Nowadays life is more settled. Tumpi is handling everything, its been a while that I have even changed Reimaan's diapers. And without really feeling my li'l one has completed 2 months with us. For me fatherhood feeling or what I don't know, but he is a huge stress-buster for me. Over the last month, he has started giving social smiles from the monalisa-smile of first month, but those are most unpredictable. He responds to sounds like rattles, claps,etc and also makes sometimes in response. Morning is his most playful period, but I prefer to be sleeping that time. Don't think I can continue doing this for long. The best thing for me is the first sight after I wake up, see him stretching and kicking in air, gives a kick-ass start to my day. And the 2nd best thing is when I go to bed in the night and he is sleeping, I never seen PEACE better. Love this !!
Another interesting is his (or for that matter any kid's) development. Since we are seeing him grow, every new change is amazing and noticible. He tries to turn already and cries for cuddling when he sees his mom. He needs attention, someone needs to talk/sing to him, else he starts crying. Signs of growth but symptoms of hectic life ahead!
Over the last month, he got his standard 4 immunization shots to which he responded pretty well. He had only mild fever. The doctor and the nurse pushed 2 shots in each thigh, and his reaction was so less, that we thought he was confused which one pained more! But things would be different as he realises what-might-cause-pain.
We did celebrate his 2 months with some cakes (dada got one and me also) which basically was for us.
Life has changed now, it didn't when I got married, thanks to Tumpi. But surely it did now. Every one's whole and sole focus is Reimaan. It might take somewhere between 2-3 more yrs for us to go to a restaurant or a movie without hampering his schedule. Not that I am missing those, but it's just an indication.
Lastly, seeing Tumpi doing all the chores, I understood a difference between a girl, women/wife and a mother better. If a girl has X amount of patience, the same person when turns into a women/wife that X becomes 2X or say even 10X, but when she becomes mother it explodes to INFINITE times. Fathers like me, we are mostly moody and need to control our emotions seeing the li'l one cry, most times for something and sometimes for just nothing. Lot to learn and lot to control. The young blood is causing problem !!
Some photos coming up next post....
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Reimaan completes a month
What a week it was!! As Dharam paaji would say, "Is mein excitement bhi tha, tiredness bhi tha, happiness tha and baad mein tension bhi thaa".
We thought to celebrate the first month with bit of partying and Maa (Thaami) decided to do some rituals for the day. As it happens with Bong calendars, things are always ahead so Reimaan's "BRATA" - one month completion fell on 23rd July, I still don't understood how. More than the Narayan Puja that marked the Brata rituals it was the preparations that took the sting out of many of us including me. The killer was the Puja being performed at 7 am, so preparation started at night 3 am. There was some respite as Puspadi and Shubha arrived at 330am from Chennai. However, everything went on fine and things were over by 10am. Supriya (maasi) and her mom also arrived in the afternoon from Hyderabad.
Next day was more planned as the party was in the evening. Some traditional bong food, some good friends from schools, college, office and Bangalore days and of course my extended familywere present on the occasion. We ended up cutting 3 cakes for his first month and that wont be the trend in coming months. It was really good to see everyone showering blessing as I didn't realise we would need so much of it in the next 1 week.
On Sunday, as all guest took a leave and normalcy was supposed to return, in came some virus that stayed with me for next 1 week. There was a day when every one from Reimaan to Baba, from Taan to Dada was running fever, even the cook and maids kids were having fever, only difference was some higher than the other. Only Maa was fine and how did she manage to handle everything still amazes me. What was looking like the arguable the worst week of my life turned into the worst week of my life by next Friday. The fever hit so hard that it took another week to recover from the weakness and that's the reason the post comes so late ! But as Funshuk Wangru would say "AAL IZZ WELL".
Pics coming soon with the next post ...
We thought to celebrate the first month with bit of partying and Maa (Thaami) decided to do some rituals for the day. As it happens with Bong calendars, things are always ahead so Reimaan's "BRATA" - one month completion fell on 23rd July, I still don't understood how. More than the Narayan Puja that marked the Brata rituals it was the preparations that took the sting out of many of us including me. The killer was the Puja being performed at 7 am, so preparation started at night 3 am. There was some respite as Puspadi and Shubha arrived at 330am from Chennai. However, everything went on fine and things were over by 10am. Supriya (maasi) and her mom also arrived in the afternoon from Hyderabad.
Next day was more planned as the party was in the evening. Some traditional bong food, some good friends from schools, college, office and Bangalore days and of course my extended familywere present on the occasion. We ended up cutting 3 cakes for his first month and that wont be the trend in coming months. It was really good to see everyone showering blessing as I didn't realise we would need so much of it in the next 1 week.
On Sunday, as all guest took a leave and normalcy was supposed to return, in came some virus that stayed with me for next 1 week. There was a day when every one from Reimaan to Baba, from Taan to Dada was running fever, even the cook and maids kids were having fever, only difference was some higher than the other. Only Maa was fine and how did she manage to handle everything still amazes me. What was looking like the arguable the worst week of my life turned into the worst week of my life by next Friday. The fever hit so hard that it took another week to recover from the weakness and that's the reason the post comes so late ! But as Funshuk Wangru would say "AAL IZZ WELL".
Pics coming soon with the next post ...
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