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.

the one on the sofa...

Hello again folks !

This time we capture a Sunday morning where Little Anya has decided to sit in front of the TV with her favourite 'nalle' . The series of pictures captures her moods as they vary depending upon the cartoon character's actions that she is following on the show. The focus and concentration soon gives way to a lot of fun and sometimes Little Anya has to hug the characters in the TV, well atleast make an honest attempt !

The antenna dossier

Recently, Little Anya's parents have been trying different combinations of antenna on her head. One must realise that this is not out of any specific needs for improvement in communication possibilities. Little Anya communicates on all channels and on different wavelengths, and does not need any line of sight to be able to make herself heard ( and even understood for that matter ! ).

As it is generally known by now, Little Anya is rather free spirited and thus requires a lot of freedom for her hair. Highly charged 'particle' that she is, her hair usually stands perpendicular to her head and if one did not know her , one might think that she has recently walked through a corona discharge. In order to rectify this, her parents like to use hair bands and clips to turn her into a creature with antennae...

The results of this effort are shortlived, Little Anya likes to remove all the hairbands and clips and restore the pristine splendour of her hair...Her parents keep trying , but the genteel look lasts for half an hour or so and not more.


Once she realises that there is an audience and she is the cynosure of attraction, she likes to give quite a captivating performance. Such an act is accompanied by a lot of sounds and clapping and climbing on whatever is available around her to climb, could be a chair or her Pappaa's back.
One of her daycare teachers has told her Pappaa that they preferred her wild look at the daycare and infact liked the fact that she did not come to the daycare well groomed and neat. This could be because they liked to have something to play with at daycare that resembled the head of a furry creature. This is just our surmise !

For avoidance of any doubts, the parents , in this case, have publicly disowned any liability for not being able to get those antennae to last a little longer than a few minutes.

Keeping still is often a challenge for Little Anya especially when she is so excited and knows that there is a gallery to play to. Her Mammaa is quite high on Little Anya's priority list and sometimes she might manage to keep her still and get all her attention. However on most of the occassion, she manages to get quite kinetic.

Her Pappaa also shares some joyful moments with her , in particular when she is on the changing table and interested in everything else but changing. She likes to cuddle her 'Bamse' or try to pull her Pappaa's ears and laugh

Little Anya's parents have for the time being decided to give her hair another trimming so that they could maintain the WHO levels of hygiene for her hair .

They are sure that times will very soon come when Little Anya's hair would be easier to manage and her hairband and clips would manage to hold on to her hair for a longer duration.