Back after a hiatus

I sad been away from the blogging world for quite some time. Wife got Pregnant and delivered a healthy baby girl bang on Deepavali. The best gift I have ever got in my life. We have named her Manase meaning "one with a sound mind". Though it may sound clichéd for sure she is our bundle of joy. I always wanted a girl, not that I would have loved a boy lesser. She is all 6 months old now and has started to crawl and explore the corners of house keeping us on our toes. I got inspired by a lot of mommy / daddy bloggers. We used to discuss about at home and my wife urged me to start blogging again so that we can record our day to day experiences and share with Manase later. My favorite pastime nowadays is dressing up Manase, and shopping for her clothes. I have tried my hands at bathing her quite a few times and she loves it too. But she wails in protest when we dry her with a towel after her bath. I have mastered the art of changing diapers and nappies, giving her cream / oil massages / feeding her etc. But its her mom and grand mom who do it mostly. My in laws stay along with us. So it has been easy so far. Some how she has associated the word tata with going out and always wants to go tata. Had been to my parents place some time back and she did not give any trouble. We took her to Guruvayoor for her annaprasanam (first time rice feeding) ceremony and she took it with gusto. We had dressed her up in a traditional pavadai / chattai for the first time according to her grandpa’s wish. I am contemplating about changing my blog title relating it to Manase. Let us see. And here you get to see my lovely daughter waving at you.



You will get to hear more about Manase's antics in the days to come.