Why are you boiling the white balls?

Here's the thing about the white balls. Riya placed a couple of them in the vessel, poured in some water and kept them to boil. I was carrying Richie, who was intently watching what mama was doing. Seeing the white balls in the water and the vessel on the flame, he immediately expressed his surprise. "Huh!?, Huh!?", he said, and "Huh!?" again.

Richie has recently become very curious. Rather, he always was, but recently he has begun to express his curiosity verbally. With a big question mark on his face, he'd go, "Huh!?,... Huh!?", interchanging looks with the thing he's curious about and the person who he expects an answer from - that would be Riya or me.

So what could it be that he was curious about this time? Now if you paid careful attention to my previous post, you'd realize that there was no white ball in the set of balls we recently brought for Richie. So his curiosity was well justified. Did he just want to know what it is that we were doing with white balls? Or where the white balls appeared from?

Kids and their questions! I could clearly see that the time had come. I look forward to some interesting years ahead, answering all those crazy questions that are going to pop up every now and then. So off I went, trying to address one of Richie's first questions - or at least what we could make sense of from his curious "Huh!?,... Huh!?". "Why are you boiling the white balls?". "Well, son, these are called eggs...".

Pop, Puussh- The Funny side :)

Richie does funny little things sometimes. When he grows up and reads this, he is gonna give me a good stare for revealing things about him. ;) Sorry Son!! ;) Ok, now what is it he does? At 2 weeks, when we were all sitting in the room and watching TV with Richie, we heard a loud “POP, PUUUUUUSSHH”. All started wondering where it came from. After some time it went again.. and everybody realized it came in the direction where Richie was …. And what was it? Richie was farting .. gossssh… maybe something in the milk made him gassy.. poor guy.. all were laughing and he did not know that he had all of us in fits of laughter..

It is said that whatever a mother eats affects the baby when he/she is breastfeeding. Care should be taken not to eat stuff which will make the baby feel gassy. Many a times, Richie used to refuse to drink milk.. now I know why? I guess babies feel the stomach pain and express it by crying or by not drinking milk. Nowadays he is doing great and is happy as there are no sounds. ;)

Do babies understand music?

The other day I thought I would show my baby what a guitar was and how it was played. He was around 2 months old. Actually I don’t know how to play it. But I thought to myself ”No worries, what will a baby understand? He just needs some sound”.:) I got the red Fender and showed it to my baby and started strumming the guitar with whatever I knew. He was happy to see it, but just turned away when I started playing it. I was a bit sad, wondering why my baby is not showing any interest.

Now my dear hubby who knows to play the chords came over. He was like, hmmm.. is it that he doesn’t like music or was it Mama not doing the right thing? He decided to give a try. And to our surprise baby started watching him and listening to him intently. He was giggling and throwing his hands and legs in the air hearing the songs. Whenever my hubby stopped he used to make sounds saying “I want more, I want more”. Oooops.. do babies know what is music? I was totally astonished looking at him. Never underestimate your baby. He may be keeping quiet, but he is listening to every word you say and every action you do. They are voracious learners.