Is this for real?

Before I am jolted from my dream world, I need to write this.

My daughter has been sleeping all by herself IN HER OWN BED for the last 3 days... I am counting. Her eyes were wide open when I put her in the bed, I said Good Night. She asked for the blanket.. then stared for sometime while I kept pacing the room and finally fell asleep. Three days.. you hear me??

I am still counting.. the days and my blessings:)

Sentence list

I am trying to pen down a list of sentences that sonali goes through at every stage.. let's see how far I can sustain this interest.

Right now.. these are some examples.

" hey Guys,, Dont do that"
" Amma, be careful " - when we are driving
"Let's go Keezha/meela" ( Let's go downstairs/upstairs)
" I go kool " ( I want to go to school)
" Shall we spash? " ( Shall we splash)
" I dont know."
" Thank e" ( Thank you)
" Ur welcome"
" Sarry " ( sorry)
" Amma, pulease " ( please)
" its mine... my turn, my car, my clip..." --- this list is endless
" Shonu car - its white. Appa car - Its Red"
" Oh Oh, I go poopy. Amma, change diater, puleaase "
" Ebibody, follow me.. follow follow " ( Everybody follow me)

I'll keep adding to this list as I remember them:)

Where is my baby?

I thought I recently had a baby:)

Well, it turns out that I am quite slow in counting days!. It seems like I just held my little baby in my arms and wondered what I felt. She is now going to be 2 and I still wonder many things about her...:).. just not the fact that I am completely in love with this one!

Sonali has been talking forever now, so she has no trouble singing her own birthday song - only a million times everyday. She is very excited abotu the prospect of a cake and song.. and her favourite question these days is - : Who's coming? At this, I have to start listing down the names of all her friends and once she is satisfied with the list, she will grin and leave me alone , for about 5 minutes when she starts the birthday song again.

My little baby is growing....

She is very expressive and has learnt to make sentences to communicate with us. Although its fun to see her talk , we begin to miss the days when she would babble or just say a word and we would wait till eternity for her to repeat it , to make out what she meant:) I guess she figured that if her stupid parents cannot learn her language, she might as well learn theirs!

Kids are so attentive and listen to all that's going on around them. I am so surprised at some sentences and words she can pick up just being in the room and pretending doing her own stuff. All this means hubby and self cannot even have a decent fight anymore ! What a world I say!

Oh well, my little baby is no longer little:) She is growing.... I wish I could time again to my convenience!

Friends

Friends - they come in different varities and shape your life in many ways.

When i think of my friends, I think of them belonging to some kind of circle around me. The closest are the ones in the inntermost circle and with whom I share a really special bond. This bond has formed over the years and I cannot be happier or more grateful about how it has turned out to be.

These are folks who dont judge me for what I am or what I say. IF I am happy, they are happy for me. If I am sad, they feel worse than I do. I dont see them everyday or dont even talk to them everyday.. but I know they are there for me. I can call my best friend and tell her/him the silliest emotion I am feeling today and I can be rest assured I will not be judged. Its the ultimate feeling of comfort.

I love the feeling of friendship and hope I can continue to feel this way after many more years.!

I miss my best friends today and this is for them -- Thank you for being there always:)