I love gymming ...

That is he still loves to pass time in his gym.It is one thing that never bores him.He loves to watch his face in its tiny mirror
roll the ball
pull the lovely butterflies(so much that they are longer part of it he has pulled so much that they have come off) ,pull its wriggly toy,
if nothing else he can stare at its lovely design( BTW the way he stares at the design we wonder if he's going to be a designer one day). But special mention will go to its giraffe with whom he has a love hate relationship ...sometimes he loves to pat him but most of the times he just can't resist pulling his tail or his green grass.Sometimes the rivalry goes a little further by stamping him under his feet ...or going for the overkill by targeting both the giraffe and the wriggly toy at the same time.. now this is too much for the kindly giraffe so he takes his revenge sometimes by totally blocking his way ...but untimately our boy wonder has the last laugh....the poor girrafe cant even stand staight now..he's now forever in a half suspended state !!

Food for Thought

Akki is developing bad habit of sucking thumb.Whenever I take his thumb out of one hand he immediately puts in thumb of his other hand.I am wondering how does a 6 month know that he has 2 hands ...and more precisely that he has 2 thumbs which he can put in his mouth!!!

East or West Papa is the Best!!

Well ...with 100% jealousy I have to admit Akhsaj just loveeeeeeeees his papa...and he doesn't give even give me a cursory glance (even if I try my level best to grab his attention) when Puneet is around.On the other hand P doesn't have to do anything ..he doesn't even have to look but Akki will still smile looking at him.

Everybody says it is because I am with him all the times but my point is whenever there is long weekend then Akki should pay him less attention at least on Sunday perhaps ,but no there is no change .P will console me that this is not the case but we have done few experiments like he will call him and I will call him,I will pick him he will pick him etc but all results have let to the same known conclusion.Only solace is that P is sometimes at the reciving end of it when he has to take his kicks ,nose pulling hair pulling also :-) Sometimes even Puneet is scared that when Akshaj grows up and he does not give him the same partial treatment then he will feel very bad...so this blog is specially written so that he can come back here and remember the good ol' times and maybe emotional blackmail Akki showing him this blog(how it used to be what has why has he changed so much etc etc..)

Marriage outing ..

Yesterday we went to one of Puneet's friend's reception.Akshaj being a charmer that he is soon became centre of attraction ..His modus operandi is very simple to pass big big smiles to whoever looks at him,talks to him and go to anybody who picks him up.Now who can resist such a nice baby ??...He didn't even cry for milk while we were there(there was a full 4 hr gap in total when generally he drinks every 2 hrs.we received all the jealous praises like we are really blessed to have such a nice baby who doesn't even cry,such a smiling baby etc etc.Some even suggested if he keeps on going this way he will grow up to be a big flirt(really eager to know how he turns up in that front).One big advantage of this is off-course there are so many people to carry him that we needn't strain our shoulders to carry him all the time ;-)...but little worried/sad also since he doesn't even care if his parents are there or not .He is same with everybody no special treatment for his parents(though he does Puneet more when we both are there)wonder when he will start missing us a little ...

When will I crawl :-((

I have been swimming on my stomach since past 2 months And it has been 1 month since I have started to be like a horse ...

I can move one foot now forward but I am stuck at that .Moreover if I try real hard instead of moving forward I move backwards ..Can't even go to my favorite toy ,more I try to go forward I always end in reverse gear.I have tried a lot different ways to crawl ....

but I am just not able to do so ...Even mumma papa thought of helping me by teaching me how to crawl .They tried it a few times themselves but they got so confused among themselves .They just couldn't make up their mind will it be right-left combination of hand and leg or right-right(or vice-versa).Mama was for same leg and hand while papa was for alternate leg and hand ....so finally they gave up and again the big responsibility has come on me.So let me try to think what's wrong in my technique .These elders are good for nothing !!

Annprashan(starting ann)

When the baby is between 5-6 month then there is a function in which baby takes ann for the first time .In this function according to the custom that we keep lots of different article in front of baby which represent different career paths (like books,ball,pen etc).Whichever article baby picks up indicate the career he will take later when he grows up .So for this lots of traditional dishes are prepared so that Akshaj has lots of option to choose from ...rice ,kadhi,khadi daal(in which all unbroken daals are taken),kheer ,halwa,vada,pooye,bhindi,raita.Akshaj's one of dada-dadi also came that day out of nowhere (can't just trust mama-papa with pooja).Akshaj was a perfect boy that day .Somehow he got a hint that everybody is busy preparing food for him so that day he got up played for a while and drank milk and slept again that too on his own..didn't cry even once during the whole process!!!.When the pooja started he took active part in it as well ..saw everything that was going on.


After the pooja all the delicacies were put in front of Akshaj .He was left in middle so that whichever he touches will be give first .But there was lots of confusion on what he touched first ...finally we gave him all items one by one to taste and we all waited to see his reaction.He lived up to the family tradition and gulped on (by his standards) on kheer and halwa but made the worst possible face for daal.After all the pet pooja it was now turn for choosing the career path ...so all the items book,pen,racquet's,colors ,scissors etc were placed before his..His papa Puneet wanted so much that he picks something related to sports (which is a misnomer for cricket in India)Finally Akshaj was set free to chose his destiny ...and after touching lots of things he finally settled for a C++ book and kept on tapping on the book to hold it much to the disappointment of Puneet.Now as any Indian who believes in rigging things ,Puneet brought racket (there was no bat ball in house for option)in front of Akshaj.Like a obedient child Akshaj left his much loved book and held on the racket to please his father.His papa was one happy man then!!