Manyu Food Critic

Naughty baby experimenting with honesty

Banana Demolition

Steps:

Joyfully grab banana

Do not eat the tips

Bite through the skin to get to the mushy inside

Create a gooey mess on your banana t-shirt

Mommy & I

November, 2008 - I got a cold, cough, runny nose and chest congestion this month. Winter has started in earnest and the ground is covered in snow. Inside the apartment the temperature and humidity keeps fluctuating esp. at night and I have trouble adjusting.
But I always have mommy to look after me. But I understand that is going to change soon, as the hunt is on for a baby sitter...

Mommy and I

In the morning

after breakfast

And off for some shopping

Fun Videos

Somebody stuck some sticky tape on my fingers (yet again)



I do some moon crawling...



Eating pear and roaming around in circles.



Eating orange slice, and converting it into art form

From Meloncholy to Merry in 3 Seconds

The fastest baby around...

Its a sad sad sad world

And everybody is against little Manyu

But I can sense things improving behind my ear...

Oh yes... its fun times!

Birthday Gifts and Seema

Nov 8 - I had a hard time convincing people to let me open birthday gifts and read the cards.

Seema aunty was adamant

I expertly pleaded by case

Until she saw my point of view and opened gifts

Mommy also helped.

Playing at Gymboree

Oni wants to see me interact with other kids, so here are some videos of Saturday morning at Gymboree.

This felt too much like work, so I absconded for the second half.

My favourite part - the parachute - came out and I rallied the troops to jump on board.

Toys and bells.

Bubbles!!



Finally the parachute games...



My head has been hardened with numerous wall bumps and mommy elbows, so when I hit the kid in the end he started to cry.... then I decided to cry too out of pity for him.

My favouritest event - running around squealing under the carpet... Enjoy Oni!

First Black President

The US got a first African-American president on November 4, and in several years we will be wondering where we were upto on this historic day...

I was busy drawing mommy's attention to the fact that someone had lit the cake on fire.

It was a beautiful fall day outside

No leaves, but the ducks were out in force

I had got a nice birthday truck from Swetha aunty and Krishna uncle and was busy carting away supplies.

Happy Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!

This is the scariest face I can make.

First Birthday

October 30, 2008 - Today is my first birthday, and I have met all the goals that I set for myself when I first emerged into this world...
With knowledge and style comes strong opinion... and nobody tells me what to do. For example daddy looks funny with the red cap, unlike my staid pink scarf and bear suit.

I have managed to eat copiously and achieved 400% weight improvement. Compare that to mommy who actually went negative... shame on her.

When I arrived I had nothing, and badly needed a bath. Now, as planned, I have amassed a wealth of clothes, and more toys than mommy and daddy combined, sent to me from a whole bunch of people both in Ottawa and around the world.

And my final and most important goal... I have received more kissies and made more people happy than I ever knew existed when I first came 1 year ago.

Play Schedule

Twice a week I get taken to a play pen with several other kids. I mix and mingle with other kids, and set about with single minded determination to move things around under the watchful eyes of mommy.

Here I am at Gymboree to play and learn

It is important to move this bucket over there...

Finally back home I laugh with mommy

And then doze off.

My Sartorial Style

My sartorial style is influenced by my open mindedness to wear anything that people give me, and more importantly something that takes less than 5 seconds to put on, before I lose my patience...

This amazingly comfortable shirt and balloon butt shorts given by Sita Aunty is one of my favourites...

Here I show off my yellow soccer shirt and ankle warmers, sans pants and underwear.

My dinner suit

And my fashion statement for a night on the town - kurta with nothing else on

Visitor from Bangalore

October 12, 2008 - Yesterday we had a visitor from Bangalore. He brought a lot of goodies sent by Sita, Lalitha, and Oni, which I wore immediately and fit me very well. Today we went to Gatineau Park and were in time for fall...

On the ski lift at Camp Fortune...

CLN suspended high above the trees

I was put in the bear suit for the trip to Pink Lake

We have ice-cream again at La Cigale, and again I did not get my own. But for the first time I met a furry 4-legged toy moving on its own... a little dog.

Manyu and the Butterfly

October 10, Carleton Univ - Mommy took me to the butterfly exhibition today. Watching as the butterflies fluttered around the green house, I learnt a lot. Here I act out the different stages for you...

After munching a lot of food as a caterpillar, the butterfly is fast asleep in the cocoon.

Then he gets up and tells the mommy, "Dont look now, but there is a giant blue butterfly right behind you... so let us go thata way."

One out of the coccoon and in the open, little butterfly is very happy and smiles a lot.

Soon he is running around looking for flowers to sit on.