The first big step as an infant...

The grand roll over...

While you go about the every day rigmaroles of feeding/diaper changing/getting the kid's to nap - the little mile stones and the sweet baby talk keep you recharged to face the next day...
I was not one to note down the date of every mile stone or special moments. My cousin gave me one of those baby scrap books to note down every thing right form the moment of birth for kutti boy...and it has one entry - the birth! :) This time around, she didn't give me one! :)
As I wrote to a fellow blogger, I did not even start this blog site with the intention of blogging - randomly one day I got myself a blog site just so I could comment on my niece's blog posts. And she was the one (along with another friend) convinced me that I should start blogging. I started my first post on 6.22.06. And wrote random pieces since then. Also deleted a whole bunch of posts that I wrote since that time. Slowly I found myself writing a lot about my son and then about my second pregnancy and now about both the kids - so I have morphed into a mommy blogger. I feel like writing random pieces again but it feels out of place here. Anyway - back to the point of this post - I figured since I made it a point to actually note down the date of this grand mile stone for baby girl and actually shot a few pictures - I will post about it - so may be I will look at this and reminisce with details later...
On Oct.3.07, baby girl was casually looking at her friends in the music mobile above her crib. And she started turning side ways looking like she was ready to roll over. And I ran and got my camera and stood there patiently. She tried three times patiently getting to the final step but not being able to pull her hand out. So I gave up and went to attend to KB. Later that evening I left her with my mom upstairs and went downstairs to feed KB his snack. He was in his booster seat at the dining table and I was having my tea. Suddenly my mom shouted out for me and said, "Come here, come here!". I told her I will come in a bit since KB was eating and I didn't want to abruptly leave him alone. She said, "Oru nimisham, udane vaa". And I knew!
I ran upstairs and saw that baby girl had just* turned over and casually pulled her hand out like she had been doing it all along. No big deal - every child does it. But somehow I enjoyed it this time even more than I did for KB. It was pure excitement. Mom clapped just as I was coming upstairs. I missed the* moment, but captured her on camera after she had rolled over. I missed my MIL when I was taking pictures - she and my FIL were with KB when he rolled over (I was cooking and B was reading). We suddenly heard them clapping and they didn't even call out to us - they were just enjoying themselves. We went and saw that KB had rolled over. Had she been alive, I would have called her right away (India time 5.30am) and told her and she would have shared my excitement...this is for her!