american mothering

I was a total amreekan mother today - IM wented on one day chutti (dont know who's going to cry more when she leaves - me or the baby - she's been there ever since i came back from hospital and she's a wonder...yes, she gets on my nerves sometimes with all her sighing that doctors dont know that much, blah blah and complete refusal to use my modern mothercare gadgetry like the changing mat - leading to several accidents on sofa, bed, etc etc. But she's adorable how she makes me yummy snackies from water and a tea- towel, hee) and the whole threatning baby that i was not goingf to pay attention to her every whimper so she better behave didnt work.

Amelia behaved of course, but her nap didnt last as long as it should have - meaning i didnt get to nap at all.......... and she got trapped in her playgym, becos she lifts her butt and does this whole double leg swing at 90degrees to her torso. Only this time, she swung them into the vertical arc part of the play gym, and got stuck - poor baby.
and now i've finally gotten her to sleep. yay!!!

finally

i managed to get toshi home,... and also figured out how to get the internet working - all by myself!!! proves i can do more than grow a baby.

so now i''ve gone overboard in my glee to catch up on all my book review reading and checking out the new bags, art and other blogs and its like 1am. goingf to be soo dead when little amelia wakes up for a 4am feed. it serves me right for feeling so smug that she had started sleeping thru the night. I always thought this whole system of not praising ones child or talking about her achievements (ok, in my case it was just avoidance of diaper rash and sleeping thru the nite, not acing the GRE - but still) would give najar. i didnt really encourage the whole hideous kajal dot and the other bit where they come and circle salt or chili over the baby's head to utaro najar. But i guess there must be something to it after all!!! becos i did feel smug about the whole unbroken night sleep and bang, Amelia has started waking up at 4 am again. Which is not so terrible really, since i adore the whole wake up mommy, feed me i'm cute smiles she gives me.

i'm also dead sure she's trying to say HI. i saw hi and she goes all haa- ee ina breathy sighy way with a big smile on her face. its 1 am and i just want to go wake her up and give her beeeg kisses just for one more smile but not quite. Because she just may start screaming bloody murder instead. She's almost doubled her body weight and the hair is still defying gravity. My ferpect little baby!!!

Shamak

I joined shamak in i realise now vain hopes of losing some of the jigglyness factor... my doctor needs to be sat down and told what a bigfat liar he is cos he promised a flat stomach for me within 6 weeks... well it'll be three months tomorrow and no flat tum in sight.

Anyway, so i join shamak and they asked us to pick a song and all these 16year old boys - boys who when asked to do a groove that everyone stands around ina circle and copies come center stage and start making jerky ass-swinging motions and SLAP THEIR ASS!!!! IN PUBLIC!!!! i should have admitted then that it is next to impossible for me to groove around 16year old boys unless its in a dark, smoky, crowded bar with blaring music and i have had sufficient levels of alcohol in my system. This was none of that - the place is called DALJIT gymko - and has a picture of a overgrown baby doing dead lifts in diapers.

So the song they pick is Husn hai suhana, from coolie no 1 - now this movie is from when i was 16 and i was all oooooh, cool, retro and all the now 16year olds were like say what??? well, they were 4 back then na, and not like the 4year olds these days who go kajra re, instead of jack and jill (which i realised is a pretty morbid nursery rhyme and not something i particularly want to sing to Amelia - alongwith rockabye baby - hello, the baby falls down from the tree, jack breaks his head, the insy weensy spider gets wet - who said life in nursery rhymes was sweet??)

so, the new song we have is Soni di Nakhre from the new govinda movie PARTNER. pretty neat - but the whole remebering the steps is not that easy - its fun and exciting and i'm hoping to lose some baby weight along the way too