“Minneee” Mania

Our visit to Niagaras was a good break for all three of us. After coming home there were lots of home activities due - cleaning the house, buying groceries, meeting doctor, unpacking our baggage to name a few. Gianna has developed some new interests since past few days. She likes to cook food when she is in the kitchen and pluck leaves while she is in the park.





She has developed a special love for Minnie mouse which has increased so much in past few weeks that she likes to see “mickey mouse clubhouse” while eating, carries her Minnie mouse when she is sitting in car, she likes to see only “minnie’s” pictures in the “minnies-mickeys” books, and in fact sometimes call everything that she wants, with this name “minniee”. That’s too much of “Minnie” everyday and everywhere.



Gianna turned 18 months on 22-June-10. We took her to the Bronx Zoo to celebrate her special day and to make her meet some new friends. She enjoyed seeing the lions, snakes, monkeys, giraffes, however she was more amused to see the turtles (even the fake ones ;-) )



She is due for her 18th month regular medical check-up, and this time it includes her vaccination also. It gets very difficult to see your child bearing the pain which starts when a needle in inserted in such soft skin. It becomes all the more difficult when I have to take her all alone (no papa along).



Gianna and her “Papajeee” aka “Pappi”



Shobhit always wanted our first baby to be a girl :-) Shobhit and Gia share a chemistry, a chemistry of “naughtiness”. Today the credit for all her “shaitanis” go partly to her dear “pappi” aka “pappaji”. When shobhit is not working on computer, his favourite passtime is to click Gianna’s pictures and talk to her. On weekends, when Gianna finishes eating her food, Shobhit is the first person she looks for cleaning her mouth and for getting her out of booster chair. She tries to emulate him. She waits eagerly in the evening for her “pappi” and when she hears the door bell, she goes to the door to greet him.



Shobhit, as a father is very careful and protective for her daughter. He like any other father wants her to get the best of everything in this world. She wants her “pappi” to play hand puppets with her. He likes to make bubbles for Gianna. They play peek-a-boo and hide and seek, and sing rhymes together.

May 2010, An eventful month!

Like every year first four months of this year have passed so quickly. With lots of resolutions yet to start, lots of ideas still in mind, I try to accomplish the maximum on a daily basis. It’s been 9 months since we came to USA and during these months of my stay, I met some of my close cousins and my best buddies. America is so organized unlike India and I enjoy being here. New Jersey, the state where we live in, is known as “The Garden State” and the natural beauty, gardens, greenery truly justifies this name. I simply admire and appreciate the effort these people put in to maintain such beautiful plants and trees.

Month of May was quite eventful. There were so many birthdays, anniversaries, and catching up with friends and relatives.

It started with Shobhit’s birthday. We celebrated it with pastries, flowers, yummy food, and ice cream at Baskin Robbins. I had to keep Gianna out of the room while I was decorating. She wanted to touch and take each and every flower that I had put on the table as a part of décor. Such a curious cat!





Gianna has started going out in the park now. She loves to play in sand, likes to sit on swings, pluck flowers, watch other kids playing, touch other children’s sand toys and what not! She is now getting familiar with some of the faces regular to the park. This li’l swthrt is very very observant. Her sudden unexpected moves, activities and thinking astonish me almost every day. I think the kids of this generation are really smart. Everyday our house is a mess and I clean it almost every hour.







We had some wonderful time with my cousin, who visited us for two days. Gianna took a day’s time to be-friends with him. For him, Gianna is a complaisant child, but before he could see Gianna’s true colours - her shouts, her climbing up and down on sofas and tables, throwing remote controls and cordless phones now and then, sitting in her wagon car, scattering all her toys on the floor and many more - he flew off to DC.



Gianna had her very first visit to the sea beach last weekend on 15th of May. Thankfully, it was a perfect sunny day. Edison is a place where weather is so very unpredictable. One day it’s sunny and other could be full of heavy showers. One has to refer to weather channel and forecasts before making any plans for holidaying. The sea looked vast and deep blue. Some people were sun bathing, while others were enjoying their private yachts rides. Kids were playing with their sand toys, and my Gianna was dazed to have a very first view of the ocean. To our surprise, Gianna was not scared when the waves first touched her feet. The water was ice cold but little Gianna was enjoying it to the full.



The beach has a 2 mile board walk renowned for its vast array of amusements, shops and eateries. There were numerous game shops along the beach boardwalk and those cuddly stuff toys hanging in there were the inspiration for us to play those games and win to collect more and more of those plush toys for Gianna. She was thrilled to get so many toys all at the same time.






We had our fourth marriage anniversary on the 22nd of May. Such occasions are good excuses to buy expensive gifts from your husband without them asking any questions…hah! All three of us went to New York and Gianna was very cooperative this time unlike our other trips where she had thrown all her tantrums. She got a good change from her same toys, same rooms, same furniture and of course the same mumma



And finally, in the last weekend of May, we planned a trip to the beautiful Niagara Falls.



Despite of some of our concerns for Gianna’s eating (as she doesn’t eat properly once she is out of home) we planned to visit Niagaras with alacrity. Sunny weather, eminent windmills, dense forests, small lakes, magnificient mountains, beautiful valleys, boundless pastures, meadows and farmlands. It was breathtaking beauty and an aura of freshness all along the way to NIAGARA FALLS. The falls were pristine and were beyond my imagination. A great delight and feast for eyes. Loved each and every moment of it.









We wish to visit the magnificient falls again...!!