A Bird's NEST at Rajan's NEST

Heard of a wheel within a wheel, but a nest within a NEST?
We had a Bulbul build a nest in one of our plants behind our house ... and the eggs are so tiny. The kids can't wait to see it hatch and little fledglings come out of it.

A Bulbul (could this be a male one?)

The nest of a red-whiskered Bulbul

Carmen holding an egg from the BULBUL's nest

The first few days - she was very scared, at the slightest sound - she would fly away ... but then she got used to us. Now she doesn't care!

Here she is!  In her cozy little nest

Got this JACKFRUIT from the seminary last week - it was wasting and rotting away and not many gave good reports about this fruit - we took a chance and it turned out to be really sweet!

Taking the edible portion out of this fruit can be nightmare - as it is sticky and messy - but Carmen did well!

The finished & cleaned product

Theo loved it - never had jackfruit which was this sweet :-)

This is what we ended up with, after an arduous cleaning session - YUMMY!!

New Academic Year

Time is going by ever so quickly.
It seems like as though it was just yesterday, that the kids were excited about their 70 days 'summer holidays' and here we are getting ready for the beginning of yet another academic year!

Had to take Theo this morning to the salon to have his hair cut

Almost in readiness - getting ready for the new academic year

Theo's School books for Std.V (5th Grade) ... He is quite excited, as he gets to learn French as his second language.  

Hindi will be his third language at school - which would mean that level would be considerably low.

Will be interesting to see how these books look like in a month's time from now.

Tryphena will be in Std.VIII.

Officially the class begins on 2nd of June, which would be half-day.

It's been 5 years today in Bengaluru

Well, time flies - so they say!
Can't believe it's been 5 years since we made a major move to Bengaluru; and a year has gone by since we moved to our 3rd home here.
The 5 years, though it seems to have gone by so quickly ... we feel as if we have been here always.
Perhaps, it's us getting the hang of this place (barring the language - and we are yet to make significant strides there).

The 'summer' is here and water scarcity in the city is at its peak.  Hoping for some rains this year.

Yesterday (30th April '13), in celebration of half a decade in the supposedly 'Garden City', we decided to visit a family friend on the other side of town and later in the evening take the kids out for "THE CROODS" (3D) movie at a Cinema closeby.  We joined with 2 other families from church for this outing and the kids had great fun.

The kids will be part of the VBS during the 3rd week in May, as the church is hosting a VBS along with an orphanage with 55 children - 'Precious Tender Feet'.
Carmen is heading this up with a few volunteers from church.
Pray for grace for her and that it would be an enjoyable time for us all :)