When I was about 9 or 10 years old, I had watched a movie Chachi 420. It had a song, “Dauda dauda bhaaga bhaaga sa” (it roughly translates to someone who is running around and rushing). Last week I felt the same happening to me.

Owing to the constant bouts of cold, Little Miss had missed quite a few therapy sessions. So, all of them were scheduled last week.

Usually, we have school on the weekdays and both fitness classes and ABA therapy on alternate days. But last week we had them daily.

So, in the morning we would go to school, then come back home around 2:30 in the afternoon. While Little Miss was at school, I hit the gym, did some reading and writing.

Once home, we had lunch, rested for a while and then get ready to leave for therapy sessions by 4:30.

Back to back therapy sessions and then we were back home sometime after 8p.m. and the routine continued for the week.

Needless to say, I didn’t even realise when the week was over. It seemed that we were running from one place to another, hardly stopping for a break. All I remember is looking at the clock all the time.

At the end of the day, both Little Miss and I were so tired that we would both fall asleep as soon as our heads hit the pillows.

All this hard work also showed some results.

During one of the fitness classes, I saw the improvements in Little Miss. She has been training for 4 months now and she is getting the hang of some exercises.

There is less prompting and helping now and most days she enjoys the activities. Her confidence in walking and climbing stairs has also increased.

She now shows more understanding and laughs at some of our jokes and comments. If we are talking about something she has done, she laughs out loud to show her amusement. And peekaboo using the curtains is her favourite game.

She has also realised that she can now sulk or cry loudly if she doesn’t get her way. So, every demand that is not met can have a sulky reaction or a crying reaction which of course puts me in a bit of a spot.

I can’t give in to every demand but I am also happy that she is learning to show emotions.  This is a huge step for her and we have to be careful to let her learn not just to show her emotions but also to regulate them.

Parenting really is about balancing everything even if your hairs curl up more and more in the process!

Last week we also celebrated Little Miss’s cousin’s birthday. It was a family dinner at a restaurant and needless to say her favourite part was the “happy birthday” song.

Anytime you sing the birthday song, she follows it with claps and smiles as if it’s her birthday.  Maybe she will grow up to like birthday celebrations like I do.