Aryan's India Trip

Aryan went to India trip on Dec 12 and got back in chicago on January 13th. Aryan's mom was having nightmares before going to India since she was taking Aryan alone with her on a 15 hour flight to Delhi. We made every preparation and asked so many people for advice and tried to pack -repack stuff for Aryan. And then the D-day came and Aryan was off to the Airport. His Dadi was very sad to see him go since she had gotten very attached to him. Aryan was fine at the airport, he played with two little girls at the airport(well he actually pulled their hairs and threw his toys for them to pick up then cutely smiled). Just when the boarding started and mommy was getting relaxed, Aryan threw his worst tantrum and started crying, kicking and screaming. He would not even stay in mommy's arms and mommy had 3 bags on the shoulder plus a stroller plus the hysterically crying Aryan and a bottle of milk and some cherios in hand. So mommy decided to step aside and take care of Aryan since there was a big line to enter the plane. But Aryan would not heed to anything, finally we had to board the plane. One gentleman helped with the bags, Thank GOD. When we reached the seat, People around gave me weary looks just like I used to earlier to those with crying babies. Aryan was totally out of breath at this time and was hicupping and crying with big sobs and screams in between. I told myself, this is going to be a really LONNNNNNNNNNNGGG flight. Anyways, took a deep breath and sat down with Aryan. I tried to feed him milk from the bottle and he threw the bottle so far, I was lucky it didnot hit anybody. So I didnot give him any toys. Well, then I took his pillow out and covered myself with a blanket and started breastfeeding him. Somehow that worked... Phew!!! and then Aryan went to sleep. He woke up couple of hours later and I fed him some fruits and yogurt and he went back to sleep. He then slept and slept and slept for most of the flight. He woke up a couple times to breastfeed and went to sleep again in the bassinet. So overall the flight went well. He did not even cry during takeoff and landing, well probably he didnot feel the pressure in his ears since he was sleeping all the time.

Once in India, he was fine. He cried looking at some relatives and some relatives he smiled at. He spent most of his time in Lucknow and bonded well with his Nani and Mama. Mommy was so relaxed since she could sleep late and Aryan was well fed and taken care of by his Nani and Mama. He learnt a lot of stuff while in India and got to taste diferrent food. He stopped eating his regular cereal and khichdi and was eating paratha for breakfast and daal roti and sabji for lunch and dhoodh roti in the night. He tasted all Indian fruits and seemed to develop his taste fast. It was cold in Lucknow so we had to make him wear at least 4-5 layers of clothing.
Aryan also went to Punjab to meet his father's side relatives. He went to Ludhiana, Patiala, Nabha and Mukerian. He got his "Mundan" done in Nabha. So all his "jhulfe" are gone and now he has tiny pointy black hairs. He got sick in Punjab and when we got back to Lucknow, he was in a pretty bad health. He was vomiting, had high fever and had severe cough and cold. He would not even open his eyes and had stopped eating and feeding. We took him to a child specialist in Lucknow and the doctor said that he has got pneumonia. It took him a while to feel better. He still has cold and cough but is doing much better. That was a big scare.

Once back here, he is still jet lagged. He was sleeping in the daytime and in the night will wake up at 1 in the morning and will start playing. It was difficult for mommy and papa, since they donot get much rest during day at work. Also he is not sleeping in the crib since he has gotten used to sleeping in the bed. We donot let him sleep during daytime so that he will sleep during night but he is still having problem sleeping in the night. Hopefully he will adjust soon and we will get some sleep too.

Will be posting his photos this weekend.