Two months!!

Woohoo!

So far we have:
- Been to the doctors for vaccinations etc. thrice.
- Peed on the doctor's examination table once.
- Been to Infiniti Mall once. Slept through it.
- Worn a real diaper only once. (The visit to the mall.)
- Thrown a dozen cloth nappies, irretrievably soiled with you-know-what.
- Outgrown a dozen more.
- Been on 'show-n-tell' at big sister Tara's school; Tara showed pics of Arjun in a handmade book titled 'Tara and Arjun' with photos and 'telled' about him at her school Show-n-Tell day.
- Begun to play with the baby gym thingie, even kicking the ball.
- Begun to find our voice.

Six weeks

Arjun is a little over six weeks now, and its taken its own time to call him 'Arjun'. I mean, the way he looks right now, you're just so tempted to call him 'baby' all the time and can't really see him as a walking, talking, jumping boy with a proper name yet.

The last six weeks have been... rather nice, I think. Other than the c-section recovery pains and all of that, its been a sweet time getting to know each other, slowing down from pre-baby fast-paced life where deadlines were so important and work was on my mind all the time. We moon over him a lot. Tara always wants to cuddle him, and is really into him. She wants to help in all kinds of ways, is my little assistant who fetches nappies and sheets and eye drops and all kinds of things. I hope he's having fun with us. He does smile randomly quite a lot, sometimes it seems like its at us (but who knows, it could be the happiness of passing gas). And I swear he is beginning to copy us too. I and Tara are witness to how he stared at us sticking our tongue out at him and then did it himself! Unfortunately, he hasn't done it since even though we tried to get him to repeat it in front of a (disbelieving) audience.

In continuation

So one of the dilemmas of a second child is really that they are often in the shadow of the first. When my daughter was born, I started a blog - Taraville - to document her growing up years (just another mommy blog) and share moments from her life with family and friends easily across the globe. Now, three and a half years later, we have a new addition to the family, a baby brother for Tara - Arjun, born on 23rd July 2009. Now I can't possibly write about Arjun in Tara's blog, and it seems rather unfair to not have a blog for him, right? So here it is, a separate, unique space, just for you Arjun.