I am like a major dud or something. It took me nearly 10 whole minutes to figure out how i can create a new post. anyway now i'm here, i wanted to explain that unlike what i said in my last post, the reason i have decided to have a blog and blog more often is not to meet strangers and share experiences (ofcourse if that happens, well and good), but to put down things that happen in my life in a journal - as a child i enjoyed keeping a diary, but the headache of actually preserving a diary is too much, and in this Internet age to actually locate paper and write stuff (when you can type stuff) was too much and hence the compelling reason to use a blog.

I suspect assume that most of the stuff i write here is going to be about my son (atleast till we have another kid).

robi (my husband) and i got Karan a mouth organon friday, and boy you should have seen him when we showed him how it worked (i mean we showed him that it is possible to make music from this thing, although neither of us can actually make music with it). he was absolutely thrilled to bits, and I am very proud to say that he figured out how to work it in less than 3 minutes- including the "blow-in, blow-out to make different sounds" bit. so now we have a very enthusiastic mouth organist toddler on our hands. on saturday, when robi was nursing a terrible hangover, i had to distract karan while snatching away the mouth organ from him...

yesterday robi and i had a date at a tepanyaki restaurant -we enjoyed sushi for the first time. the rest ofthe lunch was unfortunately a bit of a blur cos i had this A-Mazing caiproska (best cocktail ever!) with lots of ice and lots of lemon rather fast and it took me about an hour to come down to earth after that.

then we all went to the beach in the evening, just after the heat had subsided and just before sunset, which is the best time to go, cos its still light though its not hot and the water was warm and lovely! karan had a complete blast (as always). after splashing around in the water for quite sometime, he rolled in the mud. i think he must, through all that, have said "lalalalala"with quite a degree of volume for about half hour straight (only pausing for breath). appuchach built sandcastles and k promptly smashed them down. it was incredibly funny watching k trying to bury his little feet in sand and saying "enthiye" (where is it?)

we were just about to leave when ammacha, aju and some other strangers (read kavithachech and her friend demetrius) landed up. this was too thrilling, cos k has never ever been to the beach with this ammacha. so it was back to the water again with aju!

needless to say, i had no trouble putting k to sleep last night!