First trip to the pool

I finally learnt to swim a couple of years back and thanks to my brother for that. I am not a great swimmer coz I have no formal training but I can manage to stay afloat and also cover some distance in the pool. In times when we were young swimming was not an essential part and parents never enrolled kids for swimming classes.

Here in Australia, every Tom,dick and Harry knows how to swim. Kids are sent to the pool as early as 6 months. My little one loves her bath tub too and refuses to come out of it unless forced. Hence I decided to take her to the baby pool in the community health center. To my surprise, she yelled her lungs out for the first 5-10 minutes. To pacify her I got into the pool myself, started playing with her but in vain. She started to scream even more louder.I was so confused what should I do, let her yell or take her in my arms. And with lot of courage and hesitance, I decided to leave her on her own. Within minutes of not getting my attention she calmed down and started to look around. She began to pedal her legs and hands in the water and splashing some water on her and she looked so thrilled.After sometime I just took her out of the pool and embraced her. Hope she enjoys her second trip again today.

I was happy that she did calm down at the end and was happy splashing water with her tiny limbs. And as a parent I learnt to be strong and be able to make that switch between pampering and pretending to ignore.

Colours

I started bloggin just a couple of days back and I was quite disppointed the way my blog looked....plain and simple coz I was using the basic template. I have always loved to customize things that I use so that I get a personalised feel about them. Not too jazzy, not too plain, not too loud, not too boring. I love the perfect blend of colours and that is exactly how I am as a person also. Sometimes when I sit back and think how can I describe myself....it is extremely hard for me to categorise myself.
Anyways now my blog looks all nice and lively.

Weekend Outing

It was our special day this Friday and followed by the weekend....this is perfect setting for a weekend outing. We decided to take a break and we went to Philip Island which is a 2 hours drive from Melbourne.
PI is world famous for its penguin parade at dusk. The world's smallest species of penguins march back to their burrows on shore after sunset. It is such a cute sight to watch them walk slowly to their homes to feed their hungry kids. I have seen the parade twice before and this time it seemed a bit boring but yeah for visitors who see it for the first time it is exciting.
We went to another beautiful natural attraction called Nobbies. It was a brilliantly placed boardwalk on a cliff overlooking the treachorous Bass Strait. The walk is for about 2 kms and has some spectacular scenes to offer....I was blown away by the beauty of the place....it was just mind blowing.
Another highlight was a place called 'AmazeNthings'. This is an innovative idea and it was soo much fun. The place has puzzles, maze and optical illusion rooms....rooms where u think are shrinking, swaying, things that defy gravity. It was super fun and everything about the place was innovative.
On the whole it was a fun filled trip.

Happy Mum's day!!!!

This post is delayed but I was busy celebrating the day with my Mom, so thought this post can wait.
My mom is with me this year on this special day and I wanted it to be special. The reason being I really dont know when next can Mom and me be together and celebrate this day. Though Mum was incomplete this year as I my brother was not around and she missed him a lot.
I baked a Butter Raisin cake for her and it was baked to perfection...she loved it and moreover I was soo thrilled coz it was my first shot at baking. The cake vanished even before we could realise......
And it was my first Mum's day too....though my doll is too small to realise a thing...it just felt sooo good.
So this post is wishing all Mums a very happy Mum's day!!!!!!

Hi !!!!

Finally the day has come when I have made up my mind to start blogging.I have been considering this option for over a year now and trust me I have no idea what took me so long to decide.Blogging is a fad these days and this is not the reason I decided to start as well but it just a way or medium to express my thoughts and feelings.
I have always had things that I would have loved to do but due reasons I have not being able to do them. Now I think that I should try and shorten this list as much as possible coz I dont want to regret not doing something I always wished for. And blogging is definitely one of them.

This is my first blog and I would like to dedicate this to Nish coz he is the one who kept pesturing to start this.
This is for u Nish.......