The one question that comes to everyones mind once they decide to start a family. Though the humans doesn't have any control about how this works, this is something they have to get used to hear more often than other things during the pregnancy days! During the earlier days the adults will be bombarded by friends & family about their choice and in the later days it would be questions about how/why we want to keep it a surprise... The adults would have heard "Do you know...?" at least once everyday now a days. Mom gets the whole brunt of it since nobody can miss me :)
Mom wants a boy while... By now you would have figured out who wants what since i would have had the previous sentence differently if both the parents wanted one or the other! Mom grew up with a sister while dad is the exact opposite and both of them wanted one kind of the other gender in the family. Mom tells everybody that i can make only one of the adult's wishes come true while they can still have a valid reason for the next venture :)
Mommy is already trying her best to allure me to her side so that we can both act as a team in the family. She talks to me as if i agreed to her proposal in the recent days. I am not going to be in either one's team all the time. Whats the fun there if you know what i mean :) I will side with them as need arises and i am sure i can make them forget my mischievous attitude with a simple smile or one of many cute weapons from my charm factory! You could roll your eyes in disbelief wondering how i could think of all these things being inside mommy's tummy but thats a secret i cannot share with others! I know for certain that they will forget everything about their preferences, the innumerable discussions and many more pregnancy related issues and will go head over heels in love once they hold me in their hands the first time onwards!
Blue? or Pink?
ps: You are not in my league if you are still wondering whether i will be wearing a blue or a pink onesies! Can you find at least one reference to a girl baby in this post??
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
SURPRISE BABY SHOWER Sssssshhhhhhh - Part 2
It was that time of the day and Meenal aunty's house was packed up with a lot of friends. Mom always takes a long time getting ready and dad is someone who always wants to be at places at the right time. He always complains mom delays and it does not look really good going late. This time, the party was at 6:30pm and mom could make it at around 7:30pm. The hazzle and the talks in the house were like to any other party with dad hurrying up and mom taking her time. No difference to confuse mom!
Dad dropped mom and aya and mom as usual carried a gift for the birthday party. Mom walked up the stairs commenting that it sounds like the TV was on and we might be early for the party :) Mom went up, rang the doorbell and she was floored and just dumbfound when she saw everyone cheering SURPRISE. Mom was like "Is there no birthday party today?" That was because she just could not believe that it was not a birthday party. Dad and Meenal aunty really did a fabulous job!
Mom then walked in and started greeting the folks there. She really loves socializing with this group. She started looking around to find if she saw all the folks she knew very well. One of the greatest surprises she had that day was seeing periappa. Periappa had come all the way from New York for the shower. Mom and myself were extremely happy to see him. I love the way periappa addresses me. He calls me Sukhinder or Chella pillai and he was the first to give me a name :)
There was plenty of food on the table and mom ate the appetizers. Aya had bought mom a blue saree from India. Dad carried the saree and all bangles that aya had bought from India without mom's knowledge. Dad and Meenal aunty had spent hours together buying stuff and planning for the event. Mom and aya went upstairs and mom got dressed up with the new saree and jewellery. I am guessing this is the first time mom is wearing a saree after I popped in. The basement in Meenal aunty's house was all decorated wishing mom and dad all luck for my arrival. The festivities began with every aunty there coming over and showering mom with all luck. They took lot of pictures and dad also adorned mom with the bangles finally. It was one of the very happy events for mom and dad in their life. Here is a picture of mom and dad with aya and periappa. One person from each family represented :)
It was then food time. The table was flooded with lot of tasty dishes. Everyone relished the food and it was time for the dessert. The most lovely thing I found was the cake. It was a big black forest cake beautifully decorated with a saying on it "Pink or Blue, We welcome you". That was really cute. I could only smile at them :) The cake had a blue baby doll and a pink baby doll over it with pink and blue beds. Believe me, that was so yummy. Here is the picture of the cake.
Dad and mom took the pleasure of cutting the cake and exchanging romantic moments. Everyone loved the cake including me :) Lot of pictures were shot and dad sent it to the family.
A cute goody bag was given to every family who attended. The goody bag had a set of bangles, a book on "Flashes from Swami Vivekananda" that had a lot of valuable simple sayings, a picture of Vivekananda, some fruits and chocolates.
Dad dropped mom and aya and mom as usual carried a gift for the birthday party. Mom walked up the stairs commenting that it sounds like the TV was on and we might be early for the party :) Mom went up, rang the doorbell and she was floored and just dumbfound when she saw everyone cheering SURPRISE. Mom was like "Is there no birthday party today?" That was because she just could not believe that it was not a birthday party. Dad and Meenal aunty really did a fabulous job!
Mom then walked in and started greeting the folks there. She really loves socializing with this group. She started looking around to find if she saw all the folks she knew very well. One of the greatest surprises she had that day was seeing periappa. Periappa had come all the way from New York for the shower. Mom and myself were extremely happy to see him. I love the way periappa addresses me. He calls me Sukhinder or Chella pillai and he was the first to give me a name :)
There was plenty of food on the table and mom ate the appetizers. Aya had bought mom a blue saree from India. Dad carried the saree and all bangles that aya had bought from India without mom's knowledge. Dad and Meenal aunty had spent hours together buying stuff and planning for the event. Mom and aya went upstairs and mom got dressed up with the new saree and jewellery. I am guessing this is the first time mom is wearing a saree after I popped in. The basement in Meenal aunty's house was all decorated wishing mom and dad all luck for my arrival. The festivities began with every aunty there coming over and showering mom with all luck. They took lot of pictures and dad also adorned mom with the bangles finally. It was one of the very happy events for mom and dad in their life. Here is a picture of mom and dad with aya and periappa. One person from each family represented :)
It was then food time. The table was flooded with lot of tasty dishes. Everyone relished the food and it was time for the dessert. The most lovely thing I found was the cake. It was a big black forest cake beautifully decorated with a saying on it "Pink or Blue, We welcome you". That was really cute. I could only smile at them :) The cake had a blue baby doll and a pink baby doll over it with pink and blue beds. Believe me, that was so yummy. Here is the picture of the cake.
Dad and mom took the pleasure of cutting the cake and exchanging romantic moments. Everyone loved the cake including me :) Lot of pictures were shot and dad sent it to the family.
A cute goody bag was given to every family who attended. The goody bag had a set of bangles, a book on "Flashes from Swami Vivekananda" that had a lot of valuable simple sayings, a picture of Vivekananda, some fruits and chocolates.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Installing car seat
Dad unpacked the stroller travel system few weeks ago and got everything setup. The assembled stroller/car seat was sitting in the bedroom for sometime and it got pushed into the closet when the adults had a party. Last week, dad thought it was high time for getting things ready for my arrival and the first step was to put the car seat in the SUV because that is the first thing you need when you return back from the hospital! Mom and dad went down to the parking lot with the car seat and base along with the new FLIP MinoHD. They took a quick video with all these things and i started wondering whether dad is going to take videos of all these type of things in the FLIP from now on!? but anyway i thought it was cute that they wanted to capture the moment...
Then the adults read the small setup instructions that was there in the car base and tried to figure out where it will go in the SUV. There was nothing complex in the car base. It had a long cable with two latches at the ends. After spending considerable time they decided that they should read the SUV's manual to get a better idea of how to set the base. Once the base is attached properly nobody can go wrong in putting the car seat over it. Thank god they know that the car seat should be in rear facing manner or else they would have spent some more time figuring that one out! Prior to this day his only encounter with car seat was seeing kids on them in other vehicles.
Dad started again in the evening to put the car seat in place and this time there was no FLIP :) He was connecting the latch to each and every kind of anchor that he could find behind the seat! few were very thin and one or two was very thick and all of them didn't match what he saw as a anchor in the vehicle manual. Finally after some time he found out the correct one and then he locked the latch into the anchor. Then he exerted full pressure on the car seat by putting his knee on top of it and tightened the strap. (Thanks to some youtube video). The next day he went to a nearby fire station for them to check and make sure that everything was fitted correctly.
Then the adults read the small setup instructions that was there in the car base and tried to figure out where it will go in the SUV. There was nothing complex in the car base. It had a long cable with two latches at the ends. After spending considerable time they decided that they should read the SUV's manual to get a better idea of how to set the base. Once the base is attached properly nobody can go wrong in putting the car seat over it. Thank god they know that the car seat should be in rear facing manner or else they would have spent some more time figuring that one out! Prior to this day his only encounter with car seat was seeing kids on them in other vehicles.
Dad started again in the evening to put the car seat in place and this time there was no FLIP :) He was connecting the latch to each and every kind of anchor that he could find behind the seat! few were very thin and one or two was very thick and all of them didn't match what he saw as a anchor in the vehicle manual. Finally after some time he found out the correct one and then he locked the latch into the anchor. Then he exerted full pressure on the car seat by putting his knee on top of it and tightened the strap. (Thanks to some youtube video). The next day he went to a nearby fire station for them to check and make sure that everything was fitted correctly.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
SURPISE BABY SHOWER sssshhhhh! - Part 1
Daddy along with Meenal aunty planned a surprise baby shower for mommy to celebrate my arrival. It was such a huge surprise for mommy and mommy had no clue that was coming. Let me narrate the whole episode about our excitement.
Meenal aunty had sent an evite about celebrating Anusha's birthday on March 27th. Mommy was confused on that date as she knew her birthday was only during the second week of April. When she had asked her, Meenal aunty told her that Easter fell on the first weekend of April so a lot of families were out of town for the Easter holidays. That was the reason they were celebrating the birthday the last weekend of March. Well, that made a lot of sense to mommy. The evite that was sent out was so well made with a princess theme and there were a lot of people who had replied to the evite.
In general, mom and dad used to discuss a lot about the families they knew and the parties how they take place and their opinions. Oh God, believe me, they can spend hours together chit chatting. A surprise baby shower also used to be one topic that popped up often and dad always came up with no interest at all on that particular thing. Mom was okay and agreed with dad in those discussions. So, mom was not really expecting one.
The event had taken a 2 months time to plan and dad had put in a lot of time without letting mom even guess. It is not very easy with mom especially as mom always calls up daddy and makes sure when he will get home from work, checking his emails with a valid reason like pictures were onlly in his account or something. He must have had a very hard time to keep things real private :) Meenal aunty had helped daddy with all arrangements and the event was at her house. The evite was sent out and also few dishes were put up in the potluck list.
It was the morning of 27th March. Meenal aunty had asked mom if she could ask aya to come and help her for the birthday cooking. Aya knew about the whole event plan and had brought the goodie bags and some stuff from India. Aya agreed to Meenal aunty and said she could come to her house at 6:00am on the day of the party. Aya got up at 6:00am and looks like dad went and dropped her off at aunty's place. Mommy was sleeping and did not know this. When she got up at 10:00am, she asked daddy about the logistics of this pick up. Dad said Mani uncle came and picked up mom but mommy had the slightest doubt on seeing the landline phone on the bed side table. Sometimes, mom's brain works real smart. Dad always had the habit of placing the phone close to mom if she sleeps when he goes out especially after my entry. Dad somehow managed mom when she asked all these questions.
Then, dad took mom to a nearby mall for something. But he really did not let mom spend a lot of time and said it was not necessary to walk long. Mom was like she could walk and she wanted to "BUY". That word has a lot of significance in my house. Dad always relates that word to my mom :) The idea dad had was she had to spend a lot of energy in the evening and that was why he brought her back home so soon.
It was finally 3:00pm when dad went and picked up aya. Aya along with Meenal aunty had spent the whole day cooking and aya got back home tired.
Next post will brief the joy and excitement that me and mom experienced.
Meenal aunty had sent an evite about celebrating Anusha's birthday on March 27th. Mommy was confused on that date as she knew her birthday was only during the second week of April. When she had asked her, Meenal aunty told her that Easter fell on the first weekend of April so a lot of families were out of town for the Easter holidays. That was the reason they were celebrating the birthday the last weekend of March. Well, that made a lot of sense to mommy. The evite that was sent out was so well made with a princess theme and there were a lot of people who had replied to the evite.
In general, mom and dad used to discuss a lot about the families they knew and the parties how they take place and their opinions. Oh God, believe me, they can spend hours together chit chatting. A surprise baby shower also used to be one topic that popped up often and dad always came up with no interest at all on that particular thing. Mom was okay and agreed with dad in those discussions. So, mom was not really expecting one.
The event had taken a 2 months time to plan and dad had put in a lot of time without letting mom even guess. It is not very easy with mom especially as mom always calls up daddy and makes sure when he will get home from work, checking his emails with a valid reason like pictures were onlly in his account or something. He must have had a very hard time to keep things real private :) Meenal aunty had helped daddy with all arrangements and the event was at her house. The evite was sent out and also few dishes were put up in the potluck list.
It was the morning of 27th March. Meenal aunty had asked mom if she could ask aya to come and help her for the birthday cooking. Aya knew about the whole event plan and had brought the goodie bags and some stuff from India. Aya agreed to Meenal aunty and said she could come to her house at 6:00am on the day of the party. Aya got up at 6:00am and looks like dad went and dropped her off at aunty's place. Mommy was sleeping and did not know this. When she got up at 10:00am, she asked daddy about the logistics of this pick up. Dad said Mani uncle came and picked up mom but mommy had the slightest doubt on seeing the landline phone on the bed side table. Sometimes, mom's brain works real smart. Dad always had the habit of placing the phone close to mom if she sleeps when he goes out especially after my entry. Dad somehow managed mom when she asked all these questions.
Then, dad took mom to a nearby mall for something. But he really did not let mom spend a lot of time and said it was not necessary to walk long. Mom was like she could walk and she wanted to "BUY". That word has a lot of significance in my house. Dad always relates that word to my mom :) The idea dad had was she had to spend a lot of energy in the evening and that was why he brought her back home so soon.
It was finally 3:00pm when dad went and picked up aya. Aya along with Meenal aunty had spent the whole day cooking and aya got back home tired.
Next post will brief the joy and excitement that me and mom experienced.
Monday, April 5, 2010
My 3D Ultrasound
Mommy was all curious to see how I looked so she has been always wanting to have a scan. She kept on telling daddy and daddy promised her for a 3D ultrasound. Wow, how nice is that! Once aya landed, mom called up and made an appointment for the 3D ultrasound. My parents had an idea of what they could expect but the scan really exceeded their expectations.
I was all happy kicking and punching as usual and mom also had candies to make me more delighted. The clock ticked and it was the time for my show. It was a big room with a large screen and aya was asked to get seated and watch my show. Daddy was helping mommy along with the technician and the excitement they had to watch me was just beyond words. It is funny to me because I am sure one day they will long for someone to watch me for at least an hour once I am out:)
The show started and the technician explained my position about how I sit and how I can kick. I behaved very well and showed my face to everyone. I dint want to hide initially as I could understand how curious and excited everyone was. I hid myself with my hands and my legs and they had to shake my mom to change my actions. I did change my position and gave my graceful smile and won the hearts of everyone there. The technician was all suprised to see me exhibiting myself so well and he said I was being exceptional. Mom and dad was greatly happy to hear his words and on a side note they were also happy that I showed up well for the money they paid :) It was all in my hands to show and I deserve a big applause for that once I am out. They had got the appointment for half an hour. Initially, it was planned for a 15 minute session but then mom got it for half an hour as there was some kind of deal and my parents also wanted to see me long. I was being too good for the complete half an hour displaying all my activities thus giving an idea about how I spend time in my mom's tummy. Oh my God, Its not easy to spend 24*7 in my mom's tummy. It gets boring sometimes but I cant complain. I love listening to daddy's talk, few songs, any kind of sweets. I am sure there is a lot of stuff that is interestingly happening outside. A few more days to go and I cant wait........
They gave us a DVD and a lot of my pictures for taking home. Dad added all my pictures in his web album and shared it with appatha, ayya, periappa, periamma and chithi. They were all so happy to see me so real. Everyone passed on nice comments and I was so proud to hear that. Dad is not having enough time to upload the video.
I was all happy kicking and punching as usual and mom also had candies to make me more delighted. The clock ticked and it was the time for my show. It was a big room with a large screen and aya was asked to get seated and watch my show. Daddy was helping mommy along with the technician and the excitement they had to watch me was just beyond words. It is funny to me because I am sure one day they will long for someone to watch me for at least an hour once I am out:)
The show started and the technician explained my position about how I sit and how I can kick. I behaved very well and showed my face to everyone. I dint want to hide initially as I could understand how curious and excited everyone was. I hid myself with my hands and my legs and they had to shake my mom to change my actions. I did change my position and gave my graceful smile and won the hearts of everyone there. The technician was all suprised to see me exhibiting myself so well and he said I was being exceptional. Mom and dad was greatly happy to hear his words and on a side note they were also happy that I showed up well for the money they paid :) It was all in my hands to show and I deserve a big applause for that once I am out. They had got the appointment for half an hour. Initially, it was planned for a 15 minute session but then mom got it for half an hour as there was some kind of deal and my parents also wanted to see me long. I was being too good for the complete half an hour displaying all my activities thus giving an idea about how I spend time in my mom's tummy. Oh my God, Its not easy to spend 24*7 in my mom's tummy. It gets boring sometimes but I cant complain. I love listening to daddy's talk, few songs, any kind of sweets. I am sure there is a lot of stuff that is interestingly happening outside. A few more days to go and I cant wait........
They gave us a DVD and a lot of my pictures for taking home. Dad added all my pictures in his web album and shared it with appatha, ayya, periappa, periamma and chithi. They were all so happy to see me so real. Everyone passed on nice comments and I was so proud to hear that. Dad is not having enough time to upload the video.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Genes of Korattiar family
Mom and Dad talk frequently about how I will behave once i am out in thier world based on their individual identities. They somehow found out that the baby gets 23 chromosomes from each one of them and they will talk about the various possibilities of which one will be a suitable fit for me from the available choices. I think it was my chitti who after learning a lot of stuff about genes/chromosomes in her biology classes gave a small briefing to mommy regarding these stuffs. She also concluded that the best scenario as per her choice for me is to pick up the brains from daddy, public speaking skills from mommy, color from appatha veetu aiya and hair from aaya veetu aiya. Little did they know how i will manipulate these genes as separate ones or the way i will play with the innumerable permutations & combinations when i blend them together while growing up :)
As a starter for now they think that i have picked up few stuff from dad with a strong grip! In the recent months, mom has been doing stuffs that she has never even dreamed in her life! Like her interest towards any kind of sweets from chocolates to the juicy jamoons and particularly every kids favorite 'jelly belly'. Once mom made dad go back to the car to fetch the jelly belly that she left in the car. Dad was quite happy to do it even though it was sub zero temperature outside and the car was parked far away! Also, mom has been watching Tamil movies frequently with a new found passion. I think mom would have seen the major junk of movies in her lifetime during the recent months. Mom always says(!) that dad's whole family has a fervent affinity for movies & sweets while she is not bothered leave alone any excitement!
Dad says that i succeeded in changing mom to do stuff that he has been trying from the first day of their marriage... Is it just dad genes or the whole of korattiar family!!! I think there are few things that i can teach him once i am out there :)
As a starter for now they think that i have picked up few stuff from dad with a strong grip! In the recent months, mom has been doing stuffs that she has never even dreamed in her life! Like her interest towards any kind of sweets from chocolates to the juicy jamoons and particularly every kids favorite 'jelly belly'. Once mom made dad go back to the car to fetch the jelly belly that she left in the car. Dad was quite happy to do it even though it was sub zero temperature outside and the car was parked far away! Also, mom has been watching Tamil movies frequently with a new found passion. I think mom would have seen the major junk of movies in her lifetime during the recent months. Mom always says(!) that dad's whole family has a fervent affinity for movies & sweets while she is not bothered leave alone any excitement!
Dad says that i succeeded in changing mom to do stuff that he has been trying from the first day of their marriage... Is it just dad genes or the whole of korattiar family!!! I think there are few things that i can teach him once i am out there :)
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