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In dreams:
We stop as we reach the pavement.
"Do you know which direction to take for our house?" Right.
"What colour do you like?"

Why do kids like toys? Are they trying to play the adults roles by having a passive toy for a kid?
When little they like all things colourful. When do they form their preferences for the colours? They might like the colours of their favourite things like say icecream.

Inklings

Day before yesterday, you didnt show your usual activity in the afternoon after lunch. when I complained to your dad, he rubbed my belly and you moved.

Yesterday at the doctors, I felt a movement. So when the Dr was measuring your heartbeat, even she could feel your movement. The Dr said she could see some legs and body parts.

Now you are active in the afternoon, evening and night when I am reading.

Last night I dreamt that I held the belly and could feel your spine. Even better than that I saw you as a newborn. You were taller than my legs where I placed you on. You had thick eyebrows. Mom was there with me.  You might get your uncle's features.

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Mothers who think tales of real life parenthood

Blankets

I hear that kids are so attached to their blankets that one friend had to sew her son's blanket onto a bigger blanket so that he could cover himself fully as the kid kept growing and the favorite blanket wouldnt grow. Another friend had to rush home to get the princess blanket so that the baby could go to sleep away from home. If a blanket can serve as a baby's little home, a mobile tent, so be it. Its easier to that one piece of something that they are used to than the whole house.

A magic blanket in Tim O Brien story.

ultra sound pictures

In your second ultrasound picture, I couldnt figure the up side from down. A friend of mine saw humor in a long appendage so much that she framed it in a blue frame. My colleague an expert reader told me that the mystery was the central bone of the head. Initial pictures look like a skeleton like the 'no smoking' warning.

Very(nearly) pregnant

I cant stand chocolate cake smell now. I stopped drinking tea. I am drinking milk now. The down side is that this way I am having only one cup. But I am making up by eating 2 eggs alternate days. I eat in the evening too. I used to eat at around the same time before, but now there is a dinner too, mostly rotis.
I kept two tops from 8 years ago. A green and a marron one. flowy sleeves with slits towards the wrist. I bought them in Noida. A while ago my friend's mil gave me a colorful top, the only problem with it was that it was very huge and had a rectangle cut. It was like the clothes we made for dolls by just cutting out a neck from a folded rectangle. I didnt think i would ever use it. But now its perfect. A long while ago, another friend gave me a black top with lindian beads and thrread work, red print in the front. She gave it to me because it was small for her and it turned out to be big for me. I kept it anyhow for the pretty top that it is. Now it fits like a T. A friend from NJ gave me a pair of maternity tops and jeans with elastic band that covers the belly. Another friend picked some clothes from a sale to go through another picking by me. She hemmed the jeans for me. I feel comfortable in active wear. So I got myself a pair last week.
I had nausea until third month. It was severe if I didnt eat in time in the morning. Mostly bile. I noted a marked difference in energy levels in the 4th month. I was out shopping for groceries on a saturday until late afternoon and was still on my feet.
Now you have started kicking after I have my lunch.

prompt from 'Writing Motherhood' by Lisa Garrigues.

Clothes

Today we bought you a pair of white shoes. Two sleeveless tops from Old Navy.
We spent so much time in shopping, feel like the day just melted away.

inappropriately dressed - Thinking about memoir exercise.  The author of the book had fry jack.

On a Teachers day in high school, I became a Kindergarten teacher. That day I had to wear a sari as teachers wear saris to school. My attire needed readjusting twice or thrice as the day went along. What a day for the buses to go on a strike. In an unforgiviing attire, I walked home on a dry grass land, holding onto the swaths of the fabric that kept slipping out from the waist.

First kick

Sunday night, I felt your kick for the first time. I wanted your dad to be with me, when you kicked for the first time, so I could make him feel your activity too. After second kick, I was certain of it and made your sleepy dad feel your kick, It was around 2 in the night. I am never up at that time, but this day from an overdose of chickpeas, I had an upset stomach making a 7 time trip to you-will-know-where.
It was a faint kick with gaps.