the end of our Kerala trip

The end of our Kerala trip is near... I can’t believe we’ve been here for seven days! Time seems to enter a whole new dimension when you become a parent; a day feels like five minutes.

Kerala is beautiful and I wish we could stay here longer; we will definitely come back in the future. It is so peaceful and breathtaking. The food is delicious, the people are friendly, and although the air is more humid there is less pollution than in Bangalore. We had a fun week of swimming, walking, eating, sleeping and bonding. We made huge progress in the swimming, he has completely lost his fear of water and now loves jumping into the pool or going to sleep under the water with daddy.

Every day things go better, we still have our moments though but they seem less frequent and they seem to pass quicker as well. He can still be stubborn and can get upset if we tell him not to do something but he seems to be more accepting now.

This morning I checked on the tracking site for the passport and it is now in print! I hope we will have it by Monday so we can still apply for the visa and possibly travel home on the day we’d planned al along.

His speech is continuing to improve and he is so cute. When I teach him a new word I always tell him to watch mommy’s mouth so he can see how I form my lips to pronounce a word. So now he would go mommy see my lips and say a word like butterfly and he says it perfectly and with so much pride. He’s keen on learning certain things and not keen on learning other things like numbers but we are persistent with it and we try to work it into fun activities and involve them into activities so he doesn’t notice he’s actually doing them.

He’s also getting fonder of me, whereas before he would mainly ask to sit with daddy he now almost always after dinner says he wants to sit with mommy. He loves cuddling and giving hugs and telling us he loves us. So now it goes something like this: I love you mommy... I love you too baby... I love you three.... I love you four.... I love you five... etc... see fun way of counting of course there isn’t a number that can describe how much I love him. My resolve of no more crying has worked, I seemed to have managed to make a transition inside me and it’s not about me but about him and he’s my everything together with daddy.