All right, so it’s been over two years since I visited this place. Had
been completely occupied with my new job, work and playing with Shaurya.
However, I must confess that it’s my laziness that did not let me visit this
space.
I hope that I should be able to visit this place more often now and
post something or the other that’s happening here. Well, well, well…I have got
loads of updates but I just guess that I am able to express the same excitement while writing about the older things and lost of time does not come in my way.
Wow, Shaurya has a lil’ sister now – yes, we were blessed
in the afternoon of 16th January 2012 with an angel. Morning was
slightly tense when I took Prachi to hospital as this time again it was to be a
C-section delivery. We got her admitted and were told that she will be the
third one to go inside the OT. Moments this time were not as tense as we
experienced when Shaurya was to come. Perhaps, we were experienced this time. Well,
to that note, this time during the entire pregnancy period both Prachi and I
had been slightly casual and lesser stressed – I think it was our experience
coupled with taking care of Shaurya that never let us think about the negative
sides of it.
Well, we had to wait for about 6 hours for Prachi’s turn to come and
around 03:15 PM a ward boy came to us and told “badhai ho, ek bahut pyari sundar
si bitiya aayi hai (you are blessed with a very lovely and beautiful baby girl)”.
Soon we were called to see her before she was shifted to NICU. This time, I captured
her on my phone camera and then let her go. We were told that Prachi was fine
and will be shifted to room in 3-4 hours and around the same time baby will
also be handed over to us.
All our phones were busy for next 1 hour giving the good news to
relatives and friends and thanking them for their wishes.
While everyone was saying to us that this time again it will be boy,
it was Prachi who knew in her heart that it would be a girl. She told me many
times that when everyone tells me that it is a boy, although I do not reply to
everyone but I know in my heart that I have wished for a daughter and God will fulfil
my wish. An amazing thing happened in the morning as well, my dad dreamt of a
small little girl early in the morning. He got up and told my mom, it’s going to be
a girl, I have seen a small beautiful girl in white dress like a fairy.
God has been really very kind to us as he blessed us with both a boy
and a girl for parenting.
Well, Shaurya has been graduated from his pre-school and started going
to a formal school in Nursery standard since April this year. So far he’s doing
well in school and his teachers wrote about him following words: “Shaurya is
very smart and intelligent. He has settled well in the class and concentrates
on new concepts and ideas that are taught. His vocabulary is very good, several
time he surprises us with new word that he uses and explains to his classmates.” I was a proud father after hearing good feedback in the PTM. I realised
how a father feels when someone esp. teachers of your child praise him. I was
able to relate what my Dad must be experiencing when my teachers used to provide
feedback about me.
It was again a different kind of feeling of fatherhood. May God’s and
elders’ blessing remain with us like this.
Next one will be about how Shaurya treats Shreeya (yes, that's her name) and how she’s
growing up….
