A Father’s Diary

Tabi has learnt the word “scared” and how to use it well. Whenever she comes across something “scary”, she yells “I’m too scared” and hugs me or her mother to get shelter from that scary thing.

It’s not only true for scary creatures. She is not very fond of water so when mama takes her for shower she goes “I’m too scared” and wraps herself in mama’s arms.

We are always very amused and surprised to see how our little one is using her limited vocabulary in a creative manner.

Like most other kids, tabi loves candy. She loves candy so much that its the first thing she wants in the morning and last thing she needs at night. We know its not healthy for her to have a lot of candy and we try it minimize its intake as much as possible, but it’s interesting to see her passion for it. Combine that with all the words being added in her vocabulary and watching her use it with candy makes the whole thing hilarious and mind boggling.

So the other day we were driving and tabi was having one of her cranky times. Here is how the conversation went.

Me: tabi what do you want
Tabi: candy!
Me: but there is no candy in the car its finished.
Tabi: buy more candy!

At the age of 2 she knows you can always buy more of whatever has been finished.

Isn’t it ironic that just when I thought I want to continue with this blog I undergo circumstances which resulted in getting this blog neglected for entire year.

Anyway, I think it’s about time I should make an effort to revive the blog. The reason being that tabi is now 2 years old, she can talk (more on this later), walk, eat and surprise us with some thing new every single day. All of this should be documented and hence the need for making this blog active again.

I am not making any big promises of posting five times every single day (even though there is so much to share about our little angel that 5 posts a day can easily be achieved). But I will try to post whenever I can and there will not be any year long breaks.

I am also thinking about getting a custom theme and logo for this blog. I have a zero budget for this at the moment. Any volunteers?

When I posted the pictures from tabi’s 1st birthday party here, I had mentioned that we planned to do another grand party later. So we did and it was quite a party for a one year old.

Tabi’s mom had planned this party for months, including how to decorate the apartment, how the cake would look like, and what to include in the goodiebags.

The theme of the party was hugs & stitches which both of us liked a lot. We had bought all the themed items many weeks before the party. The cake was also based on this theme and after talking to a bunch of cake makers we placed our order at one of the shops with our fingers crossed. He did a pretty good job.

Here is the picture of the cake along with other goodies.

Oh and we also decorated the apartment quite a bit. Here are some pictures of how our little place looked like on the day of the birthday.

The area around the TV

The dining table

This is the table with birthday caps and goodie bags

The wall banner and balloons

The front door of our apartment

And here is the birthday girl. She looked very happy without a doubt.

After the party it was time to open all the gifts.

Tabi sitting in front of the wrapped gifts wondering what’s inside.

And here she is with all the opened gifts.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as we enjoyed organizing the party.

Welcome to the new and existing readers of A Father’s Diary.

After experimenting with this blog for over an year, I am glad to announce the official release of my parenting blog.

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I predicted in my last post that tabi would start walking soon. I was right. Just a couple of days ago she let go of the furniture and took her first steps.

It was like magic. Just one day before she couldn’t dare to leave her support and next day she managed to walk away in the middle of the hall. To make it more philosophical, it seemed like a small boat mainly used to sail along the shore just ventured out into deep oceans.

What can I say, it’s one small step for our child, but a giant leap for us parents!

Now we’ll have to chase her all around the place.

Tabi just turned 13-months and here is the progress.

1. She is on the verge of taking her first steps. She can walk confidently holding on to furniture and walls but still unable to do it independently. I guess in few days she will be walking around the home without any support.

2. She doesn’t say any words clearly but occasionally tries to repeat what she hears and often talks in bablish which sounds very cute to us.

3. She has attitude. She clearly expresses herself when she is angry, dislikes something, feels like hugging you, or wants to play with you. You can’t really predict what is she going to do next.

4. She has a hard time sleeping at night. Most nights we fall asleep before her. She keeps playing on the bed hopping around from one edge to other over our sleeping bodies. And then randomly falls asleep.