Random Ri List: Updates and the like

1. Ri fell off the bed again. A mother's worst nightmare. Ok, one of  many nightmares.
2. She keeps asking for her father who is travelling. 'Appa endhai'? she asks sweetly in Tamil. 'America', I respond, never really sure how to pronounce it right though I lived there for four years
3. Now RD has two pissed off women to contend with every time he travels. One who cannot pronounce America. Or, conscientious or sophisticated. Well, that's fodder for another post.
4. Ri's fever was followed by a mild rash, apparently one of the by-products of her viral fever. There! That's something I did not contend with when I wrote my grand post on fever management. The big guy up there was probably laughing at me when I pressed the 'publish' button and thought
   "So you think you know everything do you"?
5. Ri and I visited two close girlfriends from school who both have newborns. Ri seemed really big and mature next to them and I suddenly felt like she was growing up too fast. While one of them discussed a first month milestone, I panicked within. I don't remember what Ri was doing in the first month! When did she first smile? When did her eyes learn to focus?
6. Ri talks a lot for her age. Her voice and tone modulation is amazing.
7. I wish I spent more time teaching her 'clever' things but other people seem to be doing that. Instead, I teach her funny words in Tamil and how to walk like a model across the room.
8. Ri's idea of 'modelling' is to cross her hands at her back, bend her shoulders and strut, much like a old man thinking pensively.
9. When I last visited Dr. S., she mentioned that a little boy had very a high IQ and I felt mildly insecure. I know Ri is perceptive and intelligent but it wouldn't hurt to hear it validated by Dr.S.
10. I have a strange feeling that Ri saying 'podi' has something to do with me.