Celebrating Richie's 1st Birthday

We celebrated Richie's 1st birthday with pomp. We had a lot of activities for him:
-Party Celebration at home
-Photo session at Alice studio
-Shinagawa Aquarium trip
- Richie enjoyed the dolphin and seal show. Also the walk under the ocean floor with big fishes going above you.
-bought a special gold plated coin marking the date of his first birthday.

1 Year old milestones - Richie's achievements

Richie completed 1 year a few days back. A very hearty congratulations to you Richie on reaching a major milestone in your life.

Here are some of the things Richie is doing:

• scribbles on his magic board, does some abstract drawings. :)
• walks efficiently holding onto furniture
• blabbers a lot.
• says da-da-da and ma-ma-ma and looks at us while saying.
• understands commands like "Go and get the car, where is the pencil?".
• crawls rapidly like a jumping horse "thud thud thud".
• tries to imitate the cartoon sounds like "waaaaaaah, aaaaaaaaah" and smiles.
• has become dextrous with the pincer grasp, picks up tiny things from the floor and puts them in his mouth.
• can match few shapes .
• eats finger foods and drinks from the sipper cup by himself , helps me to relax a bit ;)
• Standing and balancing himself for few seconds.
• plays with push and pull toys
• likes to drive his car – groom, grooooooooom
• touches things in department stores (when sitting his baby car) and tries to throw them down. ;)
• co-operates while dressing up by putting his hands in the t-shirt.
• tries to feed himself with the spoon
• can build towers out of blocks.
• loves to play pee-ka-boo and so-big
• loves to listen to “the very hungry caterpillar“ and hello kitty adventures.
• laughs spontaneously if we start laughing.
• shows stranger anxiety and affection.
• loves the outdoors.
• loves birds and animals, tries to imitate bow-wow.
• opens books and reads through.
• starts a conversation between 2 animals.
• tries to talk on the phone.
  

Happy Birthday Richie!!

Its time for celebration. Richie has reached a new milestone. He has completed 1 year of his journey.

Congratulations Richie!!

Wish you a very very Happy Birthday!!

May you always have abundance of everything good in your life.

A very very happy b'day dada, said Richie

As I am sitting and writing this blog early in the morning, my baby is wide awake. He has turned on his tummy and talking to the soft toys, his favourite baby Pooh and a pink teddy bear. :) In between his busy time, he is giving me glances and smiling whenever I turn back and acknowledge him.:) Ok wait, I got to see him. He is crying, maybe tired .........

I am back. He is fast asleep now. I sang some soft nursery rhymes for him. He loves it. He held me close and dozed off to sleep. He wanted “his mama” to be near him. He was feeling sleepy as this is not his usual wake-up time. Now let me tell you why he was awake so early...

Last night, at 11pm, we put off the bedroom lights and he went to sleep after a while. This is his everyday routine. Usually, he sleeps through the night, occasionally waking up for his feeds. He was sleeping away to glory with soft purring. Suddenly, the purring stopped so I looked his way. I saw him staring at me with his one eye open. I thought, maybe he is just dreaming or seeing angels. I told my hubby. When he saw dad, he was wide awake and smiling at him. We were surprised. Otherwise, he doesn’t get up even if there is noise. But yesterday it was different. He knew there was something special going on. And he did not want to miss it. There he was, wide awake, and saying, “Dada, a vedy vedy happy birthday to you”. We saw the clock. It was indeed 12am. OH WOW!! He was the first one to wish dada. What better present could dada have on his b’day?

But, did he really know that? Yesterday, I was telling him about dada’s b’day. But do you think he really understood what I meant? Last night’s event really made me wonder!! He is just over 4 months old now. And as if that was not enough, he woke up early the next morning and gave dada his “wide gummy smile” and kisses. He then was ready at the door (of course, mom was carrying him), saying “ have a nice day dada, see you home soon”. What is going on in their little brains, we will never know. But they are just wonderful to be with.