Jr. Vs ...

 In last 5.5 years there are 5 kids born around me. I want to capture the survival technique for their parents and how these small kiddos gave the challenges no less than an adult. It's no less than a war where at the end always the kiddo is winner with their charming smile and meaningless giggles.  These kids will grow up and we as a parent will keep on solving one challenge after other 😊. So i want to capture these light moments and memories that will remain forever.

I will start with a youngest Diya. Since she arrived home from hospital on 5th day after her was born, her parents lost their 'good night sleep'. Every 2 weeks for 3-4 days she wont sleep at night while she can compensate her sleep at her own time but her parents became zombie. 😂. While she was around 5 months she started eating her home made rice cereal ( khichri ).  After 1 week she refused to eat that anymore rather liked the normal lentil soup that her mom prepares. By the age of 10 - 12 months, as soon as she started taking small steps around her initial target to take away her grandpa's TV remote . She would just pick that and run away fast. Sometimes she will hide it somewhere and everyone in the house will be on their toes and noses to look around that remote. Now she is almost 1.5 years and her Grandpa is always cautious while she is around her. She is apple of her Granny's (She calls her Amma) eye and always will roam around her and play with her Amma. But whenever there is a difference in opinion with her Amma she runs to her mom to raise some complaints in her own sign language. Sometime she just walks to her dad's work place and just grab him to get something which is out of her reach. She is a covid baby so still continuing working on her social skills with external neighbors and friends but like ‘morning shows the day’- this little one will give us entertainment and challenges in coming days stay tuned 😀.

I will now move to Aahi, we bring her home on 4th day after she was born. I remember next day my neighbor told me that they were feeling very anxious with this little one crying whole night - just think about sleep deprived parents inside house😀. She was always a light sleeper and multiple rocking chairs and stroller couldn’t make her sleep for first 3 months , after that she became occasional nighthawk. One day she was around 7 months and my mom dyed her hair and Aahi became speechless and gave such a surprise look to my mom that my mom left dying her hair after this 😅 ( so usually when my mom dyed her hair the changes are pretty drastic like from visible grey hair to all black 😀 ). When she was a slight more than 2 years there was a festival at home and I was busy, all of a sudden I found that Aahi is missing and we can’t find her luckily I just check with my immediate neighbor upstairs and they said that Aahi just went up and knock their door. They didn’t anticipate anything fishy because Aahi go to play at their house regularly but we as a parent just freaked out so much…during this same time most of the time my sandals and handbags were under Aahi’s control 😀she always used to love to wear them. Aahi is always found at her best behavior while her elder sibling is getting earful from her parents 😀.

I have twin nephew whose mom keep on complaining that she fed one child 2 times and another one was silently hungry. So the child who got milk 2 times because he was crying loud. These kids proved the age old proverb "crying baby get more milk" 😂. 

Sometimes i feel that with their innocence kids are ultimate "Product Manager". They exactly know what they want and they get that :-) By hook or by crook :-)