When you're happy and you know it... clap your hands!

Yes... my sweet pumpkin can now clap his hands! This was one of the major developments this week :-) Aaji Ajoba told us about the time in the temple when Rian clapped his hands on his own for the first time. Then on Friday evening Rian clapped his hands sitting in his bouncer. Then today on Saturday, Rian clapped several times in the car!! He's so happy when he claps :-) or maybe he claps because he's happy... He'll do it like 5-6 times. And he does this other cute thing with his hands - clasps them together and twists them around, oh so cute! I fall more in love with him every day...

Rian is now cruising along furniture. He walks from one end of the TV stand to the other, and from one side of the center table to the other :-)

We did a webcame telecast of Rian to Daddy, Mummy, Mandaar and Shruti on Friday night and today morning. They were thrilled looking at Rian crawl, climb up, sit down, and more...

His latest, discovered by proud Daddy this time around :-) is climbing stairs! Yes, Rian is climbing almost 10 stairs. We're so excited! Of course cautious too, so Amit is usually following Rian around :) Its so cute to see them having fun together - Dad and son bonding. Of course Mom feels a tinge of jealousy.

Today was Rian's third trip to the Sunnyvale Farmer's Market. Guess what? Another first for Rian - he ate his first strawberry. I held it in my fingers, and he just went ballistic on it. He kept sucking and biting off little pieces. It was too cute to see him. Then he had half of another strawberry as well. I'm sure Rian has a sweet tooth :-)

Oh wait, another first for Rian - yogurt! Rian was eager to see what Ajoba is eating, and we gave him some yogurt from Ajoba's plate. Man, he must have eaten at least a spoonful on that day! Next day, Daddy got him Yo Baby yogurt, and now we routinely give him yogurt after his bhat and daal dinner.

Oh wait, there's more :-) this week Rian also ate Mango and Cantaloupe! Quite a fruit baby he's become. And he's also trying to stand without support. He does like 2-3 seconds before he plops down on his backside, thud! He's drooling a lot more this week. He's also twirling his tongue around a lot, and taking his tongue out all the time.