45 days Old baby !

My yet un-named son is now 45 days old. We had the second set of vaccinations after the first one that was given in the hospital. I feel babies certainly start looking better after the first month. Apart from that, I think the parents also get more confidence to hold the baby in their arms.

we have now started the preparations for the naming ceremony slated for Sept 3, amidst all the swine flu scare. There are folks coming in from Pune area apart from other areas as well..

Some recent pictures.

One Month !

The little one completed 1 month yesterday Aug 4; Couple of pictures on this occasion.

Diya - Collage

So that I'am not unfair to Diya - attached is her collage ..

collage

After a lot of search for the right collage tool, I have managed to download a free tool that can create a templatized collage.

New Born Baby - Boy !

Well, this post should have come last week with the birth of the new baby boy in my family last saturday. Yes, we had our new addition at 6:37 AM on a saturday, 4th July 2009. The baby weighed 2.7 kgs at birth. This also happens to be the American Independence day, which most of my american friends/relatives were pointing to.

Everyone is happy and everyone is talking about a complete family / balanced family etc. Personally speaking, my first moments were to thank God on the safe delivery as well as a healthy baby.



As a comparision, I have also uploaded picture of Diay on her second day of her birth ..

2009 Pictures

Diya is now 3.5 years old ..some recent
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Couple of updates about her:

She now converses in English and manages to translate stories into English.

At School, they are teaching the initial alphabets and she manages to recognize a few of them.

She likes the school and her teachers - Lakshmi madam and Bhawna miss ..

Her thumb sucking habit is still continuing and we are exploring means to curtail the same :-)

Oct 2008 Update ..

Its been long since I posted any pictures.. Here are some ..











Diya is now extremely expressive, talkative and responsive. She narrates stories; sometimes creating stories. She is very fond of the mythology stories of Ramayanana, Mahabharata , her favorite being Krishna ...She can sit hours together watching these videos ..

Another interesting thing is her inacting of Krishna stories at home..She often creates theater at home where all of us at home are cajoled to take one of the roles like Nanda, Yashoda, Krishna, Sudama, Kansa etc ..Needless to mention, it is Diya who is often Krishna ..

Diya is also now very interesting in Dancing. She has picked some basics of Bharatnatyam, which apparently is taught in school. We were stunned one day she was showing some postures and were not able to related it..It was only when Vaiju could identify her postures and what Diya was talking ..













She also likes and sings some songs. It also seems like we are seeing a transition from Poems/Rhymes to Film songs, Bhajans though what she sings depends on the moods ..

Recent Pictures - 2008

This was on her Annual day - 24/2/2008 ..Also her Dad's bday ..

diya in Aug/Sept/2007

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Its been quite sometime that I had posted any pictures on Diya's blog. Here are some pictures that are taken recently ..



Diya now goes to playgroup - Eurokids ( something like a pre-pre Kinder garten i guess ), which she enjoys a lot..Though is does not mention much about her activities in school, but she surely is learning more things ..Every month is Theme month and this month happened to be a "Fruits and Vegetable month" and before that it was "Transport". The teachers also take the kids to a field trip once in month.


The above picture is one on the "Euro Kids Red day"


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Diya in the new year

I have been more active on my other blog and felt that I should do some justice to my daughetrs blog lest she complains later; hence posting some of her latest pictures..

Diya has become very talktative and more and more smarter day by day ( should also add the word naughtier )..She picks up words, phrases very fast and uses them the next time she wants to relate..








These particular pictures were taken in Ooty ..She had been very cooperative in the entire trip except for the times when we used to have our lunch in the restaurants when she would have wanted to get the whole table down :)

birthday pictures

Some of pictures taken Diya first birthday ..

Diya's first birthday

June 3, 2006 fortunately came on a saturday; The preparation for the event started atleast a fortnight before - deciding and purchaing the dresses for Junie, firming up the invitee list, deciding on the menu and the caterer, decision on the venue ( her birthday comes right when monsoon begins ); the return gifts, invitation cards, the decorations etc.

Eventually we decided to have it in the afternoon in our clubhouse which also was the venue for the house warming dinner. We decided to go with the same caterer who had assisted us during our house warming;however we wanted to have the menu that was a combination of lunch and snacks ..hence there was a chat corner and a lunch side apart from the welcome drinks

We finalised on one of the event manager after talking to two folks. This guy came with a laptop to show all this earlier work, which happened to be huge events..Finally, we decided to go with him for the stage decorations, baloons, bursters.

The music was provided by the same person who had assisted us earlier.

We also engaged a professional photographer for the event for the first time and I was quite satisfied and pleased for having done that since I have realized that such events needs some full time attention to get the quaility that we expect. Earlier, one of our friends or relatives used to provide the photography services but I was never satisied with the same either for the content or for the quality.

Battery Girl ...

Junie's eyes are the greatest attraction for me. She has expressive eyes that can catch attention immediately.

We call her 'battery girl' nowadays since she had swallowed a cell that comes packaged with the toys. She banged the toy(mobile phone) to the ground, the impact of which made the cells spill out. In a second, she had swallowed a cell ..There was panic..all the more because everything was closed in bangalore due the death of Dr Rajkumar. A panic call to the doctor in Sagar Apollo allayed our fears that it will not cause any harm, ! ..( Jo kuch andar gaya hai, Use wapas bahar aana hai ) ..Thank You Doc ..

No Wonder She has been turbo charged after that !!!

Diya and her Mom

One of the snaps when you don't find 'Junie' in action. She appears in this relaxed and waiting for the click of the snap..Neverthless, to make up for same, Vaiju is excited about something in this picture.

Diya in her 11 month

I'am back after a hiatus of almost 4 months and one could very well guess that since the last posted pictures of Diya were in her 6 month.

Its more to do with *not* posting than to do with *not* having pictures. This is one of the ironies of the next gen technology. You have it when you don't need it or when you are not thinking about it. And you dont have it when you are thinking about it. In my case, when am thinking of posting the pictures and when I have some time, I do not have the pictures..And when I have the pictures, I do not have the means ( desktop/laptop/fast internet connection/ etc).

Anyway..now I have both !

Diya is playing with her dad's tennis racket. Trying to be Sania .. :-)

Diya in her 6th month ...

These are some of the snaps that have been taken when Junie has completed 6 months ..Junie is what I started calling her since she was born in the month of June..