At last we went to trichy to fulfill the long pending prathana. My mil had promised to give vazha thar to lord thayumanavar if i had a normal delivery. Hannu is already 2.5 and repeated advise from inlaws and parents were going on to fulfill the prathanai.

So as usual, we booked our tickets in waiting list and started for trichy without the surety of
getting seats. Thank God we got berths. Went to my SIL's house. My nephews were eagerly waiting for Hannu. Hannu behaved better this time. Not much crying :) My nephews have fish tank and birds at their place. Hannu was sooo pleased to look at them and was always watching them.

Saturday we went for local shopping and spent the rest of the time at home. Sunday morning went uchi pillyar temple. After doing the prathani we spent some time sitting in the top of rock.
Though we both belong to trichy, this is our first visit to uchi pillayar after our wedding
Went home and had nice food prepared by SIL. Had a small nap and went out again with nephews for shopping.
Went to icecream parlour and had 1 falooda and 1 triple delight each. Did some shopping for Hannu and nephews.
Overall had fun. Will miss sil and kids till next get together.

Hannu on Children's day

Bangalore Trip

These days we get easily bored of routine life and plan for an outing more often.
So last weekend we decided to make a visit to my periamma's house in bangalore.
Climate was very pleasant. Idle for people like us who just love to
sleep ..sleep ..sleep :)

We just ate,slept, roamed around the city, visited big shiva, iscon and some
shopping malls. Had fun at home with my relatives. My periammai is just like my amma
she doesn't allow me to enter kitchen. Moreover I had to run behind hannu. He had a very good time, running between the plants in the garden :) enjoying the space available in the individual house. Overall had a relaxed fun-filled weekend.

House shifting hungama and commuting from new house

Last weekend the big event of shifing the house happend. Weekends went of shuttling between the old and the new house, arranging the things. On Sunday evening, we made the house ready. All unpacking and arranging of things happened in two days. Hats off to hubby for his active contribution. As monday was the avani month's starting, we did the pal kachal on that day, cooked and came late to office. This new house is lil bit far from the station. So daily I need hubby to drop me in the mornings. Evenings I go by walk (dual purpose ;)). For the past three days, I find it really hectic to start on time to office. New arrangements, I forget where I kept which things and waste minutes in searching.. To catch the 7.50 train I leave by 7.40 and rush to the platform at last minute. In the evenings I reach home by 8. Eat, Sleep, cook, eat and again to office..OH this routine is boring for sure. Hubby do you hear me! Any plans for weekend? :)

Kodai trip

All of a sudden we decided to make a small vacation and chose the place as Kodai, our favorite destination. After deciding the trip to kodai, hubby wanted to do it at the same weekend. So we both decided to take off on friday. Tickets were booked on takal. As SIL's family decided to join us from trichy, we booked trains till trichy and opted to travel in car to kodai from trichy.

Climate in kodai is soooo chill and we had a fun filled weekend. Hannu had a great time watching monkey's on the ghat road. The hotel we checked in also had parrots and fish tank. Hannu was so delighted to see them. When we went around the lake, to our surprise hannu recognized boat and insisted on going for a boating. He also went for horse riding with his papa. I was lil bit scared to let him for a horse ride but as hubby sat on the horse hannu too wanted to. So I let him and was waiting anxiously till they were back. Gardens his favorite. As usual he made us run after him.
Today back to routine after having a gala time with family.

Hannu - Krishna of modern times

Last saturday we had hannu's birthday party at home. This time we invited only close friends, as my mil had insisted. Hannu was eagerly looking forward for the bash. This year he had cake of his choice. We took hannu with us to cake shop. When asked which cake he would like for his D day, he went for spiderman, dora, puppy and train and at last settled for dora. :)
Party went off well. Hannu was in best of his moods and allowed guests to pick him up and pose for the photo :)
After guests moved, I cut the remaining cake and refrigerated them. But forgot to lock the fridge. After sometime myself and mil were busy in some other work and all of a sudden there was unusual silence at home. Hannu was no where within our eye reach. We called him but no response. Tensed I started looking out for him. The dining room light was off but I was some light there. There was Hannu. He had silently opened the fridge and eating the creaammmmmmm...When I went near him, he looked me with a tweaky smile..Hannu my modern day krishna!

Bye Bye Two And Welcome Three

Hannu is completing his terrible two today and looking forward to much more terrible three. Let me just make a quick recap of this year.

He has grown up from a toddler to a play-schooler. Last year we were waiting for hannu to talk. He was just utterring few words. But now he talks much to make us shut our mouth. Keeps on questioning. He undresses all alone. Has learnt to wear shoes. Potty training and drinking in cup training has also seen some improvement in the last quarter.

He has developed his own preferences and sticks to it until he achives it. That is he has become more adamant like his appa and amma! Where does the genes go! ;-)) Eating habits has room for improvement.
And how did I forget this..He has become a rama devotee and hanuman fan.

Looking forward to have a teriffic three with my kuttoos.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR :)

Hannu's first day @ school

Hurrayyy My lil son has grown..yesss today he went to play school. But was full of tears when we left him and came back.
It is unbearable for me to see him crying. :( We were telling him about his new world. He was also full of enthu about going
to school. Amma, appa and grandparents were world for him till now..Cant blame him for crying. I can feel how he must have felt
insecure. Oh my chewtooo its hard dear but have to..Hope chintu gets adjusted to his new world soon and has a gala time..
Loving amma :)

Amma & Hannu

I have never left hannu to stay without me during nights. Day time we both have to adjust as me being working. But leaving him with granny even for a night was unimaginable for me. As my parents were living few streets away from us, I used to bring him home whenever I am back from work. But now my parents shifted to a far away place this isn't feasible.

Last week my mil was not well and i had to take hannu to amma's place for a stay of 2 days. Spending that night without hannu was really bad. Can't ask appa to bring him home that evening and take him the next day. If I ask he will do but I did not want to bother him and strain hannu also. The next evening when I went to amma's home to take hannu back home, hannu's expression relieved how happy was he in seeing me. I asked my 20 months munna 'Whom did u sleep with hannu? Didnt you search for amma?' His replied 'Amma appechu'(Amma office. He is saying Amma you were in office so I had to spend my time with granny). I was so touched. How adjusting my lil darling is.

P.S I am working mother with full of guilty for leaving my munna at home. And I think i can write endless posts about our separation feelings :(

"M" changes life

Marriage and Motherhood are the sweetest happenings in one's life. But when it happened to me I wasn't aware that this would change my life on the whole.
I feel like I have lost myself into it. I admit that I love both "M" but sometimes this strange feeling comes peeping its head out.
I read a lot before marriage. After marriage it became 50% and after hannu's birth it has been reduced to 10%. Much more pathetic is i have lost interest in watching TV. I wasn't a TV addict before. But I had my own interests to watch. With ILS around and soaps running regularly, gone are those days where I sit and surf channels. Hubby has no interest in this tv and movies stuff. Much to my compulsion we end up in going 2-3 movies per year. May be these responsibilities of "M" is making me fell so. Ah! it would be nice to have someone to take up all the responsibilities and I enjoy only the other part of "M". Nice dream :)

P.S. The reason for this post is I watched one hour of 'dumdumdum' movie in TV after very very long time without any disturbance. ILS were in the terrace chatting, sweet hubby was singing lullaby for hannu(it takes almost 1hr to make hannu sleep, hubby took that responsibility that day) and I was cutting veggies and watching TV. I wanted to watch the whole movie but the next day alarm for 3 am flashed in me to switch off the TV. Anyway felt like gone back to my space.

Chee Chee Nana ellai

Hannu's favourite word is Nana ellai (Its not nice). From food to watching TV whatever activity, if he doesnt like it or if he doesnt want to do it anymore he will say "Nana ellai". Yesterday when i gave him banana to eat, he said with disgusting expression 'Chee chee nana ellai' ma. I was quite surprised and wondering where he is learning these sort of words and expressions from. Again in the evening Hannu was playing and all of a sudden he took some paper and put it straight into his mouth.
I took the paper out of his mouth and said 'Chee Chee. Dont eat whatever you find Hannu'. After saying this only a sudden flash hit me. Oh from me only he has got this habit of using word 'Chee Chee'. I have been using this word casually. How observing he is. I warned myself to be more careful hereafter with my lil toddler around.

Innocence and Child

Hannu is almost two years old and is using bottle for drinking milk. I thought its time for him to switch to cup and tried to make drink in a cup. All my efforts were vain. At last I hid his bottle and told him that ghost has taken away his bottle and he needs to use his cup for drinking. Listening to my words, my son has started trying out drinking in cup. He didn't even ask for his bottle once. But he is not showing much interest in having milk as he used to. His act made me feel guilty. By forcing him to take milk in a cup, am I lessening his interest in drinking milk? How innocent are kids. My son believes whatever I say. Am I doing justice to his belief? Earlier I felt bad but then I made up my mind saying whatever I am doing is for his sake and goodness.

JAI SRI RAMA

Sun Tv has been telecasting RAMAYANA, the popular Indian epic. My mother, ILS everyone were stating 'Let us make hannu watch Ramayana'.Its better than watching this kanda kanda (cinemas and serials) shows in tv'. FYI hannu was just 6 months old when ramayana started. I too thought it as a good idea. So every sunday we all will gather before TV at sharp 10.30.

Hannu got attached to RAMAYANA very much. We narrate the happenings to him. His affiliation to music needs a word here. He likes all kinds of music esp. the ramayana title song. All of us have to sing that song to make him eat,drink,sleep whatever. Actually it made my life easy. For making him eat I just had to sing rather than running in his behind all over the house.

All the time he simply utters Rama, Jai sri ram..(he also got this 'rama' uttering habit from me..I say 'RAMA RAMA' when hannu does mischievous things.) All in my family (including me) were overwhelmed. Both pattis and thatis are fully in praise of Hannu. 'Parude kozhanthai sada kalamum RAMA cholaran..Maha Puniyam' (See the whole day the Lil one keeps uttering RAMA..May GOD BLESS HIM) my amma used to say.

All was going fine until Hannu watched Hanuman throwing his 'Gadha' saying 'Jai Sri Ram'. Hannu liked hanuman's act very much and started practicing this act throwing the things which were within reach shouting 'Jai Sri Ram'. Thats all..the whole house is upside down now and the worst part of it all of us have to learn the new gimmicks to protect ourselves from being hurt. Donno how long hannu's JAI SRI RAMA saga is going to continue. These days kids naa....

From a mother’s heart

Hannu, as a working mother I miss you so much. There are no words to express my feelings. But we both share a bond, bond of a mom and child which ties up our feelings.

Most important drawback as a working mother is missing her childs development. Homemakers are blessed that way.

I know you miss me much dear. We are actually blessed Hannu. Me being working, we have support system (Grandparents) to take care of you. Otherwise it would have been even worser. Both maternal and paternal grandparents look after you with much care and affection. They are ready to do whatever to whatever extent to make you happy. No regrets on that part.

Am I making excuses? But as mother, I have been unfair to you. I agree. Leaving a three months old and going to work. I feel guilty for my act. My heart breaks whenever you approach me saying ‘amma pick me up’, (even though I wish to do that before you say) I reply to you ‘Hannu! Amma is busy,go and play’ / ‘Hannu! Amma is busy,go and watch cartoon’. What to do I have to cope up with time. And I am overwhelmed at times when you say ‘Bye Amma’, whenever I start to office. You know that its time for amma to go and she will be back in the evening. How adjusting you are. And the joy I see in your face whenever I come home in the evenings, it expresses how much you have missed me and how much you are longing to see me. Believe me whatever I am doing is for your sake. I promise you my son I will spend more time with you.

Ena theriyum unga appavu ku

Of late Hannu has got the habit of saying 'I don't want'. Don't where he got this habit from. From food items to people whatever we ask him, he just says 'I dont want'. But with one exception.

Appa: 'Hannu Do you want thatha'

Hannu: 'I don't want'

Appa: 'Hannu Do you want Patti'

Hannu: 'I don't want'

Appa: 'Then what about Appa. Do you want him?'

Hannu: 'I don't want Appa'

Appa: 'Huh! Who else do you want.'

Appa: 'What about Amma. Do you want her'

Immediately comes.......

Hannu: 'I wanttttttttttttttttttttt'

Appa: 'Yuh! Y doesn't he say don't want Amma'

Amma: 'That's the bond man, between son and Amma' and says to Hannu 'Ena theriyum unga appavu ku'

Appa: "!!!"

Likes and Dislikes

I am 20 months old toddler. Want to know my likes and dislikes. Here you go.

Things I like:

• To say 'it is not nice' with a cute dimpled smile in my face
• Getting out of the house and running straight away to the terrace whenever I miss out attention.
• 'MILK' my all time favourite.
• Playing in water.
• Ditching my toys and using mobile phones, remote control for playing. 'Mama why do u buy toys for me when u have mobile phones and remote controls'.
• Going to neighbours house and using the toy's at their house for playing, even though I have loads of toys at home. Happiness on this great..Wht say!
• Chocolates and Biscuits.

Things I dont like:

• Having to answer whenever mama ask me questions in front of strangers.
• Strangers picking me up.
• Having to drink my fav. milk in cup. Curse those crows which took away my bottle.
• Rainy days, as I have to miss my morning and evening walks.