First Toddler Tantrum

...and you should be glad I *didn't* upload the video! Yep, tonight Deven tried to climb (or break, we're not sure) Daadi's dresser; we took him away, and instead of happily playing with the toy we gave him, he launched into a full-scale, 30+ minute, crying/screaming/arching-the-back bout. It would've been tougher, except all 3 of us adults agreed completely that Deven had no business climbing / breaking her dresser drawers (admittedly, cheap Ikea things we should've disposed of ages back, but I digress). We finally ended it by taking him downstairs and outside, where the gorgeous last-light rays were falling on our front stoop, and we were able to get a giggle out of him with some walking-and-swinging between Mommy & Daddy.


It's going to be a heck of a 2009, with both "Muffin" and "Cupcake" throwing fits like this!
Photo below is of Deven looking up @ Zach, the almost-3 son of friends Tom & Kaya. Yes, Zach has a cast on his arm, and for good reason, as we later found out, when he fell from a slide ~ 6 feet off the ground. Not fun for me to see - I can only imagine what was going through Kaya's head as we saw it happen from a short-distance away (Zach was shaken but fine...but no fun for mom!) Was it a precursor to what Yogesh and I will face in the next 18 months, perhaps?


Photo below is from when Yogesh's old high school friend Rana and family visited; that's his sister, then Daadi, Deven, Rana, and his daughter Sasha. Missing is his wife Kimberly & son Surya (and Yogesh & me, of course!)