Namakaranam

Today we performed the Punyavachanam and Namakaranam ceremony for my second daughter. She was born on the 27th April 2006 at 5.25 AM at Louisville, KY. She weighed 6 pounds 5 ounces and was 19.5 inches tall. She had quite a bit of hair on her head. She came out through a C-section.

She is officially known as Vedika and has several given names, Lakshmi, Lalitha Parameswari, Akhilandeswari, Sai Lakshmi and VedaVarshini. Her Star is Ashwini.

The whole event went off smoothly starting from me picking up the priest from the temple and then performing the rites at home to my dropping him back at the temple and off to work.

Vaibhavi my elder one, skipped pre-school to participate in this joyous occasion. Vedika was a picture of happiness and she kept looking around wide eyed at what the priest and her father were performing.

Since I started this blog recently after Vedika's birth, let me also introduce you to my elder daughter whose official name is Vaibhavi and given name is Shyamala, Vandana. She was born on 8th August 2001 at 8.57 PM She weighed 6 pounds 9ounces and was about 19 inches long. She came out through normal delivery.

Vaibhavi is now 4 years and 9 months old, she goes to preschool and is a chatterbox. We have her maternal grandparents here whom she refers to Bombey Thatha and Jai Patti. She all the time busy with her Thatha converting plastic bottles and cans into beautiful gods or any shape and form she desires.

She has also taken to Tennis like fish taking to water and has been making impressive progress, imagine she is hitting excellent baseline shots across the net. She is a sprightly bubbly girl full of energy and smile always according to her school teachers and friends.

I will continue about this later.....