6 months latter....

... I am still wondering how should I begin blogging. Life, babies, school, office, makeovers have totally kept me on my toes. So I decided to let some pics help me kick start.

Here is my little boy in the initial few months. (I need a nick for him for the blog now. any suggestions? I also need a new header. any ideas?)

Day 1.


Month 1


Month 2


Month 3


Month 4 - Sis & Bro


Month 6 - Father & Son


The jellybean is home. My sister is expecting a baby anytime this month. So the duo are back togather. Role play is their favourite game. Doctor-patient, mom-baby, bride and groom, shopkeeper and buyer and on and on. Lines like, "ok, now I am its my marriage....ok now its your marriage" might have us raise eyebrows, but the duo are in their own world.



Here she is fueling the vehicle.

2008 in Pictures - Part 2

September-2008.

Best buddies in a tight embrace.


Pretend play


Late September-Early October
I went on my first onsite assignement after the peapod. I travelled to Vancouver, Canada and New York, USA for a week each for work. I loved New York to say the least. Specially Times Square. I loved the lights, the cold chilling breeze, hot coffee, good company, easy talks and energy of the place. My cousin and his wife were more than generous to drive me around New York, day and night giving me glimpses of downtown NY in just the one weekend I had. I even managed to watch a Broadway show with them, "The Phantom of the Opera". This was my first theatrical experience and it was awesome. The sets were just stunning, the way one disappeared and the other appeared. It was a very New York experience they say. There definitely is a next time.



October-November
A favourite game around here was taking turns to jump on the bean bag. This is before the Jellybean left us.



Putting on a little dab of talcom and posing for the camera


A beautiful guest that amused the girls. The duo were scared to get closer to the butterfly on the swing, what better that reach out for each other for courage.



Bed time. Reading out to each other.


Being good girls on the dinner table. They generally sit with their own plates and then what follows is a mother of all messes.


It was time to get Jellybean into a school. So my sister moved back. Nov 27th the Jellybean had an interview and she got through. She came to us as a very clingy and cranky baby a year ago. Now she is a girl with a mind of her own who guards her reputation of a "good girl" like a tressure. After every mess, antic the first thing she needs cleared is her reputation. She goes around asking "I am a good girl?" and if you dare decline, she will shout, howl untill you clear her title.

December-2008.

Dec 8th - The third baby in the family.


Around Christmas


Check the drama queen's expression behind.


That was 2008 in a shell.

2008 in Pictures - Part 1

In the last year my life has seen many ups and downs, both at the personal and professional front. I have hardly done any quaterly posts for the peapod this last year. I haven't even clicked enough pics since I have been just too lost to do any of it. This blog is my only means of putting stuff up for posterity and so I just thought of doing a picture post that represent some event, silly or great in the past year that I have managed to capture. While I should have ideally done a post or 2 on each but knowing myself, I know they will never see the daylights or the weblights. So here I go....

February. You remember we went to this team building activity from office to a place called Kolad. The peapod would have been just happy if I did let her stay and bond with the geese



March. This was our trip to Matheran. I had been to this resort with my first company. It was a all-expenses paid trip for the whole company. It was my first glimpse of beautiful cottages and soft jumpy beds. After 10 years I was back.



Father & daughter in some serious conversation



June - Sharing a sweet corn.



July - Talking to her mother."For the 100th time I am telling you I ate my food, I slept and have not troubled anyone."



"Oh my God, not again. I am already asleep"


A very small bird built a home in the money plant groove on our balcony. They laid eggs and hatched even smaller birds. They provided a lot of reason for the girls & us to stick around the windows and watch.


August- 2 car full of adults and 2 kids, we had a blast in Anand Valley, a place near Pune. The greenery and the clear blue sky was a treat to city bred people like us but for my mom and her sister, the village belles, it went "So what is it we are looking at here? Is this what we paid for?"


My cousins & the kids. My mom's youngest sister is 11 years younger to her. I and my sisters were pampered by her. I and my sisters pampered her kids, these 2 cousins when they were young. We were in school when they were born and were very excited about little babies at reachable distance. And now they adore, play and pamper our kids endlessly. God bless this love-chain.




August 17. My Mom's 60th birthday. She celebrated in admist her sister & family, her daughters,spouses, her grandkids. A total family affair.




To be continued....