Pain first, gain next

Looks like its pain first, and gain next. Ear piercing ceremony.

On my star birthday

Hey, how can I wear this flower when I have no hair?

Mirror of Life

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes

Photo by grandpa;

Sepia touch by appa

Team Building Exercise

All Pegasus training, team outbound cannot stand infront of the team building exercise these folks put. Virtually there is another team (parents, grand parents) who will run from pillar to pillar to manage these team players.

So long, dad?!

Diya seems to be raising brows that her dad working with same organization for the continuous nine years.

Mine or yours?

Happy kids

Place to hide

Jo-Kotur visits

Jo and Kotur visited us. It was like breeze and showers - as their visit was much awaited, sudden, surprising, unexpected, and a short though. We got into nostalgia chatting old time stories with empty stomachs and brimming hearts. First visit by the couple - to our home - after their wedding - to see Diya.

Mottai pictures

Pretty Hot Mottai

A significant day. Diya's head shaving (mottai) ceremony. We visited Chennimalai, our family god's temple and performed Diya's mottai. The weather in TamilNadu was pretty hot. We didnt expect it to be that bad, that Diya couldnt cope up with it. Diya looked very different after head shaving.

Scorpio

This is not a scorpio or a tribal hair do. This is Diya at her best, a hair do that she sports before going for bath, thanks to the creative fingers of granny.

Call Interupted

I called Sudha over phone yesterday after she returned from her granny's place Poruvaai. But Diya just didnt allow her to speak. She went to the extreme of snapping the wire. I called again, this time too Diya just didnt keep quiet. So, I kept the phone deciding to call today.

Climber and Creeper

My friends ask me these days if Diya has started walking. She doesnot walk, she climbs. She climbs on me, She climbs only on me, Only to grab my glasses. She doesnot crawl, she creeps. She creeps towards anything To catch anything from distant ant To touch low-bound stabilizer

Diya in Pattamangalam

We were to leave to Madurai on Friday night by train. But then came a thunder that saturday is statewide bandh in TN. Fearing any casualty and knowing our train's traditional delay, we quickly arranged a cab to travel to Madurai. It was 10.5 hrs journey but Diya was very cooperative. She slept very well. After reaching Pattamangalam, Diya was greeted by inlaws, sajja and meena. Diya entertained them with all her skills. Then we all slept off. The Bangalorean girl didnt like pattamangalam's hot-hot weather. But she went to all who lifted her. She also had her first taste of tender coconut which she liked very much. The main reason we visited was the Car Festival ( thaer thiruvizhaa), but the Car didnt start until I left for Bangalore.

The trio!!!

One feet above ground level

Now Diya is playing a minimum of one feet above ground level consistently. Whenever I am holding, she is about 5 ft from ground level. (Sometimes, I carry her on my head - where she is above 6 ft from ground level). For statistics purpose, when Sudha lifts Diya, Diya is ensured a 4.2 ft lift from ground. But thanks to sangeetha and anusha - we have walker and a bouncer at home. With Walker, Diya doesnot really walk. I put her on the walker, tie a rope to it, and drag her around the house. She enjoys the luxury of comfortable moving. Sometimes she rests her head so relaxingly on the front set. Today Raghu and Kiruthika visited and got us Swara's bouncer. We didnt know Diya would love it so much. As soon as she occupied it, she got herself stuck to it and started talking baby words to Raghu. (Meaning to ask - why didnt you get me before only OR why didnt you tell dad to buy one before only). Post lunch, I had put her to sleep on the bouncer at 3 pm...she is still sleeeping..!

Rendezvous with Avaneesh & Adarsh

Today is a very crucial day – Diya’s first meeting with Avaneesh and Adarsh. All these days, Avaneesh was believing that Diya can speak and sing fluently. It will be a rude shock for him to learn that she is no better than Adarsh who can just utter baby words. Avaneesh can take pride that he is senior of all. My mom is already planning to take a group picture of the trio – Avaneesh, Adarsh and Diya. For summer, she is expecting Gayathri and Aravind to add to the list. Proud granny, of course.

 

Diya with Colourful Glasses

Threat to our glasses

By now, Diya has learnt to climb up to me so that I can lift her. Unlike before, she needs me more often. I carry her for a walk in the corridor in the nights. There is a big threat to all our spectacles. Diya targets and grabs our spectacles in a moment of flash and to our horror floats it in air. We all are planning for a conspiracy...Idea is to wear a dummy spectacles which doesnot have any glass at all. It will have only frames. Or buy one color spectacles (which children wear) from the local market. Let she break it and quench her thirst.