The Wonder Years

The kids are now almost 2. We are certainly thru with all night feeding and changing and we get our 8 hours of sleep but doesn’t seem enough!Life with two 2 year olds is somewhat like the college days for us. You are really busy trying to get your degress but still having a great time. Friends, movies, parties in the midst of exams and lectures. 

Thats exactly how we feel these days. 

The imaginary games are unimaginably funny.  Most recent is after my parents visit in Aug 07.  Since they left the kids pick up a bag and say they are going to Bombay. It is so adorable!  All this time we were wondering what goes on in their little minds and now we can actually hear it. Rohan will repeat everything you say. (i need to be really careful with my words.)  They are so uninhibited when it comes to speaking in Tamil, Kannada or English. Jayesh speaks Kannada and I speak Tamil. Both are indian languages but quite different from each other. All these years i have not been able to get myself to speak in kannada because i am not sure how right it would be.  Now he can speak better than i can even attempt! They still prefer english, mainly because thats one commone language between home and day care i think. 

Speech i think is by far the biggest milestone in the second year. Between March and Nov they have gone from a vocabulary of just a few words to sentances.

Challenges -

We can also sense that they now have a mind of their own. there is always some particular book or spoon or toy they are looking for. nothing else will do.    we have been warned enough about the 2 yr tantrums but i dont think anything can prepare you for it. Something that seems to have worked for us so far is the fact that we are pretty laid back but I am not so sure that will work with a 2 year old!