# data[].attributes.body
The last couple of years have passed by pretty quick. From my little princess’s first wobbly steps to running around the house with excitement and energy. Watching my little princess grow up is such a joy. Kiana, between the ages of 1 to 3 have brought huge developments in her motor skills, language, emotions and thinking. In this blog I will reflect on every way she is blooming.

Seeing her turn one, her movements were very clumsy but you could already tell she is trying her best to move her hands functionally. She was learning a lot of gross motor skills such as pulling herself, cruising along the furniture and finally taking little steps on her own. Now in her third year, she loves running, hops like a kangaroo. Her fine motor skills have improved a lot too. Back then she used to fumble building blocks but now she can even hold crayons, turn pages while story time and hold apple slices. It amazes me and Khushi all the time how these little hands are continuing to grow at that fast of a pace.

My favorite stage in the last 2 years was watching her babble. After she hit her first year she almost started babbling words like “mum mum mum” or “dada dada dada”. The second year, she started turning these short words into small phrases such as “bye mama”, “more milk”. But now she can name colors, asks “what”, “where” and tells me cute stories about her day. Me and her mom love hearing those cute stories.

The parenthood book I read talked about those big emotions which are hard to understand in tiny bodies so I took Ms Howlett’s Psyc 30 class and I learnt, According to Freud, this is the ‘anal stage’ where babies like Kiana learn how to control their bodies and their environment. Such as potty training, probably the biggest milestone me and Kiana achieved. Some days we made huge progress but some days extra laundry was involved. It was a prideful moment for me but for her it was a mix of emotions. She was always so curious about flushing the toilet by herself. It’s so interesting to see her do things “all by herself”, through which tantrums happen. Now I know it's a part of her growing up and learning about her emotions and the world around her so I let her do things by herself but always supervise her. I always see her having fights with her cousins because she doesn't like to share her toys where she goes like “this is mine” kind of behaviour which I am pretty concerned about as it shows the quality of selfishness but after some research I found out that it is a part of Kiana’s preoperational stage where she is supposed to have this me centric point of view.

I feel like everyday I look at her she is developing new actions and surprising us with new things she is learning. These few years with her have been a great part of my life where we got lots of Kiana’s childhood stories to tell her when she grows up. I strongly believe that the next few years of her childhood will be even more exciting. Till my next blog, Stay posted guy!!!!!!!!!

# data[].attributes.body
We named her Kiana. Feels like she was just born yesterday. Time is going at rocket speed. Khushi and I love to spend most of the time just playing with her. Now it feels like she got so used to it. If we just sit beside her and we pretend not to pay attention towards her, she would start reaching for our hairs. I noticed lots of skills that I knew will keep developing as she grows up as I learnt about them in Ms Howlet's Psyc 30 class when I was a kid. There were some complications that Kiana saw in the first month such as when it was tummy time she couldn’t lift her head up for too long but a few seconds. As she grew up by three months she was constantly trying to hold her head up and trying to push up with her hands but now after 6 months she’s rolling over and tries her best to sit with support. It won’t take too long for our little bunny to start sitting on her own!!!!!. Literally it felt like she was born like yesterday and her hands were always the little fists but after 3 months We see her fists opening up and she would grab little things with little force such as little toys but now she tries to reach for Khushi’s hair all the time. Recently I saw Khushi screaming and I had to go save her from my strong little munchkin. My little cupcake has always been hungry since the day she was born. Whenever me or Khushi Would touch her cheek to feed her food she would always turn her head within milliseconds which was always a topic of laughter because she just loves food. Furthermore whenever she felt startled, she would fling her arms and legs out and then bring them back in. All these cute reflexes are starting to fade as she is growing and learning to control movements herself. Her Cephalocaudal Development has been great too as she started to gain control over her head and then started moving her arms more often and now she is already starting to have more control over her lower body. I can see kicks coming in. She is growing so fast that it looks like she can start crawling tomorrow. Not only her Cephalocaudal Development is growing at a fast pace but her Proximal Distal Development too. Now she is gaining control over her core muscles then her arms and now she is perfecting those little hand moments and finger movements. Watching her grasp while exploring new texture of things. These past six months have brought me wonderful joy to me and Khushi and I can't wait to see Kiana grow up and make great memories of her childhood.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
New born picture of our little baby girl

# data[].attributes.body
Just this morning at 2:30 AM, me and Khushi were blessed with a baby girl at Pasqua Hospital Regina. It was like our dreams came true. Its not even been 8 hours since she is born and she is already smiling in her sleep. She was born healthy weighing 8 pounds. Its like our dream of Parenthood has came true. Cant wait for her to take her home and have those hugs, kisses and sleepless nights.