Its been nearly one year after the grand celebration of his first year Birthday. This year has been very unusual and the most unexpected of things have happened which we never dreamt of. We hoped for a decent normal year as the last one, but how can it be the same. This kid has gained one year of experience, known all the people around from our family, neighbours and friends. He can now identify our family members from the strangers, he can identify his apppa(for some strange reason, he does not call bappa), aayee and ajji, he can identify his closest and most often visited Amma(with a stick), abbu, amma, kaaka and kaaki, he can identify all his other kaaka's, aatya's, maama's, maushi's, abu's, amma's. He has developed this extra-ordinary ability to identify the special food joints - McD, KFC and Dominos, afterall to give his dad a big company.
One month after his first birthday - he could stand up on his own feet and start to walk slowly. The most amazing and happiest day arrived when he started to put his first step without holding to sofa or a chair. The happiness slowly started fading away from us and started appearing on his face more often. It was very clear that he was enjoying his days of walk and run, but clearly he had gained a lot of energy. We tried to control him for few weeks and days by running behind him, but soon ran out of our energy and patience as well. Since he was very new on this field, we often saw the days where he would stumble on the floor, fall from the stairs, hit out on chair and on each of the occassion escaping with minor scratches. His energy was doubled and ours halved. Yet these are still enjoyable and memorable days of our lives.
This year has also seen him develop few emotions like react to the pranks, identify the teasers, feel humilated when scolded, laugh, cry and ofcourse his main weapon being emotional black-mail. His naughtiness has been doubled from last year and we were forced to put him into a kindergarten school. His school is scheduled for one hour everyday, and that one precious hour is enough to complete all the household activties which seemed impossible if he were at home. His activities at home have been so intense that we are forced to keep an eye on him every second, else something or the other is going to happen. The last 3-4 months have been so much high in his activities, that if the normal human has a BP of 120, we have easily crossed 300 atleast thrice a week either in scolding him or controlling our irritation inside us.
This year also saw him develop some peculiar kind of liking to kitchen. He more often than not plays with the utensils than his toys. Altough he does not have much taste for music, he likes to create noise using the kitchen utensils. He is in front of TV to watch only when some item songs from hindi movies are being played. He likes these munnis and Sheelas and his most favorite being jintata chita chita, on other occassions when the TV is on, he behaves as if its not playing anything not only for him but for others as well. He does not like anyone to watch TV when he is not watching it himself. Its been that kind of a year when your kid is saving electricity bills when you are forced to turn off the TV and also saves your movie budget, because we have not attempted to watch even a single movie in theatre from past 2.5 years after his visible hatred for small screen.
The year 1 to 2, the most difficult year if your kid turns out to be double naughty. It is said that the kids are unstable from year 1 to 3 when they really are not aware of do's and dont's, rights and wrongs, they fall, they learn, they start judging the rights, wrongs in their own way, their memory starts to increase, they observe lot of new things, try to talk words, we fail to understand but our guess is the best option. If we fail to understand what the kiddo is trying to tell, we try to divert his attention on to other things successfully only because his mind can be moulded at this stage. Finally no matter how difficult this year was, it has been by far the best year of our lives. This year has been the most entertaining and the most enjoyable in our lives.
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