Today I am 10 days old.. We celebrated my ' Dashtone'

Ah.!! Time flies, and I am 10 days old today. We celebrated this day today. Nani dearest got up early and started to make goodies and yummy food. She made dahi Bhalle, Kachori, puris, Kadhi, Sabzi and kheer. I wore the new dress my Nana bought for me .. I must say I looked quite chic :-) .
Papa then read the sataynarayan katha while all of us listened. Then we gorged on the yummy food.!! Also now I have a name .. ' Aryaa'... although mamma calls me ' Chinki'..' Chinni'..'Minki'.. I just gaze at her adoringly whenever she coos out one of these names.
I now am getting a little more aware of my surroundings. I realise when I am bored all alone and when I have mamma near me.
Also I have started to form opinions.. like for one I think bathing time is good only after it is over :-) Then I love laying wrapped up in my cosy towel and near the heater ( we call 'garma') . Although I am nervous everyday about bathing and let this fact be known through my screams and cries.. I am getting used to it.

Today is princess's 'chatti'

Today I am 6 days old.. and I guess now I should be writing for my own self. so here I go...We have come back home from the hospital now and are working towards finding a new routine.. . Mamma keeps cooing and talking to me and I have somehow started to recognise it from my days in her tummy. My dear nani who has travelled all the way from India to be there for my birth is equally estatic at my arrival and works really hard all day to make sure I and mamma are doing well. Papa is home from work to be there and play with me.
he is also busy these days to find a good name for me.that is what keeps him busy

My dearest elder brother Arjun who is 'dada' to me is also doing his best in acting out his newly found title of the 'big helpful, protective brother'.. Dada runs around trying to help mamma in whatever she needs, he helps her change my daipers, and throws the dirty diapers in the trash can.. He also runs to my crib gleefully every morming when he gets up and every evening when papa brings him back from school.

The phone keeps ringing the whole day with greetings from mamma and papa's friends, and all the relatives to congratulate and wish them..and also curious to now how I am doing..

All in all.. I am enjoying and basking in all the attention I am getting from everyone around me..

The arrival of our little princess- 19th sept 2008

After 9 months of an anxious wait finally came the day when our little princess deceided to choose a bright sunny autumn morning, the 19th Sept 2008 , to make a grand entry into our little world. She knew that 9 months was a wait long enough and her mom was really eager to have her in the world, so she didnt take too much time to squeeze her way out of my tummy. To everyone's surprise which included the docters and the nurses, within 1 hr of reaching the hospital and I had her in my arms.

It has been 4 yrs since I had my little Arjun but the feeling of holding my little baby in my arms still felt the same as it felt when I had Arjun. The feeling of awe and happiness, filled my senses as Amit and me both felt so proud of having created this beautiful living being together that lay in our arms with a calm and a serene look on her face, sucking on to her little fingers, feeling so safe and secure wrapped up in a small towel and close to my heart with her proud dad holding both of us together in his strong arms

It has ben 4 days since we have been blessed with our bundle of joy, sometimes it seems to me that my memory has faded, I am a second time mom today, but I still wonder about my princess's gossamer notes of laughter and twilight smiles in the veil between dreaming and wakefulness. Or her vocal symphony ranging from dove-like coos to banshee screams. What do they mean.. ?