...And then there was a bean bag ;)

Recently little Shahana visited her cousin. And among all the other little things, the one thing that really caught her fancy was the 'bean bag'! She just loved to plonk herself onto it all the time. It was oh so comfy and she used to sink in it. It was fun to watch her fight over it with her cousin :)
Last weekend, we were back in Bangalore, and while we were out shopping at the mall, she spotted it....yeah you guessed it right!, the bean bag!
And she threw a fit right there (its amazing how the little ones know when to throw a tantrum!), so we took it.
Now, it is exclusively, "her" property. Everything from drinking her milk, to sitting down to simply relaxing is done on the BEAN BAG. No one else is allowed to sit on it. not more than 5 minutes!
It is, but fun to watch her completely enjoy herself on the bean bag!
And here are some moments!

Cat in the refrigerator :>)

Little Ms. Mischief is now exploring more and more, with each passing day! Her newest conquest is the family refrigerator. She has learnt how to open the door, and stand on the small platform. Once that is achieved, she just loves to explore the chilly environs of the fridge. Quite a novelty for her.. :)
Here are some candid moments of the little inquisitive cat in the refrigerator!!

We have an extremely naughty person on the house!!!

Little Shahana has become one big explosive bundle of activity lately! She is all over the place. Ever since she started responding in sentences, it has become a bit of a risk engaging her. You never know what you may have uttered in the past, that she has caught and will use against you. It is just super fun watching this little busy body at work - creating mess after mess after mess, while the harried mother (my darling wife, Anshu) is busy cleaning up after her.

2 years??? I thought I just blinked!

"Time Flies"....and so the cliche goes. But when you come to think about it, it truly feels like it. Seems like just yesterday, when Anshu and I became proud parents of our little angel. Then one day it was her first birthday. WOW! That was nice and come Sunday, Shahana will be celebrating her 2nd birthday.
2 full years have passed and it has been a roller-coaster ride of both happiness as well as exasperation (especially when the little one drives us up the wall).
So only a few days to go....and lots of stuff to do...
Watch this space for moments captured on Sunday....

Youtube's fan following just grew by about 2feet

In case you wonder where I came up with that crazy metric, it is the approximate height of my little princess. And She loves YouTube even before here second birthday!
Sometimes, as parents we do stuff with our kids, usually to get them off our backs for a while, and it backfires BIG-TIME. This one's a classic example of it.
Here's my story: Whenever I used to open my laptop to check email or to catchup on my feed reader or some other stuff, my kiddo would come running up to me and start banging at random keys on the keyboard. More than once, she has pressed the power button, when I am right in the middle of doing something important. So I thought, let me just show her something interesting and then she can get back to play and I can get back to doing what I am doing.
And that I think was BIG Mistake ;-)

I opened YouTube, and searched for nursery rhymes (never expected so many videos to show up) and showed her one. She was over herself with joy (in fact, that "moment" when my little one squeals with happiness, is what parenting is all about), and then she actually asked for another rhyme that she knows. I searched, found it played it. And then came another......

It has led to a situation where, this laptop is now 'hers' and I get to work on it once in a while, when the rest of the household is asleep (like right now). And she watches her playlist (yes I made her a play list of about 19 odd poems), two times a day, breakfast and dinner time.

You tube sure has a vast resource of fun education. But at the same time, as parents, both my wife and myself are cautious about not letting her watch it more than 3o minutes at a time. Initially we were unable to figure out how to get her OFF it. But now we simply tell her that the poems have gone to sleep, and the little darling happily lets go of the laptop :).
Here's a little video of her antics with the laptop.
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Mishti Ki mithaas!

Our darling Mishti is now able to speak in sentences, but of course with the cute baby accent of hers. It is truly the ultimate feeling to hear her recite the little rhymes and poems that she has learnt at her day care.
She loves to talk up a storm and we love to hear her doing that. One of the few moments, where one realizes that parenting is needed the truest of all joys!
Several new pictures are there. Will post them soon.

The new Bald look!

Shahana was getting all here baby hairs tangled all the time. So a tonsure was definitely in order. About a month back, we got it done, without the brouhaha and here are some of the many moods of our little angel :)

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