Day 1 of February Photo a day challange: My view today

This is my view today as I nurse my sick baby on and off, play with her on bed, change her diaper on bed...this is view that I have from well, my bed!

My baby's clothes on a hanger to air dry in the balcony:

6 months old : Half a year already!

Well, my sweet cutie pie turned 6 months yesterday! Honestly though I was waiting for this day to come ASAP so that I can just have the pleasure of saying "my baby is half a year old"! huh! Now that she IS half a year old, suddenly I want time to really crawl, not walk or run. Just crawl at the slowest pace possible. And deep down I know that this is actually the start of time running even faster.

So since she turned 5 months, the updates are:

She had her first New Year's Eve! Nothing happened. Clock turned 12 a.m., and we heard noise of some fireworks and we took our first pics of 2012 wearing just whatever we were wearing, no dressing up. And just as clock hit 12, she decided to throw her first poop of the year in the diaper, it was mad hilarious. And of course, I had to say that in my FB status that the first thing I was doing to celebrate the New Year was clean up my daughter's shit. Literally. Beauty of motherhood. :))

Okay, now I'm trying to remember what else happened. This is what I get for not writing the draft as we go along (like one of my last posts on her)! We spent about 5 days at her grandparent's house (father's side). It was okay, mad boring for me. First day was fun though. She got to meet two of my husband's aunts and their children. They all adore her, really. And then she met one dreaded person. I will not name that dreaded person. Will just call her " the dreaded person:" . Anyway, it was okay while it lasted. And it's been more than a week we are back at my parent's house and time is soon approaching for another visit.


Well, my sis, her second mother if you will went back to New York and now the poor thing will watch her grow via Skype for the time being. :(

Ohhhhh, I took her to my niece's ped the other night to have her 6 months check up. I was very curious to find out how much she weigh of all things. It was an interesting experience in and itself and it really deserves a post of its own. Though here I will say this much that she has been growing, so, I guess no worries. She has gained about 3lb since her 4 months check up. I am SO HAPPY.


Well, on the 26th of January, 2 days shy of her 6 months birthday, she tasted her first ever solid food!! YAY! And drum roll please....!! It was papaya from my aunt's garden (or so I thought..anyway), and Eli baby's reaction was just priceless! That poor thing didn't really know what to do with it when I put the bowl in front of her with couple of pieces smashed with my fingers. Since she didn't know, I took a bit on my finger tips and put it in her mouth and she did.not.like.it! Relief. Really, in all seriousness I'm not in a rush to give her anything other than breast milk yet as I want to do Baby Led Weaning. So, when everyone in the family was making comments about how apparently I'm torturing her by not giving solid foods, I just had to give her something to shut them up. I will surely revisit this experience, but just not gonna happen until she actually tries to grab my food, which she hasn't done and looks like she is far from doing it.

Though she can sit up now without assistance, will topple sometimes fast and other time will stay seated. She definitely LOVES to sit, so, it's all good I guess. She is also talking up the storm. She can say words like "dada", "nana", "amma", "abba"...because well, these are the easiest sounds to make! We all enjoy her babbling though so very much.


Also, she does seem to start the "teething" process, or what others call it she is at  "pre-teething" stage. I did put the teething necklace that I brought from New York (bought online) and who knows, she seems to fuss lot less last couple days when the necklace was on her for longer period of time. I hope it works its wonder like people say it does!

All I can say is though last six months were really hard in some ways, but it was the most precious time of my life and I am eagerly waiting for lot more of these precious moments to enjoy and savor!

Photo A day Challange

Recently saw this on pinterest, and I'm really excited. I've been dying to do things, some thing relaxing and stress free other than taking care of my baby. It's a project of taking one picture every day and the person came up with this has chosen different topics for each day. I like the idea of topics for sure, however, I don't want to follow it strictly (and there is really no reason why shouldn't I?). For ex, today the topic is "heart", tomorrow it's "ice-cream", the way I want to do is if I can get a pic of an ice-cream today, will do it. Heart will be for another day. I will adhere to the topics for the entire month though, meaning will take pics of all 29 topics in February. That just not going to be in order she chose.

Courtesy of the original blog, the topics are as below:

Why Children Should Witness Breastfeeding in Public ~ Nursing Freedom

Why Children Should Witness Breastfeeding in Public ~ Nursing Freedom

I've been breastfeeding my baby in front of my 2 years old niece since I came to Dhaka. My niece was never breastfed and didn't see anyone breastfeed before. And couple of weeks ago she was asking my mother to help her lift her top so she could breastfeed my baby as baby was crying! Love! 

Ajo Restaurant : My First stop in Dhaka eating

So, I've been reading about this restaurant Ajo for a while before I came here. And for the obvious reason I wanted to try it out. This little "restaurant/cafe" is hiding inside Dhaka Art Center. Honestly, if I didn't know already that this cafe exists here, there is no way of telling if one crosses the Art center. Not much of publicity from the street, but plenty online. It just seemed little different from looking at their pictures on their FB page. We went the other day to have some early evening snacks. It was my sis, my cousin, little niece and my baby. Food was okay, a little on the spicy side. Really. Even their pasta with white sauce was spicy! Anyway, we had two types of rolls-chicken and beef, I had pasta with white sauce, my cousin had paste with meat sauce, and milk shakes. Yea, I get it way too much for snacks. And since when pasta is considered snack? LOL I liked the food, and as for the ambiance....hmm, what can I say? It seemed like it's a place for couple to make out. yikes. And a place for bunch of teenagers/young adults to act "cool" by smoking  and conversing in Banglish (mixture of English and Bangla), and touching each other (opposite sex) for no apparent reason. huh!


Would I go back there? Yes, food is worthy of a second visit. But if you don't want to ruin your appetite from seeing couple doing PDA then don't go. Well, not great pics of food ever taken, here it is nonetheless,

Dhaka supermarkets :where I feel a bit of home.......

when nothing else is as charming in this city. Was bored out of my skull and then thought may be I should go out. In a city where traffic jams are abound, places of entertainment simply don't exists, supermarkets that are sort of self serving western style are THE place for me to hang out. So, decided to take a stroll in couple of those this afternoon. But this expedition wasn't easy one. First of all, I needed to make the most important call to my mom asking for their car. And this brings to another point that in a city of rickshaw ironically I don't feel safe on the streets if I am not riding a car. Riding rickshaw is simply out of the syllabus. It's way too damn scary as I often joke that people who think Great American ride at the Six Flags is scary, they surely need to ride a rickshaw in this crazy city and they'll totally change their minds and agree that a rickshaw ride in Dhaka city is indeed the scariest! Anyway, so once the car was here (where I'm at now) we proceeded to our outing. The other reason why this wasn't an easy expedition was also cause of me bebe. I had to decide which supermarket to go to (had to be the one/s relatively close by) in case baby starts to fuss and we can take an exit pronto and come home. And that's what happened! As I also made a point to go to my all time favorite store in Dhaka "Aarong" (thanks God for that!), baby started to fuss! If it wasn't for her I could have spent hours there roaming around and simply admiring their unique handy crafts products! Anyway, back to the main point of this post that it's only at couple of specific supermarkets is where find peace! Probably cause only places like that makes me feel like I'm at my home... New York (well, mini version) cause those are the only places that are neat and clean!

Pinterest Challanges

Now that I’ve plenty of time to kill, I’m thinking of doing some projects. Since I found out about Pinterest few months ago and was hooked on that site for a while, I’m thinking of getting some ideas from there and doing it, which I would call “challenges” cause to me simple craft is a challenge!

So far I did get some great recipes from Pinterest and actually tried those. Of which few were good and few can be forgotten. The ones I really liked was a Yellow cake, which apparently was a 100 years old recipe. It turned out really well. And it’ll be my “go to” recipe for Yellow cake. I also tried baking tomato with cheese, and made Funfetti batter fudge, which was yummy and very easy!

Now, I think, I am going to do some “crafts” and see how well I do on those. I have always admired crafts, but never got around to do one. I am just NOT crafty!

I recently bought a terra cotta vase (very small size) and planning to do something with it. May be I will paint it and then what? I mean painting only is not a craft, I got to do something more!

So now on my list of “challenges” – all ideas gotten from Pinterest

-         Doing something with that terra cotta pot (still looking for idea exactly what)

-         Make a buttoned letter in a picture frame

-         Making a memory frame

-         Scrap booking inside a CD case

Pictures courtesy of Pinterest:



Buttoned Letter




Memory Frame