Ashwini is 25 month old today. I am supposed to stop counting months after 2 years, but, I cannot. As it can be seen in the photo, she has picked up a bad habit from her ‘dada’: eating straight out of a box. This is how we eat our afternoon snack on weekends.

  • This update is mostly about Ashwini's vastly increased vocabulary and the tiny little horns that are sprouting on her head (some readers will realise that this is a literal translation of Marathi term 'shinga futane').
  • Ashwini talks a lot and a lot of different things. We are puzzled more than a few times everyday by what she says. She has to be involved in all conversations. V and I are not allowed to talk with just each other.
  • She can sing nursery rhymes from start to end. Many of them, she knows just by the sounds and doesn't understand the words.
  • She can recite whole books in the same manner as above.
  • Don't know what she understands but, she comfortably uses abstract terms like 'something'. I asked her if she wanted to read a certain book and her reply was 'maybe later'.
  • Ashwini asks for whatever food she wants by name. She usually remembers what she ate at the daycare. We check her answers with the pre-made menu we get from the daycare and she is right most of the times.
  • She is officially bottle-free. Two weekends ago, we decided to keep away all her bottles, and she doesn't miss them. She is happy to use sippy cups and asks for a bottle very rarely, which we don't give.
  • It is getting more and more difficult to distract her away from something that we don't want her to do.
  • She is very good at the use of please and thank you. It is really really really hard to dismiss her 'pleeeeaaase', and I always end up letting her have her way.
  • Thanks to her daycare, she can take her shoes off. She can also put on her coat as well as take it off and hang it on a hook.
  • Sometimes she doesn't want to eat much and other times, it is the opposite. She still likes to eat all kinds of foods including different veggies and fruits. She goes through phases of liking and disliking certain kinds of vegetables. But, all fruits are welcome all the time.
  • She is getting good at all different kinds of shape and color sorting puzzles, identifying colors, alphabets and numbers.
  • These days, Ashwini is all about testing limits, especially the limit of our patience.

A few more of her photos that I experimented with to add ‘glow’….

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