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{So the first change-
Dearest Keerthi and my-yet-to-be-born Daughter,
There we go...If whoever is reading this, has already read my previous two blogs, Letters to keerthi and more letters to keerthi...you will know that i stopped my last blog with promise to Keerthi that she shall soon have her baby sister...And i am always true to my word...so last May's promise is going to be fulfilled this May..:)
So i am right now in my 33rd week of pregnancy...So its been long overdue to introduce Rosy Rose..}
I was still deciding whether i should go ahead and get pregnant this fall or that my H4 EAD was here at last, so may be get a job this fall and plan for kid next fall. But god had other plans..i went to india in sept 1st week with K and k , hoping that when i return back from india after a month vacation, i will start looking for jobs full fledge..I discovered that i was pregnant while in india..and it was a complete shock to me..it was a delayed conception..and once again all my plans were collapsing and it was as usual hard for me to take the turn of events. So we came back in October and all others except me were deliriously happy that i was pregnant. Then the usual boy or girl conversations all around. Again other than me and Keerthi, all the others wanted a boy. I wanted a girl, because i have never had a good history with males other than Karthick.
So the fifth month came..and after a pep talk to Keerthi saying that she should not be disappointed if it turned out that she was having a brother and she should be happy whether its a boy or a girl etc etc..We went in for the scan and Keerthi was like half worried that the ultra sound lady was going to do something to me..She was like dont you dare touch my mommy..And till that moment i thought i wanted a girl..but right when she looked at the scan and said "Its a girl..", there was a sharp disappointment in me because for one thing i knew Karthick very much wanted a boy..and also because i realized all along i had been sure its a boy, because both me and karthick had brother-sister combo..it was like first one was a girl so this one must be a boy..again..it took a month or so to recover from this..since all the grandparents were upset that it was a girl again and no heir apparently..(rolling eyes)..but the highlight of all this was, my darling Keerthi of course..she was 5 and mature already.. When we walked out the door after the scan results, Karthick and I were a little upset and Mommy Keerthi took it upon herself to remind us, "Didnt you say that we should be happy whether it was a girl or a boy??Come on cheerup!! I am going to have a baby sister".
So during the whole of my pregnancy Keerthi was going to Noah's ark preschool. And she was super excited about the baby so all the updates about the baby usually gets conveyed to her whole class. So when we picked her that day at school to go for scans, everyone knew that i was going for the scan and thereby next day everyone knew it was a girl :) From the time i got pregnant she kept coming up with names for the baby like Lucy etc etc..and once we knew it was a girl, i dont know how it came about..i am pretty sure it was something to do with minnie..or her nieces..i forget now..(that's what happens when you start a post when you are 33 weeks pregnant, and try to finish when the baby is 2 yrs old and sleeping upstairs) but she came up with the name Rosie rose..all the last 5 months of my pregnancy, the bump was spoken to as Rosie rose..She even asked her preschool teacher to say bye to rosie rose once, when leaving from school..Everyone had come to think of the baby as "Rosy rose". It was so cute and loving actually. But then, around the time of pregnancy, where the name debate was getting hotter, Keerthi had her next condition. She had just observed that her friend Pranav who had a baby brother recently, with name Arnav..and in some conversation i had mentioned that me and my brother had similiar names too..Anandraj and Anandalakshmi..So she was determined that she and her sister should have rhyming names. We kept giving all sorts of name choices to Karthick. But he kept mum. But finally "Rosy rose" was named as "Adhithi Karthick"..(brief story about your name i shall tell you when you grow up :))
P.S: the words in curly braces were started when i was 33 weeks pregnant and i had left them in draft or the other words were lost without saving..so they were in draft for so long..i have just finished them two years later, because i need to write the next letter, observing how the little sister and big sister are getting along and their cute sibling rivalry.