Jan 18
Akshara wishes everyone a happy mattu pongal!
Nov 10
Something other than a body-suit for a change! Akshara was dressed up in a traditional pavadai chattai (frock and top for non-tamilians!) for the thottil ceremony. I guess that this must have been the change-over dress before/after the actual ceremony. I stand corrected. This was the dress Akshara wore when she was first taken from Vidhya’s house to my house. This pattu pavadai was gifted to Akshara by Vidhya’s Athai, who had stitched it herself. But the “Ah! girls” holds good, as it seems that lot of preparation went into this exercise along with a photo session…
Update: It’s been 2 months since Akshara got her pattu pavadai. Now it was laya’s (Akshara’s cousin!) turn for a pattu pavadai. Akshara got a chance to try it out too.
More photos of Akshara in traditional attire (during Navratri) here.
Nov 10
An occasion is all that is needed to dress-up Akshara and make her pose for a photograph. I am sure that something special would have been prepared and consumed by all in the pretext of Akshara’s second month birthday!
Nov 05
Akshara went through the thottil ceremony, not once but twice, one at Vidhya’s house and one at mine. Vidhya told me that Akshara had calmly gone through the make-up and “dress rehearsal” inflicted upon her. Below are some of the photos from the 2 ceremonies. I can’t wait to go to India, at least to take good photos of Akshara 
It is difficult to photograph Akshara without a flash, as she always seems to be in her stretching routines!
She really looks concerned in the photo above, with the amount of jewelry adorning her. She always seems to be more relaxed in someone’s arms, as is seen in the photos below with my dad and my brother.
Sep 26
already since Akshara was born. So, we decided to have a small inhouse function on that occasion and as every other function in the name of Akshara, we celebrated in her name and then all of us other then Akshara gorged on food!
The bigger baby (Sadhana) wanted to hold the smaller baby (Akshara) and take a photo. So, it was duly arranged!
Finally, we also managed a picture of Akshara with Vidhya’s mom in which she looks into the camera.
Yet another, “why do you compress me, if you want to take my photo” expression…
