Baby Suri

Sandy, Ken and Lily gave Vivian this lovely brown-skinned rasta-haired doll named Suri for her first birthday, among many other things. She languished at the bottom of the toy box - occasionally surfacing and then disappearing back into the depths like a blue whale.

But a few days back all that changed. Now she is Vivian's "baby". Vivian carries her around and snuggles up with her when she goes to bed and hugs her when she wakes up. She pokes her belly-button, checks on her diaper, and shoves food into her smiling mouth.

Over a year ago, Vivian showed interest in one other stuffed toy - Ganesh, given by Jagruti and Morris. And now this. Maybe that's how she's going to express her Indian roots....