Soli And Her Fight

Solange Lea aka Soli is a little girl who came into this world on 11th Dec 08 at 11:53pm in US. She weighed a whole 1 lb and 9.3 ozs and was 12.5" long. She is still 64 days away from her expected day of birth and yet at the same time she is 38 days old. Last 38 days have already seen her heart going under the scissors once but her amazing fight is on. She is a fighter to the core and I have no doubts whatsoever left in my mind about her zeal to see through this crisis. A crisis where she has the support of her strong willed parents, an able team of doctors and other health staff and countless prayers from every quarter. My prayers are with her in this hour of need. This is a test of her resolve and that zeal for life and she will come out with flying colours in this test. I am pretty sure about that. Please do pray for Soli. You can follow her progress on http://silvazoo.blogspot.com/.

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My Special Visitor

16th January was just like any other normal day in my life but for one visitor- my Poonam auntie. She is my mom's youngest sister and is a 24 year old special child. However those deficiencies have had no bearing on her ability to show emotions and love for me. When I was at my nana's place, she used to sit by my side watching me all the time (just as in this picture clicked by my father while I was at my nana's place) while following everyone's instructions to the "T"; but bonding kept growing. And it was that profound emotional bond and love which made her request my nana and nanee to take her to our house. She had gone for her doctor visit and that is when she made that request- "I want to go and see Bobby's daughter". She proposed and my nana disposed.

While at my place, she was no different then what she used to be at her place. As she wanted to share her excitement with my dad, she made my mom call him up. She would then describe to him her visit in her own words. Due to bad phone connection the conversation didn't last long but her excitement to be with me was clearly visible all over her face. I felt great becoming her vehicle to enable her carry those invisible emotions into a nonchalant world that judges people only on the basis of its own notion of abilities or inabilities; sufficiency or deficiency and so on so forth. But then "emotion"- one of the most powerful tools given to the human race by the Supreme Power –God has an innate power to trash those notions. Only challenge however is that special children don’t get those opportunities that frequently. My Poonam auntie however got one yesterday and she excelled.

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A Real Long Day

15th January can easily be labeled as the longest day in my life until the writing of this post. After waking up at 7.30 am in the morning, I just didnt feel like going to sleep all through the day. This was reason enough to cause some worry for my mom and dadee. Creases on their foreheads kept getting longer and longer as the day progressed. However, the fact that I was playful all through the day did help water them down a little towards the second half. And by the time evening came they could notice that I was responding to them every time they would say something. And, as the night began to settle in, boisterous Reveda brought lot of excitement and joy to her mom, dadee and dada. Mom couldn't help but call my dad and would place the phone near my face while my dadee continued talking to me- I was in full mood to oblige them and so began responding to my dadee in my own voice-loud and clear. I am sure that must have made my dad miss me more. My increased level of activity meant that I was left with no option but to go for sound sleep at around 11 pm. I am still fast asleep at the time of writing this post. Poor dad in Gurgaon is waiting for next friday to board the Dehradun train to see the recording of events and moments of my longest day. Until then, phone narratives is his only option to enjoy those moments...

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My Growing List Of Emotions

With the completion of two months, I am now making daily additions to my small but an ever expanding repertoire of various human emotions. To name a few here are few examples- responding in my own voice to someone talking with me as can be seen in the following videos; or breaking into a big smile whenever fan is switched on, to follow anyone moving around me from the remotest corner of my eyes, sucking my hands and fingers or producing a much shriller cry...... the list continues to grow with every passing day.. Do hear the sound in the videos as you can hear me talking-



Both the videos were shot right after I woke up in the morning and my mother and father can be heard talking to me. What do you think of my voice? Do let me know your comments....

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My Mom's Birthday

As mentioned earlier, 12th January is my mom's birthday and believe me she oozes the same level of excitement on her birthday as any other kid would; though it is a different matter that she completed 33 today. Birthday for her is all about new clothes, cakes, phone call greetings; in fact she maintains a log of all the people wishing her on her day. I am sure that I would inculcate all those traits in me also. As of now it was all about celebrating her birthday by observing her. She gave me my bath and would then make me wear my check skirt with white top and matching leggings. She too wore new clothes- a brown long designer woollen top and matching tights. My dada would test his culinary skills by cooking cutlets and other fried snacks while my dadee prepared an eggless cake. My nana too came along in the afternoon with my Soni auntie & Raju uncle visiting her in the evening. They got her a cake. My mother decorated the table with around 34 candles and would then cut both the cakes. I was watching this from the lap of my dadee. It was all about her day.
Watching her celebrate her birthday gives me a clue as to what I can expect on my day.....
Happy Birthday Mom!

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