Ansh 18th month

My 18th month has been pretty fun. We made a trip to the The Jungle Island in San Jose. It was pretty fun. I played in their ball pit and with the wooden blocks. I think once I am like 3 yrs old I would have more fun there.

I am also doing ton of stuff at home. I have a Megablocks set now that I play a lot with and I can build lot of structures with it. Pappa hasn't gotten around to putting up videos of the block structures, but he will soon do that. Also, I now have animal and vegetable toys that I play with, I have a lot of fun finding them and arranging them.

I am also having a ton of fun in my music class. I am learning lot of stuff and I like to dance to the songs at home too. I love ram sam, hot dog, and old king cole songs. I also like softer tunes like apples and cherries and can you do it.

We also put up christmas trees and lights early since Anay and kaki are heading to India. We got our christmas gifts early too. Check them out in the photos links. My dad also managed to organize my videos into playlists. So far he has put up 7 playlists you can see them on my youtube channel.

On a not so fun note so far, I started going to My Dream Academy day care center. My first week has been pretty rough. I keep crying and looking at the door to see if my mom or dad have come to pick me up. On the bright side I love playing in the outdoor section and I am liking some of the toys there. Friday was so far the best day for me and I managed to play there and read a book. The weather has been cold and rainy so I might be stuck in the room instead of playing out, but at least I have a few teachers and friends to play with. My family can also watch me online on the daycare's webcam. I will be back with more pictures, videos, and notes soon.

Pictures from my 18th month, trip to the Jungle Island, and early Christmas gifts.

More pictures

Dada and Ba from Ohio (Pappa's mama-mami) visited us from October 10-October 20th. They came to play with Anay and me. We had a blast with them. We went to several places, including put-put golf, visit to Google, Gilroy Gardens, and San Francisco Fisherman;s wharf. At put-put golf they had Halloween decorations and I had a blast looking the giant cat and all the spider web. As Google while a group of adults played pool, me and Anay had a blast in the ball pit. Gilroy Gardens had ton of rides for my age and they had waterfalls, flowers, and soft music. In San Francisco we show the airshow with fighter planes doing some cool stunts. Pictures from their visit that we took in our camera are here. Pictures from Dada's camera are on his facebook page.

For mummy's b'day we also made a trip around San Jose. We visited Children's discovery museum. That was a lot of fun. First I got to sit on a fire truck. I sat in the driver's sit and moved around the steering wheel. I didn't want to come out of the truck. Then, I got to sit in old school style cart that used to deliver mails in US a few years ago. Then, we went to bubbles section. That was so much fun. I made bubbles in big puddle of soapy water. Saw the soapy water curtain, made bubble sandwitch, and got little wet and soapy. It was a soapy fun time :). Next, we went to the the pin wall where we could push pins from both side of the walls to make impression of our hands and legs. We also saw some gears and made a doll and clock move using the gears that was fun. Then went to speed breaker like apparatus where we walked on a slope and the slope changed based on our weight. I had a blast there.

Then, we went to the second floor of the museum. I did a lot of fun stuff there. I played with rice dough and made different shapes. Walked on a giant snake like creature and did puzzles using big blocks. I had a blast running around in the infant room where I saw some birds and turtle toys as well. Then, I went to this room with little marry-go-round horses. Their shadows played cool tricks on the walls. Then, we went to a 'restaurant' where they had toy food items. I played with pizza, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and bunch of apples. Then we went to the Halloween performance. Different kids had dressed up in Halloween costumes and danced to a song. I had so much fun.

The last fun part at CDM was the water play area. I put balls in water streams and they jumped out of pipes or stayed up at top of a water fountain. It was ton of fun. My dad can't describe that stuff too well, so you will have to see pictures to figure those things out. After all that fun, I fell asleep right in the high chair as we were eating in the cafe.

In the evening we went to the Heritage Rose Garden in San Jose. There were a lot of roses of all sort of colors. We got a lot of pictures there. It is also very close to San Jose Airport, so I had lot of fun seeing all airplanes coming to land at the airport.

Herer are Pictures from the CDM and Rose Garden trips.

Lot more pictures

Hi Everyone,

My dad finally got around to posting more pictures. Let's start with mummy b'day 2009. We celebrated it with carrot cake and you can see me getting some cake. There is more pictures from her bday, but they are on different camera and my dad is too lazy for now :(.

Next, are pictures from my showing at Navratri and trip to kids castle. Kids castle is like Chuckee Cheese, but they also have indianized pizza, so it works out pretty well for everyone. We have been there couple times now and I really like the rides there. I also like crawling into the tubes that they have there.

There are also more pictures of me from couple days after my haircut and from my 14th month bday celebration. I would have to say I look much better with my old or new hair compared to back then. As you can see in the early pictures now I do some pretty cool artwork. Also, my hair are growing at rapid rate and I am back to looking handsome in the later pictures.

There are also pictures from my music class. I like the music class so much and the last class when we all dressed up was awesome. I was dressed up as squirrel man and that was pretty cool. We had couple pumpkins, a spongebob, a prisoner, a dragon, an alligator, and a snow white. We even sang some halloween songs. My dad will get around to posting the videos from the class on my youtube channel soon.

Well nap time for me, see you again soon..

ma,,ma, pa,,pa, ba,,ba, ya..... Now I can speak

Hey, I can speak now. I can speak Mama, Papa, Baba. I also like to say Ya. I also speak na, ha, ta,va,aap, aam. Sometimes I speak kya hai?..... Its lot more fun speaking. I am enjoying it. Oh and my youtube channel has been updated with new videos.

My new achievements

Hi everyone,

I have been going to the music class. Hureeee!!!! I go to my music class every Saturday in the morning with my mummy, daddy and sometimes with my ba, dada. I love music class. I meet with so many friends there. My teacher sings and dance and We all join her in singing and dancing. I like to play drum there. I love few songs among them. One is apples and cherries, peaches, blue berries, grapes and bananas. Yum, Yum, Yum, Yum, Yum. ... I also like ram sam sam song. I also like hot dog song. Even after coming home now I know how to start tv and how to play music. When ever I want to listen to the music and dance. I start tv and I give mummy remotes to start player. I can clap, I can move round round, I can dance with my hands, I can stump my feet. Now I understand words in my favourite cd. I show all body parts and colors when it comes in the songs.
I know all body parts. I can point head, ears, nose, mouth, teeth, tong, lips, hands, eyes, legs, nails, finger tips, tops. I can also show you blue, red, green, white, yellow and black color.

Now I can relate things. There is Mickey in my sippy cup. I show that mickey and can show the mickey that mummy maid it for Diwali rangoli painting. Same for goofy. I like to explain that goofy on my sippy cup is also in my pillow. I can point to the sky to show you stars and moon.

My faourite activity is open and close the bottle cover. I also do lot of art work these days. I made 3 cards for pappa's B'day. I used colors and stickers to make those cards. THose are very pretty.

When I go for a walk with mummy everyday. I like to smell flowers, I like to show deer, dogs, squirrels, stop signs in our way.

Now I can go to bed by myself. Mummy, pappa tell me the stories or read books or sing songs and I go to bed. SO, its easy for them to make me sleep.

Dad dug up few pictures from his cell phone for this post.

My Baal Muvara after coming from India trip

Hello everybody,

I am back again with my interesting story. I had long hair when I was in India. After coming home in USA, We did my Baal Muvara. It wasn't fun at all for me. Hair cutting was done at our home, When I was taking my afternoon nap, my mummy, pappa and ba cut out my long, slky hair. Most of the time during that part, I was asleep. But when it was about to finish, I got up. After that my pappa used the hair remover machine to remove all hair from root. I was in my mummy's hand and pappa used the hair remover machine on my head. I was crying a lot. After my baal muvara, I took shower and slowly, slowly I was feeling better. Now my hair was gone. I knew that and when somebody asked me, where is your hair? I used to show him with my hands that it is gone. I was looking very smart and different after my baal muvara. You can see few of my pictures in my new cool hair in pictures from Chuckee Cheese trip.

India trip last 3 weeks part 3

We went to Mummy's ada and bhabhu's place. We met Chituada, Madhubhabhu. I had chevado and biscuits at their place. We also went to Ashaben and Hiteshkumar's place. Ashaben is Chituada's daughter. I also met Vidhididi(Ashaben's daughter) at Ashaben's place. She took me to the nearby temple. I enjoyed with her. We also met Himanshubhai(Chituada's son), Reenabhabhi, Bansi and Parth. I had fun with all of them.

Next day we went to Mukundmama and Mamatamami's place. I had some ice cream and gaanthiya there. I also enjoyed on swing in their balcony.

In the evening we held paaranu for me at the Jalaram temple. They put me in a decorated crib and I did jj to all bhagvaan. I got woken up from middle of the sleep, so I wasn't n very happy mood. That night we went to 'Jalesh', mummy's home when growing up. I had fun running in the empty house and sitting on the hinchko.

Next morning we left Rajkot and came to Arukaka and Latakaki's place in A'bad. Haribhai came their with mama and mami as well. I had a blast running around the veranda and we enjoyed bhel and paani puri. At night we went back to Jayeshmama and ?Jigishamami's place and got together with ba. Hinumama and Hetalmami also came from Pune to meet with us. I went out with Hinumama several times to see dogs and other animals outside. It was a lot of fun.

Finally after six weeks of fun times meeting different relatives, it was time for us to come back to USA. Both mama-mami and Haribhai came to drop us off at the airport and we got on to flight from A'bad to Mumbai. The flight was relatively short and they gave us some food. From there we had a short break and Mumbai and then got on to the long flight to JFK airport in New York. The flight was 17 hours, but I stayed very good. I slept for a long time ate my food and drank milk regularly. When I was awake I played in the tiny area in front of our seats. There were also other kids near me. When we reached New York I was completely up and bored from not running. We had couple hours break and I spent that time running around the airport giving myself and mummy-pappa much needed body exercise after long time sitting. From there it was another six and half hour in flight to SFO. I slept through most of the flight.

Hetukaka came to pick us up at the SFO airport. I got to sit in my new car seat which now faces forward instead of facing back. While that's not as good as being free in the car in India, its lot safer and also let's me see everything through the windshield. When I got home I got together with Anaybhai, kaka, kaki, ba, and dada.

More on life post trip in the next post. For now my dad and mom have finally finished the India trip description (full month and half after the end of the trip), so they will take a short break.