First oil bath in Diwali

JATC

We went for a sunday lunch to Just Around the Corner, and inadvertently discovered a trick to keep her occupied - breadsticks! Bharathi gave her a breadstick and she happily chewed it for almost an hour, and we could finish our lunch in peace.

Later she got a balloon which made her even happier :)

Her first train ride

her mother is a train nut, who knows more about Indian Rail than Laloo, so lets see where this little nut ends up.

Here is her first train journey - we went in 2AC to Nagpur for a humungous family gettogether for Diwali.

She thoroughly enjoyed the journey - 2AC from Bom to nagpur, then 1AC from Nagpur (rich female) to Chennai, and flight back. flight is yawn news tho, her first flight was when she was 2 months old - from Madras to Bombay.

Navratri

We had a small puja at home for Navratri and took little Sanju out to one bengali jatra in chembur. we put her in the kangaroo pack and she thoroughly enjoyed herself :)

Now sitting up

Now she is SEVEN months old...woweee. She can now sit up unaided, and crawls around on her tummy like a little earthworm, travels at a pretty rate of knots too ..

gurgling laugh

she has discovered laughing :)

Weaning time

Aug 14th was my birthday, so we decided to start Sanjus first solid food on that day. so mom made a stewed apple paste and some kheer. she didnt like the apple that much, but relished the kheer. I think she is going to be a little hog, just like her parents.

sanju in jawhar palace and Dabhosa waterfall

Some lesser known charms of the place. Jawhar palace of the tribal kings, Dabhosa water fall and Sanju baba in her baby carrier !

First driving holiday for Sanju

Independence day came conveniently on a wednesday, so bharathi took mon and tuesday off and we had a nice 5 day chutti. Ordinarily we would have taken off to some far away place, but i was a bit nervous about taking the baby out too far.

in my opinion, diaper + breast fed + non mobile, non talking baby + own car = good baby holiday.

We went for a drive to Jawhar, Vikramgad, Khodala ghat, Tansa lake over 3 days. It was so incredibly beautiful, that I cannot describe it.

And the best part was that the baby enjoyed it too. She gurgled and gasped with excitement on seeing the scenery and bawled in protest when we tried to make her sit down :)

Check out her green martian suit :) very convenient for travel.

Arch-er

When she wants to be picked up she can really arch lower back

Rat on Mountain

Hemant finally dropped in to see the baby. Talk about rat on mountain :)

The conversationalist

Shes discovering her vocal chords nowadays so she has long conversations with us. Cant understand much, but I am sure she is agreeing with me :)

Smiley

Nothing gets people going like a smiling baby. Sure pushes my buttons :))

Contorsionist

She sucks two fingers, 4 fingers, her whole fist - but i am not complaining. But when she starts sucking her toes...

bharathi singing !!

Here you can see madam trying her best to sing a nursery rhyme!!! (I think she knows only one, other time she is singing tamil songs to her)

the baby seems to like it though. theres no accounting for tastes.

superbaby

its a bird, its a plane, no its the flying baby!

at least thats what she must have felt like in her kangaroo pouch. We havent had the guts to try it out in real life situation though.

Playtime pics

turonover!

major success story in life. she has finally managed to turn over!

At first she couldnt manage it, so she was getting bugged. See the video below..


But finally she managed it!


since then you cant take your eyes off her. She turns over in a jiffy and assumed bhujangasana. the real fun will come when she starts crawling i suppose :)

Deepak Hemangi leave

back to Gorakhpur.

Back home

bharathi was back home after 3 months, and was feeling totally disoriented! So many people, new baby...



meanwhile everybody else was having a blast. See video of dad changing nappy :)

First flight for Sanju

Came back on the airline ofall small babies - Air Deccan. Chintu got a 10% ticket with 100% taxes (sigh) and soon we were back in bom.

She was really well behaved - no crying, no wailing.

We came back to a grand welcome, and she met her uncle, aunt and cousins for the first time.

Farewell to Madras

Deepak Hemangi and gang had finally come down for their annual holiday, and soon it was time for me to go to Mdras and collect the terrible two.

her mom and dad are going to miss her a lot.

1st anniversary = 2nd outing

So as 1st anniversary rolls along, we decided to go out again. Theres only one place to go in Chennai -Mahabs and Pondy.

So off we went to Mahabs. last time we had got a very nice hotel, but couldnt get the same one. Spent the night there, and then went to Pondy. Spent the day at her aunts place and ate a lot of good food (i cant imagine why i am getting so fat) then went to a fancy resort to spend our anniversary.

She pulls her own hair and then cries. What to do?

the phone call

One fine day she calls and says "You are coming here on 14th arent you?"

I innocently say 'Why? whats so great about 14th?"

Cold silence.

Then she says icily "I married a moron on that day, one year ago"

OOps.

One year down. Shucks.

Aaji rocks!

Naming! Granma and granpa meet Sanju

April 13th was the naming ceremony. Mom and dad came down to Chennai and met Sanju for the first time.



I ended up there wearing a red shirt borrowed from hemant and sat through a long ceremony in Tamil, surrounded by her folks. Miloni also came over for the naming.

First outing

Bharathi started to go cross eyed sitting at home, so she called me with an SOS. "Come here and take me out somewhere. I am going mad"

Must be the first time she sat at home for so long. :)

So I dutifully went over, and we hired a car and went out to Mahabalipuram for a days outing. Both our moms were scandalised, but alls well that ends well.


My normal interaction with her is like this

passport

baby sanjanas got her own passport now. check out the passport photo.

Whos who?

you tell me :)