Killu and memory

Yesterday we went to the doctors for daph. Everything was normal. The doctor also said that the miscarriage was not because of low progesterone. C was quite restless in the waiting room. She was toppling the magazines and pamphlets. I told her to stop it but she would not.  I gave her a small killu treatment. C did some small muffled crying.

Later in the evening, when i returned from office, C came running to me and stood next to me with a somber face. I was not sure whether she remembered the killu and asked her if amma 'thittitangala'. She said no. They i asked her appa killitangala. She said yes. But when i asked her, 'where', she could not answer correctly. So either she forgets quite fast (whether we killu / thittu her) or she forgets the specificity of the situation. This should let us killufy her without feeling that 'she would not like me anymore!' (which is quite typical of D!!!!!)

Here is a pic taken in Jan 2008.

Sunday

Cleophus uncle's nephew came to our house with their kid Rachel. We told her she was the first thangatchi she has and C was very elated to play with her. They brought her a dress and a nice princess book. C was very happy. C kept referring to the chicken cutlet D had made as fist cutlet. She shared her toys with R and was pretty good at that.

Brushing teeth myself

We went to Job's house after the stltamilchristian mtg to watch the cricket match. C was running around till midnight. Jotham had gone to sleep even before we arrived.
Before she went to sleep, we thought of brushing her teeth. She would not allow us to do it but wanted to do it herself. We didnt want her to do it, because she would eat (suck) the paste. C Made a big fuss about it and started crying loudly. D had to close her mouth. (it was around midnight) I thought we should never go to somebody else house for a sleep over, because of this unruly behaviour!!! I went to sleep afterwards, and I guess, C was cranky till she went to sleep!
Next morning she sat with J and played some video games. When we were about to leave, she started crying again and wanted to be there but, we played abigail trick again, and it worked.

Bounce U

Last saturday we went to Bounce to celebrate one of our friends kids bday party. This place has lots of airfilled huge slides / stuff and all the kids were running around crazy. C was quite happy and liked the slide. She had to climb a set of steps like stuff - where she had to use both arms and legs to climb, C did pretty good in that by herself. She would climb all the way, but would hesitate to go down the slide (15 feet high) but she did it again and again. After 7 times, i did it with her, and found that to be really exhilarating...but I was surprised that she was not scared!
We had to leave early to attend the stl tamil christian thing. When C didnt want to leave, we told her that we are going to meet abigail, C was ready to leave at once!!!

Earthquake

Today around 4:30 am D woke me up and said that there was an earthquake and that we had to get out of the house! I thought it could have been a heavier than normal goods train passing by. D was quite disturbed and wanted to take C and go outside. She also told me that there were people out in the streets. I checked. None. So, I promptly went back to sleep. C didnt care at all!
Later we learnt that it was a 5.2 earthquake.
Around 10:15 am we had another tremor. I called to check D and C but they didnt pick up the phone. Daph's mom called me from India to check, because D didn't not respond for some time. I thought she ran out of the house and would not return till all the tremors subsided, and I called again. D didnt go out but had kept the door open, so that she can jump out if the tremors started again! When she tried to run out last time, C ran back into the house, and D had to chase her to get her. Later C said that she went inside the house to get her 'lipstick'! (lip balm actually - C does not know it yet!)

Doctor visit april 14th

C's behaviour at the doctors.
Starter crying after getting into the room. She would not allow the doctor to check. However we told her again and again that there wont be an injection today and she became calm after some time. She allowed the doctor to check her ear and mouth (would not open it easily!)
The nurse had marked C's numbers in the 2 year column in the graph and C was in the 90th percentile of somethings... but later when the doctor moved her back to the 28 month range, C was back in the 50th percentile numbers!

crying game

C has changed quite a bit these days. In the beginning she would not cry at all. Nowadays she cries for anything and everything...appa thittitanga; or if I closed the garage door (without letter her to do so) etc.
If we take her to any store, she would start asking for things to buy, etc.

Winery and chocolates

Most of the tamil christian fellowship people (young) went to a winery from job's house. C wanted to sit with Jotham and would not even sit on the car seat.
At the winery she was playhing and fighting with Jotham. She had her first fizz drink (grape juice). When we left their house, C again starter crying very much. At walmart she was still crying and wanted Daph to carry her. We both were very tired, so when C wanted to buy a chocolate, I told C that she can have the Chocolate only if she walks by herself. C walked the whole walmart (around 40 mins) with a packet of unopened chocolate in her hand!

J K departure

C was quite shy with Jones and kelly. She took some time to start playing with them. When Jones said no for something to Chantel, C went around to Daph and complained that Periappa thitittanga! When they left of saturday, C starter wailing and starter really crying aloud. Jones had to come back and pacify C. He also told her the they would bring Jeya and Jeevan next time.