Colour me Red!

Just a quick photo post because i think "Lal hai rang pyaar ka!"

One of my absolute favs... This photo! 

With very good pal HM! At Rogue Elephant. Gorgeous place, btw!

lal hai rang Cub ke uniform ka bhi! :) First day of BIG School! :)



Yup. Cub has started a formal school since yesterday. And from today he will go and come back in a big yellow school bus! Please send good thoughts and vibes to this l'il big guy, will you?! :) I am hoping the school turns out to be fun and helps him come out of his shell and become a more confident child. Sometimes I wonder about how can we make him realize how cool he is?! Any ideas?


That said Cub has started enjoying trying to make word plays and being funny. Chip off the old block, I am hoping, if he is anything like his father. It started with telling him "traffic jam mein phanse hai" and him saying Jam toh khaane ki cheez hote hai and then carrying on from there.


The other day M was telling him his childhood story from Rajkot. As soon as he heard the name he pipes up "What is rajkot? Is it like "raincoat" or is it "Rajshekhar" where Bub was born?! :p


And today morning as I was hurrying him up for school and telling him how many minutes we had before going down to catch the bus, I asked him "You want to go potty?". He started laughing. And then goes on tell me, "I thought you said we have Potty minutes to go!" 


Among other big milestones, Cub and Bub have been moved to their own room! So, Yaaayyyy to that! Bub is too small to know the difference, but Cub is old enough to get scared and apprehensions. I am so so proud of him to have made the transition so smoothly. It may not have happened at a young age, but he has done it! :) It also helped that we got him his own cupboard and he is also feeling all grown up and responsible for Bub too since they share the room.


All in all life is good! Hope you guys are having fun too! :)

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?! :)

till regular programming begins!

Staying at home obviously leaves very little time to blog! Bah! Plus we shifted homes (yes Again!) and there was no internet for a few days and a multitude of boxes to unpack. We are still living in boxes...errrr rather out of boxes. The basic clothes and kitchen is set, but we have no space mainly for four boxes full of books and our decorative stuff etc. Ho jaayega dheere dheere.


Right now we have left M alone and Bangalore and the kids are soaking up a whole lot of grandparent love in Bombay. I am feeling nostalgic and very very sweaty! :p From here, we go to Kolhapur for my cousin's wedding. Bub's first train trip! Cub's was also to Kolhapur when he was 9months old and Bub is doing it even earlier at 6months. That said, yup, Bub has completed six months of giggles and gurgles! Have to do a propah post for her. Will do it next. Right now, just sharing photos of my Devils in disguise of Angels. How I love Bombay for selling such cool stuff on the streets! :)

I plan to buy a dozen of these and take em to Kolhapur for all my nieces and cousins. Hopefully take a group photo of all of us wearing some Horns! :p

Summer vacations treating you guys good? What have you been up to?

perhaps you can suggest the title?!

Like I said in one of the previous posts, Cub keeps coming up with hilarious stuff that i forget much before i get down to blogging. So today I decided to post his latest two anecdotes right away!

So, the child is sitting on the pot and making random conversations (he does not give his tongue a rest very often). Suddenly he tells me "I have kept the bathroom door open now. But sometimes I close it because when Bub is crying I cannot 'hear' my potty!"

I was totally rolling on the floor laughing when he comes up with his next whammy!

He got down to discussing Bub's toilet training when she grows up etc. Then he said "When Bub grows up her "susu" will also come down like me. Right now she is doing susu from her bum no?!"

Here I was wondering how come he never questioned the obvious "difference" between Bub n him. It is because he thinks it is still work in progress since she is a baby! :p

I could not stop laughing and knew I had to post it here for posterity! :p What better way to embarrass them when they grow up, eh?!

And here's a coupla photos I love! You cannot see the kids too well in either. That is for next post. A total mush fest in all probability! :) As if my blog is ever anything else, but still!

Chilling or something like that at Home! :)

With Bub at UB city. Had the loveliest lunch at Toscano. Thin crust pizza and Kahlua mousse. Must try! :D

Be - dazzled!

and i shall let the photos do the talking! :)


There are much cuter smiles, but they change into curious frowns the moment the camera is noticed! And then some I just cannot find where they are. But you get an idea dontcha? Wont you agree with my comment in the last post? She can get get away with a murder with that smile! :)

General happiness! :D

Very very thrilled with constant and loving attention from Vaishali Bua! :)

Happy to be out and about ofcos! At Taj Kuteeram!

At UB city. She looks like a l'il Chinese boy doesnt she?! :p

This is not a smile. But she looks so darn cute! What? A mother is allowed to NOT be modest! :p and BE delusional! ;)

and the absolute latest pic. Brother she loves chomping on this peacock! Great gift! :)


And we won the World Cup!!!!!!!!!!! What an awesome match! Much fun was had! :)


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Milestone alert!!! :)

and no it is not Bub's milestone! The lazy bum has only just turned on her side and has learnt to exercise her vocal chords the moment she is left alone in the room! Sigh! She is also dazzling us with her smiles and thinks she can get away with murder with those. Oh Well! She actually can if she wants! :)


This post is for Cub. We have treated Cub's past 2 years at school with complete nonchalance. The intention was for him to have fun, learn to interact with other kids and if he manages to get some education while at it, that was just a bonus!


That also means we have never done any "homework" with him or actively taught him anything. So imagine our surprise when we saw him do this!

Look ma! I can write! :)


We told him the spelling a few times, but now he can write it on his own by memory. And we have never ever practiced writing with him etc. So its all school and his effort. Few times he would come and ask how to write a particular alphabet and we would hold his hand and write it once or twice. So we are super proud! :)

Thats an elephant! 



One end is trunk and another is tail! Dont ask which one is which! ;)

Now that is a recognizable flower! :)

Shhh! Do not disturb! Am on a con-call.


Yes, he does as many con-calls as his papa. And does it quite sincerely too with his kingfisher headphones and going tippity tap on his toy laptop keyboard! :)


He has also been going Smart Alec-y on us every now and then and I wish i had noted down the stuff he keeps coming up with.


Just coupla days ago, he had a severe case of loosies. Next day he wanted to go out with his Papa. M told him what if you do potty on the road. Cub shot back with "I am a cow or a dog or what?!" Errrr... sorry!


M got him this cute superman tee with a cape n all. He wore it the other day and M told him why don't you fly us to such and such place instead of going by car. He retorts "Papa, maine sirf superman ke kapde pehene hai! I am not asli superman!" and gave him a look! Errr...  sorry again!


He is all grown up now and is equally painful and delightful in turns! He still refuses to say his Thank You and Please. He whines like it is going out of fashion and cries for most annoying things. But on the whole he is still a very nice kid! :p He has a vivid imagination and can keep himself occupied with his cars and animals and making up stories around them for hours sometimes. He thrives on positive responses and is yet to learn how to accept a No with grace. But then he is just 3 and a 1/2 years old! I tend to forget that most of the times! :D


Among other news, I have quit working after 11 long years (last 5 of those at one place) and i really hope i enjoy this stint as a SAHM considering i never saw myself as one! :) So wish me luck!


And how have you folks been? Waiting for the big match on Wednesday?! And what plans during school vacays?


Stay cool and happy! :)


Cheers!

ps: Thank you Tanay and Shweta for that gift! The magnetic slate. I have not seen any other gift used as much! :)

i could call it a Thingie Post 4

or just name it Love! The father cannot wait for The Bub to able to jump on and around him too!

Please to notice Bub's undivided attention and loving gaze at her Brother. Please to NOT notice Cub's new fake smile! I hope he outgrows it soon! :p

And yes, there is lots to share which in terms of moments and milestones and I hope to do it soon. I am already forgetting so much of it. Especially Cub's gyaan! Must share Bub's smiles with you folks too. Soon, i promise! :)

Hope things have been awesome with all of you! :)