scaring his grand-aunt
Kamalamma (Appa’s aunt) is coming… secret ambush surprise… Continues on in the night…
popular children stories… hmm…
I was going through a big colorful book on Aesop’s fables recently – and man its really cut throught A rated violence in each and every story. I told one and then the next and then I started leafing through it page after a page reading by myself while my boy got bored and wandered […]
dizzy? no…
At the end he only pretends to fall. Maybe he was a Dervish Sufi long ago… The Whirling Dervishes are a sect of Islam taught to love everything.
Thumbs up training
By granny From Laliamma…
beyond the barrier
An icon of what we do in our society of any impressive personality: we glorify him, build a barrier around him, and worship him. This barrier keeps us from really approaching him, knowing him and understanding him and learning from him. This is what I felt when I saw the barrier around this Vivekananda statue. […]
where shall I go?
This is what he asks Appa… Appa replies – wherever you’d like to go – the entire world is yours!
tantrum skills
he seems to be perfecting the art – tears on demand inclusive.
Help me help me
Amma amma yenaaadru maaDi help maaDamma… he pretended to be in trouble and cried!
bath time
A follow up on this post on questions, though Abhinav hasn’t been posing too many questions yet, something related… oh boy there are times esp when during a phase Abhinav would absolutely REFUSE to take his clothes off for a bath. He would say “idde baTTe bEKU” and throw a grand tantrum if anyone tried […]
At the pre school
First dunk!