W is for walking. April has been a great month for us. It’s the month when my daughter decided that crawling along albeit in her different way is not enough. And she decided to take her first step.  What struck me the most was the persistence. She kept trying and trying until she got the…

V is for vaavva or vocabulary of a sub-year baby. Vaaavva. That’s one of the first vowel consonant combinations that my baby tried. It’s definitely amusing to watch her try different sounds. Mmma, Brrua. From such simple trials are born vast vocabularies of languages. I remember meeting a mother in a store speaking broken, incorrect…

U is for ugly dolls If you thought that I am making this up, you have to check this out. Though why anyone would pay good money to look at atrocious amoebic shapes is beyond me. Then I remembered the ingenious Pet Rock. So long as there are people who can be convinced into buying…

T is for Tatino Or Daddy in Slovak. My daughter, like most daughters is daddy’s girl. She has him wrapped around her cute little pinkie. He’s been quite the Superman, taking on the his responsibility, at times more than his share. Anything I say is inadequate. This is probably a gross grammatically convoluted statement but…