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Sankranthi-2011

Festival-Family-Food-Fun!That's exactly how our sankranthi was this year!

We were in NJ mainly to visit Aarush's chinna 'maama' and my dear bro-'Sharath' and also decided to celebrate Sankranthi!

A & M had lotta fun playing around. It was the same as last time just that, they now understood each others babbling, well it looked like they were talking to each other!, wanting and snatching the same toy and exchanging their sippy cups!

They loved maama 'coz he had chocos! Megha says "Kacco" in sucha cute way!

We gathered Advika-Hansika, Aarush-Megha and Niyathi for 'Bhogi Pallu'. Aren't they the cutest?

They would sit still for 'Bhogi" pallu only when bribed with some cherries !

My Sis did a great job with 'Bommala Koluvu' and 'Muggu' and also her signature 'Pulihora'.

While the kids had fun.Kiran, BIL and Shannu were busy playing games. Sis and I were busy cooking, cleaning and EATING!

20 months!!!

Jan 19'th, 2011 Aarush turned 20 months 'young'.

Seriously,where has the time gone? I can't believe in the next 4 months my baby is going to be a 2 year old boy. We would speak in years and come out of months!

Letz see what the boy is upto:

# He almost understands everything that we speak, but only says a few precious words and a lot of babbling.!
# His cruel mamma made him realize what a dark room is when he climbed on the TV stand and started to shake it.

# I still would like him to have layers and layers of fat!

# Sleep is okay, just that we say CRIB= YOUR BED he says YOUR BED = MY BED

# Fav fruits: keeps changing from blueberries to strawberries to apple to grapes to water melon to sometimes orange.

# Fav food => Food that's tasty- Husband says thatz his blood right there!

#Fav activity =>Climbing up on anything higher than ground level.

#Fascination/ fav toy=>From pressure cookers to slowing going into cars and trucks or may be both!

#Personality =>Friendly, waves to strangers all the time even when not asked for!
#Trait=>All the expressions with those big bright eyes!( anti-jinx, anti-jinx and more anti-jinx)
#Mobility=>Gets the highest degree, I couldn't take a decent picture or couldn't make him stand still!

Lessons to 20 month old Mamma:
Freak out less and enjoy the boy's childhood before he outgrows the " I want mamma, only mamma" stage!

The Next- Gen!!!

Growing up, I had a lot of cousins and it was so much fun when all of us got around which was quite often. It was endless fun, gossip and games.All of us are almost the same age and coincidentally our kids are the same too. I wish there is way for us to stay close to each other so the kids would have the same kinda fun.

The second generation in our family is taking a good shape with almost all of us having babies. Starting with the latest addition "Shreyas"- now a 2 month old precious little boy of my SIL.
The next in line is Cutie Anjali- 9 month old girl of cousins Siri and Siri
Megha, my beautiful niece is only 3 days younger to Aarush and so became his chitti chelli!
Next is our man

The first of all kids, big bro "Nishanth"- now a two year old boy of cousins Kishore and Padmaja.
These are just from my immediate family !There are other cousins who had kids around the same time too!

Now, wouldn't it be fun to have them all at one place and see them playing, fighting, talking, walking and causing trouble:)

Happy New Year!!!

I understand it's the end of January but better late than never, right? So , here it is
" Wishing you all a fabulous new year!"