With celi we always use our mother tongue urdu/hindi at home.....and she understands both languages english aswell as hindi and knows common words in both languages... But from few days I had begun to wonder if speaking 2 languages is confusing her speech development in any way!.... At the same time I didn't want to change our habit of conversing with her in our languauge..because if we stop speaking then there is no way she can learn the language.... I truly believe in the theory that, the younger the kids, the faster they learn new languages....I somehow don't like it when people say that they switched to speaking english at home after the kids started going to school here abroad, because the kids get confused with learning two languages.... And then when the kids grow a little older, they send them to weekend classes to learn mother tongue!! When we parents don't speak that language with them, how can we expect the kids to learn the language through some outsider is what I don't get!!!????

Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans!

From past few days we have been noticing that celi picks any tiny dirt that's fallen on the floor and gives it to any one of us saying.."lo..lo"... She keeps doing that until we have taken it from her hand...same with our shoes...as we enter our house and if we dont keep our shoes back in the shoe rack..she will come after us picking the shoe and saying "lo..lo"....Wish she could do that for her toys as well....those things are almost always scattered everywhere around the house...I know I know, that's too much to expect from a toddler...

I love being a mom...

I got this forward from a friend and after reading this I felt every word of it is so true..

Before I was a Mom..I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby..I never thought about immunizations....
Before I was a Mom..I had never been:Puked on...Pooped on...Chewed on...Peed on...I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts....I slept all night.
Before I was a Mom..I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests...Or give vaccination shots...I never looked into teary eyes and cried...I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin...I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.
Before I was a Mom...I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put them down...I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt...I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much...I never knew that I could love someone so much...I never knew I would love being a Mom.
Before I was a Mom..I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body...I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby...I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child...I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.
Before I was a Mom..I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay...I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a Mom...