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The baby dairies 5 to 10 yrs

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** Written in active speech, rather than third-party references ** ----------------------------------------------- 5 yr 1 months (Aug 2012): I am in Australia and after a long talk with Bebu (in which she shared some self-made "jokes"), I ask her if she is sad. She says "no" and I laugh. After our good-byes, she tells mom that she was sad, but she would have said "yes", then I would become sad and if I became sad then Freya would become sad and that is why she responded with a "No" to me. She also added..."kabhi kabhi toh jhooth bol sakte hain..."! ----------------------------------------------- 5 yr 3 months (Oct 2012): Freya finds a letterhead and a pencil in the hotel room in Andheri and spontaneously writes this ... ... this is what has come instantly so Vaibhav thinks that this has to be her true feeling. Otherwise as soon as there are talks of being with papa (the background being that Papa is in Australia and Freya and ...

The baby dairies 0 to 5 yrs

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0 months (07-Jul-2007): I got a congratulatory email from Oracle SSI, the organization I was working with at the time of Freya's birth. This is the message that came: Sameer   Wishing you and your girl boy   lots of happiness and joy.     Congratulations !   Cheers, All of us at SSI "girl boy?!!"   :) ----------------------------------------------- 4 months (01-Nov-2007): What is the best way to avoid the inconvenience caused by constant pee-ing at night? Trust Freya to figure out this one. She simply pees at a spot while sleeping, then pushes herself up to dry land. By morning, she would have traveled around the bed, leaving a pee-trail that helps trace her movements at night. ----------------------------------------------- 1 yr 6 months: Sometime around this time, she has started to exert her independence. Most of the things she wants to do by herself. She says "Own hand, own hand" when she wants to pick or do things by herself. Like wh...