We are back from our trip to Dallas, which was really fun. Paras, in particular, had a blast. His aunt's house had so many toys -- not to mention a piano and swimming pool -- that he had no idea what to do with himself. Andy and I were very proud of him on a number of fronts. First, he did great on the plane, i.e., he didn't freak out about flying and we didn't have to drug him out on Benadryl. We did, of course, close the window for most of the flight, and when Paras said, "I don't want to go in the air," we totally lied to him and told him we were just driving on a slightly bumpy road. I think he bought it (though he did open the window at some point and saw the clouds outside). Of course, he had is normal share of standard tantrums, etc. so it wasn't an A+ effort, but it was better than I expected so I'm happy.
He also made headway on his fear of water. On his first two days he had to be dragged into the pool (literally) screaming, and cried for about half an hour. However, by the third day he was asking to go into the pool and stood on the first step on his own. By the end of week he was down to the third step (with the water right under his chin) by himself and was having a great time.
His final frontier was the big boy bed. We put him in his cousin Abhi's "Cars" (as in the Disney movie) bed with a bed rail on the side, and he did great! Not only did he not complain or get out of bed at all at night, but he stayed in his bed after he woke up the next morning until we came to get him. I think after sleeping in a crib for almost 3 years it didn't occur to him that he can get out of bed in the mornings by himself (which is fine with us). So, Andy and I are thinking that we're ready to make the plunge to a big bed and are planning a trip to IKEA next weekend.
Sahana, for her part, did pretty well also. She was great on the plane, though she didn't sleep like any normal baby would. She is very aware of her surroundings and just wanted to look around the plane and at the people. Her first few nights were a little rough, since even a one hour time difference threw her schedule off, but within a few days she was sleeping all night again. In fact, she made progress since for a while she's been sleeping all night, but with some on and off crying starting around 5:30 am. Starting about a week ago, though, she's been sleeping till we wake her at 7am without a peep. I'm hoping this is permanent since I'm going back to work starting next week.
Unfortunately, Operation Unswaddle is not going so well -- last night I tried to "half swaddle" (under the arms) Sahana when she went down for the night, and she was having none of it. She screamed for half an hour, and then when I swaddled her completely she zonked out immediately. I suppose having a baby that needs to be swaddled but sleeps all night isn't the worst thing, but I just got scared because I went online to see when most people unswaddle their babies, and read posts by people who were still swaddling their kids at 1 year old. I hope she doesn't become one of those kids. But for now, I'll go along...she is, after all, only 2 1/2 months old.
Anyway, here's some footage of the fun the kids had in Dallas:
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