New Year and Old Memories!

So, Happy New Year to all of you! As another year goes by, you are wished dreams fulfilled, warm hugs, true love, lasting friendships, success and loads of time with your loved ones! :) Yeah, this is also the sms I sent and some pals in blogosphere must have got it. Though it sounds like a forward, leme assure you its original! So I am always amused when I get my sms back from some friend! hehe!

I have to do posts on our Pune and Mumbai trips, with pictures ofcos (considering thats all you guys come here for!:p), but I need to be in a different mood for that! Just got some mails from my dad with scanned copies of some our old pictures and I thought might as well put some of MY childhood snaps too! I mean why should Cubby get all the "sooo cutes!" hehe!

Before that leme just share some snippets with Cubby

Scene 1:

Other day when i was again stuck at work till late because one particular client activity that had been delaying for almost the entire week.

M - So when you coming home?

Me - I dunno. I am stuck!

M - Antiquity, again?!

Suddenly I hear a voice pipe in! (M has kept the speaker on)

Cubby - Aaantikooti.

We laugh like crazy and ofcos make him repeat it zillion times! Then,

M - Say Signature!

Cubby - Sinneture

Me - Now say Daaru!

Cubby - Daauuu.

M - Bolo! Bewda

Cubby - beddaaa

Yes! We are like that only! We get cheap parenting thrills by making Cubby repeat stupid stuff! But we had a good laugh! Cubby too. And dontcha worry. We didn't do the daaru and bewda thing again! But hearing him say Aantikooti is just too cute to resist! :)

Scene 2 - We are sitting and having our breakfast. Cubby as usual say Deee (give) and takes a bite of whatever we are eating. As soon as he bites it, he goes Teekha (spicy!) with appropriate sounds and expression! How the heck did he know?! :p

Scene 3 - Its chhutti, so I am bathing him instead of Amma. I pour first mug of water and I hear a little admonishing voice saying Garam! And yesterday he used Kannada equivalent and whined "Bissi!".

When did my baby grow up so much?! :)

And now leme share some moments from my childhood! Very few pictures I realise now. On next trip home am gonna get all of em! :) Ofcos they are all faded and not so clear, but memories are precious, in whatever form! nahi?! :)

Guess which one is me?! Clue: Teeth! :p

So did you get it right?! Thats me with my Mum n Dad at my Grand pa's house in Pune.

It was my birthday and all those kids were my friends in Pune since I visite my grand parents at every available opputunity! I am in touch with the only guy in the picture. I do love my frock and to think my parents let me choose from pretty early on and I bought some seriously horrid stuff!

Again in Pune. The toothy smiles started pretty early on and almost never stopped i guess!


Thats my bro and cousin and me doing the aarti for Bhaidooj.

Exchange Mela: Me wearing Mom's jeans and shirt and Mom wearing my skirt and blouse!

This is at Aurangabad during new years. I guess, I had started being the awkward teenager and my bro loved to make weird faces for EVERY picture. When he was little younger he wanted to pose with some toy or the other and yeah the tongue wagging! :p I started fitting into Mom's clothes for a bit. But that affair was short lived as my mom is very thin and has a small built. So now I don't fit into her clothes and she has to wear mine after altering them to make em smaller! Sigh! Also remember the fights that started with Dad around the time jeans came along about merits of looooong lasting "Abhyankar" chappals from Kolhapur with Jeans and why do I need another nicer pair of footwear! :p

This is Feb 97! TWELVE years ago almost!

This was our standard picture of four before going out for dinner on someone's birthday. This was Dad's birthday. Bro and me started picking places to eat pretty soon! It was quite an occasion! :)

Another one of Dad's birthday!

I think both of us (bro n me) were trying to make sure that we don't open our mouths while feeding cake to Dad! :)

Had fun seeing these again. Earlier everytime we got bored, we used to pull out all the albums and see old photos. We did that again this time when I went home. It's always fun to see how we and others around us have changed over a period of time. I wonder how will Cubby react to his parent's old pictures. Will he also laugh at our clothes and hairstyles, the way we laughed at our parents?! How many stories will I remember to tell him? Will he also see our wedding album and ask "Why wasn't I invited?"

We had decided that we will keep printing our digital snaps as well, because watching them on computer is like reading an e-book. You can see the pictures alright, but they cannot be a warm and cozy family affair albums are. We have lot of albums, but we haven't printed new ones in quite sometime. Should do it soon!

Are you guys ok with pictures just on computer? Whats your nostalgia factor?! :)