Ayden has a little cousin of 2 months. A picture of Crischen below.
Crischen a few days after he was born.
Ayden shakes his head – all the time. He never says yes, always ‘NO’ 
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A picture taken 3 months ago when Ayden had his head shaved. He was very quiet and allowed the barber to do his job.
Poor Ayden, he was visibly depressed, though, once he lost all his hair – to the barber. He was down for a couple of days when he used to go to the mirror and check himself. Now that his hair has grown he is Super!!!
Bald Ayden
P.S:- His hair has grown now!!!
Ayden is growing in leaps and bounds. Not in terms of weight or height, but in terms of activities. I guess this is how babies grow.
New things:
- Says more than two words – Momma, Dada, Hi, Juice…
- Walks backwards
- Hangs on to things with just his two hands supporting his body weight
- Climbs up stairs
- Plays with building blocks
- And more…
(When will I (and Mom) sleep for 8 hours straight without any interruptions? SIGH!!!)
So a couple of pictures below of Ayden.
And a candid shot of Ayden and Mom in the background.
Thanks to The Godfather for renewing the domain name.
OMG!!! Ayden is walking…
Posted: 5th June 2011 by Mom in Celebration, Emotions, Milestones, Moments, VideoTags: milestone, walking
…yeah it was shock but I knew that he will achieve this milestone this month. When he started standing there was no stopping for him to explore more skills using his legs. He walks like a little zombie. He is still crawling a lot and walks every little now and then. Its funny but we are not training him or forcing him to do all this, its coming to him naturally. The only thing we are actually forcing him to do is to call us mama & dada. He is saying these words undiscriminating us
Li’l Ayden at almost 9 months
Posted: 24th May 2011 by Dad in Diet, Emotions, Milestones, Moments, VideoTags: standing, t shirt
As usual, a lot of changes with Ayden. Everyday is a revelation for us. And our good luck continues in the sense that Ayden is still well behaved and not troublesome. Although, I doubt for how long .
1) Standing – Ayden can stand on his completely and for indefinite periods of time. First time we saw him standing was an incredible experience by itself. And just not for us. We could see the excitement in Ayden as he was standing. He was hollering about and looking at both of us with wild and excited eyes. Brilliant stuff!!!
2) Food – He eats BROCCOLI. Yes, you read that right, broccoli. Hmmm… it helps if Dad and Mom likes broccoli also though, I suppose 
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3) Ayden is officially a toddler now. He is no longer an infant. He crawls a lot, stands a lot, walks a bit and generally very mobile. There is no stopping the DragonFly!!!
4) He has also become very perspective now. He is always looking at us or watching at us (on the sly, always on the sly). So he somehow knows when we are doing something or talking about him etc. The most interesting thing? It happens when Mom or I change into street clothes, especially if we wear a black T shirt.
Why? As soon as one of wears a T-Shirt he instinctively knows that one of us is going out of the house. And he wants to go out too! So he will immediately run towards and put his arms up indicating that we should take him too. God forbid, if we neglect to take him into our arms soon. I was expecting this to happen after a year or so and was surprised he has started this so soon.
I finish this post with Ayden wearing a Black Sabbath Tee customized for him. Yeah, he is still too small to fit in the shirt properly.
5) Update: Thanks Mommy for the reminder!
How could I forget his bunny teeth? At last Ayden has a smile with a couple of front teeth visible. Lovely!!!
Ayden @ 8 months
Posted: 30th April 2011 by Dad in Diet, Milestones, Moments, VideoTags: food, running, standing, talking, walking
There have been a heluva lot of changes with Ayden in a matter of weeks. Mom sometimes go mad with Ayden being a full time job. Ha ha… Lovely experience though!
Sitting – Ayden has perfected the art of sitting now. He can sit without falling off while looking up. Good job!
Standing – Ayden can stand properly by holding on to something, a hand, a leg, the couch, the bed, table leg, anything. And he is much more balanced without falling down too much.
Ayden standing on the couch and looking back. Not the clearest of pictures.
Walking – After introducing him to the walker a few weeks back, Ayden has learnt well. He just zooms around the house when it takes his fancy. The last couple of days he is even walking a few steps without any support or handholding. Of course, after taking a few steps he takes a tumble down and bawls out as if he is dying. No, really. He bawls out like crazy every time he takes a stumble. Poor guy. We have learnt to reduce this to a large extent now.
Running – he loves to run from Mommmy to me and back to Mommy. He can take 3-5 steps without falling. So we position ourselves at the approxmate distance for him to run 3-5 steps so he doesn’t have to fall.
Baby talk – How much he talks? Amazing stuff. And it happens mostly after midnight or in the early mornings – when mommy and daddy still want to SLEEP!!!
Food – Ayden has moved on to 3 semi solid food helpings a day – that means he gets a lot of nutrition in addition to mother’s milk. He loves mangoes, oranges, strawberries, grapes, mashed rice, potatoes, carrots, dal and sometimes we put spinach in his food and cheat him into eating that too. Ha ha ha! Oh, yeah, and he has started on egg yolk too.
P.S:- I have started calling him The Dragonfly. All because of the times he has attemted to fly (from the couch, bed and other assorted furniture) and falls down. He is Learning To Fly and hence The Dragonfly name.
A rarity, mom enjoying a moment on our Enfield Bullet bike. I pounced on the moment and took a quick low light pic. Sorry about the clarity.
Blogging on my Nokia E71 with wordpress app.
New Indi Tees made specially for Kolkata Meet
Posted: 14th February 2011 by Mom in Indiblogger, New DressIts been a long time I blogged about Ayden. I know its bad as there is so much to post but no time 
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Indiblogger is going to have its next blogger meet at kolkata. I managed to get some time and made Ayden’s new indi t shirt.
The front…
The back. I used a sparkling paint to write. Kolkata is written in bengali – কলকাতা made a little mess while writing that.
A close up.
…made out of one of these.
Oh, it has been a really long time since we posted anything about Ayden. A lot of things have changed since our last past. Ayden has grown stronger, gained more weight, is more active and laughs a lot. Whew!!! And he needs constant company and activity.
A major change for us has been that we have started Ayden on fruit juices. Until 3 days ago he was only drinking breast milk. Some days ago we noticed that he had started demanding a little bit more food than usual. So we thought it was high time we started him on a supplementary diet. So we went off to the doctor (a real cool doctor btw) and asked for his advice. And he gave us the green signal to start off with fruit juices and so we did.
You can see a small video of Ayden enjoying one of his first foods other than breast milk.