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The little guy loves books. A good book can distract him from the worst scenarios of a 15 month old's mind.On return from India, his eyes almost popped out of his head when he heard me read to Naina. He then cackled and laughed through the whole story of the Hungry Little Caterpillar. Just saying the name "Greg" is enough to distract him from eating, TV, playing, throwing balls, crying and

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Hold the boy back, there's food on the tableSilenced by sisterWho doesn't like balls?Standing getting easierStarting to get bigCatching up with sister, post first stepsSuper size me?Hazard perception test

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I've been a little distracted in the last few months so blogging has not been a priority. But my mind keeps coming back to how different little boys and little girls are. Sounds obvious. But let me explain.Sarva is physically quite the specimen. There's no other way to describe it. He runs harder, he falls harder, he pinches harder and he eats... harder. His head is larger than N at the same time

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Raksha bandan is a regular festival where sisters give their brothers a small band as a reminder to protect against evil. In modern days, the brothers return with gifts, cash, jewellery or just a barbie watch from Big W. The bands Sarva was not impressed with N's attempt to apply tikka He really messed it up Band tied The method to pacification and reminder of duties: sweets and the wiggles

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Naina wearing a bengali inspired coca-cola sari.

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Background: I have a form of muscular dystrophy which is of unknown origin. As a result, my milestones as a baby were slow including lifting my head, standing up, learning to walk. Before marriage, I went and saw the Genetic Counselling Service at the Royal Children, with the aim that there would be some news on my type of dystrophy. Essentially there was no information on inheritance - autosomal

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In a eurocentric way, I always pushed reading on to Naina. She was never overtly fond of books - the very hungry caterpillar and on safari were always big hits, as was in the night garden, but attempting the gruffalo, doctor seuss or other nice books ended up with me reading the book to Deepti as Naina jumped on the bed. I kid you not.Going to India, the book reading stopped, much to my

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Naina's changing. Not surprising. Language skills are so different now to when she left that it is almost like a new person is inside N.There's a scene in the Simpson's first season where Bart is sent on an exchange program to France and nervous Marge is told:Pr. Skinner: He'd be staying in France, in a lovely chateau in the heart of the wine country.Marge: But Bart doesn't speak French.Pr.

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It's been a while. Naina Sarva and Deepti got back around 12 May. Two months have shot past. This time the time apart seemed much shorted, more hectic. Last time, in 2009, dragged on and on. Before I knew it with gardens and handymen the time was up and there they were:Positioned in exact same spot as last time, to see how time has wearied us all. See if you can spot the differences:This timeLast

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Naina had gas pains until she was two years old. It took us the best part of the first year of her life to realise why she was waking up screaming at midnight in uncontrollable pain. Doses and doses of infacol were consumed. Alternative medicine treatments were tried. Not feeding to sleep was tried. Formula was tried. No formula was tried. No medicine was tried. More medicine was tried. No luck.

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100 days is a long time to be alone after the joy of children has entered one's life. I cannot explain some of my feelings but others are easier.Initially, my anxieties were around male selfishiness - how will I feed myself, oh my god I have to iron my own shirts... After those initial feelings of uselessness passed, the over-riding feelings have been mainly on a sense of void.I'm so used to

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Perth seems so long ago now, a month has flown past. For each visit, there's a tinge of nostalgia of 90's parties and crazy hair (man) and wistful wondering if we'll ever call it home. For now though, it's the week off work town.We had gone to Perth to perform Sarva's sataysa pooja (naming ceremony) but for N, the highlight was the pool. And the iPad (sigh). Maybe the iPad first then swimming.

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Sarva was born under Jyestha, a mool nakshatra, which is considered to be bad luck for the father's health. I found this rather dramatic explanation on the internet.There are twenty-seven constellations (Nakshatras) in all some of which are considered inauspicious. A child born in the first stage of the 'Moola Nakshatra' brings destruction to his father, In the second stage- to his mother

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So roll up Perth trip. Xmas day didn't feel any different to a normal workday. It's strange how quickly time flies in the rush to get to a flight that will probably be late anyway. The flight over went smoothly enough; Naina watched DVDs on her new player for an hour or so, stuffed herself on icecream and any food that walked past and Sarva slept fairly contentedly. Though Qantas gave seats

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Naina throws the blankets. Sarva did not even attempt a laugh after the head lock.

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With the trip to Perth booked for 25 December afternoon, there was only one thing to do. Open presents on the 24th. There were a few surprises in store.Imagine Naina's surprise when she got a vidal sasssoon hair curler!The gruffalo sound book wasn't a big hit that day, now N won't let me touch it (cries of leave it, leave it, assertively).

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I took the day off for Xmas shopping. Sweet. Over work as a concept anyway. Here's the photographic evidence.Posing with shopping catalogue. She really wanted a pair of new shoes.Naina got confused between cultural traditions. Here's her doing namaste in front of a Xmas tree.And Sarva was disinterested in the whole glowing ball thing.

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For keen followers of the Hampton East quarterly 4 year and under Olympics, N improved her ranking this quarter from 8th to 5th.A sample!Clearly beating up on some of the smaller kidsMedal winnerIndoctrination

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We're coming to Perth and India.Deepti and the kids are coming to Perth on Xmas day and I'm joining them on new year's eve. I think zoo trips, swimming lessons, shopping and overeating are generally in the plans. Due to impending India trip, we're coming back on 6th of Jan.Then on Jan 21, the Naina, Sarva and Deepti are off to India. A long stopover in Bangkok will be a challenge, though the next

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Sarva rolled onto his side today, for the first time. He's been attempting for the last few days. Quite graceful the second time. However, he got stuck on his side and let us know he wasn't happy. We try to get him interested in things, but he's not quite as flexible as N; for example, although he can put his big toe in his mouth, two fingers are much more tasty, or occasionally his whole fist to

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5 weeks oldClassic panic photo6 weeksTwo months old

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Friday was Deepavali. Wiki has enough information, but I will add that it is the biggest celebration in India for Hindus and is celebrated around the world, for all of us.Growing up it's probably my earliest memories, 1978 or 1979 thereabouts at the Kale's house in Newman, lighting candles in the dark at our only Indian friends in town. I can think of years alone in Melbourne where it didn't mean

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Naina lends a hand. Not what the kid was looking for I think.

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Naina loves the song playing in the background - durga pooja song with chorus "Naa-mo, naa-mo". Sarva gets revenge while sister is distracted. Excuse my Horshack laugh in the background.

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Our Sunday schedule has been turned upside down by swimming classes starting at 8:30am. 7am on a Sunday morning is generally quiet in most houses. Naina was good at classes, some tears at getting into the pool but otherwise really happy the whole class. N showed distinct disdain for authority and generally ignored the instructors.It's durga pooja time, the lead up to deepavali. So we also went to

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Baby Massage.

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First month of Sarva. I think he really started stacking on the kilos in week 4.Day 1 and already homeDay 310th day (at Chatthi)Day 24Day 28

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Naina occasionally calls us by our first names "Deepti-mummy" or "A-deet, A-deet". A-deet comes from dada and dadi calling me from downstairs. It's stuck, several months later. Deepti frowns and refuses required services until the correct terminology is used.Without realising it, some connection are coming through. N's linking parts of the past with now. Above the dining room table, there's a

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Sarva's a grunter.Going into sleep and coming out of sleep, he's a Monica Seles impersonator with the grunts, groans and whines. Feeds see grunts, rocker time sees grunts, being picked up and put down sees grunts. His flatulence and gas which may be related to aforementioned grunting is quite spectacular. Hopefully he'll control himself at the next work function.His early morning grunting is so

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Having two kids puts so much in to perspective. Perhaps initially how shambolic our child rearing of N was and how due to the ongoing shambolicness, S gets um, neglected and is developing second child syndrome as the clock ticks. I mean statistically significant style.Case in point, gas; we tried everything asofetida (heeng rubbed on stomach), gripe water and infacol (simethicone) regularly for

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N has become assertive.Favourite phrases at the moment are "No, no, no, no, no, no, no..." and "Baas, hogya" (Stop, enough). She's even started telling us "Gwrabrabrebel erlekreere want to sleep" (the first few words are incomprehensible).We're witnessing interaction at a superior level.

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Our little Olympian. For coming ninth in the Gecko Term 3 Olympics.(Class size, 10)

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Sarva fell asleep by himself tonight. I'm confused as to what I should do now. We've not had a child previously who could do that. I thought I should sit in the room with him in case he woke up. That got boring after 15 minutes. Feeling kind of pointless.

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Naina kind of likes water. When the words "kind of" are used I mean "not that much". When grandmother was here, N was taken swimming on and off for about 5 weeks with little progress or success. Naina would cry on walking to the swim school, cry changing clothes, cry as the teacher took her into the water, not let go of the teacher and generally be miserable. Even shower time after swimming

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Most people chose a name before birth, a few months in advance or even on first sight of baby. Not us. We *thought* we had it sorted but turns out we didn't. Like Naina (Riyaa), we had decided early on in the pregnancy he would have both a school name that would be easy to pronounce and spell and a house name that all our friends and family would call him by. It took us about a week after birth

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N proudly announced yestreday "Nancy kai-yan-gay" meaning she was going to eat the four year old girl next door for dinner.S put on an astounding 50 g a day last week.

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Trying to stay positive with all the sickness and gum disease going around, Sarva's on the path to baby-zilla. He's been putting on 40 g a day for more than 10 days. This compares to N who struggled to get 15 g a day at best. Admittedly, baby-zilla is still only 3.5 kg, but in three weeks he's gained 25% of his lowest body weight.I'll get my act together and post more photos and anecdotes soon,

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Keep it simple, stupid.Some admissions. N still sleeps in our bed. I hear tut-tuts. Eh. N is devoted to her mummy but somewhat ambivalent to daddy. There's a time and a place for dads, but mums are universal.This had caused some loud discussions on how difficult it would be come hospital time. No one could put N to sleep except Deepti. Tension levels rose accordingly twice a week.Being dead-beat

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Struggling to comprehend the last week of action, I'm going to itemize it.Deepti went into a semi-labour without real contractions on Wednesday night last week (21 July 2010). We were asked to come to the hospital and wait for a check-up. You are going to give birth tomorrow. Those seven words were scary. At 38 weeks, who does that? Be at the hospital at 7:30 am and we'll start work. More scary

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On our way to Sandy tomorrow morning. Aiming for a 22 July finish.

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Long videos from Gymbaroo. Naina attended two terms of Gymbaroo at Cheltenham. For N, the general excitability and screaming we noticed in October, November and December was channelled into jumping and better concentration spans by end of first term and hand eye coordination skills by the end of the second term.Love the pirouette with belly flop.It can all get a bit too hard.

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For most of June, we were car-less. In fact the car was getting repaired for eight weeks. Eight weeks.The first four weeks, I had a friend's car, which meant the routine wasn't shattered, broken. The routines were all similar. Then the friend's car had to be returned and it was public transport, everywhere. Inconvenient with Deepti being 7 months.Somehow though, it just became good fun. Monday to

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It's N's favourite phrase. When things fall to the ground, such as dropping clothes from upstairs, she cries jah-mani. It's a conjoining of jah - closely translated to gosh and mani - being a sound from "jameen" meaning ground.N understands most things we say, in English and in Hindi. When instructed to come and brush her teeth, in hindi or in english, she immediately understands the routine of

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Look what Bua gave me... (N moves at hypersonic speed, this was the only photo of 6 that she wasn't a blur of excitement).

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Exhausted by pavement pounding, a short post tonight.Likes: Brushing her teeth up to three times a day. I stress by herself. Eating the toothpaste, by herself.Dislikes: Not being able to hold on to and play with everyone's toothbrushesLikes: Anything Gymbaroo related. Has master the art of sitting on a ball, kicking a ball, and the latest addition, (haven't managed to get a picture of her doing

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After the fall; it's been tough. Naina has been bedbound, at times not able to move her right arm, clutching at her neck and always unhappy. Friday, lying down all day. Saturday, lying down, all day. Sunday, lying down, most of the day.We gave up on baths yesterday as she screamed her way through it. Feeding was whilst lying down (dangerous) and drinking water was out of a soup spoon. Maximum

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Yesterday, upstairs trying to relax, Deepti downstairs watching TV. Naina decides its boring with dada and heads down to Deepti. Negligent parent that I am, I watched her half-way. My second mistake in two weeks. According to Deepti, N got to the last two or three steps before tripping and landing on the floor with her hands held out in front of her. Couldn't actually hear the clavicle fracturing

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The party was great! We all had a blast.As with any good Indian kids party there was plenty of food: Hakka Chow Mein, Samosas, Veg Manchurian and Rasmalai (caterers). Deepti also prepared: Chaat, tomato chilli chutney, and pulao. Then there was the cake. A lot of food was consumed, but its probably true, half the food, twice the money.Carnegie Day Centre is a day care during the week and hireable

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Life's ups, life's downs. Have to be philosophical. Need to be; the guilty one is the perpendicular pronoun. I.Birthdays for a two year old are surprisingly complicated. Everything. Hire a hall ($400 bond), meet with caterers, organize gifts for other children, make sure invitations reach the right people. All done and sorted by 6:25pm on Friday 23rd April.At 6:30pm on Friday 23rd April,

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Naina's bed time routine has settled a lot since Perth.6:30pm: Dinner7pm: Talk to dada in Perth.7:02:03 pm: Stop talking to dada in Perth7:03pm: Run downstairs to join Deepti8pm: Return back upstairs.8:30pm: Complete bottle of milk, running around, jumping on bed, reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar for the fourth time (it's still a great book), In the Night Garden and a hindi phrase book, get

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When we decided to end renting and start buying and moving, it seemed appropriate to clear out junk. Like get rid of stuff. Lots of stuff. 15 years of stuff accumulated and acquiring space in garage and cupboards around Malvern East.This Easter Weekend has seen us crescendo in our waste disposal. Over the past seven months, the following items have been disposed of, as thoughtfully as possible:

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Food in Perth is great, maddening, exciting and different. Coming from food city that is Melbourne, it's not fair to compare two very different cities. Melbourne has a diverse restaurant culture fed by migrants and larger populations. Perth does somethings so well.Recommendations1) Station St Markets - much better selection of fruit and vegetables than any market in Melbourne, including Queen Vic

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Obviously its not for sleeping.And to answer Deepti's question - no she wasn't!

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N is better around more people than less. She is intensely social. Whilst still cranky Miss N, she found time to make friends with everyone who entered mum and dad's house, except my dad, who she remained a bit distant from unless it involved the pool, when she was his best friend/pool buddy.She's an energizer bunny. See video in next post, but her energy for jumping is endless. She's got

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Breaking the dog bowl. Note - we don't have a dog.Rest break on way to Sorrento. Horsey rides are fun at the moment.Not even close to the water.Hail storm in Perth. Quite a frightening storm. Dad's car written off, house leaked in three spots. Nearly every plant in garden shredded. And hail like I've never seen.

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Naina has a fear of water. She's not been overly exposed to it; apart from baths, occasional trips to Perth and watering the garden. As her last trip to Perth was when she was 9 months old, most memories were long gone.Prior to Perth, we'd set up a tub outside the bath, bring bucket by bucket, hot and cold water and she'd "chup chup" away, satisfied and happily. Attempting the next obvious step -

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Babies are good at sleeping in unusual positions.Holi 2010! Happy Holi everyone!

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Perth was enjoyable. I kind of forget how life is kinder over there compared to Melbourne.Things in Perth are close to everything else. Walking from the airport to the car, car to the house, house to the shops, house to the city. Perth is close. But then other things are really far away. Trying to get to a David Jones that had kids clothes on sale was nigh on impossible according to google maps.

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Leaving Melbourne is kind of strange. It is home for all of us now, though this is only really true for N. But the rituals; letting neighbours know, unplugging the electrics, rushing home from work, dropping dvd's and books at the library, and then crawling along Kingsway. Ritualistic. N's been through it a while. Deepti and I have a routine, I drop her at the terminal she takes three suitcases,

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Naina doesn't get sick that often, for this I am glad. I don't think we'd last long with a sleepless baby. About once a year (so far) she picks up something, which she kindly passes on to me. Deepti has some sort of baby sickness antibodies so she seemingly never falls.Last year her February flu was in India, involving vomiting and diarrhoea at opportune moments like driving long distances or

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Something's changed. I can't put my finger on why. Naina's suddenly, well, changed.Example, running has always been fun. But now there's more exciting and dangerous ways to run.Not clear in video but that is my german record player she is bouncing up and down on whilst gathering breath.She's started jumping with both feet coordinated off the ground (as in straight up and down). Sometimes barefoot

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Prani came over the weekend before Australia day. A special visit for N. Friday night at our house was all a bit too exciting with Green and Prani and all the new toys.First came Elmo. N loves Elmo. Elmo mightn't love N after some of the headlocks she put him into.Arm pit lockHeadlockI think this one is called the sleeper hold. Elmo's expression says it all. I might black and white this one, give

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Naina had some time at the beach. Here she is modelling her last season outfit. Very tight.She's more into the sand than the water, but, that's still pretty cool. She likes the pool more than the bath, I can't work that out.Note crocs at breaking point. Shoes, I reckon that'll get a blog soon. Why must they keep growing!

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We went to a sixtieth birthday party. We all got dressed up for the black and white theme.I really didn't try that hard, vis a vis the theme.Chasing a toddler around at a party at a house with lots of stairs is tiring. Everything hurt. Naina had fun though. Naina likes stairs and drinking from other peoples glasses.I reckon that though the party was for the 60 year old, the most fun is for the

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Green dropped into Melbourne around the 23rd of January and dropped by for dinner and baby minding duties.The results were highly successful. Green's going to be a natural. Or rather, he is a natural.Nothing gets in the way of Elmo.

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We tried to watch a movie tonight whilst Naina was awake. 3 Idiots - a smash hit new comedy featuring Aamir Khan.She enjoyed the first fifteen minutes, drinking her milk, kicking her ball, throwing her ball, eating my dinner that was left on the coffee table. She then got stuck behind the TV.

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Naina's learnt the art of the ear piercing scream. I mean ear drum shaking, 120 db, lousy no good neighbours playing music at 3 am and driving hoon cars out the front scream.I don't think any one could possibly scream louder. It hurts.We got a new book, Can You Make a Face. She loves it. The play along, the surprised face, the rabbit face, but then, for some reason, when I do the surprised or

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Naina's picked up that saying "PONK" "PONK" "PONK" means you can bump heads. An example:

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Naina was always a fussy eater. I think I read somewhere that almost all babies are. N prefers loading up on milk and eschewing traditional favourites like meat, sweets and chips. Interesting. We've had stages where we actually forced her to eat something sweet, just to give her a bit of variety.As of a month ago, the most we could get into her (without pinning her down) was fruit and the

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Officially.I was cleaning the laundry this morning. Deepti was cleaning upstairs. N was in between. Literally.I heard a "maaa..." noise. As I walked around, and Deepti descended from upstairs we found out that N was not a baby. She's officially in (or officially approaching) the terrible 2's.She had managed to get her head stuck between the bannisters. Not a baby anymore.This followed the

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Eating out for dinner is not an option anymore. We've decided to become a takeaway family for the next few years.We thought we could tire N out by playing in the park for an hour and having her wander around safeway. But by the time we got to dinner at 6pm she was a) starving, b) cranky and c) up to no good.She managed to hold it together whilst waiting for the food, but as soon as the food

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So bored one night and unable to sleep I prepared this graph.Sorry about the fuzzy and small resolution. Red is weight (with y values on the left side) yellow is height (on right y axis) and blue is head circumference (y values on right side). Days is on the x-axis.I apologise to all the maths geeks (Bob, Andrew, Dan, I tip my hat to you) because I haven't naturalised the scales, especially for

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We went to a birthday - a proper birthday party. Deepti's Indian mother's group friend Ranja had her daughter Ashmi's second birthday party in Werribee. A hall was hired, Indian food was catered, there was balloons and cake and unlimited soft drink. All I needed was a cricket talking cousin and I was back in my teenage years.I had a blast, so did N.Where's the balloon? ("Bee! Bee!")Mastered in

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The post that had to happen. Meet our succulent balcony neighbour. Perverted.Mmm, succulent. Apparently he's been there longer than the previous owner. The photos don't do justice to the creepy size of the thing.Much better. Even N doesn't know what to do with him. I'm afraid I'll come home to a Little Shop of Horrors scene where the giant flycatcher plant has swallowed one of the actors.Good old

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The move to the new house has been an experience for reasons mentioned before. But overall, we're in and N's got new territory.Our little cul-de-sac, Nepean Ave has a shiny new electricity substation at the end of the street which work always seems to be "in progress". Nepean Ave is a cozy place, there's two apartment blocks on one side of us - with three or four young Indian families. This is

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I've been getting a lot of requests (okay, two, thanks Andrew, Green) for evidence of cactus-zilla.I refer you to these two photos. Cactus-zilla is ominously, sitting in the background, upstairs like Norman Bates' mother or a Dalek...http://nainaindrawati.blogspot.com/2009/08/we-got-one.html

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Cactus-zilla lost an arm (flower) in the first big storm in the new house. I seriously thought the roof would fall in. We got about 3 cm of rain in 20 minutes - more ominously, I could see the storm approaching from our bedroom window and as it passed over head, I was sure something was going to give.Turns out it was cactus-zilla.

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I just wanted to let you all know that we're in and settling down. It was the "funnest" move ever. I kid you not. Without coming across all negative nelly:1) Bank not accepting my documents with my middle name on them - we missed settlement by a day2) Owner conveyancer losing our transfer documents3) Owner refusing cactus-zilla from the front balcony (look in photos)4) Owner missing settlement

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Inappropriate places to sit.Appetite too big for mouth

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Deepti had a mother's group lunch at a fancy cafe. South African air dried meat.I got to spend some quality father-daughter time with Naina at the nearest park to the new house - Dendy Park in Brighton East. I was a bit nervous. Naina doesn't spend too much time away from Deepti, so this 2 hour period was going to be interesting.In terms of closeness, Naina recognises me as her "daddy" but I

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The move is approaching (20 October 2009) so we're already doing the chuck and recycle.I managed to accumulate 3 computers. At least one of them (and associated parts) ended up somewhere useful (byteback). The sight of around 200 computer monitors in a skip is something to behold. The knowledge that they will not end up in landfill is a very good feeling.But really, we've had a quiet month. I

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Melbourne Central at its best...Engrossing (or so it would appear)2 seconds laterAnd yes, Deepti got N's ears pierced, without a single tear.

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N's started surprising us with her vocabulary.Just this week, she's started saying "Bye daddy" when she goes to sleep or when I leave in the morning. I can't pick an accent yet - indian or australian. That was a big shock when she put those two words together.Other new words this week - "ut-to" meaning get up, "daddy shoo-shoo" meaning daddy and #1's.And of course singing and dancing. I've

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Not sure how long it will last for, but here's the link for the new house.

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We got one! A 3 bedroom, fully renovated, 2 story townhouse with backyard and front yard, heaps of storage and east west facing in Hampton East.Deepti and I had talked about my previous misadventure at an auction and felt that Andrew's guidance on the big day (or even bidding) would be a huge boost for my confidence. Andrew's an expert on this topic - he's won a couple of auctions but more than

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Giggling fitBJSM induced confusion - N mingling. I forgot how to use a digital camera.

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Naina has been a bit neglected with househunting, there is a lack of meaningful photos or videos. But she's well. More and more words, everyday. Today we got "Pey-no" which means "wear it". She knew what she was saying because she was trying to put her sweater back on.I think her vocab stretches to maybe 20 words now. Words come in ebbs and flows. She's stopped saying de-do, but is more

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We went to Bihari Samaj last weekend as a break from househunting. It was a funny day.The idea of Bihari Samaj (BJSM) is that India being a diverse country, there are few things that unite people - caste and state being two of them. So, in each big city around the world with an Indian Diaspora, there are regular gatherings of Bihari and Jharkandis. For Deepti it's a chance to socialize with other

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Naina's up to her first two word phrase. This is great!Over a period of a few months since coming back from India she has been saying words like jha, achcha and (surprisingly) a-dit. We've heard her saying "ko-wa" which means crow in hindi. We didn't realise what it meant until about Saturday as she's now saying "kya-wa" which means, wait for it, "what happened?". When a loud noise emerges from

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Naina is progressing pretty quick. It feels like it to us. In April she couldn't walk and crawled everywhere. It's the opposite now. The sight of N crawling today was a surprise. It's been months since I saw her do so.The handbag phase is passing onto the collecting phase. She will toddle into the kitchen, open the cupboards, collect the good cups (three at a time) and deposit them into locations

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Naina's probably been on a growth upswing this week, teeth, feet, legs, head. She's also probably cottoned on to the tension in the house and so she's been unsettled as well. More temperamental, less ease helping to sleep and more work on the reading and concentrating part.Meanwhile, here's some photos from N's first trip to the Zoo from Queen's Birthday weekend in June. It was wet, cold and

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This househunting thing is turning into a pain.Example in part.Turned up to an auction. We had driven past a house, liked it, but accepted it wouldn't be in our range (with previously mentioned 10 per cent rule) and so decided to attend and see what happened.Dutifully, turned up to the auction last Saturday, dressed as powerfully as I could muster (not very powerfully) and stood up the front. I'm

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We took a trip to Chadstone and Naina showed some new habits off.Handbags, anyone's. She steals handbags at the playgroup and then argues with mum's over whose handbag is it. Anna warned me about this; it's adorable though. She's taken to trying to hold my backpack when I get back from work and demanding to be lifted up as well.Her confidence in walking is fantastic now and there's very little

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