The daily vagaries

Yesterday, little Aaryan surprised me by standing up on his own; I almost had tears in my eyes - Aaryan, you were so happy on your act that you simply laughed and smiled incessantly. My little son is growing up ..soon you shall be walking on your own. Well you walk even now but you like to hold my finger all the time; sometimes I feel I need your hands to hold my fingers more than you need mine ... How shall be the day when you will walk away from me? It shall be lovely, of course, to see you from a distance - to see you to the heart's content but will my hands be able to bear the separation....? Few months back, I wanted to write about our days more and more often - to capture your days and little wonders that you create. As the days passed, I realized I no longer wanted so because it was much more important to spend even those moments with you. Soon, you are gonna be 14 months ... and really growing fast :) Sometimes, I want the time to stop, here and now with you in m

 Well, to think of it - Aaryan, you were gifted into our arms 6 months ago and could we have imagined as how much this little baby shall change our lives - with his love, with his innocent charm and ofcourse with his strong likes & dislikes. Just yesterday, we pulled out our car in the evening to go to supermarket and Aaryan, yes Nannu, you - simply refused to go. Although you are always such a smiling, accomodating and playful child - sometimes you do assume the cloak of a spoilt brat; or a "crying glory" especially when we take you out on our car. For sure, now I know that you love bikes and cars do not fancy you even a little. Ofcourse, we parked the car right back and took you back in our loving arms - inside our little cozy nest and you smiled and smiled and smiled as if to the delight of loving gods. In the last few days, perhaps a month - you seem to have grown so much. Now you want to keep playing, you don't want to sleep in the day time anymore, you like the

Its early morning time - everyone at home seems to be running around the kitchen, the bathroom, the dining area as if millions is at stake while a little one basks smilingly in my arms, apparently silently. Aaryan needs to be massaged, Aaryan needs to be bathed, fed breakfast and then out to sleep .... a regular morning schedule which is getting into the veins of me, Ganga and Aaryan and we are knowingly unknowingly looking forward to it each day. Aaryan shall go for milk at the time of massage, for the mug of water at the time of bath and very interestingly for the bowl of apple puree at the time of breakfast. To imagine that he is just 6 months into this world .... he sure has grown up fast. Time flies .... Around a month ago, we discovered Aaryan's love for music when we found that he loves to watch the song "Hai na Bolo Bolo, Papa ko Mummy Se" ...and breakfast goes smooth when we play this song on our laptop. Now we find that Aaryan has shifted his loyalities to

It is a starry night and I gaze far into the deep sky, staring at the patterns formed by shining little stars. I hear the sweet lullabies of my mom who holds me closer to her chest, wrapping me with her loving arms and without knowing it, I fall asleep. Now someone is picking me up, I feel myself being carried, and from his strong arms I know it's my father. He has always been there around me, protecting me and loving me. I love him too ... a lot. He puts me in my bed, and before I feel him kiss me, I'm asleep again. -- Aaryan I am writing this blog after a long gap since on July 30th 2009, Aaryan was born to us and our lives have been completely and solely devoted to him since then. Every moment since then has been worth recording for us and so I have been at a loss to write anything itself :) Perhaps, I shall slowly be coming back more often to the blog site in coming days - to capture the time in words so as to give these transitory moments a little more permanence.