My first visit to a zoo!!!

My first trip to a zoo. Its a Stoneham zoo in Boston area.

I like bears, especially the ones in the book I have, "Brown bear, brown bear, What do you see?". Although, the ones we saw in the zoo (in the video below) look more like our downstairs neighbors, except they are better groomed than our downstairs neighbors.

You can see that it was a hot and sunny day. I like to just walk around, enjoy my glasses and a nice day and my mom wanted me to see all the animals and "learn" as if I don't do that at home already.

My dad says that we (humans) came here from a single-celled amoeba via being a monkey and if that monkey was anything like the one in the video, boy, we are in trouble. He was the least active monkey of all the monkeys that I ever saw (on TV and movies). I don't know why my dad sometimes calls me a monkey even though I'm always active.

Who knew that one day I'll see real goats and sheeps? It seems that the goat in the video and I like the same thing i.e. to sit in a tub of water. Now, is that true that in India, you can see goats and sheeps from your balcony at any time of the day?

We also saw jaguar, yaks, wolves, fox, and many more birds and animals.

Picking vegetables!!!

This is the our father-son summer project. Our vegetable garden has vegetables now. My dad is trying to teach me how to pick them - raddish, tomato, pepper, capsicum and cucumber, but he wouldn't let me eat them. Now, you're supposed to eat vegetables, right? Even I know that. But my parents are so habitual to tell me "no" every time I put something in my mouth (in their defense, mostly off the floor), that they are telling me not to put tomato and cucumber in my mouth. Parents, right?

I can stand!

If you've missed my progress lately, here's the scoop. I can stand now without touching, holding or breaking anything. I finally realized what it means to be "standing on your own feet" (however, my dad says that the phrase has something to do with earning money, can you believe it?). My mom is waiting for the next big step, which is walking so that she won't have to carry me anymore. With one banana for breakfast (that's right, 4 days a row now), yogurt, rotli, dal, rice, khichadi, milk and all the solid stuff for lunch and dinner, I'm getting pretty heavy. And I've got two teeth in the balcony (its an Indian phrase relating theatres - balcony is upper floor and upper stall is actually lower floor. Can you believe that? and they say what I talk is gibberish). Also, since the summer ended and its getting cold in Boston, my mom has been dressing me up in full and warm clothes. I lost my privilege to run around the house in just diapers. All good things come to end!

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With Nandini!

OK, I'm catching up here. This picture is few months old as you can see from the date-stamp on it. This was when I made my first long distance trip to New Jersey and visited Nandini (whose parents happen to be friends of my parents). Since my dad and Naresh uncle were roommates for over two years (when they were young, naive and good-looking - well, more good-looking than they are in this picture, they each have got a kid since then), they know a lot about each other, so they have to be all smiling and not to upset the other when together and that's why they seem to be so happy in this picture. As for me and Nandini, we were forced into the picture as I was tired from my long journey earlier and Nandini wasn't happy since all of a sudden, she wasn't the youngest one in the room. But, soon we both got over it and had a great time. I've asked my mom to invite Naresh uncle, Avani auntie and Nandini (actually, Nandini, Avani auntie and Naresh uncle, in that order) to Boston. My mom asked my dad and well, you know my dad. If you go by his past record, he'll call them around my 4th birthday.

With Ahmad and Abia!

My parents' friends, Aftab uncle and Arshi auntie visited us. They have been friends ever since Ahmadbhai was of my age (for the record, he is 5' tall now or may be more, he looked very very tall from where I was looking). From now on, they are parents of my friends, Ahmadbhai and Abiadidi. You can see us in our best of the moods. Ahmadbhai wants to be an actor, as you can see from his facial expression and no-nonsense black t-shirt. Nobody knows what Abiadidi wants to be, but her parents are hoping that she'll do something that will make her very tired. If you think that I have lots of energy, you should see her in action. You'll need a nap after playing with her for 15 minutes. Until I attended her birthday party in June this year, I didn't realize just how many kids were in this world. And yes, the birthday cake was delicious.

My family came to visit me!!!!!

I'm back. You can't blame me for missing in action. My parents claim that they were busy because of me being so active and whatnot. Lately, I've noticed that they blame me a lot for lot of things, but I'm too young to protest now.

Anyway, we had our family visit us for the first time! Here, I'm being entertained by all the important members of the family (the ladies). Navinakaki is playing peek-a-boo with me, Bhanufoiba is clapping, Tinufoiba is offering me cheerios and Krishnadidi is just different for a girl, who likes to take pictures rather than have her pictures taken. Krishnadidi is so much active and eats so little that within few months, we'll be just about the same weight.

Now, you'll understand why Cookie and I miss them so much. Krishnadidi and Hemalbhai gave Cookie so much attention and love that she was very quiet and sad for the following few days. They fed her, patted her a lot and in general, pampered her. Three days just flew by. I did not have to spend a single lonely moment. Come back soon, Krishnadidi and Hemalbhai (since none of you have your driving license, bring everybody else as well).