The Party

The four most important things at a little boy's first birthday party

The Cake

(fresh fruit filling & fresh cream frosting from Sugar 'n' Spice )

The Baloons

(All 200 of them )

The People

(Big, small and medium sized)

The Presents

(Some truly innovative ones, you know what we mean ;-)

Vyom had a great party on 29th at Bal Bhawan in Cubbon Park. He was all dressed for the party in his little surfer dress with whales that pupsi masi had got for his first birthday party when he was only one month old. There were masis and mamas and mamis and didis and bhaiyas and nanoo and uncles and aunties , some Vyom was meeting for the first time, some he was seeing after a long time, but there were many of his favourite people there.


But Vyom, normally happy to see and be with everyone, decided that when there is so much choice available, it is good to stick to the known brands.



He had been practising blowing candles but a little boy needs a lot more lung power to blow the rotating singing candle that Doncy masi had got especially for him.

Mum-mum helped him cut the cake and Radhika mami made sure that everyone at Vyom's party got to have some.

Everyone signed on his first birthday bhow-bhow so that when Vyom is older and can not remember this party, the little bhow-bhow that his Vinod nanoo sent him could remind him of all his friends, big and small, who had gathered there to wish him.

Though he was quite tired at the end of the day, he had a great time and would like to thank everyone for the presents [ including the truly unique ones :) ] and SriG mama and Radhika mami for arranging for the decorations and helping mamma-baba with the planning. And if Doncy masi and Prakash Uncle hadn't got the plates and the cups and the spoons and the napkins, it would have been a very messy party indeed.

Happy Birthday To You...

Vyom is ONE today.

The party is this weekend!

So Much To Say.. So Little Time

I have been very bad at blogging this year (I can't believe that there is no post at all in 2008) and now Vyom is just 5 days short of his first birthday it seems that there is so much that I should have recorded. Photographs, yes, but more than that the little things that he has been doing and discovering especially in the last couple of months.
Vyom will now clap his hands when he is happy. He claps to show his appreciation of food and toys and birds and mamma getting home after work. He points to things when asked about them and his vocabulary includes fish (of course), Le Billy from Paris (Pronounced in bangalore-style as lee-billy) , mamma, baba, thamma, राजा कट कट (a wooden king with jaws that go up and down), कबूतर (pigeon), कौवा (crow), चिडिया (birds), चंदामामा (moon), and most recently bow-bow (dog). His favourite is kabootar whom he calls out to , going "aa-aa" while opening and closing his hand. He calls out to other people and animals and things too but कबूतर is top of the pops. He tries to repeat the words we speak to him when he is the mood and thumps his chest when asked "व्योम किधर है ? "(where is vyom?).
And as of this week, Vyom has started walking. Earlier, he could cruise holding on to something and would walk 3-4 steps and then fall down to all fours and crawl (actually, there has to be a better word than crawl for this mode of locomotion because "crawl" means ' To move slowly on the hands and knees ' and Vyom is anything but slow, he can move faster than any of the bipedal adults running) Now, he can actually wobble across the room to pick up something from the floor and walk back. He still prefers to speed-crawl as he can go faster but he's walking more and more.
He has been traveling a lot too and I haven't posted his pix from his visit to Calcutta, Delhi (yes, again) and Mysore. Will do so in the next few days because then it will be BIRTHDAY TIME.