Week of Feb 17th

It has been three wks now since MIL left. It has been tough but we are managing.

I am working part time and I think this is giving me the best of both worlds. I leave around 8 am. This is usually after Abhay is awake and gone through some of his morning routine. Sampath is usually ready or semi ready by then. He finishes getting both of them ready and drops Abhay off at day care around 9. Most days breakfast is at the day care as it is too early for him to eat or he just does not want to.

I pick him up around 1:30. He has finished his lunch by then. We come home, eat a snack as I am eating lunch. Read or try to read a book and then fight not to sleep. He resists sleeping so much be it in the afternoon or at night.

He wakes up and then it is another struggle to get him to drink milk in a sippy cup. The doctor has been telling us to transition to sippy cup since he was a year old. He will drink everything else (juice, water) from a sippy cup but not milk. I have tried so many different kinds of sippy cups that I probably can have an exhibit of my own on sippy cup styles. The hope is he will like one enough to start drinking milk from it.

This is week 3 of the experiment and I can sense a corner being turned here.He drank all of 3 oz yesterday from the sippy cup. This is a huge achievement from the kid who screamed his head off when he saw that the milk was in the sippy cup and not bottle.

Then he plays a little in the kitchen as I prep for dinner. Then it is bath time and ofcourse now bathing involves his favourite pass time - Pouring game. Yesterday I gave him a few disposable glasses and he played pouring game with the glasses, water from the bathing bucket, his bath stool and his soap container for almost half hour. He probably could have gone on for lot longer but I decided to be the spoil sport and give him a bath.

Dinner was chappathi, kurma and yogurt. This was not too bad as he happens to like all of them.

He still wants to eat everything by himself but he is getting much better at it. He can eat rice (mixed very tightly and made into balls) if he wants to or is hungry.

Diet has expanded a little. We have raagi dosa, noodles (without veggies), mac and cheese thrown into the mix. I now see the logic to Shruthi's chart of rotating food.
But I am too lazy to device one and not disciplined enough to stick to one.

His latest thing is he says Hi by waving his hands to everyone he sees. He said Hi to his grandparents and Vijay Chittappa on video chat. He says hi to us when he wakes up. He even said hi to me when I walked out of the bathroom yesterday.