Throughout the evening, after she returned from daycare, she troubled me. Didn't want to wash her hands or feet...didn't want to start, or finish, her dinner...kept pushing me to see how far I'd go...I was exhausted by the time her father took her upstairs to brush her teeth and go to sleep. Between her and her baby brother, the noise level was ( Read more... )

Some time ago (well, in 2009, as a matter of fact) I'd posted about the

thooLi

that the proud parents engineered for KTB (or Eli as she was then called...I'd forgotten that myself!)

When we went walking in Luz, in Mylapore, a few days ago, I snapped this thooLi hanging from the tree:


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KTB and her mother's flight arrived one and a half hours late, and we barely had a few hours of sleep...but this morning, she walked into our home and hearts again...

Here she is, showing her grandfather how to wear pink dolls on his glasses:


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Blue...

Happiness is a baby and some blue buckets of bathwater!


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Have, frankly, wasted the day that should have been spent doing a lot of pending jobs...spent most of it in the hospital for tests for KM, and then...back home and utterly zonked out for 3 hours, at which point working hours were over, and the jobs have been postponed to tomorrow ( Read more... )

The tree branches looked up at the colourful kite, and since it was winter, and the world was white, black and grey, they wanted some colour for themselves...and they caught it and kept it!


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Today, most unusually, Biddles fussed, and fussed, and fussed...I think the milk was NOT to her liking....I have not had a minute all day, and I am tired! So..no write-worthy thoughts occur to me, except the attraction of that bed upstairs...but she's smiling up at me so sweetly and cooing ( Read more... )

I post something at 6am U.S. Central Time, and (since my LJ dates my post with IST) it's dated 4.30pm ....11.5 hours into the future! Wow, if I'm existing at both 6am and 4.30pm simultaneously, that's surreal...

Obviously, this is a post after no sleep at all! :)

DnA (as they call themselves) have decided to let the baby sleep in a "thooLi". What's that, I hear my non-Tamizh friends ask. And if they are not asking, they are going to get the answer anyway ( Read more... )

I love the gentle melancholy of this song...

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kaheen door jab din dhal jAyE ( Read more... )