Manipulating cry

C has learnt the art of the manipulative cry. She understands that her cries are answered quickly than that of other simple requests and has started doing this.

good girl at medical exam

Yesterday we went to do the medical exam for the green card. The room was full. C behaved herself very much.

Bayak 2

Yesterday there was 'scary movie' on the TV. C was very afraid of the guy in the mask. She came running and sat on my lap. But mustered enough courage to look at the TV again and started crying again. She kept looking at the tv and kept crying...
even though she was afraid she would not stop looking at the tv.

Bayakamma

The flights are getting quite noise sometimes. C showed her first signs of fear. Somehow she has learnt the word bayam. Whenever there is a roaring noise of the aircraft C comes running towards us and says "Bayakamma"
D has been teaching C to say bye bye to the planes to alleviate her fears. It works most of the time. However, she still comes running to us sometimes.

Airplance and pic

We have been pointing to the airplanes that fly about to C and C enjoys them whenever we are around. I also taught her "plane" Yesterday C was standing next to our computer and when a small airplane appeared on the screen pop up ads, C recognized it and pointed to me "Plane" This was quite surprising to me, to associate an actual plane that flies with a roaring noise to an image!

Vicks

D is very particular about C's skin. She still thinks C's color is because of her skin allergy. Everyday D applies skin cream moisture cream on C 2 or three times a day. Yesterday, C managed to find a full vicks bottle and applied it all over her body. It is very difficult to remove vicks from one's skin.. water does not work.

Killu

C also is becoming naughty day by day. Even if we repeatedly tell her not to do certain things, she does them anyway. I introduced the ancient technic of "killu" (pinching) the other day. She switched off the TV again and I killi vittain. However, C wont not let go and was also controlling tears. She would not cry. She would look here and there and they smile at my still angry face, thinking that she can change the topic. It is very hard to keep a stern face under these circumstances and I feel very bad for having killufied her. She also tried to literally change the topic by pointing to some other object (Ball) etc.

kakka with panty

C's potty training is improving very much. She has been quite good in coming and telling us before doing any damage. (Sometimes, because of our laziness, damage does happen in a split second.) Yesterday she was very nice. She didnt want to disturb lazy people, so whenever she had kakka, she went and sat on her potty herself. So far, so good, but she didnt not take off her panty and frock before doing so!

Onnukku

I am trying to teach her the difference between onnukku and kakka. She is doing fine. Sometimes she goes on the carpet itself and it is a mess. The old house had wooden floor and we never had a problem.

House without boundaries

The new house does not have any fence. Whenever the door is open, C just starts running out. She does not know the difference between road and sidewalk, etc and since all the houses on the street look the same, once she goes 3 houses down the lane, she may not be able to locate our house.
We have to be very careful. She also likes the outdoors very much and whenver we take her out, she does not want to come back and cries a lot.

Climbing down the stairs

The new house does not have the small staircase gate. The flight is steep and runs the whole floor height. But is carpeted. C is not very much afraid. She actually slides down the steps (instead of climbing down). Luckily somehow she knows to slide one step at a time and does it perfectly.

Oh Oh vamma

Along with Kakkavamma, C also adds "vamma" to many words. Whenever she hurts herself, she would come and show and tell us "ohohvamma".

Kakkavamma

C is very fond of the new house toilets. She wants to go whenever she sees them. There is no toilet in the ground floor and this is a problem because of C. Whenever she says "Kakkavamma" (instead of just saying Kakkamma, she says Kakkavamma. I guess, whenver we ask her, we say kakkavamma and she does not understand the difference between kakkamma and kakkavamma) we have to take her and run the stairs to the first floor.

Moving stay

We are moving to the new house tomorrow. We have not packed anything. We got boxes from Abraham and Ronald. In the morning D decided to leave C with Janet. They were very nice to take her and C behaved very well there.
When we went to pick her up, she was sleeping on the couch and they said she slept two or three times there.