First Month

Its a month now since my birth. Amma and nana have decided to celebrate my every month birthday. So here's the first month one. They bought me a cake (though I can't eat one) and had some friends come over. Also, right after my 1st month was completed, amma and nana have to take me to the temple. I was all bundled up in my car seat for the winter. As a bonus, after we visited the temple...amma took me to shopping as well :-)

Naming and Cradle Ceremony

Now I am around a week old. Though everyone started calling me by name 'Skanda Gopal' from day 1, amma and nana wanted to have a religious function to name me and put me in the cradle (swing) for the first time. Again all our friends came to share the joy. You can see in the video how my dad writes my name on the plate of rice, whispers my name in my ears and also gives a little bit of honey in my mouth (ssshhh....don't tell my pediatrician and my atha (aunt) about honey...doctors don't like it here). Also, I got lots of gifts from my grand parents, aunts, friends. And finally they put me in the cradle and I slept so well because of the rocking motion.