Suhaana is 7 now

Suhaana is 7 now. 7 weeks that is. And somewhere during the past week she made a few discoveries for herself.

The first one was smiling. While earlier she used to smile primarily in her sleep, I'm told newborns do that but it's generally just to pass gas; now, she does it while fully awake and engaged. In fact most of the time, it's when we're talking to her and swooning over her anyway. That's when she decides to try this little new lip twirling trick to send us over the edge head over heels, madly in love!

These days I'm always with my iPhone, which also doubles as a notebook for checking emails, and triples as a camera. Not an ambitious camera, but something to take instant photos and send across with without the hassle of rechargeable batteries, USB cables, charging chords, transferring photos etc. Anyhow, these days I'm always hovering with my phone (read: camera) in hand to click at just the right moment. Suhaana must have begun mistaking my face for the backside o the iPhone cover. And that thought just made me feel I should perhaps get a better cover for the iPhone!

The other discovery that the little girl has made is, that it's (unfortunately) more fun to stay awake and have people talking to her and make silly faces and coo to her, than to just play with her hands and legs or fall asleep. And that of course crying gets immediate attention ; but I think she learnt that much earlier on. gone are the days when she used to just cry when she needed a feeding and would otherwise be a happy little content baby. No more. Well, at least so far, she listens. She loves to listen in fact. So much so that she wants to be talked to most of the daytime hours. I hear, once kids start talking, they seldom listen! So I'm going to talk my heart out, before she gets a chance to change her mind about listening!

My precious little girl sure knows how to punch our buttons. How do children do that with such ease!