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Riana is on par with other babies of her age as far as developmental milestones are concerned. She began rolling over at 4 months, started eating solid foods at 5 months, began sitting up without support at 6.5 months, started mastering her crawling skills at 7.5 months. Now at 9 months, she can stand up and has figured out how to climb stairs. She can only climb as many as 2 or 3 steps but it is a big achievement for her. She know how to pull herself up to a standing position using various kinds of support. Some of the more interesting supports that she uses is a 2 year old kid and a small dog at her daycare! She is now starting to feed herself simple finger foods such as baby cereal and toast.

So why do I think she is a child prodigy? Well, amongst all her skills are very good computer skills. Ashwin and I have let Riana type on our computers several times. She loves the keyboards. She has done some things that have amazed both of us. She has, not once but twice, inserted date and time stamp into Notepad. That cant be a fluke… She has managed to launch the help menu and find tool in Notepad. In Firefox, she has decreased the font size without using the mouse wheel, she has opened home page in existing window, opened a new tabbed window, opened a information box indicating the window size. In Picasa, she has zoomed into a picture and deleted a picture. What’s next?

Perhaps she is not a baby prodigy. She simply has our genes! I am yet to find out the shortcut to insert date and time in Notepad. I think I will do that after posting this article.

It is great to see her do so well but at the same time, she is terror. She is a little devil who likes to get into trouble. We’ve tried to baby proof the house but she is now using the drawer hardware as support to stand up. And oh, did I forget to mention that she is a drama queen. Why, of course! As I said earlier… She has my genes!

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Wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. For those who celebrate Chanukah, Happy Chanukah and for others who just want to enjoy the spirit of the holiday season, wish you a very happy and bright Holiday season…

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Going through surgery was my last resort and 2 weeks after the surgery, I did in fact have a significant improvement. I was finally happy and was anticipating a painfree hand. However, at my 2 week post-op visit, I got my stitches removed and soon things began to get worse. A few days later, I started noticing a bump and pain along my thumb and wrist. I didn’t think much of it until it began to progressively get worse. Today, I saw my doctor for what looks like tremendous amount of swelling and hardening around the incision site. I have limited flexibility due to the hardening and tightening of my tissues. I can feel the resistance when I try to move my thumb. Once again I am in excruciating pain. The doctor said it was due to scarred tissue and is often caused when the injury does not heal properly. This is called the “peak effect”. In my case, the post surgical healing process is causing the internal scarring of the soft tissues. I have been prescribed another regimen of oral steroids to get the inflammation in control and to aid faster recovery. Let us hope this works. If it does not, I have to prepare myself for yet another steroidal injection that will be administered directly into my scarred tissue. There is no guarantee that it will completely heal. I may need weeks of physical therapy, which I am not looking forward to. I am going to try to stay optimistic although it is difficult when your hand is stubborn and does not want to heal. I hope that this so called “peak effect” will subside soon. I don’t want to train myself to live with pain. Never…

I think the perfect gift for Riana this season would be a baby hair trimmer. Born in March, she is only 9 months old and has already had two hair cuts at the salon; three if you want to count the one I attempted. There seems to be a big selection of baby hair clippers online but I wonder if I have the necessary skills to be a Do It Yourself mom. I gave it a try with the scissors and needless to say that I failed miserably.

On the second thought, I thought perhaps the perfect gift for her this season would be to get her some wonderful hand made hair clips. So, now Riana will get some beautiful handmade clips along with some other surprises! As far as the haircuts are concerned, I think I will save that job for the hair stylists.