Happy New Year!!

Kavi celebrates New Year's Eve with a dance!



Happy 2009! Kavi's going to become a 1 year old in about a month and a half! :)

I Couldn't Resist!!

OK, we said we weren't going to do presents or anything for Christmas, but I couldn't resist! 



Um, that's Curly's present, Mr. Kavi!

Tis the Season!

Tis the season for hoodies and Christmas lights on 37th street!

Cheeky!!

Champaign, IL!!

Kavi spent his Thanksgiving and his Anaprashan (Rice Feeding Ceremony) in Champaign, IL! His SuperFoy, FowaJud, Samira-didi, Saji-dada, and Savita-didi all drove down from Minnesota to hang out with us! (My sister, brother-in-law, and their kids)

Part of the Ceremony is the Rice Feeding - it symbolizes his first solid food:



And then the other part of the ceremony is where he chooses objects that represents his destiny:

He picked a flashlight and a pencil, perhaps showing others the way with his writings (after all, his name does mean "poet"), but really they were two long objects for him to bang around with, so he's trying to tell us that he's a drummer at heart! haha

He also had another milestone on the trip - he started pulling himself up into stand position! So now he loves to climb everything.

Thanks to his Saji-Dada, he had some Indian clothes that could sort of fit him. The ones he has are still too big. Kavi's still very much on the small side. But, the kid is strong. Really strong! And a spaz!


Some family pictures on Thanksgiving/Anaprashan





Kavi getting into his favorite toys, which are not available at Toys-R-Us


Kavi and his first sighting of snow with his Grandma


Kavi hitting his milestone in Champaign, Il


That was a lot of work for the week. Very tired.

Grab!

He gets into everything!

Cracking Up!

Despite all his serious faces, the boy does crack up!

This boy

Going towards the music!



Babbling, ripping apart stuff!

feeding time!

Yup, he's really easy when it comes to feeding....


...NOT!

Documenting the boy!

Kavi hit a milestone on Tuesday, he started saying "daidaidaidaidadai". I'll try to get a video of that soon.

Bruce Lee (Kavi) meets Han Solo (Noah)




Bruce Lee and Han Solo being forced into a photo-op.

Clean diapers = smiles

I gotted stuk und3r teh couch!

Baby holdings.

Ah yes, the buffet table.

First swing at his first Diwali party.

Oh no! Here it comes!

Kavi Lee

Kavi's first Halloween! Big thank you to Bhavi-Masi for making the awesome Bruce Lee outfit!!

The boy as a cat

Yeah, it's a cat toy, but, it gets his attention, and that's what counts!

Jammin' Out!

Seems like the tablas and the tambourine are his favorite toys lately! And they aren't even toys, they're the real instruments.

The boy's not crawling quite yet. He is spinning around in circles from the crawling position, but he isn't moving forward. His legs have high tone, which means, we really shouldn't be putting him in exer-saucer any more. He needs to learn to relax his legs some. He's getting better at it.

I'll try to get a video of him saying, "Ohhh!" whenever he's surprised, and also of him cracking up when we tickle him.

He still needs to eat more!

What chu talkin' 'bout, Willis!

Tapping into his Indian music roots:


Tapping into his American music roots...note the kicking back and lounging like a rockstar after the killer jam session:


Sitting upright, being studious and engaged in the material:



Trio shots:



One more:



That's all folks! See you next time!

pseudo walking!

Must we scream so piercingly??

Can you PLEASE smile in one picture??

Kavi tends to not smile in his pictures.






Here's a step by step on how we got Kavi to smile in a picture:

Let's tickle your neck.


Well, that's not very convincing, mister!


Okay, but you don't look like Kavi here.


Better! But look up, we want to see your face.


Yay! Good one! One day maybe you can do this while looking at the camera, but we'll take this for now!

Water!

He can hold himself up a bit, sort of! Bath time is a one-person job, now.


Well, it's been a long time since I've updated this blog. Kavi is doing well...his biggest obstacle is that he fights his feeding! He does not like to eat. It is always a struggle to get this boy to eat anything. He should be up to 30 oz a day, but no. We're lucky if we can even get 24 in him.

He sleeps just fine. He sleeps through the night (knock on wood), and he's very alert, super active, extremely vocal...he's still not able to sit up by himself, but he's getting there.

Hopefully after this or next month, he'll be able to sit up by himself and crawl.
We just covered our downstairs floor with spongey jigsaw mats, so he can roll around as much as he wants.

So a few weeks ago, we took a little family outing and went to the Aquarena in San Marcos, which about 30 minutes away from Austin. Here are some pictures:




And here he is sitting in his new booster chair! In this picture, he kinda looks like me, when I was a baby: