Chomp, chomp

Eating the table at Montreux

Raghav had his first fall today. He was playing on the bed in the morning, chewing something or the other, when what he was chewing must have fallen on the ground and he went to check on it.

I was in the other room and heard a big thud and then his loud cry. But I ran and picked him up. He was quiet in a few seconds, looking at himself in the mirror and smiling while eating his hand.

He creeps about the whole living room, ignoring all his toys, chasing slippers and trying to eat wires and gets very perturbed when you take it away from him because he would have just spent all his energy getting to it. He does like his grey elephant, whose trunk and tail he likes to chew, and also sometimes his pink truck which breaks into a tune every time he presses a button on it. He's always very surprised to hear it go off.

Solid determination at Vikaspuri

He also loves to chew tags on clothes, on his stuff toys, and his pram. He goes about exploring the TV shelf, often pulling down the two DVDs that are kept there, and then getting startled when they come crashing down. When the first comes down he just gets startled, when the next falls, he looks at me with his weepy face to see if he should cry or not.

He likes to get under tables and sofas, and probably gets a sense of achievement; when he gets there he just stays put for a while, feeling thrilled that he's made it.

He now sprouts two bottom teeth, and looks extremely cute when he smiles.