baby days

i was working in my father's office when i saw his old agenda cum address book. i opened it and noticed it dated back to the year i was born. opened up to the actual date and found notes about my birth. labour started the previous day at 6pm and there was a contraction curve underneath - not that i can understand it!

going through the pages, there are notes on feeding times, sleeping time - with a special mention when i started to sleep through the whole night, which apparently happened quite soon - the first time i smiled, my passion for my hands, and then later, my feet, my first tooth (with a whole diagram that was filled in through several months), etc.

most of it was written by my mother, in that first year, but my father kept it and made several notes through the years, so that i know when i started speaking, walking, cleaning up, and how my dog felt about it all.

it's funny, i never really thought about it before. you never really think about specifics. knowing that you were a good well-behaved baby, or a crying one, etc, is the usual info you get and you never think further, because it doesn't really matter. but still. it matters now.