Tri cycle

Athai got C a new tri cycle. It had to be assembled and while we were trying to do this, C was very excited and was walking around the various parts, and was trying to take away the screw driver or the hammer or the small nuts and bolts.
She would not let me complete the assembly but was trying to climb on the cycle. The cycle could be used in 3 ways (as a cycle; rocker; cart) but C was using it in the fourth way by pushing it with her legs...

new house toilet

Chantel and abigail were running together during Janet's baby shower. C was trying to follow Abi. AFter we returned home, when asked where Abi was, C pointed outside thro the window.
We went to take a look at a new house today. The toilets were neat and bigger than our current one. C got very excited with the toilet and whenever we went near it, she would say "Kakka" and would not come out of it!

kadalai

C likes to eat the honey roasted ground nuts. (not sure about the honey roasted...that is what we had at home) She is asking for "kalai" whenever D walks closeby the kadalai dapppa. She also likes to eat mixture and would run towards me dropping everything she has whenever I open the mixture container.

Lip sucking

C has this irritating habit of sucking her lower lip. There is not way we could make her stop doing this. If we "chundu"fy her lips, she starts crying and then after some times does it again. Her lip has become little bulged (or atleast that is what we think...)
Daph bought a liquid that we could apply on her lips to discourage her from doing this. we warn her by saying "Thaichiruvom". She got half the word and says "thaich" etc., but still would not stop the habit. We dont know what do do. We have to call the doctors and find out if there is any way.

After the sickness

Chantel had become little tired and thin after her sickness. She is getting her strength back and starter her naughty antics...

Smile again

Today morning C seemed to be back to herself again. She is visibly tired and has lost most of her energy but atleast she started moving around the house and started kicking the ball. It looks like she might need a couple of days to get back to normal. We have not regularized her diet yet.
Today we put some nail polish on her toe nails and C went around asking us "Ni?" (for "nice?")

Stir crazy

Whole day C took only liquids and she has not vomitted at all. In the evening we went to the stir crazy chinese restaurant to meet the probable guy for daph's cousin. I had some stomach upset too. C smelt the chinese food and wanted to have it. Even before we placed the order, C wanted to go the the kitchen and start eating. C also cried to get the food from our neighbor's plate. When we got our food, C would not eat any uncooked vegetable like beans, or baby corns but wanted to eat the spicy noodles. When we tried to give her some of the Kanji we had brought from home, she pushed it away. Later C started taking the noodle from athai's plate and started eating it. Luckily nothing happened and C got away with eating lot of noodles.

Stomach flu

Daph took C to the doctor. He says that she could have stomach flu and there is nothing we could do much. Either we can give her fluids every ten minutes or admit her in the hospital.
Daph and athai started giving C water / pedialyte and syrup liquid etc. The doctor didnt give any medicine. C didnt vomit whole day.
At night, D made dosas and C very much wanted to eat dosas and we gave a small piece. After 5 mins, C vomitted again. Since then C only took liquids but didnt like it, she wanted to have kadalai, etc.

Stomach upset

C had a stomach upset today. It looks like she has some stomach ache and also running fever. She stopped smiling and keeps crying all the time. She started vomitting everything, including water.

going out

Yesterday C started crying since she woke up. It seems, she wanted to go out. It was quite cold outside (32 F). In the afternoon, Daph and Athai, however, took C out to Walmart. But the moment C realized that she was about to be taken *inside* another building, she started crying. It seems, she wanted to go to a house like Sunday (Dr Rathnaraj) and play with other kids like she did Sunday.
C has discovered the game of spinning round and round (by herself). She turns around and around, for 5 times, and then stops to feel her head spinning and laughs when she is about to fall. I am not sure whether she can do this at her age and we are planning not to allow her to do this again.

Easter

There was a tamil Easter gettogether at Dr Ratnaraj's house yesterday. We were supposed to reach there by 5 am but arrived only at 6:15.
C was quite well behaved and mingled well with the other kids. She has learnt dance steps from them. She demonstrated a swordsman stance during one of her dance moves at night for us, and we still dont know what it is supposed to mean.
She has got too many dresses from athai and everybody appreciated C's Easter dress. C also participated in the Egg hunt (i didnt see this, so dont know what happened) and got a basket full of easter eggs. She liked them so much. She would pick them up and give it to others and would take some eggs from other's baskets. Then she found out the eggs contained chocolates and started eating them. Whenever others wanted to hold C, she would not go to them, and they would give her the easter eggs and she would go to them and eat more chocolates. HEr stomach was so full of chocolates, she refused to eat any food.
At dinner time, C was too reluctant to eat the rice biriyani, but wanted chocolates or chis (chips)...

Eating

Athai and Daph have been trying to teach C the art of eating from a bowl by herself. C has been doing that well for sometime, but yesterday when Athai gave her Chapathi pieces in a bowl, C promptly took the chapathi pieces and threw it on the floor. After this, C went to get Daph's chapathi too!
Athai took control of the situation, and started giving chapathi to C directly in her mouth.

Bus

Yesterday night C had a bit of cold and daph had given her some cold medicine. We also had vicks for children.
Around 10 pm, C wanted to play and i showed her the fridge magnets. I showed the one Daph had brought from London (of the London double decker bus, which is attached to the magnet with a spring and moves) I taught C the word "Bus" and C was very elated. She started pushing the spring bus and laughed hysterically at the magnet. She kept on playing with the magnet and laughed at it for more than 15 minutes!

Animals

C has a small book that has pictures of various animals - bear, dogs, cats etc - and usually pesters us to tell a story about them and mimic their sounds for her. She also tries to mimic the sounds, and whenever we say doggy, she would says "grr" etc. (not lol, lol, yet)
Somehow she has *realized* babies cry or otherwise make noise *all* the time, and so whenever, we point a baby to C, she would make a roaring sound!!! Also, whenver we say baby, she would try to point to her photo on the wall, and repeat "baby!" We dont know whether she knows the photo is hers!!!
Daph is been trying to teach C to make a laughing sound whenver we say "baby" and C is been saying "ha ha ha" in the past two days.

kick

C has learnt well to kick the ball and also says "kick" whenever she does that. She also says "poeta" (podattuma?) before throwing away the ball. The other day she was trying to sit on the ball and was laughing heavily. All three of us were watching her do it, and D thought it was appropriate for us to laugh together and made us laugh by keechamuti.