Bub - The Bubbly Babli!

I guess this blog is still to come to terms with the second child and lack of time that comes with it. Of course I cannot even blame Bub for lack of time because she is quite the sweetheart! One does get more time to blog with 8 hours plus of internet at office which I can only dream of at home as of now. I am enjoying this phase, but that for another post someday. This post is meant for the Daughter of ours. I just love even the sound of it. The father is of course hopelessly in love and smitten beyond repair.


So the Bub turned 6 months last month and what a joy ride it has been. The first three months were obviously dull, what with just sleeping and pooping most of the time and almost complete lack of expression. Are we the only parents who found both their kids in newborn stage terribly boring and not to mention dried raisin looking?! :p


But since month 4 Bub has been bestowing her gorgeous smile on everybody. And when I say it's stunning, I am not being the fond mother! I Hope! ;) She wakes up the morning and there is a biiiig smile as soon as you smile at her. Say something funny and she will grin again. The laughs though are reserved for her darling Brother, the Cub. None of us can make her laugh as easily as he does. He can say or do just about anything and we hear the happy gurgles which in turn make all of us laugh.


She rolled over around 5 months and now is trying VERY hard to start crawling. She still is not able to and gets very frustrated every time the attempt fails. This does mean she cannot move and one can never find her where she had been kept originally. She creeps a little and rest of the movement is through series of rollovers.


Like all babies, she loves grabbing glasses and pulling hair. She also enjoys just touching and holding your face if you bring it close and we never seem to get enough of that! :)


She hates being left alone and bawls her lungs out every single time this injustice is meted out to her. She HATES being kept on her back for too long. So we have keep propping her up so that she can keep standing and sitting as it pleases her while holding on to our hands.


She has quite a grip and its not easy to get things out of her hand. Also, anything that goes in her hand HAS to go into her mouth. Absolutely everything. Clothes, paper, toys, cell phones... she is not partial to anything. Often after she gets bored of eating her fingers, she chomps on her toes. My mom says if she can keep up with that exercise she will always have a flat tummy! Hehe!


That said, she LOVES to eat all the normal edible stuff as well. Give her something to chomp on and you won't even realize that she has no teeth! She especially enjoyed mangoes to the hilt this season. Her first obviously. She enjoys being given really small pieces of chapati, licks of ice cream and chocolate, fruits, biscuits... well you name it and she wants to eat it. I hope this happens when she really moves to proper solid meals! :p


All in all, she is a complete sunshine girl right now and we are totally blessed to have her in our lives.


Love ya our little angel. Keeping being as gorgeous as you are!

Of course, here's the photos!

This one is coupla months ago, but its such a keeper! :)

Super thrilled with Aaji ajoba in a cute jhabla gifted by gauri mavshi.

Excited during her first outing to the beach. At Juhu Beach in Bombay

Chomping on a carrot at a resto while we ate our khaana.

Magan-Lal - First taste of  Chikki on her first train trip ever! An overnighter to Kolhapur!

Didn't i say she LOVES mangoes?! :)

and this is what happens when you give a 6month old chocolate biscuit in her hands just to keep her outta your hair! :p

Yup! She likes being made to sit and stand every now and then!

In the gorgeous outfit gifted by Mugdha Mavshi. The wedding eve at Kolhapur.

And the actual wedding day. A halter neck lehenga - choli from Bhavya. can you see the tiny green and gold bangles?! :)

the reception and the jazz!

So, here I am with Lucknow patrt 2! Ofcos there are eally no glimpses of lucknow in either post. It's basically Ooi Bua's shaadi and related stuff. There was no time to do any sightseeing. We did manage to sneak out day after the wedding for some Chikan shopping and had some yummy chana bhatura and lassi at a thela while at it. That did not stop us from going home and feasting on a full lunch either! When in Lucknow, eat everything you can seemed to be the diktat! :D

The reception was a grand affair and the DJ was brilliant. There was a bit of confusion with live music playing inside and the dance floor making noise on the open lawn. But we were too busy dancing or eating (the raisons d'etre for attending the wedding in the first place!) to notice the overlap. The older people called it disturbance! ;)

Oh! I must to tell you about Ooi Bua's buddy Isaiah (all relatives had different pronounciation for the poor guy's name!) who had come for the shaadi from Bangalore. Now we have met this cool dude a coupla times before. Really like him. He is regular rockstar variety. Tall, dark with long hair which is tied in a neat pony tail and all. He was so enthu and participated in all the shaadi related jazz and all as if he has always known what it entails. I was even more impressed. And then I completely fell for him when he pulled out a hair straightener to straighten his hair and promised to do it for me for the reception! I mean, can a man get more perfect! "Bhabhi, it will take 10mins only. Reception ke liye karte hai!" Thanks I! You made the evening rock for me! :)

Also worth mentioning is that I wore Ma-in-law ki wedding saree! A gorgeous piece from 35 years ago. I was quite happy till the pin ripped the pallu AT the reception. I was obviosuly upset but M was mortified about me having to face to the music. I just went ahead and told her its torn and please adjust so that it's not obvious. I got away with just one rejoinder stating she knew I couldn't take care of such delicate saree! ;) I scooted away post adjustment and hit the dance floor yet again! :p Tension nahi lene ka, kya?! ;)

Cubby was a l'il upset and tired thanks to all the fun that was being had all the time. You won't find too many smiling photos, but he looked dapper in dadi's shopping nonethless! A lovely shimmery kurta with a l'il stole to boot! :D

Here are some pictures from the evening;

Thats "I" doing the hair straightening while I sat there completely clueless and trusting my head in his hands! :p




That's the result! Me was quite happy! :D

A family photu with the owner of my saree! MIL, M, Cubby et moi!

Thats fav Anta didi! :) Didn't I tell ya no smiling Cubby pics! :(




Cubby in Chehek didi's arms with the whole bunch of kids we were meeting for the first time!

Cubby was the first one to hit the dance floor! :)




Showing off his moves! :)

With P mamu, S bua and Papa. Vedu bhaiyaa and Cubby trying to run away and be the blurs they are always were! ;)

Finally managed to catch em. With papa.

With M Bua. The next in line. Know any eligible bachelors?! :)

Cubby finally happy to be out of the Kurta and get his daily dose of masti with his dad! :D

ps:part 3 of post shaadi chilling to follow soon! :D

pps: Laughed a LOT reading THIS. There's a reason why I love this man so much! :D

lucknow in pictures! :)

There was a lot of discussion (by my standards) about whether we should go to Lucknow for the shaadi. For one all this recession talk has made everyone very wary of taking chhuttis. Plus there was the cost factor. Since there are no direct flights, BLR - LCK, the fares are perennially quite high. We thought there are only as many occasions we can miss because of money and time issue and booked our tickets to Lucknow for Ooi Bua's shaadi (Cubby speak ofcos, lest you think we have someone called ooi!).

Cubby remembers this Bua and her fiance well enough (they had given their "hemmets" to Cubby to play with when they visited us, making them demi-gods!) and we kept telling him we will be going for their shaadi. The excitement was all there, the trip to the airport, sitting in the aeopane and the biggest thing, the chance to meet Daadu! :D

Turned out to be quite a trip eventually. Cubby did do his fair share of whining and being a pain, yet lots of fun was had too! Vedu bhaiyya was there and he would keep an eye out for Cubby and try and play with him, which wasn't responded to by Cubby much to my chagrin! But when they did get along, it was total dhamaal. Everyone thought they were saga bhais, even twins by few myopic aunties! :p

Our camera Jinx in Lucknow continued and we forgot to take the camera on the shaadi day. Thank God for grainy cellphone camera pics! Ooi Bua married a Gujju/Kannada boy and they didn't have to many dancers in their baraat. So we all joined in. Ofcos, we just needed a bahaana to dance and ladke - ladki waale didnt matter.



I might do it in parts, the Lucknow pictures considering there are just so many! Lets see how it goes!

Waiting for his coffee and sandwich at BLR Airport CCD! :)

"Chotta Saamaan" Enjoying the trolley ride at Lucknow airport while we wait for our baggage to appear!

The haldi ceremony on wedding eve!



I quite enjoyed being the "bahu" and jazz and being a part of all the ceremonies! Made me feel all grown up and even more a part of the family! :)

Waiting in line to get the "Mehendi" done!

And just to avoid feeling too old, hung out with kids most of the time. M had won them over completely and these were kids he was meeting for the first time and they weren't l'il babies either! And since he looks "enger" (as an ex colleague had once told me), they all called him bhaiyya and me, by that virtue, "didi"! Yipppeee!

Finally my turn! :) The dude was maha quick!

I just love mehendi! Me thinks this was just about the 2nd time I was getting mehendi done post shaadi. Ofcos, that time I was waited on hand and foot and had the mehendi on for a whole night with nimbu ras and laung sek happening for colour. This time it was off within an hour and hands got wet cleaning potty pretty soon afta that! Hehe! Fun thing was I fed Ooi bua (the bride), her sister M bua and another cousin S Bua simultaneously since they all had mehendi on both hands. They all sat around me and i kept feeding them spoonfuls turn by turn! :D

Cubby in his chikan kurta and dhoti on wedding morning! isn't daadi's choice really good?




Nagaada! Nagaada! Nagaada Baja!

Bhaago! They were a blur like this photo with all the running around that happened!

With so much bhag-daud, dhoti got adjusted often! :p

Moms might be wearing pretty sarees, but still will sit on the floor and feed the baccha while the father is working on the distraction bit! :)

Frog prince, anyone?! :p With so much masti and shaadi ka khaana, neend toh aayegi hi naah?! :)

There are Uggies (Hugs)! :) Thats vedu bhaiyya!

And THEN there are HUGS! :) Chhota netas wearing the left over garlands meant for the baraatis and having total fun!

Thats that then for this post! The recption and daadu's birthday pics in the next one! :)

Kabir Kolhapuri!

let's unpack these bags!!!

mujhe ready bhi toh hona hai!! kahan hai naye kapde?

kal aaj aur kal! :)

with one of my young looking naanis the previous evening!

main cute ho ho hoke thak gaya! phew!

shaadi ka khaana chhod ke yahan bhi lactogen! thats why i am running away! :p

main chhotaa hoon toh kya hua? Mere paas bhi dhoti kurta hai! :D

I am such a family man! :) and getting outta that kurta was bliss! :p

These photos are ofcos delayed! This is our Kolhapur trip last month when we went for a cousin' wedding! Kabir had such a blast! Inspite of terribly hot weather, load-shedding and assorted things, he was just so happy to be surrounded by all the people who loved him to bits. Those who didn't know him, were begging for his company soon enough! And apart from bride and dulha, CubbyR was the most important AND popular person at the shaadi! So much so, that M and me would ask ecah other every half an hour "Baccha kahan hai?!" much to amusement of people around us! :)

Am so glad our first train trip and shaadi attendance went off so smoothly thanx to your genial and attention hungry nature my sweets! :p

Here's to many more! And keep being the friendly dude you are!

Your Smile can make bluest day seem like the most perfect!

Love ya Lots! Mmuuaaaaaah!