Pool experience

Happy New year to everyone!

Abhay got used to having so many people around during the holidays. On Monday morning when he woke up it was just the two of us. He kept looking around thinking everyone is playing "peekaboo" with him.

I had to take him around the whole house and tell him that it is just the two of us and no one else is at home.

We were very glad to have Revathi back on Wednesday.

We were very excited when Friday rolled around as we were enrolled in a swim class. I thought I had registered for the water babies class but then realized that it was actually a Aqua mommy (exercise for mom) class that I had registered. That apart, it was a awesome experience.

It was a great way to introduce Abhay to the water and he loved it. He was the youngest baby in the class. He was cooing all through out and smiling. He chased some balls around in the water, crawled in the play area, kicked his legs as soon as I had him in the water, almost floated on his back with very little support from me, splashed the water in the falls. We made some new friends. We are looking forward to the next class. I am going to try and register him for the water babies class in spring.

The last two weeks have been very eventful. Abhay started crawling forwards in the third week of December. The very next week he was trying to stand up holding on to things. I left him in the crib and went to the restroom. I did not hear any noise all of a sudden. I rushed out as quickly as I could and a good thing I did too - Abhay was standing up holding the side of the crib. He had this look of achievement on his face. He was surveying the room and smiling. I had the shock of my life as I had not expected it to happen so soon. We lowered the height in his crib that very day.

This week he is trying to cruise as well as hold things standing up. He stands up using his hand and whatever is vertical. Then he forgets he needs his hands to keep standing. He lets go off whatever he has used to stand up and starts reaching for other interesting objects. As somebody aptly said " The motion has started".

The next big project for us - CHILD PROOFING.