Finally, after months of waiting, Akshra's teeth came out this Thanksgiving weekend. While it was a very painful time for her. She cried more than we've ever heard her cry, we also took a deep sigh of relief. She finally has teeth after almost 15 months! We were beginning to lose hope.

This Thanksgiving weekend was rather tough. For one, we traveled to Columbus, OH to Ravindra's place to spend the weekend and on top of that Akshra was at her crankiest. This is the first time we flew over the Thanksgiving weekend. We've never done that before for the fear of the crowds. However, it seemed like due to the hype the airlines were better prepared and due to the high fares a bunch of folks decided to stay at home,

So in the last couple of days or so we've been able to make Akshra walk at least 5-8 steps. Puja sits down on the carpet and I hold Akshu on the other side and make her walk starting with holding her hands bet letting her go midway and she keepts walking to Puja who holds her hands forward but doesn't quite hold her and she keeps walking until she is in Puja's arms.

It is a lot of fun and very exciting for us. However, after about 10-15 runs, Akshra wouldn't walk anymore and would just sit. She is lazy and fearful and tired.

Seems like Akshra might finally have a tiny little tooth showing up. Her bottom gum has a sharp little protrusion that is super hard to touch. Voo hoo!

Incidentally, Puja also managed to get her to walk a few steps yesterday almost on her own. She has never done this without crying out like crazy so another milestone. Voo hoo!

Akshra has grown to an age where she is suddenly very needy of her parents, specially her mother. She cannot bear to be away from her mother. She cries in sadness when her mother waives goodbye to her in the morning. She gets sad even when her father leaves. It is heartbreaking to see. Another necessary evil.

Akshra is 14 months old now. Time has flown by nothing has gone by so fast as the last 2 months. I remember her birthday as if it happened yesterday. Maybe the presence of her Naani and Nana helped the time go by faster. A lot has happened in Akshra's little life in the last few months that is worth mentioning. She still refuses to walk and she still has no teeth. She throws some tantrums now while having food and it is never clear when she will finish her food peacefully and when she will reject it. She is far more moody and cranky these days. They say this is a difficult age. However, don't get me wrong, she isn't a difficult kid at all. It is just that we are not even used to a little bit of tantrums from her. She has been such a good kid that we've been spoiled.

In fact, every time we put her to bed at night Puja and I often wonder what we deserved to get a kid like this. She is certainly too nice to be our child, we both being quite incorrigibly defective.