Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! We hope everyone is having a great holiday season. Please enjoy a couple of recent wintery/christmasy shots of the kids...

Alex saw snow, or "no" as he called it, for the first time in his life about 2 weeks ago when we were surprised with snowfall. He enjoyed playing with the snow in his hands until he realized how cold it is...

For several days after it melted, Alex would go back to the few places in the yard it actually accumulated looking for it again... "more no? more no?"

Sometimes ignored, but certainly never forgotten, Lua is doing great and is a great big sister to Alex. She endures tail-pullings and one-sided wrestling matches with Alex on a daily basis, and takes it all in stride. Here she is helping us decorate the Christmas tree:

Happy Holidays everyone!

-The Bhatias

VIDEO!

Lookout. This blog just went Version 2.0 all over you, and you weren't even prepared for it. We are unleashing upon you, loyal reader, the fruits of discovering that blogger.com supports video uploading, so you can sit back and be entertained with videos of Alex unknowingly getting filmed doing things he will later wish he hadn't done (or at least i hadn't filmed).

As a test, i've uploaded a short video from the other day where he ran around chasing Lua for nearly an hour screaming "PUPPY! PUPPY!" and laughing hysterically. it was pretty funny, especially considering the fact that he demanded to wear 3 bibs throughout the whole thing. SOMEONE didn't get the video camera out in time to get a good highlight of it, but you should get the idea from this...

Stay tuned for more...

-The Bhatias

Long-awaited update...

Greetings all... its been months since i've posted anything so here's an update on Alex aside from what you see in the pictures.


Talking: Alex's vocabulary is growing almost every day now. New words he's saying now are "fast", "truck" (which covers all vehicles, motorized or otherwise), "all done!", and his favorite "outside!". Also, he used to say "uh oh!" all the time, usually for no reason, so i would respond to him, "uh oh what?"....that has led to him abandoning "uh oh" in favor of just "uh oh whaaa". Alex is also very into animal noises, and can tell you what a cat, monkey, elephant, cow, and (of course) a tiger says. Tigers have been an integral part of his childhood thus far, just as i planned... Here he is trying on his halloween costume (and getting ready for game day):



He's also developed a keen understanding of the game of football. The above picture was taken right after Florida scored against LSU, and Alex (correctly) thought there was offensive pass interference, which wasn't called.

Aside from the vocabulary, Alex is growing up in a lot of ways. He's eating with utensils now, admittedly though with varying levels of success...

As for the non-Alex members of the household, we are all doing well, just trying to keep up with the little guy. All of us except for Lua, who generally avoids him as one of Alex's current favorite activities is to terrorize her by pulling on her tail and ears...

Hope all 6 of you who read this are doing well!

-The Bhatias

Alex's New Game

Greetings everybody... just thought i would share a picture of Alex playing his new favorite game, "Save your money quick before Obama takes it to bail out a retired union worker!"


Much like real life savings accounts, and much to Alex's dismay, the piggy bank pays no interest.

Summertime!

Greetings all... Summer is here and the pool is open! We've taken Alex swimming a few times already and, not surprisingly, he loves it...

No lessons yet, but he's very comfortable in the pool...alex loves splashing around and putting his face in the water. We'll be spending lots of time there this summer...

Hope all is well!

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the bhatias

Check out patrick getting served

i just like this picture. here's patrick getting dethroned as dancing queen at my brothers wedding a few weeks ago. new dancing champion is Devin Bhatia.

Thought you'd reached the end of the internet? THINK AGAIN

As I have a little time on my hands in between finishing the spring semester and starting my internship, i have decided to start a Bhatia Family blog.

So, i guess to start, i should introduce everyone:

Me: Randy, Husband, Father, Head Blogger
Lindsay: Wife, Mother, Chef, Sugarmama
Alex: 1 year old quarter-Indian redhead, likely chief subject of this blog
Lua: our first baby, Labrador retriever, mildly retarded

here's a recent pic:

Alex has recently earned the nickname "johnnie walker red" as he is walking all over the place. in addition, I'm happy to report that he has a vocabulary consisting entirely of one word, and that is "daddy". whether or not he knows what he's actually saying is a small and insignificant detail not worthy of discussion.

That's it for now... just wanted to get the blog started. I'll try to post somewhat regularly with some significant / hilarious / completely irrelevant content as I see fit..