First Steps

This is Shumzi's Abbu with the hottest news on Shumzi ... He has started walking ... Ok "started walking" is stretching it a bit ... But Shumzi did take is his first wobbly cute steps yesterday (27 March 2007) ...
( and this can be announced all over the Empire to the sounds of Nagaadas ... with loud proclamations of "Suno Suno Suno ... ye ailaan kiya jaata hai ki Nawaab Shums Alam ney apney pehley kadam badhaye hain ... is khushi mey Shaahi Jashn ka ailan kiya jaata hai .... Suno Suno Suno ")

Lately, our boy has been doing a lot of crawling and scooting around on all fours ... he has a good throw (plastic ball goes flying across the room in the exact direction he wants to throw it in) ... he can stack up to 5-6 blocks (of various shapes - cubes, tubes and the kinds) ... is has definite preferences and asks for his favourite - toy, game, song_from_Daadi ... and generally does a lot of interesting, intelligent and fun things.

The two things he has been holding back are - Talk and Walk.

Now on the talk front he has the strong vocab of 2 words ... Mum-mum/Bum - which means I want to drink/play with water ... and Bye-Bye - A generous use of bye-bye has made Shums very popular with girls and old uncle/aunties in our locality in Vellore.

On the walk front Shumzi has been a bit cautious - He can stand up and stay straight for 10 seconds - without any help ... He walks on his feet - if his Abbu or Amma hold both his hands ... with hands held he gets more adventurous and even climbs up and down the stairs (like grown ups - climbing a stair in a single step). But, till yesterday, he hadn't taken a single hands-free step forward.

So let me take you there ...the scene was such - It was a pleasant March morning ... Shumzi, me and Daadi were out in the balcony, genreally chilling out ... Shumzi was in good mood ... He stood up giggling and was standing straight ... about 3 feet from his Daadi ... when Daadi said ... "aaja beta" and streched out her arms ... Shumzi took 3 or 4 steps and walked straight into Daadi's waiting arms ... I saw it all and called Afshan ... but our dude did not repeat the stunt ... maybe another day (Afshan says he walked again later in the day, but I didn't see it) ... and day he does a repeat - I want to be ready with a camera ( which puts a question in my mind ... is their anyone in this world who caught his/her kid's first steps on camera ? ... its almost impossible one would need to carry a camera all day long)

Yestday's Shumzi took his first steps ... today I took mine ... and started writing on Shumzi's World. Lets see how long I take to do a repeat-performance.

:-)