Raghav goes "heeee!"

Two shiny teeth.

There is nothing Raghav likes more than crawling and getting anywhere he wants. When you hold him in your lap, he's always trying to get away. Gone are the days when he used to put his head on your chest and be content with that. Now it's impossible to get him to stay still even for a second.

His creeping has really improved. He's been so thrilled since that he can get anywhere he wants so quickly that he creeps about making gleeful noises. He comes creeping behind you as soon as you leave the room, and then more often than not gets distracted with wires or shoes on his way there. You can keep calling him from the other room, but he will not leave those shoes/wires alone.

We have also started putting him in the stroller, as opposed to the pram with the bassinet where he could only lie down. When he used to be the bassinet, after five minutes of being outside he would start calling out, or sometimes even get very upset and you had to pick him up and carry him in the sling. He loved to watch all the activities happening around him, and would get upset because he wasn't able to see anything if he was lying down in the bassinet.

Chilling out in his stroller

But now with the stroller he can see as much as want, and really really enjoys it. Earlier I had to give him a rattle or a teething ring to keep him occupied in the bassinet, but now he plays with his toy for just two minutes before he casts it aside and starts looking around at the world passing by, both his tiny feet up on the bar in front of him.

In fact, he's so quiet when he's in the stroller that we have to keep checking to see if he's asleep. But he's usually just transfixed, watching the world go by.

He used to gnaw at this small bookshelf in the living room, till I started feeling it's going to come crashing down on him one day. So I moved it behind some furniture. Sure enough, Raghav spotted it first thing the next day and tried to squeeze into the gap between the furniture to get to the bookshelf. He even got stuck between the two couches, but still kept going, determined not to call for help.

He got his Tetanus shot the other day, cried loudly but briefly, and then got distracted when the doctor and the nurse started clapping and cheering after it was done.

The doctor wanted to see how he crawls, and as soon as I turned him around on his stomach, he bolted towards the doctor's pad and paper. Even when I massage him on the changing table, as soon as I turn him around to massage his back, he's off, trying to jump off the table and into the tub of water.

We left him for a little while longer in his tub yesterday, and he tried to hold his feet through the water. He was a little confused at how his foot was appearing closer than it was, but he kept exploring. But as soon as I got his bath toys in, all the exploration went out the window and he picked up one toy and started chewing it immediately.

Watching a recipe show with Mamma

We were talking to Nitin the other day on Skype, and for the first time Raghav responded to him despite the laptop, which he's always mystified with (Why are Mamma-Daddy telling me to smile at the computer? And how is Dada-ji's voice coming out of this machine?). I had made him stand on his feet, holding him with both my legs. He was constantly trying to jump and is always thrilled when he's standing. Then Nitin whistled to him, and he went "heeeee!" Every time Nitin whistled, he jumped a little and went "heeeee!"

He also did this whole lap after the computer, chasing it while we kept moving it further and further away from him.