Monday, November 03, 2008

The Catch-All Post

OK, a quick review of what's happened in the past month:

1. Obama's leading in all the battleground states, which tells me that he's going to be declared US president fairly early tomorrow evening. Here's keeping all my fingers and toes crossed for him.

2. My parents came. My parents left. Barring a few issues, a good time was had by all.

3. Rohan turned 1. Yes!!!! My little boy is officially one whole year old! And for all those folks who're going to say, oh time's just flown, let me tell you, that has not happened for me. It's been a heckuva long year. I enjoyed his babyhood as much as I could, but I'm glad to see it go. I know, weird me. I'll probably look back on these days with nostalgia, starting when he's a teenager and demanding more money, more clothes and the nice car to take out for a drive. (And the answer to all that is "NO!" Gotta start rehearsing now.)

Not that Rohan's not giving me many opportunities to say "NO!" to him already. He's into everything that he shouldn't be. Electric outlets beckon to him. Door stoppers make inviting twanging noises. Electric cords lure him to chew them. Floor fans are just begging to be poked at. I know he's going to start opening all the kitchen drawers next and dumping stuff out.

As a result, all the housework is half-finished, abandoned in yet another race to get to him before he seriously hurts himself. Of course, he gets hurt all the time. He has black and blue bruises on his forehead today from falling once again while attempting to cruise between his activity table and thin air. Dude, you can't walk by yourself yet. But you get points for trying. Again and again.

He still doesn't weigh much. He's in the 5th percentile for weight, in fact. But short of force-feeding him, there isn't much I can do about that. And yep, he's still nursing, so maybe that's not helping the weight gain any. He does drink some whole milk, though, so the weaning process has begun.

Today he began pointing at everything and saying "Da?" He wants to know the names for everything. I love this age when they're just starting to talk. I can't wait to see what his first word will be. Raina's was "light." Not Ma, not Dad. So let's see what her baby brother comes up with. You can be sure I'll blog about it!

In the meantime, here are some pix of Mr. I'm Now One Year Old! Woohoo!

13 comments:

Mamma mia! Me a mamma? said...

Congratulations baby-boy-who's-one-year-old! Happy happy and cookie-chocolate-and-cake-crunching and more!!!

What adorable snaps!

Terri the terrific said...

Oh, what a cutie patootie! And time has flown. I can't believe he's 1 already.

A Muser said...

Thankee, Mamma Mia and Terri!

Unknown said...

Gollee is it a year already since you had Rohan ? Happy Birthday sweetheart !
And yes they look like 2 peas in a pod and so utterly edible!

VRK said...

Wandered over here from somewhere after a long time.

Used to read you a while ago and lost track.

Never commented until now...

what cute kids!

A Muser said...

Hehehe, EL! I take big bites out of them periodically! Thanks for the wishes!
Welcome back, desimom, and thanks for the compliment! Wish I could take credit though, both kids have gone on their gorgeous dad.

Anonymous said...

chooooooo cute!!! congratulations....

A Muser said...

Thanks, Rohini! I think so too :)

A Muser said...

Thanks Onedia! These times are special, and I hope that I'll be able to look back on this blog someday and re-live these days.

Choxbox said...

Am going to say it anyway - one year?!!!
And its not weird at all - the first year of the second kid is super tough time indeed.
The pic of the sibs is so so cute!

A Muser said...

:) Thanks, Choxbox!

dipali said...

Happy Birthday, handsome young man! Lovely pic of him and Raina. I'm sure he's a handful- see the mischief in his eyes. God bless!

A Muser said...

Thanks, Dipali! He is VERY mischievous. You got that right.