Motherhood to me

April, a month thought to be started with pranks and making each other April fool was not so fun for us. Gianna was down with cold and fever and stayed unwell for full one week. It was a painful time for us as her parents. This was the first time when she had a very high fever. Shobhit and I were very worried but by God’s grace she recovered soon.
Gianna completed 16 months on 12-Apr-2010. She has become more curious and likes to explore things. Her ways of interacting with us has drastically changed now. She carefully examines each and everything that is in her reach. She is very fond of chandamama and loves to feed the birds every morning.



One of my very dear friends asked me as to how I feel now, after stepping into mother’s shoes?
I think, “parenting” is one of the biggest challenges in one’s life (in all good sense). One learns to be more patient, more dedicated and more observant than ever. Personally, I see myself as a much more responsible person now than what I was a couple of years back.



Everytime when one task is accomplished another comes into place (for instance, now that she has started drinking milk from glass, another tasks in pipleine are her potty training, stop making her watch you-tube while eating, introducing her to more books, introducing her to more surroundings outside the house, etc). Motherhood is like mastering a queue of numerous tasks which keep coming at different stages one after the another. I maybe careless in taking my medicines on time but am dutiful when it comes to Gianna’s. I have become more alert and watchful mentally and physically. I keep a track of Gianna’s moves, and if I don’t hear her voice for a long time than I set out to check on her. I am accountable for her do’s and dont’s. I want her to eat right and grow right. We as parents want that Gianna acquires all great qualities of her grandparents.

Gianna with her Grandparents

Gianna with her grandparents-



Gianna had a great time with her grandparents during their stay for almost three months with us here in New Jersey. If she has some memorable moments with her dadaji (like sleeping in his lap, playing with him, listening to bhajans, learning some new words from him and many more),



she has some cherishable ones with her dadi too ( like talking to her, playing hide and seek with her and many more).



She would call them dada-‘ee’ ( to dada ‘ji’ ) and daa—di. She wud sleep cozily with her dadaji during the afternoons. Gianna and her dadi were two kids together :-) . They would run around in the house, give food to the birds, play “jhulla-jhulla” on her lap and play peek-a-boo.




She is surely going to miss them a lot when they return to India.

Gianna’s First Birthday (Looking back at 12-Dec-2009)

This day had been the most awaited one for me. I was looking forward to it with all my creative ideas and plans. Seeing your baby growing with all new activities each day is full of pleasure, happiness, and surprises. She makes me feel our importance in each others life. Looking at her want me to admire her innocence, her smile, her playfulness and what not!









Her grandparents and tauji-taiji came over at our place to celebrate her birthday. Shobhit and I had put all our imaginations towards decoration and we were quite happy with the outcome. Her birthday cake was delicious. On the whole, it was a beautiful ensemble of everything.

Blissful Motherhood

“We smile when she smiles

We cry when she cries”

Hi to all,
This blog is something that I intended to create long time back but due to some reasons couldn’t start it earlier. Now I want to regularly update it to make it a timeless keepsake for near and dear ones of Gianna. I am attempting to note down all I can remember about Gianna, so that when I grow old, I have some beautiful memories to recall! I want all of you to keep checking it and post your feedback and comments..:-)


About Gianna:




Gianna is a name with Greek origin, and it means “God is Gracious”. We were blessed with our beautiful daughter on 12-12-08. Gianna has turned one last year.


Stepping back a year makes me remember my visit to the labour room, when I was counting every second to get over with the process of operation and pain. I was relieved when I heard Gianna’s first cry. Also, I was nervous during my pregnancy about my role as a mother and well being of my child but once I stepped into mother’s shoes, everything kept coming naturally.

She has always been a playful and active baby and as she is growing older, we are losing count of her innocent acts. She reads our expressions while doing mischieves and reacts accordingly. Quite smart huh!

When I am cooking , she often comes from behind and starts tapping at my legs.

She has started drinking milk from a glass now but believe me it’s a big task. It takes me almost quarter of an hour to make her finish half a glass of milk which involves us making all kinds of sounds, countless videos played on Youtube and running around the corners.

Gianna likes to listen almost all popular children rhymes. Her favorite and the very first was “ baba black sheep….”. She also loves to listen one of the animated German song “schni schna schnappi..”

These days she babbles few words like “ aada,meeme, taada, daada, bau, mumma, nunna”. This is how she addresses us. But she has a special name for her all time favorite Mickey Mouse plush toy, so she call him “EEEE”.

Gianna started her first step on 28th of October ‘09, when she was ten months old. We’re glad that she never looked back to crawling on her knees and hands. She now runs and peeps into every nook and corner of the house. She is a social baby and smiles almost at everyone. She likes to watch birds and call them ‘bur’.

She is scared of the loud noises such as that of a pressure cooker, mixie, so she sticks close to me if she hears any of these.

These days Gianna has developed some new interests. She likes to step up on the suitcases that we have in our room and enjoys sitting there.



Gianna is very fond of her two books – The first one is “Dora The Explorer” and the other is “A Collection of Nursery Rhymes”. She is delighted if someone reads the books to her. She loves seeing the pictures of her favourite nursery rhymes characters in these books. She has started pointing out Humpty Dumpty, Baba Black Sheep, Mau Billi, Rat, Monkey in these books. She is so much fond of these books that when she is not playing, she likes to hold them and take them along to whereve she goes.

And how can I forget to mention here, her most favorite person on the TV. He is none other than some not-so-popular astrologer “Mr. Prem Jyotish”. Even the jingle of this ad is so catchy to her that she tends to go closer to the TV for a better view of the ad no matter how much engrossed she is in some other work. But believe me guys the ad is very irritating.

We have a fortnightly visit from cleaning dept. and the spanish guy who comes to clean our house calls Gianna by saying ‘muchacha’ to her. She likes this and smiles back at him.