Kalyan Mohan Shaffer made his appearance at 12.42 am on the 28th of January, 2013. MY parents, and grandparents, belonged to the same century as I did…but my grandchildren truly belong to a new Millenium!

How much will I have in common with them? And how much of a fossil will I turn out to be? I wonder…

I call him Peanut (that’s what he looked like in the very first Ultra-sound Scan)…but here he looks more of a coconut!

Here he is, with ...

“What are these?” he seems to ask of his fingers…

and I tell him,these, and that blue thing, are your choice of all-day suckers!

Here’s the DnAnK2 family…

and another one (no one can accuse me of minginess with photos…I was only waiting for LJ to open up for me, as it does once in a while!)

A profile pic of the New Kid on the Block:

I’m jet-lagged, sleepless, and tired…but SO happy!