Will you send me an angel...

Hello All, Little Anya and her parents wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy new year from a -25 cold Västerås.

Anya and the lens

The day began on a special note for her Pappa..Little Anya , dressed in pyjamas, her favourite fleece in one hand and 'Patrick' ( her dog !) in the other, came and placed a kiss on Pappa's cheek while he was still trying hard to dislodge himself from the bed, he got a hug and was wished happy birthday and got a specially made card..this was the first time Little Anya remembered someone's birthday and her Pappa got a special card, which will be a memory for the lifetime.

The day was actually the photograph day at her day care. Her Mamma took out the dress which was so meticulously approved by Little Anya a day in advance..The sun was shining and so was Little Anya

Her trigger happy Mamma decided to let her lens loose on Little Anya even before she went to the real photoshoot...

She took many pictures before she was unceremoniously reminded by Pappa about her work and the day full of meetings ! Little Anya was soon wrapped up in the autumn clothing and accompanied , her Pinga the penguin to the daycare.. Pinga ofcourse got thoroughly wrapped in the fleece to endure the autumn chill..

She was ushered in by Eva at the daycare, and soon rushed into the photoroom after her anxious Pappa ran the comb through her hair for the final time . Little Anya disappeared into the 'solkatten' area and the excitement was palpable.. manifested by the decibel level . The thought that Little Anya would rather add to the level than do otherwise brought a smile to his Pappa's face and he rushed to work admiring the skill and patience of the daycaremisses for managing half a platoon of young ones, who were full of breakfast, energised by the bright morning sun and excited about the photoshoot..Pappa will never be able to narrate the complete story since he did not stay to distract the 'law and order' that had to be maintained at the day care..

The results were astounding, Little Anya's parents have probably captured Gigs of pictures of her over all these years, many quite worth the money , but the one they took at the daycare was indeed special..Little Anya looked like a big girl in this one afterall !

Anyasaurus Rex

Experts are still not able to decide if this animal is more like the T -rex or forms a part of the velociraptor genre since it can kill in different ways!

...in cany case, is quite dangerous, fully equipped with the psychological warfare chip and armed to the teeth.

...any time is play-time for her and there could be days when she hates to fall asleep, while a nice shower would have a soothing and quietening effect on some, Little Anya interprets a shower as a preparation for getting dirty all over again and that too rather quick !

Usually, it is quite a challenge to hold her attention after shower and comb her hair properly..Being an animal, naturally the wild look appears to be preferable !

However, having said all this , we would also like to share the other extreme too, where once in a while, Little Anya could dress up for her parents..

Bubble the blue sky !

Hello folks ! Little Anya is back with her antics during the summer holidays.. Did we tell you that soap bubbles has become more of a religion for her when it is late in the evenings and it is still light and she would not like to sleep !?

Yes, this dog or the 'bubbooo' as she calls him is one of her soap bubble mates.

Her soap bubble blowing arsenal has grown since last summer and now she has some battery driven devices .as well..

such is the strength of these devices that they can soon fill up the balcony with bubbles and rain bubbles on the street !

Little Anya often likes to carpet bomb the street with her bubbles, while her parents join her in the fun. They usually watch how far their bubbles go, but Little Anya is busy showering bubbles on some of her friends on the street!

Some of her friends like to come up to the balcony and join the fun, nothing to worry, there is enough soap and there is enough equipment for an entire platoon ! While Little Anya and her friends continue their bubble making adventure, rest of them who are on the street try to catch the bubbles and have fun...it is quite a show, a dull late evening is all of a sudden transformed into a high energy event for all....ofcourse Little Anya is again light years away from falling asleep...but what is life without a challenge one may ask !?

Merry Christmas and a happy new year

Hello folks ! Little Anya is presently holidaying in India with her parents. They join her in wishing you a merry Christmas and a very happy new year..We hope to be back in the new year with some more Anya adventures.

The snow patrol

Hello folks! we are meeting after a rather long hiatus. Little Anya has been upto a lot of mischief all this while thus making it rather hard for her parents to indulge in frivolities such as a proper rest or some quality time with books etc. Anyway, we take you back to the winters of 2009 when the terrain was white and Little Anya was bright, ( well rhyming is not exactly our forte , but what the heck ! )

It was the times when the sun lit the ice crystals turning the terrain into an art gallery. It used to be a lot of fun walking around with Little Anya. Although, one must admit that temperatures below -10 deg C were not exactly considered very cozy by Little Anya.

She would however not mind sitting in her 'armoured vehicle' or on a vehicle of a different sort ( as we will discover later in this post).

A typical winter holiday would always begin with Little Anya playing indoors and letting her parents perish all the thoughts of having a longish sleep in.

Mamma would discuss some new ideas about cooking and would get some sound advice on what should be chosen, being over 90% pure sound ofcourse, although now things are different ofcourse. It is 100% sound and 200% advice.

Winter walks with Little Anya were a lot of fun, one of the favourite spots was the 'third bridge' where she would walk around and sometimes just simply roll over in snow. The prospect of someone having walked the dog in that region used to take her Pappa's breath away, but then he soon learnt to stop breathing anyway as you would see later.

She had just learnt the concept of having fun with snow . With some effort she could even agree to putting her glows on. Then it was ofcourse easy to pick up ice and try to eat it even !

Little Anya is quite fond of swings. Irrespective of the temperature and the terrain, she has liked to swing away to glory

It used to be quite a spectacle to behold, to see Little Anya all padded up in her winter overalls, trying to fit into the swing

The white terrain in Ludvika or the icy plains of Västerås, Little Anya would like it very much to be out and hunt the snow tractors.

The sport became her favourite once she discovered a steady steed. Pappa got some exercise for free. To carry Little Anya on one's back could do wonders to your appetite. So much so that one might end up adding more calories than one could get rid of :(

There ofcourse were some occasions when Little Anya would be on her own in ( rather than on ) snow.

Chasing the ducks close to the third bridge was a close second to the game of 'hunting tractors' .

Feeding the birds in the snow was fun until they all flocked around her creating a lot of ruckus.

It is difficult to explain Little Anya's joy when she would get a chance to 'enfilade' a snow tractor and to be able to do so, she would ofcourse make her steed move through all the impossible terrain.

Overall, it worked well, so well that Little Anya learnt to rest in that position and even was caught napping a couple of times after a tiring hunting day.

She was happy to find her daycare favourite Lovisa and building a snowman was their favourite team sport.

Although as it appears, it is more building than destroying . In reality however, one could never be sure.

Usually goodbyes were always difficult but sometimes it could work rather well with none of them getting angry !

It used to be quite a relief for her to get in to her homewear so as to prepare for the usual mischief indoors.

After a good lunch, it would be time to watch some interesting stuff on the TV before

getting totally distracted by the snow tractors removing snow from the streets. Such an occassion is ofcourse never to be missed, while the tractor did its rounds, Little Anya was glued to the window describing in her own language what the tractor was upto.

That much of a happening in morning would soon call for a much deserved rest. The only thing was that the comfort of her bed and the warmth of her quilt would be so enticing that it would be then quite an exercise to get her up and running again.

Finally, we leave you with some vintage Anya pictures with her mamma at a birthday party.