Kar Krazy Kid

NR is mesmerized by anything that rolls . Books, water bottles, ball, toy car, spoons, water bottle cap everything get rolled in our floor .

NR loves to touch everything and tries to create sound with his fingers. This habit of him started very early on around 5 or 6 month of age. He loves to see the texture change when he draws line in our sofa . He loves the sound he can make when he scratches our sofa.  He draws with his index finger. Even to open a page he uses a single finger . And he loves to roll everything with just index finger. I have never seen him push things with his whole hand.

His craziness for wheels started with a spherical block from a Block set .My brother  bought this toy during  his honeymoon trip to Singapore/Malaysia. NR instantly loved the blocks and he loved unstacking them . I chose to bring only few special gifts back to US from India  . The block set topped the list , since it was from his fav uncle and aunt.

Few days after returning to US, I saw him rolling a spherical block from the block set with full vigor on our wooden floors. He figured the art of dynamics.  Thus the craziness for wheels was born.

He entertained himself with this game for hours in a day. He is mesmerized by motion of wheels.Then he graduated to rolling the ball , toy cars, bottles etc . Anything and everything is rolled around including plates. I am constantly ducking myself from flying objects.

I smile constantly seeing a 12 month old demonstrating this typical boyish traits/likings. He mutters the word "car" in typical American accent when he goes to sleep, during his sleep(yes along with giggling, crying during his sleep  he also talks )and when he gets up in the morning (read earrrrrrrrrrrrly morning) the first word he utters is "Carrr". 

Q/A Session with NR.

Amma/appa/othera : NR enna venum unakku (NR what do you want?)

NR : CARRRRRRRRRR

NR crying profusely and the mother who has no clue as to what caused this melt down asks

Amma:  Ennada venum unnaku?(what do you want?)  in a frusturated voice

NR :  CARRRRR (rolls his eyes sorrowfully) in spite of  seeing the car nearby or holding one . No matter what the situation might be he always answers "Car".

NR became hopeless fan of cars thanks to my younger sister SPD. He loved watching her drive off to office . She got royal welcome when she returned from office. Inspite of staying in India for three months , I could not recognize my sister's car horn but this little fellow would jump out of bed while sleeping when he hears my sister's car horn in a distance. He would urge us to take him to the front gate to give his chitha a royal welcome.  It was so sweet to watch a 10 month old baby shouting with joy seeing her drive in. And chitha was all too proud to have a little puppy waiting for her arrival with such joy. In an instant the whole family would sink into this elated state seeing him welcome his chitha. Chitha loved to take her son for a ride every evening .  NR had a blast going around the city in his chitha and mamma's car . He loved the crowded roads in India  filled with lights beaming from every single vehicle on the road.

Nowadays his toy cars are climbing the walls, fridge doors, dishwasher doors, bathtub walls, coffee table, dining table and any flat surface. Till now he has not started walking on his own but he walks with support. Even with his minimal skill/balance he rolls his car on the crib ledge/bathtub wall ledge from one end to another.

I am hoping this phase will pass thru soon and next one begin when he starts to walk and run.  If it continues,  I'll have to get back my athletic body(which I had almost two decades back) and energy to run behind him and say more prayers to calm me down during my panic attacks.