I enjoy looking at older pictures of my daughter and I am amazed by how much she has changed n the last few months. Now she can stand. She scratches and scrapes at everything near her and pulls herself to standing position. After this she shakes her head from side to side with a wide toothy grin. My giggly little brat is extremely proud of herself. She even stands up on her own in her crib holding the rails and starts yelling and jabbering away. She doesn't want to be alone at all. Veda is very popular in her class at daycare. As she enters the room her friends start giggling and coming towards her.
Veda in the band:
The kids at Veda's daycare play their baby musical instruments and jam away. Recently Veda was at the Guitar, Mike at the piano and Olivia at the drums. The trio was jamming away !!
Veda helping other babies
Yesterday a Olivia had dropped a pacifier and Veda crawled towards it rushing to pick it up. After this she saw Sophie sleeping quietly in the rocker and she decide to rock sleeping Sophie. Veda thinks Mike is very chubby so she chases him around the room and he returns the favor to Veda so that she learns to crawl faster.
Veda tries to cut class
She moves very fast and because of this the teacher has to keep the classroom door shut so that Veda doesn't crawl outside. Veda scratches at doors thinking this will make the door open. I guess it will be a couple of months before she figures out how to open doors.
Veda in crib/jail
Veda was put to sleep in her crib by her teachers at daycare. Veda woke up a little later and held the bars of the crib and began shaking it. It appeared like she was in jail. Seeing Veda inside, Katherine, Mike and Olivia crawled to Veda's crib and started pulling at the rails from outside. Finally Veda's teacher had to let her out.
Veda and the wires and tubes
Veda has a fascination for wires and tubes. She can play for at least 20 minutes with a cable or plastic tubing. I hope she doesn't become an engineer. She yanks the laptop power cable and anything else in sight.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
US passport and PIO card
My brother is getting engaged and we need to go to India for the engagement and wedding, which are about three months apart. Now we realize our daughter requires a US Passport and a Visa or some other document to enter India. We applied for the US passport on December 8th and received it on 26th December. The information on applying for a US passport is given in the website
http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/minors/minors_834.html
Note: Not all post offices issue passports.
After this Veda was really sick and we were busy and had ruled out all possibility of going to India. But after her doctor declared that her health was better I decided to apply for the PIO card. We could have applied for a Visa but there is a criteria that there should be 180 days between entries to India and that would not be possible for us with travel in February and again in May. There are several rumors out there that it takes 3-4 weeks to get the PIO card etc, but I got it in a week and I applied by mail. I am in Massachusetts so I had to apply to the Indian embassy in New York. I provided the following
1. The application form filled out in duplicate, with my daughter's thumb print on it.
2. Notarized photocopies of my Driving License and my husband's license.
3. Notarized photocopies of pages of my Husband's passport, my passport and my daughter's passport. I only took copies of the three pages, the first two pages ad the last page.
4. 4 photographs of my daughter in addition to the two that were pasted on the application forms.
5. A certified check for 205$, 185$ for the PIO card fee and 20$ for express mail charges. the check should be payable to Consulate General of India, New York.
6. Notarized Bank statements for address proof.
7. Birth Certificate, original ( actually this was a copy from the town office). Several websites said they do not return the Birth certificate, but they did.
I also provided a cover letter indicating the application contents and requesting for the card to be mailed back as soon as possible, the sample letter format is given below
January 6th 2010
To
Consulate General of India
New York, New York, USA
Subject: PIO card application for _child's name___.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have enclosed the application for the PIO card for my _age_ old daughter _name_. Along with the application I have provided
1. Four photographs
2. Notarized copies of relevant pages of my husband’s passport, my daughter’s passport and my passport.
3. Notarized copies of my husband’s and my driver’s license.
4. Notarized bank statements
5. My daughter’s birth certificate.
6. A certified check for 205$, 185$ for the PIO card fee and 20$ for express mail charges.
Kindly accept the application and the attached documents and provide us with _child's name_’s PIO Card at the earliest.
Please mail the PIO card or any other correspondence to
___my address___
Regards
_my name_
I mailed the application to
Consulate General of India, 3 E. 64th Street, New York, NY 10065
For additional details about applying for a PIO card please refer the Indian embassy website
http://www.indiacgny.org/php/showContent.php?linkid=179
I sent the application on January 7th 2010 and received the PIO card on January 14th.
Hope this information helps.
http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/minors/minors_834.html
Note: Not all post offices issue passports.
After this Veda was really sick and we were busy and had ruled out all possibility of going to India. But after her doctor declared that her health was better I decided to apply for the PIO card. We could have applied for a Visa but there is a criteria that there should be 180 days between entries to India and that would not be possible for us with travel in February and again in May. There are several rumors out there that it takes 3-4 weeks to get the PIO card etc, but I got it in a week and I applied by mail. I am in Massachusetts so I had to apply to the Indian embassy in New York. I provided the following
1. The application form filled out in duplicate, with my daughter's thumb print on it.
2. Notarized photocopies of my Driving License and my husband's license.
3. Notarized photocopies of pages of my Husband's passport, my passport and my daughter's passport. I only took copies of the three pages, the first two pages ad the last page.
4. 4 photographs of my daughter in addition to the two that were pasted on the application forms.
5. A certified check for 205$, 185$ for the PIO card fee and 20$ for express mail charges. the check should be payable to Consulate General of India, New York.
6. Notarized Bank statements for address proof.
7. Birth Certificate, original ( actually this was a copy from the town office). Several websites said they do not return the Birth certificate, but they did.
I also provided a cover letter indicating the application contents and requesting for the card to be mailed back as soon as possible, the sample letter format is given below
January 6th 2010
To
Consulate General of India
New York, New York, USA
Subject: PIO card application for _child's name___.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have enclosed the application for the PIO card for my _age_ old daughter _name_. Along with the application I have provided
1. Four photographs
2. Notarized copies of relevant pages of my husband’s passport, my daughter’s passport and my passport.
3. Notarized copies of my husband’s and my driver’s license.
4. Notarized bank statements
5. My daughter’s birth certificate.
6. A certified check for 205$, 185$ for the PIO card fee and 20$ for express mail charges.
Kindly accept the application and the attached documents and provide us with _child's name_’s PIO Card at the earliest.
Please mail the PIO card or any other correspondence to
___my address___
Regards
_my name_
I mailed the application to
Consulate General of India, 3 E. 64th Street, New York, NY 10065
For additional details about applying for a PIO card please refer the Indian embassy website
http://www.indiacgny.org/php/showContent.php?linkid=179
I sent the application on January 7th 2010 and received the PIO card on January 14th.
Hope this information helps.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
ticklish baby and massage for mommy
Veda is growing up very fast, she now feels ticklish on her belly. I often smother her with kisses and declare a kiss attack, she doesn't fight the attack at all :). Recently when I launched the kiss attack she started shrieking with joy, my husband told me that Veda was now ticklish on her belly. I proceeded to tickle her and I think she enjoyed it, because she kept giggling, her dimple clearly visible.
Every night I try to give Veda her milk before she goes to sleep. I rest her head on my thighs and her legs would be at my feet. I hold the bottle in her mouth with my right hand and play with hands or pat her to sleep with my left hand. Veda is such a sweet baby, she holds on to my right hand and releases it gradually moving up and down as though she were giving my hand a massage. She is only seven months old !!!!
Every night I try to give Veda her milk before she goes to sleep. I rest her head on my thighs and her legs would be at my feet. I hold the bottle in her mouth with my right hand and play with hands or pat her to sleep with my left hand. Veda is such a sweet baby, she holds on to my right hand and releases it gradually moving up and down as though she were giving my hand a massage. She is only seven months old !!!!
Monday, January 11, 2010
baby on the move
Veda now crawls and this lets her go everywhere that she wants to. Her final destinations are under the high chair, waiting near the bathroom door for someone to come out from there, the entertainment center and of course my arms. Post crawling she sits and surveys the place she has reached. Except when she crawls into my arms, then she climbs on me if she can and levels her face to my face followed by a kiss on my cheek or a bite on my nose.
When Veda wasn't crawling she would get around by rolling all over the place and she would indicate her happiness by getting on all fours and bobbing her body up and down with glee. Now post crawling she sits and bobs her upper body up and down and claps for herself. It seems like she is cheering for herself.
She even tries to bring her self to a standing position by holding onto the couch, or the rails of her crib. I guess it won't be long before I write about her cruising or walking.
When Veda wasn't crawling she would get around by rolling all over the place and she would indicate her happiness by getting on all fours and bobbing her body up and down with glee. Now post crawling she sits and bobs her upper body up and down and claps for herself. It seems like she is cheering for herself.
She even tries to bring her self to a standing position by holding onto the couch, or the rails of her crib. I guess it won't be long before I write about her cruising or walking.
Friday, January 8, 2010
teething and crawling
Every routine that we form lasts for a week or two at most and then it changes. The previous routine broke when Veda started teething. I remember feeling something sharp poking my finger, but I couldn't see anything in her mouth,it seemed pretty strange, and two days later the tooth came out :).
The teething started with Veda loosing her appetite. She wanted to gnaw on hard things like a breadstick, plastic rattle and sometimes a carrot would help too. She completely stopped eating solids. I felt extremely guilty, miserable and frustrated with her behavior (.... but yaey that is past us now :) ). I massaged her gums and gave her a frozen rattle to chew on. On Friday Dec 18th Roberta called me from the day care and said Veda has diarrhea and asked me to take her home. The silly lady didn't have a clue that Veda was teething. Veda didn't have diarrhea either. But what the heck it was Friday and I enjoyed playing with her early afternoon. I opened her mouth to massage her gums and I saw the teeny tiny little tooth on her lower jaw. Now the second tooth is coming out.
Post teething Veda suffered from ear infections and came into 2010 feeling sick. But that didn't stop her from getting on all fours and rocking her body. She had been doing this since Thanksgiving and I have been waiting for her to crawl and tempting her to move. Finally she figured it out on Jan 5th. I was sitting few feet from her telling my mom that Veda isn't crawling yet, she just gets on all fours and rocks her body and I barely finished my sentence and she crawled towards me. It was coool.
The teething started with Veda loosing her appetite. She wanted to gnaw on hard things like a breadstick, plastic rattle and sometimes a carrot would help too. She completely stopped eating solids. I felt extremely guilty, miserable and frustrated with her behavior (.... but yaey that is past us now :) ). I massaged her gums and gave her a frozen rattle to chew on. On Friday Dec 18th Roberta called me from the day care and said Veda has diarrhea and asked me to take her home. The silly lady didn't have a clue that Veda was teething. Veda didn't have diarrhea either. But what the heck it was Friday and I enjoyed playing with her early afternoon. I opened her mouth to massage her gums and I saw the teeny tiny little tooth on her lower jaw. Now the second tooth is coming out.
Post teething Veda suffered from ear infections and came into 2010 feeling sick. But that didn't stop her from getting on all fours and rocking her body. She had been doing this since Thanksgiving and I have been waiting for her to crawl and tempting her to move. Finally she figured it out on Jan 5th. I was sitting few feet from her telling my mom that Veda isn't crawling yet, she just gets on all fours and rocks her body and I barely finished my sentence and she crawled towards me. It was coool.
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