the tv stand... i let her do it and im not going to disturb her because i know even if i bring her and put her in a different place,she will crawl back to the same position.Im really thankful to God she has not yet identified the fire place yet... we have put few boxes in front of the fireplace so she does not see it... Sometimes it is so funny,she holds on to the chair and looks so terrified knowing that she will fall any minute and then she falls on her butt and then she is again trying to stand though she jus fell..And if she sees me in the kitchen , within the blink of an eye she will be in the kitchen pulling herself up holding on to the dishwasher. Nowadays my house is in such a mess that if my mom sees it ,i will get an earful of how to keep the house clean but i cant help it...there are toys and dvds strewn across the floor,u will wonder whether there was an earthquake in our area...Ummm....no one told me it will be difficult to manage once they start crawling...

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...

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

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: (

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....

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.

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.