Subabe Version 2.0

S thinks subabe Ver 2.0 is getting the Windows Vista reception. It is 5 months into hatching season and there is nary a blog in site. We haven’t shopped or even stopped to have long conversations about her (wishful thinking there). But then, we haven’t had the time to dwell on these things, like we did the last time. Out of town travel and work does have a way of crimping your lifestyle... as does a three-year old (almost).

S and I were up later on Thursday talking about this, that and the other, when Subabe stirred. This is a night baby, S said. It was said as a matter of fact, requiring no comment. I thought about it. By this time the last time around, Shubhada was wearing maternity wear and we had belly pictures to boot. We fussed and fretted about how we looked, what we wore and what we ate. The tummy was contemplated at length. This summer however the feature is blah! Clearly the impending peril of dissertation and defense, not to mention annual reviews and an imminent move to far shores of the Delaware, have re-ordered how we have react.

So it was very consciously that we decided to snap some pictures and put our fingertips to keyboard this weekend. Let’s get into this thing in earnest...

Taking pictures with a toddler in tow is a challenge in itself. Chami resisted standing steady for a photo and ran off after all manner of fauna in the arboretum. There were incessant questions about why the bunnies would not wait for him, why the ants were carrying the bugs into their anthills, why the doors to the buildings wouldn’t open, why we couldn’t go into the barn, why the fountains weren’t squirting water or why he shouldn’t take of his shoes to have a splash in them anyway.

In the end it was less about Subabe and just about keeping it all together till lunch time. Still, it was a fun amble around the gardens on a long weekend morning.