December 25, 2017
She has started crawling at pace now, so no more staying in Dad or mom's lap for more than 10 seconds. She starts in the living room, has no destination or target in mind. She jumps down and starts crawling... She dashes against the doors, glares at the ants, screams at the tables, shouts at the walls, laughs at her toys... She pops stuff into her mouth much to our horror but keeps going... Her pauses are brief & serve a simple purpose - to check if her parents are still close-by 💓💓
She scampers behind the ball and while at it peeps into the wardrobes, pulls down sarees and dhotis just because they are reachable. She is neither discouraged by her falls & crashes, nor is she bothered about hurdles her mom places along the way.
To Aadya only the journey matters. Her happiness is not dependent on the destination or the path or the hurdles. It’s just the journey itself that matters. How I wish I could live like that?!
How I wish she would live like this forever! Time will tell if I succeed in showing her what she is showing me every day - "It’s the journey that matters, not the destination"
It was vaccination time yesterday. this time 2 injections. It’s become my habit to keep her on my lap while she gets her shot. It’s tough always to see her go thru pain, this time even more so as it was twice in a few seconds. Placing of the sharp needle on her thighs, then the slow but firm push into her skin and then the squeeze.
I felt the pain before Aadya’s scream pierced the air... twice in 5 seconds. Her subsequent cries and the tears broke everyone’s hearts. but it lasted just a few minutes. She was ok very quickly and listened to the story of Jesus and Christmas… she started laughing and posing for pics.
She’s growing every day. She is learning every day, but the best part is she’s teaching us something valuable everyday too. “The sooner you move on the lesser the pain.” The real challenge would be to see how long she remembers her learning and we remember her teaching!
Maybe someday I’ll dig out this post and read it out to her (or myself) to remind ourselves “The sooner you move on the lesser the pain”
January 18, 2018
She has started crawling at pace now, so no more staying in Dad or mom's lap for more than 10 seconds. She starts in the living room, has no destination or target in mind. She jumps down and starts crawling... She dashes against the doors, glares at the ants, screams at the tables, shouts at the walls, laughs at her toys... She pops stuff into her mouth much to our horror but keeps going... Her pauses are brief & serve a simple purpose - to check if her parents are still close-by 💓💓
She scampers behind the ball and while at it peeps into the wardrobes, pulls down sarees and dhotis just because they are reachable. She is neither discouraged by her falls & crashes, nor is she bothered about hurdles her mom places along the way.
To Aadya only the journey matters. Her happiness is not dependent on the destination or the path or the hurdles. It’s just the journey itself that matters. How I wish I could live like that?!
How I wish she would live like this forever! Time will tell if I succeed in showing her what she is showing me every day - "It’s the journey that matters, not the destination"
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