Hello my sweet munchkin,
First and foremost, I would like to thank Daadi, who had been giving me reminders time and again to capture the beautiful moments throughought this whole second innnings starting from knowing Amma being pregnant and culminating in your birth and thereafter. I hadn't given much thought to it owing to fact that all the work I did for Akka didn't matter much as she didn't show interest in reading posts about her.
You may ask then Nanna, what changed now? Well, I have gotten into this habit of telling Akka something about myself from the past before putting her to bed. I have shared so many stories of myself from whatever memory I could gather that I didn't have anything new to tell. That's when it struck me, I have this blog full of old memories and there are series of posts about your akka when she was in Amma's tummy and thereafter. Perusing those, we realized some of the things that you are having, Akka had it too. For instance, she also bit of pores on her face and other parts of her body, like you. At two months time, the photos we have show uncanny resemblance to you at the same age i.e. of 2 months and so on. It really rekindled lot of beautiful nostalgic memories. So that's when I thought it's best to do one for yourself as well.
Rather than diving right to the present, let's rewind the clock a bit. I will annoint the series number for the posts so that I don't have to put EVERYTHING in one single post.
Prelude..
As you might have gathered by now, we have two friends who are very close to our family and can well be said, they are extension of our family i.e. Ranjit Mamma and Pradeep Mamma. Maya Akka's has spent best part of her growing years spending time with them almost every week. Each of them have two kids and Akka had huge longing to have one sibling just like them. Though Akka exibhits tough exterior, she is very fragile at heart and has so much hidden feelings and thoughts. Time and again, she used to bemoan the fact that she is all alone and doesn't have anyone to play with. Amma and I needed some time to settle down into our lives here in Sydney but we too wanted another child and put in our best effforts.
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