Friday, December 26, 2008

Little Anya and the lure of the 7ths...

Just to recapitulate, Pappaa has been playing the guitar to her ever since she has been inside her Mammaa. Ofcourse during those days it was not clear to him if her increased activity were really jumps of joy or a reflex for an escape! Over a period of time it did get reassuring for him that she liked the sound of the guitar. Infact, once, she did manage to go to sleep with the guitar in the background when she was a few months old.

Now however, Little Anya regularly requires her Pappaa to play the guitar for her. Usually, the hint comes in the form of a constant repetition of the word 'gitar' . It could be her usual nursery rhymes, her favourite one has been the Swedish version of 'Baa baa black sheep'.
Her 'anthem song' keeps changing all the time, one day her Pappa was telling her Mammaa about the beauty of the 7ths on the guitar.How they sounded so good and how the musicians liked them so much and so on.
Ever since then Little Anya's anthem song is just an arpeggio version of the C7 chord. She likes it so much that once her Pappa starts playing it, she starts jumping. Needless to say, her jumping frenzy is solely born by the master bed. While, her parents are assured of its IKEA quality, they are still a bit concerned about the regular shellacking it gets at her hands.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Dear baby Jesus, how tiny thou art.I'll make a place, for thee in my heart...

Gdday folks! Little Anya wishes you a Merry Christmas ! Santa has been visiting Little Anya several times already and in many diverse forms ! The latest gift she got was the moving elephant small enough for her to play with !
Little Anya also wishes you all a very happy new year and hopes and prays that the coming times bring peace and joy to one and all.. she earnestly appeals everyone to disregard all the differences and share the Lord's peace.
and finally, 'Blessed are the ones who sit on a pin, for they are sure to rise!' Amen !


The Star Carol

Long years ago,on a deep winter night. High in the heavens,a star shone bright.

While in the manger,a wee baby lay.Sweetly asleep,on a bed of hay.

Jesus our lord,was that baby so small.Lay down to sleep,in a humble stall.

Then came the star,and it stood over head.Shedding its light,'round his little head.

Dear baby Jesus,how tiny thou art.I'll make a place,for thee in my heart.And when the stars,in the heavens I see.Ever and always,I'd think of thee...

Monday, November 24, 2008

Little Anya at the daycare

Hello folks ! despite our regular meetings, little is known about Little Anya's life at daycare. Well she has very recently been photographed by a professional photographer and these photos are for the records and the parents get to order some copies ofcourse.
We also have a class photo for her department, which is called 'Regndroppen' ie 'the rain drop'. However at this stage we are unable to present that picture here in this forum due to certain non-disclosure agreements that her parents have signed with the daycare. Her Pappa is trying to get an agreement with them so as to photograph Little Anya in that environment himself. Let us see if we get to hear more from her Pappaa's coverage then.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Down the memory lane...

Hello folks ! this time Little Anya's Mammaa and Pappaa have decided to take you down the memory lane. This story belongs to those glorious summer days when Pappaa was home with Little Anya. The evening promenades with her were usually tiring for him then, but he remembers them as fond memories now.
It could all begin suddenly when Little Anya would get bored and would make it known in no uncertain terms that she would like to be escorted out on a promenade. The indications used to be in the form of incessant finger pointing towards the shoes and the outerwear.
Little Anya was relatively new in the business of walking and running around during those days. However she was exceptionally stable with her feet. That ofcourse meant a lot more investigation of the surroundings during the walks. The roadside puddles were of great interest for Little Anya.

While Pappaa used to anticipate her next moves and try to talk her out of bathing into that puddle, Little Anya always used to have very convincing arguments for having it her way !

The stickler for cleanliness Little Anya is, nothing less than a thorough wash of her hands in the puddle would satisfy her. Pappaa used to thank God for small mercies when she used to get up and focus on the next task.

The next stop was hardly a stone's throw away but it could take quite some before Little Anya would conclude her sample gathering enroute.


The sandpit had quite a touristic attraction to it. Little Anya always revelled in being one with the sand. Digging and 'baking cookies' with the sand forms.

Pappaa could reply to all calls during that time and even call up work to check on status of affairs. Usually, he and his phone used to go unnoticed for about half an hour, but no more !

Little Anya had newly acquired her yellow water bottle which quickly became a part of her entourage. On certain occassions Little Anya and her bottle used to be quite inseparable. This meant that sometimes Little Anya could have a drinking session right in the middle of a street. The 'villagers' passing by ofcourse used to be amused and Little Anya got plenty of smiles and swoons.


There used to be occassions when Mamma used to not only dress her up for the occassion but also accompany Little Anya on the evening excursions along with her Pappaa, this always made Little Anya very happy.

The common destinations were the playgrounds, swings and slides in the vicinity. It were the bigger and higher swings that caught her fancy. Considering how ineffective use of any language in such situations was, one had to give very convinving arguments to make her consider the swings fit for her age !

Any kind of sand or gravel was welcome . It made the whole concept of getting dirty by the end of the day so fun and easy.
It was quite a delight for her parents to watch her play with sand and sing. The sand often silently found its way into Little Anya's mouth. The quantity of sand devoured by Little Anya over all these months is not a publicly known figure and is definitely anybody's guess.
On one such occassion, Little Anya demonstrates to her Mammaa the sport of horseback riding that she has begun to cherish..This horse generally makes himself available for Little Anya without much pursuasion.
One does not need any imagination at all to appreciate how interesting the whole experience becomes when one could actually even converse with the horse after all the riding .

A satisfied and happy Little Anya was extra patient with her Pappa and could give him some nice poses that form some of the fondest of his memories..

It is winters now , the days are short and the evening walks are conspicuous by their absence in the minus degrees and ice. With Little Anya getting more active and naughty by every passing day, Pappaa often longs for summers when he could have much more fun outdoors with Little Anya.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Without any quantum whatsoever of solace...

Little Anya has become quite a handful these days, the title of this blog could not be more appropriate during certain times when Little Anya is at her mischievous best. Her parents have tried hard to keep her occupied with conventional toys and it helps some times, but not always. She, for example , has so many vehicles, heavy and not so heavy that she could have a hard time deciding whether she should step into the construction industry or get into renting out of cars.
Little Anya likes to find her own things to do, her own sports and her own set of activities, which include her conventional toys at times and very often not ! She could easily lay her hands upon her Mom's woollen glows and masquarade as the angel of death for the benefit of the visitors.
One of her weapons of choice is the big thick cleaning paper napkin roll. She could wield that to quite a deadly effect. The victim usually is her father , he gets hit pretty bad while trying to clean her up on the dressing table.
One of her favourite adventure sport has always been walking into others' shoes. Especially the ones that are half her weight and are quite unwieldy in size. However, to her credit, she has succeeded very well in most of these endeavours over past couple of months.
Recently, she has got well used to wearing her gum boots and now she likes them so much that she uses them indoors all the time. Her parents have to keep them extra clean..
One of her favourite festive games is ofcourse disrupting all possible packing activity. Usually she has a ball of a time when her parents are trying to pack the bags for a vacation or worse even business trips. She usually also likes to plunge into the scene while her Mom is busy changing the bedsheets. The activity is so sudden and Little Anya turns so much into a small tiger cub that no known footage exists in the media world of such an event. Sometimes conventional playthings could be used but in rather unconventional ways. She has a wooden riding horse and she likes to mount it now and then
Once she mounts it, usually that results in her riding it ...
...but she is extremely good at letting her parents know about the other unconventional and dangerous possbilities !..during all such events the pure bliss on her face does not have to be seen to be believed.
Another object of her affection is her chair, these days she makes use of it for mostly all other purposes of merriment than for sitting quietly.

The chair could ofcourse cease to be that interesting provided Little Anya has other sources of entertainment. Usually, the Lego kit is a good friend. It could be anything for that matter, a skull cap, a puzzle or anything
While she is outdoors with her parents, Little Anya's curiosity usually gets the better of her. She likes to roam around unfettered , smile and laugh at things, touch them, taste them and what not..
Her Mom ( or Mammmaa , as Little Anya usually addresses her ) is usually very good at being two steps behind her.
Usually, everything is quite under control when Little Anya is on her feet but at times she transcends all the previously known levels of naughtiness and then she has to be hoisted a bit..Usually her father ( or Papppaaa ) does it but when he is upto his usual paparazzi bit, the 13 kg bag of responsibility falls on Mammmaa's shoulders.Let us make our readers acquainted with the putting-Little -Anya-to-sleep routine. This begins with Little Anya watching some cartoons and/or ABBA on dvds. Usually she sits unnervingly still with total silence , fixed gaze and a flicker of a smile on her face, sometimes exclaims with a squeel of excitement. At times when the excitement becomes unbearable, she stands on one of her toys , biting on to her fleece blanket and waving her hands.
This is then followed by a short story and a total black out , her Pappa tells us everyday how the whole world is asleep and that she absolutely needs to sleep , for her sake and for the greater good of the universe. Finally the baton is passed over to her Mamma , who feeds her with välling and our Little Anya usually sleeps easy.
As a special feature, we have a footage of the times of black out in the apartment. Little Anya is seen by the window in the living room which actually witnesses a lot of effulgent light from the street lamps, from several directions. This provides Little Anya with her own shadows on the living room walls to chase. It is one unforgettable light and sound show..Usually any kind of coverage on such occassions is prohibited since that takes Little Anya another 100 miles from sleep. One day however, her Papppaaa decided to brave against all the odds and take a few pictures. Not only did he catch Little Anya's shadow but also her Mammaa's !
While we are on the subject, let us also talk about a very few very difficult nights when Little Anya did not want to have anything to do with sleep due to a lot of excitement in the evening. On such occassions, her parents use the ultimate weapon in the sleep inducing warfare. A ride on the E18 highway at night. The results of such an extreme measure are rather drastic. One could see Little Anya fast asleep at the end of such a mission. One such photo taken with her in the car chair, has been recently released.

Finally, we are leaving our readers with one of the recent video clippings. Very recently, a revolutionary discovery helped Little Anya's parents in making it very easy for them to wash her hands by getting her closer to the level of the sink - 'the kitchen chair' ! Little did they realise that all good things in life come with a price tag. This one came quite expensive too. Once Little Anya has her face and hands washed, she likes to play with water for almost half an hour , is very happy, laughs and smiles and with great difficulty does she eventually give that up. the video is quite illustrative.