Meet My Prince.

My dearest Yadditu, 7 year old.I now HAVE  A 7 YEAR OLD IN THIS HOUSE AND NO ONE TOLD ME HOW MUCH FUN THAT WOULD BE! I still cannot seem to remember exactly what life was before you filled our lives.I remember the quiet though vaguely.Looking back it was too eerily quiet to my liking:) Every time I ask you :"Yaddu do you remember the time when they took me out of my tummy and actually lay you on me and we looked at each other?"you always reply affirmatively.That moment is a moment frozen not just in my mind but my soul.Simply fossilized. I will remember that moment forever and ever more clearly and gratefully.It has been 7 years since that day and that moment and every year reminds me more fiercely than the one before how utterly blessed we are to have had the honor to parent you. Last year crushed us all.You were so utterly ecstatic to understand you will be having a baby brother or sister soon.You weren't decided on whether you would want a brother o...

My dimpling smile, Shadowed by a crevice, Rises and shines, Beyond belief, When you smile so closely with me. -- Amma

With his best friend Jinny. What they share is pure joyousness.Love these two to bits!

Found this in the drafts - publishing it now:) Hey there lil soldier! After you were born,I never wrote a single letter to you.I did have the urge to,many many times,but never did.So finally,today as you you sleep peacefully in your cot,hugging your blankie tight,I am going to try my best to spill out all those overflowing emotions and love and find the right words to do that. I think I would mentioned a gazillion times as to how much you have changed our lives forever,I think you will be hearing that pretty much a lot.Dad and I still think it all like a dream,a very very beautiful dream,especially when you lay between us on our bed,yapping away to glory or as you sit quietly on my lap as we drive,sometimes listening to what dad and I speak or sometimes answering back,with a lot of BAAAAAAAAAAA'S.It is at moments like these,that your dad and I share a quick smile and WONDER.Wonder in pure awe. You were a blessed child from the moment you were born.You never fussed or cried...

I haven't really written too much about my sunshine,she is our lil doggy kid.She is a daschund and about 2 years now,but she never really remembered to grow up. She is a special girl in our lives.Special because she was our first baby.She was our first experience with raising a life .It was an experience that we enjoyed so much,it brings back such fond memories of our life before our son.This girl is definitely the most forgiving person I have ever known.She puts up with all our tantrums,and doesn't mind if we actually forget to keep water or take her for a walk because we were so busy handling our son's growth spurts, teething and not to forget those sleep less nights the whole of last year and she took it so graciously,she simply chose to forgive us and still love us for all that we did manage to give her(which was so little the whole of last year!!!) Yathaarth and sunshine have become the best of friends recently.He needs to share his food and pat her gently ALL the tim...

There are these days when everything is perfect and you love life. Then there are the days when, well,you console your self saying - its really ok,its just a bad day. Then of course there are the days when, you know,things get so bad,they turn ugly and you just wanna run away. Sigh.Last night, was not a great night.Yathaarth cried and cried and cried the whole night(almost!) and I have NEVER seen him cry so much in these 11 months that I have raised him.I tried and did everything to make him feel better.I was getting restless and began to feel helpless.I lost my patience too soon perhaps,I yelled at him and I wanted to disappear after I realized what I did. When I apologized to him this morning after his morning wash he sat and listened to me like he knew what I was saying and then gave me the 'longest' and the 'sloppiest' ever kiss to me.Then we hugged,for a long time.Sigh.I feel so rotten. He hit the bed at 8 pm tonight as usual,but he seems still a lil disturbed. No...

I was dreading this day for over a month and my husband was dreading this day even before he ever decided to get married(i found this hilarious when he was telling this to me last night).We finally got over with this ritual for our baby - the ear piercing and 'mottai' ceremony. As usual he was a total darling,did his best to cooperate and was smiling through most of the rituals.The ear piercing bit was terrible but he cried for just a couple of minutes or so. There were moments when I just wanted to scoop my baby up and run away from the pain,noise and crowd.Sigh.Half a day of pure torture for mommy,daddy and son,enough to break my heart into a gazillion pieces.Anyway its all over,my baby is still happy and oh,he is still stinking cute!!!! the night before the 'mottai'

I do agree,I am very impulsive,maybe a lil crazy as my husband insists. It has been raining crazily here at chennai and I needed to go visit Mamallapuram.I just needed to.So we did.Bundled up our lil man and set off on our trustworthy lil Alto car.We love our car.It has so many memories.Most beautiful ones. So coming back to the trip.We reached the place,but the rains never stopped.But what we saw-oh boy!Was it worth it or not!!!The rigorous sea,the lashing waves,the beautiful shore temple standing quietly and watching over the ocean -So so so beautiful! It was raining very hard,i did make some desperate efforts to take some pictures,very very sad they turned out to be. This was Yaddie's first ever trip to Mahabalipuram,it is definitely one of the most beautiful places on earth and am glad we chose a very beautiful day to do so.

This Diwali was the most beautiful one I have celebrated in a very very long time.The sweets,the crackers,the family,and the overflowing joy each time I watched my son giggle with excitement,made it the most perfect Diwali.

The last 3 weeks have been very difficult to us as a family.We fell ill,and recovered.Then,I fall ill again.It was crazy.It was dengue(yikes).We are out of it now.But it was definitely a TERRIBLE 3 weeks,and it is here that I want to thank my husband.For waking up each night and tending to Yaddie as he coped with his precious lil tooth trying to pop in the nights as I lay drugged with painkillers(dengue brings terrible joint aches and head aches!) and slept.For waking up before the sun comes out,(my son wakes up anywhere between 5 and 5:30 EVERY SINGLE DAY!) and preparing that early morning bottle(read breakfast for Yaddie).For fixing my meals.For juggling work and us so patiently.For showering so much love.For listening to me grumble through the night(some nights the pain was so much that I couldn't sleep). For all of this and so much more that you have done and said.Thank you. ps: You make such an awesome DAD!!!

We visited the beach today,what a relief after all that sickness.We had lots of company too,vivek's folks,his brothers and family.Was lovely family time!Not too many pics to show(off!!),nevertheless,had a great evening and my water boy loved it(though he was a lil moody through it all.)

I don't even want to start remembering the details but the whole week in short - we were a very unhappy and sick family! It all started with me shivering last Sunday night(goodness I was sick a whole week???!) and I managed to successfully pass on the flu to Vivek and my poor baby too:( It is so damn difficult to be sick and handle a sick baby.It gets tougher when your husband is suddenly terribly busy at work too..sighhhh...But thankfully he was at least in town,and he sweetly did night duty every night,while i caught up on sleep(I was taking medicines for the flu which kept me drowsy most of the day and night!!!:-/). Yaddie gets awfully silent when he is sick.He just stays mum,which is killing(if you know Yaddie).So what a relief it was to hear my son go 'daddddaaaaaa dadaaaaaaaaa' all evening today! We spent the weekend,recovering,lazing,watching tv,eating awesome food(Vivek's folks have come down)and SLEEPING!!