Eating rice

The boy’s chooru oonu (first taste of solid food, rice in this case) in the Guruvayur temple. He was in a traditional outfit (with the diaper!) He sat through the heat and the countless people surrounding him. Towards the end of the ceremony, he started getting cranky and eventually slept. This was followed by a Thulabharam (an offering to Gods where the boy sits on one side of a giant weighing scale while the other side was loaded with ghee). The boy weighed 6 kgs.

Typically this ceremony means that the boy can get started on solid foods. He preferred the payasam (Kheer) to the rice though. My parents, after all the fuss they made when I got married, surprised us by turning up. All together it went well.