After deliberating for many months we finally cut Akshra's hair yesterday morning. It was a heart-breaking experience. As we used my hair-cutter to slowly cut lock after lock -- it was so depressing to start to see her skin appear. Baldness in kids is almost always associated with bad things and we couldn't help thinkin about it. Akshra seemed to be fine except when she wasn't! Eventually she got scared from the whirring noise and would not allow us to continue any more. We tried very hard even when she cried but eventually we gave up. So what we were left with was somewhat of a hack job with tufts of here here and there.

Kind of sad but she still looks pretty and it was nice to see her plate finally. Also, I think some of her dandruff is going to get better attention now.

The only problem is that now we will need to give her another close cut.

I am putting Akshra to bed these days. In fact she insists that it be me :-)

However, that is not all fun. She takes forever to go to bed and sometimes I fall a sleep while telling her stories and then she wakes me up and makes me tell her stories all over again. Fun fun!

Akshra is becoming naughtier by the day but is also more and more adorable by the day. It is just so much fun to see her to what she does and specially to hear what she says. I've been putting her to bed the last couple of days and I try to tell her stories and she actually makes them up on her own as well as she goes along. Sometimes when she is not too sleepy -- we would go through 2 or 3 stories and then she would ask - Papa, ab kya sunaoge? (Papa, what story will you tell me now)? The tone and her voice is so lovely. I just fall in love with her all over again. She is so special.