cd- removing and keeping it back

We were quite worried C would damage all the CDs we have if we arrange them on our open shelf for quite sometime. Yesterday we bit the bullet and arranged it and asked C not to touch it. C was fine for some time. But later, she pushed all the CDs to the floor. I sat next to her and made her arrange all the CDs on the shelf again. C did it patiently. But after some time, she thought it was a game and started taking off the Cds one by one!

Chantel calling

Today C pestered D to call me and talked lots of stuff over the phone. I could not understand anything but she kept on talking. Was nice.
We took her to the butterfly house. C was afraid of them initially but later started playing with them. (dupperfly)

un pair enna?

I have been trying to teach C "what is your name?" to whcih she replies Chantel. However, if we ask her "Un pair enna?" she says Yazhini!

Toy lion

C is afraid of lion toy in the baby room. She does not want to enter the room, if that toy is in her bed. However, she is not afraid of the lion in the book. She does RRRRRr to imitage the singam and enjoys it.
I am also amazed at her ability to recognize things; She recognized a photo of odile even upside down; in different dress; and situations; She also successfuly pointed and called out thatha; granny; amma and appa;

Color

Today we started teaching her the colors. Some of the times she got it right. She learnt the words green, yellow, orange "color" but didnt necessarily understood their meaning. Just fun to watch her go around the colors.

amma engey?

Daph went outside for sometime. C was playing with her toys and then started looking for daph in thekichen, etc. Since she could not find daph , started crying, saying "Amma engey?"

brushing teeth

Daph bought C a special tooth paste. It looks like the paste is so sweet and chantel loves it. She wants to brush her teech whenever I am brushingmine. i ask her togo and sit on the tub and then ask her to do aaaaah or eeeeeh and try to brush her (2) teeth. Chantel would kinda allow it, but quickly put her lips onto the tooth brush and start sucking on the tooth brush to eat the sweet paste.

shoe shopping for c

We went to target to buy a shoe for C. After entering the store, C started directly to go the the eaterly to the popcorn counter. It looks like daph has spoilt her whenever she took C to target and C remembers it well! C started wearing all kinds of shoes and would not give it away. We had to cajole her into giving the shoe at the register.

ETCH A SKETCH - DAFFY

C Has a very small etch a sketch. I try to draw on it once in a while and ask C to identify it. She easily identifies 1 but am not sure whether she understands it. She also identifies any human head or feminine form as 'daffy' (thanks to my coaching! ;)

singam, poonai, duffly (buuterfly from book)

D bought C a book on animals. C likes to name the things. We try to teach her both english and tamil - singam, poonai, duffly (butterfly) and she gets it well.
We also taught the sounds these animals make and C loves saying "miaahve"

Tantrum - 1

Today C tool the photos on the table and started throwing them to the floor. I guess she wants all the photos to be pics of herself, else they go! When I spanked her, her eyes became so wide and started crying. GranAma tried to explain her that pointing the photo. We will have to ask C after she grows up whether she understood!

video - dancing

I tried to video graph C dancing. It was very difficult. C wants to see the image on th camera, and so whenever I took it out, she could come running towards the camera and wanted to see it making it impossible to videograph her. She likes her image on the cam and says "chantel" and feels happy about it!

Tissues

She learnt to use "achacho" - "adado" to show her sympathy. (Achchacho).
She wants tissues to after eatinig to wipe off her hands and mouth.

Allergy and the mole

C Has some sort of allergy. She gets small skin swelling in hand. (I get this too, and we dont know what this is...) It itches and C scratches and it itches more again.
C also has this habit of scratching a mole on daph's arm. C does not like the mole and tries to erase it away, which gives, allegedly lot of pain to D! C also likes to keep scratching it while going to sleep and gets irritated if Daph wears a full sleeve dress that covers the mole!!!

Doing away with the diaper

C does not like the diaper. I guess it must be the itching. So, she just removes it, throws it away and then walks around the house, along with the imminent danger of spoiling the carpet. So I caught her and spanked her. Amma started laughing. We had to ask amma to present a stern face.
C behaved ok for sometime. Then went upstairs and removed the diaper again. Adi again. This time she started crying. But I guess she got the message.

peek a ba

C likes to play peed a boo. She pronounces it as "peek a baa", which is cute. She gets lots of pleasure doing this and laughs uncontrollably.