Goggles In Space

This one is coming very late. I am a bad blogger and this is testimony to that !! Ever since i went on maternity beak, i havent turned back at this blogsite.Nevertheless, here it is - that great news...It was a baby boy :) Yes...my little boy Anand came to this world on July 14th and is part of my family of FOUR now !! 4 yrs back we were TWO, two years back, we became THREE and now we are FOUR !!! Really very fast..we had found a name for second one thinking it would be a girl and when Anand was born, it was a struggle finding a name. Hubby wouldnt agree to my suggestions and i wouldnt to his. on the 28th day ceremony, he came with the name and murmured into my son';s ears. My little Krishna was a long awaited boy for the family and so the name Anand. Just pray he does live unto his name :)

19-Jun-2008 : Yday was my daughter's second birthday. We traditionally look at the birth star and not the DOB on English calendar for celebrating birthdays. When she got up around 4:30 in the morning (after a dream, i guess),we wished her happy Birthday. Sreya now understands 'Happy Birthday to you' because very month at her playschool she sees celebs happening. probably she loves the cakes,chips and balloons because they are things which are a strict "No,No" at home.She dozed off to sleep with us and got up around 6:30. We took her to a nearby temple and after getting back home,decided she would miss her school friends that day,instead play with her grandmom. I know it will make her granny tired but then we went ahead with that plan.We had made a small sadya, myself and mommy. though she maynot like the taste of dishes, i still wanted to make them because it was her bday. Cherishing the moments from Day1, i drove back to office. It has been a 'not-so-diffic...

I hate mosquitoes..I hate them more now because they are always around my little daughter to suck her blood..I have an allergy to mosquito bites and so does she. What is so sweet about our blood or rather how does our blood taste different ? i am positive but my kid has a negative blood group. So whats there in common for these mosquitoes to be so attracted to us ? Now we have a "shishi" bat to kill the little blood suckers.We call it "shishi" (meaning hot ) so that sreya doesnt handle it..It has a small shock and we tell her, its daddy's bat and not hers. In the wee hours of night i have this habit of getting out of the net to go and "pee"...by the time i get back, there might be one or two mosquitoes inside. So i have to put on the lights,sometimes even wake up hubby (and listen to his curses on waking him from a sound sleep) and try to kill them or drive them out.A couple of days i didnt do this and lo ! my daughter is red all over with mosquito bit...

Do you remember the first rhyme you learnt ? Perhaps Not.Neither do i. But i know some of the rhymes my 22 month old knows. Of course, she cannot sing ano of them completely. Not all words are clear to all and she often sings other words which sound similar to the original.After all, how can we expect her to understand the exact words she sings. I still remember how i used to pronounce Standatties...without knowing what it means until some time back i learnt the word is 'Stand at Ease' !!Sreya can sing some of the rhymes like "Twinkle twinkle","Ba ba black sheep","Johny Johny","Ding dong bell" and so on. We have taught her some malayalam songs and she can sing them too. Of late, i have started narrating her stories in english and she nods her head as if she understands every bit.At the end , i would tell her the story in malayalam and lo ! she is so happy !! She forms small sentences and has started asking questions. She tries to speak w...

I was in a casual mood while leaving office on friday evening - nothing exciting was planned over the weekend. So i basically had to pick my darling from the day care and drive back home. There was a planned doc visit on saturday and mom would come over on sunday. The thought that i could relax for the next couple of days without any cooking made me happy. From the ODC area on 6th floor, i got out.While waiting for the lift, i saw Kris Gopalakishnan walking from towards the lift. He was in the floor below mine and i just saw him for a second. The green light blinked and i alighted theelevator. It stopped at floor 5 and there he came in - Kris himself and a chaffeur. I was so delighted. I was standing in attention and didnt utter a word. I have seen some very key directors of infy at the blore campus- Nandan , NRN , Sudha Murthy and Mohandas Pai but had not dared to speak to any of them. The lift stopped at floor 4 and some of the guys who got in wished and smiled at Kris. Finally when...

This is probably the third birthday party we are attending with Sreya.. The first one was in July 2007, the second in March 2008 and the third was yesterday , April 21st. This one was grand indeed. The host family was dressed in glitters and the party was in a grand resort. The food was good too. But most important, Sreya enjoyed running in the lawn,looking at the twinkle stars and her favourite "ambala",meaning moon.Even though she fell down a couple of times, she wouldnt mind.Because it doesnt hurt when you fall on the grass.In blore, there is hardly this kind of an open area for your kids except in large parks or resorts. So it was as if she had got a lot of freedom. I met two of my friends too after abt 3-4 years. In all, we had a great time at the party. In the bottom of my heart i feel sad because we never kept a party when Sreya turned 1.

A month since i last blogged..Phew !! I am indeed a bad blogger..but then there is one more thing. I dont have anything to write infact nothing interesting to pen down..Though i was very busy last month, i am relatively free for past couple of weeks..i am attending some trainings and want to study for a couple of mandatory cert (This has not been happening though !! ). Of late, on top of my mind, i have been worrying about just one thing - my daughter's delayed teething. I have searched the internet as to what could be the causes, treatments etc but the more i read, the more frustrated i become. My sweet kid has just abt 8 teeth and she is about to turn two !! When i see a mouth full of teeth in other kids of her age, i feel so bad. What could i do !! I have been taking good care of her, giving her homemade food,supposedly balanced also.could she be having some deficiency ? I dont know..we had done a couple of blood tests but all of them turned out normal. But i cant stop worrying....