Atchuthan and Shuchi!

Shuchi is 2!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:47:00 +0000

After a long hiatus, we're back and hope to be more regular in posting updates. Our little monkey just turned 2 and here are some pictures from the little party we had for her friends from the neighborhood. She LOVES Mickey Mouse :).

Yummy!!!

Atchuthan's turns 4!

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:26:00 +0000

Atchuthan wanted to celebrate his birthday with his friends in NY so we threw him a small party here with all his little friends.

He wanted a Lightning McQueen cake so I attempted to make him one again (that was the cake I made him for his first birthday).

India 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:55:00 +0000

It's been a long time since we updated the blog but I'm sure you all understand how life gets with 2 little ones. Here are pictures from our trip to India in November.

Atchuthan had great fun setting off crackers during Deepavali. It was so nice to be able to celebrate Deepavali in India after so many years.

Shuchi wanted in on the action - holding a sparkler.
Playing with kollu patti (great grandma).

Atchuthan and Sriram with their arms painted.
We took the kids to the South Indian Railway Museum. It was fun to see the old coaches that we traveled in when we were kids.

Taking a train ride at the museum.

Hanging out with patti and thatha.

This was Shuchi's favorite toy to play with - her thatha's screwdriver box. She played with that thing pretty much every day. She LOVED taking them all out and putting them back in.

Atchuthan celebrated his 4th birthday in India with a really cool Spiderman cake.

Shuchi eagerly looking forward to the cake :).

Yummy!

We also got to celebrate Karthigai in India before we left. Here we are at Varadarajan periappa's flat, with Madhu and Aditi. Isn't Aditi super cute?

Lighting the lamps.
Shuchi managed to eat that whole big ppori urundai all by herself! And Atchuthan, as usual, bugging poor Madhu to fix his car.
Shuchi with Kitchu thatha.

All tuckered out. This was the day we were leaving - see his prized autos on the pillow next to him :).

We had a lot of fun. Though we didn't do much in terms of sight-seeing this time, it was fun to just spend time with the family and let all the grandparents enjoy their grand kids.

I can write!

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:53:00 +0000

This is Atchuthan's first attempt at writing a few letters free-hand. Until now he was just tracing them. I helped him with the "C" but he wrote all the other letters by himself!

Crawling!!! (and bath time)

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:03:00 +0000

Shuchi is officially crawling now. Not on her knees but she manages to get around doing a combination of army crawl and scooting. She's doing this faster than Ats did and I fear she'll be walking earlier than him too and he was an early walker at 10 months!

Atchuthan now realizes that she's going after his toys. His cars, the phone and the TV remote are her favorite things to go after. Things are definitely getting interesting around here with the 2 of them ;-).

Beginning of the month - when she was trying to get on her knees.

Now - more proficient and able to move around.

And finally, now that she's sitting up on her own, they can take a bath together!

March 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:41:00 +0000

It's been a busy month. The weather got warmer for a little bit so we had fun playing outside and going to the park. We also went to the Bronx Zoo. Here are some of the highlights of the month -

Shuchi trying to feed herself some fruit puffs.

And big bro giving her a helping hand :-).

Dressed in green for St. Patrick's Day -

Atchuthan being goofy, as usual.

:(. I'm not very happy sitting like this right now.

All dressed up and happy -

(the red on her forehead is just the bindi that she wiped off before it could dry. I need to get some sticky ones for her).

Caught red-handed!

(that was daddy who fed her some of his chocolate ice cream :-0)

Trip to the Bronx Zoo - always a fun place to go.

On the Bug Carousel -

The Giraffes!

Taking a cat nap on mommy while walking around the zoo.

Crayola Factory

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:49:00 +0000

We took Ats to the Crayola Factory in Easton, PA on Saturday - sort of his Valentine's Day gift. He really liked it there - a lot of activities set up for the kids. He also really enjoyed the National Canal Museum that is located on the top floor in the same building.

Happy half-birthday, Shuchi!

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:35:00 +0000

Shuchi is 6 months old!!! We can't believe that she's gotten so big already. Her babyhood is just flying by. She can roll, sit unsupported for a couple minutes, talks up a storm and is trying to get on her knees to move. She's quite a happy baby and a much better sleeper than Ats ever was. She's very laid back and happy to watch big bro play and entertain her. We're very lucky to have such good kids. (*knock on wood) Here she is on her half birthday -

A week of firsts. (Jan. 31 to Feb. 6)

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:00 +0000

Shuchi decided it was time for her to accomplish a few milestones.

On Jan 31st she had her first taste of solids. We tried oatmeal but she didn't like it much and most of it ended up on her rather than in her. Look at the face she's making here -

She also rolled from back to tummy on Tue. and by Thursday was rolling in both directions and mobile. Then, to top this off, she decided she was also going to start sitting unsupported for a couple minutes at a time. She sure had a huge growth spurt this week!

On Thursday, Ats had his first dentist appointment. He did great - let them clean his teeth and played the "count your teeth" game with the dentist. No cavities - yay!

Happy New Year!

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:40:00 +0000

Wow - 2009 flew by. Looking forward to another fun-filled and exciting year with the kiddos. Here's a look at January 2010 in pictures -

Performing for the video :)

Being silly (and making Shuchi laugh - pls. excuse the mess on the table)

I can sit in the bumbo now.

I love my crib.

Trip to the NY Aquarium in Coney Island.

The sea lion show

Cool sharks

December 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:03:00 +0000

The month just flew by but it was a lot of fun. It got really cold around here so we pretty much stayed home. Bonjour periappa visited us from Alaska - that was a lot of fun. He taught Ats to count from 1 to 10 in French. The kids were also spoiled by Santa and their aunts, uncles and cousins. They had a blast visiting with their cousins too.

Shuchi has become Ms Chatty Kathy these days - she just keeps cooing and screaming away when she's awake. She's quite a happy baby except when she's teething and then she's miserable - poor thing. She has become quite good at grasping her toys and playing with them.

Here are some pictures from the month. No Christmas pictures yet - need to get them from the cousins and post them here.

All bundled up to go out in the snow.

Building his first snow man with daddy.

Playing in the snow.

Hanging out on the couch

All dressed up to go to the temple :).
Santa!

Ats learned to count in French!

Happy 3rd Birthday Atchuthan!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:39:00 +0000

Can't believe our baby is 3 years old. He has turned into a fun-loving but sweet (for the most part) toddler. He enjoyed his birthday party yesterday with his friends. His big gift this year was a play kitchen from Viji patti and KK thatha. He plays with it constantly. His other favorite was Mr. Scrambles. We still haven't opened his gifts from the party yet so he may have other favorites in there as well.

The big reveal - his first look at his play kitchen

Party time!

Mommy's attempt at makign a pirate ship cake for him.

3 months and 3 years!

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:19:00 +0000

We had some pictures taken this past weekend. We thought this would be a good time since Shuchi is almost 3 months old and Atchuthan is almost 3 (!). They were both very cooperative. In fact, Shuchi loved the camera and kept smiling at the woman taking the pictures. I think she was fascinated by the flash going off.

Baby smiles

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:07:00 +0000

We love baby smiles. This past week Shuchi has been pretty generous with her smiles. She focuses on the face and when she recognizes you, her whole face lights up and she breaks into this huge smile with her tongue sticking out. Melts the heart :-).

Cute Shuchi

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:26:00 +0000

I think Shuchi is very cute. Here are a few pictures and videos of her as she's growing up.

Cooing!

Napping with the beautiful blanket that Kristi made for her.

Hanging out in her favorite place - the play mat.

All ready for bed.

Halloween 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Last week was kinda hard since everyone was sick but luckily we all got better right in time for Halloween. Daddy and I carved our first pumpkins in the afternoon. Then mommy took me trick or treating with my buddies Jayden, Liam, Ayla and their cousins. All in all it was a fun day. Shuchi couldn't go T or T this year as mommy told me she was too little. I really wanted her to go and kept telling mommy but she didn't listen to me - something about the rain and flu. Whatever.

My Halloween festivities started 2 weeks ago with a costume play date and candy hunt at Alexander's house.

Then we had our community Halloween party/parade last Sunday where I got to sit in a fire truck.

On Thursday was the costume parade at my school.

In my classroom.

Walking in the parade.

Finally, ready to go Trick or treating. I had mom paint this cool skull on my face also.

With Thomas (Jayden) and ladybug (Ayla)
Our group that went together.
Yay -candy!
Back home and telling Shuchi all that I did - tired but happy.

September and October

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:28:00 +0000

With the grand parents.

I'm two months old today!

Sri Krishna Jayanthi

All pretty in my pink dress.

Almost caught her smile.

Wearing my favorite "skull" shirt.

Our cool room. Daddy spent a lot of time painting all these cool animals on the walls.

All dressed up for the temple.

Some loving.
"Nursing" my "baby".
Playing with Mickey.

Me and my baby sister.

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:10:00 +0000

The last few weeks have been interesting. Mommy and daddy brought my little sister home from the hospital. Well, I thought she would play trucks and ball with me but all she seems to do is eat, cry and sleep. I ask her every day if she will come play with me but she doesn't seem interested so far. I do try to entertain her when she's crying and mommy says I do a great job of it. Well, here are a few pictures of her. I can't wait for her to start walking and running with me.

Her naming ceremony.

This is how she likes to sleep.

Me "Monkeying" around.

Kissies.

Uhm.....my sister came home the other day from the hospital.

noreply@blogger.com (Sri & Sri) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:31:00 +0000

She arrived on 8/16 at 6.43 am. My mom and dad went to the hospital and said the doctor helped her come out. Her name is Shuchi and she is so small - she weighed only 6 lbs 9oz at birth and is 19 inches long. She is so cool and sleeps all the time. Well, until she is hungry. And then she screams.

Way overdue update

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:56:00 +0000

We've had a really busy spring/summer getting some house projects done and trying to have as much fun as we can before the baby makes us house-bound for a little time.

April Fun!

I got this really cool sand table for our backyard. It's so much fun!

We visited my friends Armaan, Raushan and Kamran for a weekend. They took us to this really cool playground near their house and I tried out a lot of cool new equipment.

Visiting the Easter bunny.
At their house.

May escapades

The highlight was my first visit to the Bronx Zoo for Mother's Day. It was way too fun and I LOVED all the animals there.

My first taste of cookie dough straight from the mixer. :-) I "helped" mommy make some cookies for Radhika akka's birthday.

We went back to the Bronx Zoo at the end of the month with Shazia aunty, Rick uncle and their boys.

June

The month of June was very rainy but I still managed to spend some time outdoors in the pool and with my sand table.

July fun!
I LOVED the fireworks on July 4th and wish they would have them more often.

We also took the train to NYC and visited the Central Park Zoo.

The month of July was also spent getting the room ready for me and the baby. I'm so excited to be sharing my room with the baby and mommy and daddy painted it with these cool colors.

Catching up.

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:52:00 +0000

We've been a little lax in updating this blog lately. So here are the highlights of the last three months in random order.

All dressed for school with lunch bag.

Helping daddy plant seeds for our summer garden. He had loads of fun dumping soil in the little containers.

Attempting to use the potty (of course, we can't sit on the potty without a mgazine, can we?)
At the Mid-Hudson Children's museum.

Eating breakfast - like a big boy.
It's story time for all my friends.

My all-time favorite activity - trying to write the letters of the alphabet.
Yay - warm weather is finally here. Now I can do fun things like play outside with water.

I'm growimg and mommy doesn't seem to realize that. I have to keep asking her (daily) to buy me some bigger shoes.

Sea World

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:10:00 +0000

The major hit of our trip was Sea World. Atchuthan loved it so much we ended up spending two full days there.

This is Day 1 when we mostly took in all the shows.

Atchuthan loved all the kiddie rides too.

And here is Part 2 at Sea World. The highlight of this was us getting to feed the dolphins. This allowed us to get really close to them and even touch them. Ats really loved throwing fish into their mouths.

Holiday lights and ICE!

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:27:00 +0000

The hotel we stayed in had a really cool atrium with Koi fish all over the place. They also had turtles and alligators. Here are some pictures of the atrium and their ICE! exhibit.

All the sculptures in the exhibit were made of ice. The exhibit was maintained at a COLD 9F. These sculptures were carved by artists that they brought in from Harbin, China. Very cool!

Florida!

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:22:00 +0000

We took a vacation to Orlando last week and had a blast. It was nice to get a break from the cold weather and do some fun stuff. I'm breaking it down to a few posts as we have tons of pictures. The first place we visited was Disney's Magic Kingdom for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party. Here is a slide show of our evening there. Atchuthan LOVED meeting all the characters. He really enjoyed the little rides in there - his favorite was the Haunted Mansion. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures in there as it was too dark - but he was not the least bit scared and was laughing all the way.

Here is a little clip of the fireworks.

Mickey and Minnie at the Christmas Parade.

Atchuthan fell asleep as we were making our way out of the park (it was midnight then) when we spotted Tigger and Piglet and mean mommy actually woke him up so he could meet them. It was totally worth it.

This was a really fun trip and we can't wait to go back when he's a little older and can enjoy Disney World more.

The train table

noreply@blogger.com (Sri K.) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:56:00 +0000

We set it up for him with all the trains. Here's how it looks when it's set up nicely. We still need to work on it a little and make it look more like a train table.
And this what he does to it when playing. (breaks the tracks up, tries to build them again and ends up with broken tracks). As long as he's having fun, we're not complaining.