I am a year old!!!!

Yoo hoo.... I am a one year old who can walk around the house on his own and run around!! I am so bbbbbbbiiiiiiiiiiigggg. I say aa aa aa and point out everything. I look at birds, planes, trees, khiskolis, balloons everything and I point them all out.

My first year birthday
My one year birthday was a grand party. I was dressed in my fancy suit and looked dashing. I got a lot of gifts and had a ton of fun. There were a lot of kids around and I enjoyed playing with all of them. The kids did lot of bubbles and I enjoyed running among the bubbles. We ate a big cake, lot of pizza, and some indian sizzlers. It was sooooo much fun. There were sooo many people in house, but I didn't feel like I was crowded. I ran around in my white suit with red shirt under that.

I also got a lot of gifts. I played with the balloons from birthday for several weeks. In addition I got the lighting mcqueen car, couple of cool bibs that help me stay dry when I eat :), books, and several other toys. Kaka-kaki brought me a shape sorter type of toy that also has abacus type of balls on a tube that I can move around (that's the best description my dad can come up with so you will just have to see the toy in pictures). My mama-mami sent me a tricycle that I will be opening when I come back from India. Ba-dada got me a lot of summer cloths that I have already started wearing.

Trip to Chukee Cheese with family
Couple days after my birthday we went to Chuckee Cheese. It was soooooo much fun. Me and Anay set in bunch of rides and got a lot of pictures taken. I sat with chuckee, teletubbies, and bunch of other characters that I don't know yet. I also got my pictures taken and played a kid version of fooseball with mommy and daddy. Make sure to take a look at pictures from the trip below.

I am going to spend most of my 13th and 14th month in India. Mommy and I are already in India and pappa will be joining us soon. Pappa is missing me too much to write more now, but rest assured you will hear about the my India trip and things that I do in detail when he posts again..

Pictures from my birthday.
Pictures from Chukee Cheese.
Pictures from Ba's cell phone.

11 months old and growing...

Hi Everyone,

I am 11 months old now. I have ton to report, so let me get started without further wait. Oh before I begin, an advertisement for my youtube channel where you can see plenty of my videos (As of last count I believe we got to over 65 videos). Here is my youtube channel.

Trips and other events

Katha and havan at our new home:
We had Gayatri havan and Satyanarayan Katha at our new home. It was lot of fun. I dressed up as Lord Krishna. I did all vidhi with my parents. Everyone was surprised that I was seating quietly and participating in all puja with my parents. We had many family friends at home during puja. You can watch the pictures to see all the guests.

Trip to Hanumaan Temple and Buddha temple with my mummy,daddy, Tithi, Rushika, Kalpanmama and Vaibhavimami:
I had been to Hanumaan temple and Buddha temple. It was pretty nice experience as Tithi and Rushika are little elder than my age. So, I had fun with them. Temples were pretty with meditation center and Yoga center. We spent whole day together. In the evening we went to a park near their home.

Trip to Yosemite with Jigneshmasa and Nidhimasi
This month was full of tours and events. So, I was pretty busy. I had a blast when Nidhimasi and Jigneshmasa came to see us from Minisota. I has so much fun with them. I, Mummy, Pappa, Nidhimasi and Jigneshmasa had been to Yosemite National park. This was my first long trip after I got over 7 months. But I had fun in the car with everyone. Yosemite national park is an amazing place to go. There were 10 - 15 big water falls in the park. Trees were so big that in one tree trunk 10 people can easily stand on one side and trees were really tall. I enjoyed splashing with daddy in one Yosemite river. Natural view was also amazing as mountains covered with snow, valley, water falls everything was together. We stayed there for 2 days.

Nidhimasi gave me bath and also made cheerios bracelet for me. I ate all cheerios from my bracelet :). Jigneshmasa gave me strawberries and played a lot with me. I miss them now as they went back to Minnesota.


Things I do


I do lot of new stuff. I was speaking mamama, papapa, dadada, bababa, tatata. But, now I can also speak cutcutcut, light, aap. Now, I understand everything. When mummy ask me to show Jeje wala, I point my finger to God's picture. When somebody asks me to give them somethinng, I can do that. When I heard bird voice or Plane voice, I show mummy that voice is coming from here. I love to water plants with my mummy. I walk with my walker and Jeep everywhere. Now I have preference with books. Whatever I want to read I give it to mummy. These days I spend most of my time with mummy. So, whenever mummy is around I would like to go to her.

My 6th teeth finally came out. I had fever for few days because of that, but now I am alright. So, now I have 3 teeth on upper side and 3 on lower side. I love to brush my teeth. I have my own brush. When Pappa is brushing his teeth. I would love to help him out with brushing. When I am feeling etching in my mouth because of teeth, I would like to bite something.

I like to play with musical and interactive toys much. I would also love to spend time in the backyard with my mommy. I also like to watch Anay play. I often play with him or pat him gently.

Eating habits

I am eating everything just like a big boy. I would like to eat subway, pizza just like adults. I love strawberries, blue berries, cherries, banana, mango. So, all fruits. I also eat angel hair pasta. I love to eat toast with milk. Rice crisp cereal with milk. I also like bread, roti, khichadi, daal, bhat, all vegetables, yogurt and what not. I eat by my self. I can also convey the message whatever I want to pass on. If I want to eat strawberries, I would show it to mummy from my fruits and vegetables book and I convey that I want to eat strawberries.

Bath

Now, bath time. Splashy splashy is my favorite time. When I am in the bath tub, I do splashy splashy a lot. I also took bubbles bath, but I didn't like it much.

As I understand and recognize things, I afraid of few toys which have vibrate motion. I go slowly to new people.

And very important thing - I am turning 12 months - 1 year old on next 25th, So I am throwing my B'day party. Its on 20th June, 2009. Its in the Serra Park, Sunnyvale. You all are invited. We will have tons of fun. Cake, games and what not...... so see you there. I gtg to prepare for the party

Pictures:
Ansh 11th month general pictures
Pictures from Masa Masi's trip part 1
Pictures from Masa Masi's trip part 2

Pictures from Ba Dada's anniversary

Pictures from my 11 month B'day party

The joys of standing up

Hello everyone,

Its been a long wait for this post. I have been wanting to post this forever!! I have done so many things in the last month. I am going to have to divide this up in sections to make sure that I don't miss anything.

Friends and Family
I have had a lot of visitors in last month. Stutididi visited me during this month with Diptiauntie and Hemantuncle. We had a blast as you will see in the pictures for this month. We played a lot at home. Stutitdidi had to divide up her time between me and Anay, so we both decided to be awake one person at a time :). We also went to the Tech museum in San Jose. We also went to the Great Mall with her, but I don't remember much of that because it was kind of late at night and I was asleep.

Last week eight of us went to the Shoreline park. It is so beautiful out there. Very peaceful and the ducks walking around, people going into the lake with their little rented sailboats. It was nice!! But, don't take my word for it also take a look at pictures. We saw a mommy and daddy duck take their four ducklings around, it was great.

I have also gone out to eat at several Indian restaurants and Sweet Tomatoes. I like eating everywhere!! Especially the sweet stuff, but more on food in the food section.

What am I doing this month

I am crawling at super speed. No one in the house can keep up with me. I make my mommy, ba, daddy everyone run behind me. Crawling is so much fun, I can quickly go from one room to another and just find new things to do.

I do a few different things standing up. I can hold onto any furniture in the house to stand up. Then I pick up some toy with one hand while holding on the furniture with the other hand. I drop the toy bend over and pick it up again while I am still standing. I keep doing this all the time now. I also cruise a lot with support of the furniture. Sometime I even let go the furniture or barely hold it for a few seconds. My mommy and ba even managed to get a video of me standing without any support while I was taking a bath.

Guess what else I am doing? I am talking. I can say "mamamamam", which my dad interprets as me wanting food and my mommy interprets at "ma ma ma". I think I do little bit of both. I can also say ba, I sometimes say mommy mommy or daddy daddy. I also say pa pa pa pa. Boy talking is so much fun. Although I still yell a lot, I like talking. When I am done eating I often say "all done".

Finally my favorite family time is dancing time. I pretty much like any music, but let's see, so far we have danced to whatever plays on B4UMusic, going on a bear hunt and bean bag dance from the cd that ba has for me, and bunch of other songs including ymca, macarena, chicken dance, and my latest favorite the space jam movie songs. By the way for any of you wondering what these songs are, I refer you to my favorite site YouTube.

New toys for me this month
Stutididi brought me and Anay two toys. A 'shape sorter' and a 'in place baseball hitting' toy. I love them both. I take shapes out of the the shape sorter and put them back in. Admittedly taking them out is lot more fun. I practiced the baseball hitting with my daddy and mommy. Sometimes even when I am strolling through the sunroom I grab the baseball bat :).

Food
Aha last but not least we are onto my favorite topic, food. I love all types of food (and some items that are not food :)), but we have discovered that eating shredded carrots is probably not a good idea since I don't yet chew them very well. I have been eating everything from my dad's plate, but my favorite part is eating toast with either soup or milk in the morning with my dad. Often I just sit in his lap instead of my high chair. I also like to eat bread for my breakfast.

In the afternoon mommy or ba feed me some veggies or fruit. I like banana, but I am kind of tired of carrots and beans. I can not have the veggies and fruits just boiled, they don't have to mush them in a mixer. I like roti a lot too. I can eat it all alone.

At night I eat dinner with everyone. My new favorite dinner food is pauha and tomato mix that mommy makes for me. That stuff is so yum yum that I just go through ton of it. After dinner I drink water with the proper glass that my parents drink from.

Finally here are two sets of pictures from this month. Part 1, Part 2.

Videos for 8th and 9th are up

Hi Everyone,

Time to start with a poem......My dad got tired of all english storybooks that we have because they count down from 10 to 1. He wanted me to have something that went from 1 to 10, so he and my mom together made up a poem.

One little finger playing with you,
one more joined in and that made it two,

Two little fingers climbing up a tree,
one more came in and that made it three,

Three little fingers making a huge roar,
one more joined in an that made it four,

Four little fingers running around wild,
one more joined in and that made it five,

Five little finger picking up some sticks,
one more joined in and that made it six,

Six little fingers looking up at heaven,
one more joined in and that made it seven,

Seven little fingers pulling all the weight,
one more joined in and that made it eight,

Eight little fingers went out to dine,
one more sneaked in and that made it nine,

Nine little fingers make up a lan,
one more joined it and that made it ten.

!!!

And my parents finally added my cool videos to the 8th month pictures and 9th month pictures. As they added the videos to the same folder, you will need to scroll through the pictures and see the videos as they appear. Have a blast....Oh and since I am a big helper, I helped add the following lines to the blog all by myself :).

kjdytsazpgvcv nb bghhyunb nh k vh mhg cvmn mhm.o fvgkfgvfvbcn m.
g cg ccn mn b b


If any of you can decode this, please let me know. The right winner will receive five huggies from me :). Time to blast off in space as they say in a cartoon!! See you from Naptune.

Scenary in 9th month

Wow what a cool 9th month it has been for me. I have done a ton of stuff this month. I am now cruising a little holding on to the furniture. I have a new doctor assigned to me in Northern California. I have already met him and he gave me a cool clifford book as well. I got no shots till my yearly visit to boot :).

In addition to that, I got couple of new toys an activity table and a walker. I have been using them both on regular basis as you will see in the pictures. I get up on the walker and table and and play with the different toys on there. I press buttons on the table and different music plays while on the walker there are bunch of toys that I can move.

I also have fun with my little bro. We look at each other and smile. Can't wait till he is out and about and we both can run around together.

I also went to the children's fairyland with my parents. The Children's Fairyland in Oakland is a park where they have made statues and murals of children's rhyme and storybook characters. I had a blast looking at the statues and all the animals. We also went to Chabot space and science center. I saw bunch of models of volcanoes and moon rocks etc. One of these days my parents will also take me to see the telescope there. Boy that was a fun time.

I am also eating a lot more. As you will see in some pictures I have been just loving the mangoes. I can eat them allllllllllllll the time. I am also eating bunch of other new food including spinach and rice, roti, lentils etc. Oh and needless to say I llllllllllllooooooove ice cream.

Finally my creative juices are also working out pretty well. Checkout the painting that I did on the computer at the top left of this post. Finally enjoy the picture from this month as well. My dad has figured out the video problem has to do with one of the codecs that got installed on his computer, so he will try to upload the videos from another computer in a few days.


Pics from 9th month.

Pictures from 8th month

Hi Everyone,

My parents finally got some pics from 8th month up. Videos are pending until they can resolve technical difficulties between the avi files generated by our camera and picasa.

These pictures include pictures of me standing up with sofa support, eating my new and sticky finger food, and our trip to Nasa Ames exploration center.
Pictures.

enjoy.

I am 8th months old

Hello Everyone,

I am back with my new interesting story. My this month's achievements... Its a whole lot. We moved to a new house in Sunnyvale. Its a big house with big play area. I crawl all over the house. I can stand up by my self holding sofa, boxes or any support. I figured out how to seat down once I am standing by myself.

Now, I am a big boy in terms of eating too. I drink my milk with sippy cup. I eat my dinner with everyone. I now seat in my high chair that Ba gave me when she was here with us. I sat in the high chair the first time on Feb 16 2009. Hey, you know I can also eat by myself. I eat cherrios, carrots,peas. First time I ate in a sweet tomatoes restaurant sitting in high chair was on Feb 21 2009. I also eat regular food like Daal, rice, maag, all types of vegetables, yogurt, ice cream, candies. My dad feeds me everything from his plate. Oh and if u make me wait on my high chair god help you because I yell and scream loudly.

I play with my hands too. I can wave figures like saying "aaw aaw". I also figure out when someone is going out based on them wearing jacket or shoes. Once I figure that out I plead to go to them. I am talking a lot more these days as well. I make also sorts of noises, but my favorite is 'ta da ta da' (you know that letter between t and d in the alphabet :)). I am also staying awake a lot more during the day.

Oh and I almost forgot. One of my teeth in the bottom gums is showing up slowly. You can also feel on next to it, but that one is still a little shy.

Finally, we don't have too many pics from this week yet, so mom and dad are uploading bunch of pics from previous months that were mia until now.

Pictures that were mia until now.