birthday party
Celebrating his second birthday. Video 1 of 2: Video 2 of 2: Coming home…
what's he up to?
Now he has his own Abhinav’s online video channel… clicking on the Broadcasts tab takes you to live coverage if any – you can email his dad if you’d like to be notified…
Missing jaanamari
He would have loved this place but he had a cold – maybe when this cold windy season gets over we can afford to take the risk of trying travelling with him.
shahensha
rishte mein tere tuntamari hotein hein… naam hein shahenshah
Empty mind god's workshop
So said Suresh on his site and Appa agrees its a good idea to leave a child who is silently sitting in a corner all by himself to himself 🙂 Here’s the link to the post: Empty mind is God’s Playground not devil’s workshop
video: baby brothers
Excellent video its really funny and at the same time really impressive how nicely the kids interact… esp how well the older kid handles the situation! Even had I thought of trying to get my boys to do this I probably couldn’t have, neither were coerced into any of this and neither were hurt (for […]
how to feed him – some solutions
One sweet solution to this perennial question, someone had suggested this earlier but somewhere we had forgotten, and remembered again later – was to get him to abstain from sweets. No more chocolates, gems, or poppins. This of course didn’t go well with him – but we had a story – ‘a rakshasha (daemon) came […]
houda?
“is it?” Abhinav completely floored me yesterday with this acknowledgement of listening – I can’t imagine where he picked up the word or the usage, maybe while we are talking amongs’t ourselves… and today he’s using it more. In between pauses in a conversation, he says “houda?”
patterns – breaking free from them
If we look at our adult life, we find that we’re engrossed on a daily basis on a variety of patterns – routines – like brushing teeth to excercising to eating and working and so on. Of course this might be an inevitable part of a common man’s life, but once they start becoming mechanical […]
funtime is everytime
This post was prompted by: Games puttachi plays “Appa muugu thogothini” (I am taking dad’s nose) and snatches my nose from my face. Then he pretends to hold it and does all kinds of things with it. appa muugna fanige haakbute … (I put appa’s nose into the fan!) …”drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr antha thirigbuDtu” (it spinning drrrrrrrr) […]