Rebel

C is also potty trained quite a bit now. Whenever she has no 1 or 2, she would come and say 'kakka'. She has started doing this whenever she needs attention too.
The other day both daph and athai were making fish fry in the patio. They could not let C out and so had left her inside the house and latched the glass door. I was sitting inside with C. C was not satisfied and was knocking on the door requesting them to open it. After some time, she did no 1 without telling anyone just next to the door.
We cleaned everything and gave a shouting to C. After 3 minutes, C did it again. I dont know where she gets the liquid from, but she did it in the same spot!!! Hmm...

Expressions

C has started expressing herself these days. she would bring a shoe and make us put it on her. Or ask her for 'nanni' If we still dont give her water, she would take us to the fridge and show us the water filter where we get drinking water from.
She has learnt to say no and mostly uses against us to forbid certain things, like taking the cell phone from her, etc. She also says it sternly with the same tone, we use for her.

walking on sand

Yesterday we went to the creve couer park. Daph and Athai had prepared picnic dinner. There was a volleyball court in the park. We thought C would like the sand and would play in it. However, C was very afraid of the sand and was standing still and would not move. I guess, she thought the sand was unsteady and she could not walk on it or something!
After sometime, C got used to it, but still would not walk freely but would play with the sand and threw it all over her.

Potty Training - Part 2

C has been helping us to potty train her by "saying" kakka whenever she wants to go for 1 or 2. She also used it to manipulate us sometimes. Yesterday, we had the her red potty in the living room. C for the first time, went and sat on it herself, (without telling us kakka or anything) and went number 1 without any problem. That was really good on her part. Only thing is she forgot to take off her panty and dress before going number one!!!!

Kick

Sometime back we bought a play ball bigger than C. She calls is "BAA" and plays with it often. Yesterday I taught her to kick, and C is all into it now. For such a small baby she kicks it well. She even understands that she could loose her balance while kicking and so picks up the ball, takes it closer to our dining table, places it and then holds on to the dining table in one hand and then kicks the ball!!!

Yard work

C enjoys doing the yard work with daph and Athai. She likes to be outdoors, runs here and there and tries to eat the leaves, flowers and small stones.

Amen

Athai and Daph have taught C to say Amen especially before a meal. They say grace and C says amen at the end and gets ready for the food.
The other day C wanted to drink some water while I was having some. She was crying and I asked her whether she wanted water. She kept crying. So I told her, "Only if you say 'yes' (aamaam) I would give you some water". C didnt blink for a moment but hurriedly said "Amen".

Mazhalai

C is on a mazhalai phase. she can say "appidiya" but I guess does not understand it. She still cannot say "appa" but says "dada" or "daghi". She also calls Daph like that. Daph is trying to tell her not to call her by name.
She walks around the house in Daph's chappals. She also wants to wear chappals at home and hopes that she would be taken out. After returning home, she would come and try to remove my shoe (phoo per C) and tries to remove her shoe too.
She looks like learning a lot of new words from Athai these days.

Spring cleaning

Athai and Daph started spring cleaning during the weekend. C was very elated to be outside and she was even let free. She was running around the backyard and getting in D, Athai and my way. She was very happy and didnt eat too much of dirt!
After some time, Daph and Athai continued to work and I came indoors. C tried to close the door and took a misstep and fell down the 3 rises and cried a lot for some time.
In the evening, to celebrate Daph's and Athai's work on raking the leaves, we went to Ted Drewes ice creams. C was hungry and didnt like to eat ice creams!

Potty training

After Athai's arrival, Potty Training has been on full swing for C. She learnt to say kakka. The trouble is whenever we take her out, she is on diapers and she does not want to go in diapers, (because we would shout at her later) and wants to go only in the potty but 'her' potty is not available every where (in Home Depot, for eg.)
At home most of the times, she indicates by saying Kakka, but some times, it seems, that she is doing it for fun too!
Some times she tells us after the incident and gets a full earload from Athai!!! C listens very seriously what athai has to say and makes a very sullen face, etc. Athai also bought here a new attachment (that can be carried around) that goes on top of a regular potty. It seems, C likes to go in that new attachment because the falling water (liquid!) makes dripping sounds!!!

Locking herself

C has been locking herself in the bedroom. D has been telling C not to do it but C is not listening yet. Luckily C cannot latch herself but still it looks bad. The other day she shut the door and didnt make any noise for sometime. When I opened to check what she is doing, she was coolly playing inside the room without worrying about the outside!!!

Sharing

Ritu and Mohit visited today along with Kush. Athai gave both, C and Kush, toys to play with. But C would keep taking back the toys from him. Looks like C has not learnt to share and was very particular of all the toys. Even though she may not usually play with it, she was bent upon taking it from Kush! She also kept calling him 'baby'.

Waking Kakka

Chantel came and sat with me while watching the movie Rent. She was doing her own thing and after some time came and lied down on my lap. And in two minutes, promptly went to sleep.
I like it when she sleeps on my lap. 1 hour later, C got up, and was still sleepy, and was rubbing her eyes, and told me "kakka". I took her and put her on the potty. She promptly 'went' (while half asleep). After that I carried her off the potty and left her with amma.
That was really nice of her to wake up and say 'kakka' rather than wetting the leather couch and my lap!!! Athai also said in the morning, that she didnt wet the diaper at all the whole night but went in the potty in the morning!
Way to go C! (Researcher Dr Daphne concludes that C is 90% potty trained!!! I dont know where D got her numbers from though.)

Emperor's clothes

C does not want to wear any clothes at all. She has learnt to dupe us by saying "Kakka" and after all of us panic and take her panty off, she would just sit on the potty for some seconds, just to while away some time, and then take off. She thinks she can run around this small house and escape from Athai!
Also, in the morning, after C's been cleaned up and "anointed", she run away and would refuse to wear anything at all. I typically am afraid, during those times, that her dry skin cream would stick to my 'office' clothes! In the end, one person has to hold C and the other forcibly slide her dress over her...

Looks

Yazhini looks cute sometimes and not so cute some other times. WE still cannot figure this out. Whenever Daph trims C's hair, she looks lovely. Daph says that C looks great all the time and one should not say to C that she does not look great some times. I was wondering if we can figure out why she does not look great, may be we can change certain things and make her look great all the time.
Daph says there are other things that influence C's looks. Dry skin eczema, light conditions, etc are some of them.

Yazhini vocab

These are some of the words she uses:
baby = baby
mummy = carry me; carry me fast
bye bye = take me outside; bye bye;
kakka = remove my dress; i want to sit on a potty; "let me see how panicky you get"
amma = amma
bappa = herself; or occasionally "dad";
thatha = any male voice over the phone;
dou = shoe
thoa = hide n seek punch word
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