16 Months

Still loves Mickey, but has a new found love for a teddy bear

Had a bad cold/cough thing going- bronchitis

Loves his pizza. Eats it for breakfast whenever we have leftovers

Loves to facetime

Does“kachiya ni topali ma meow meow”

Knows it’s time to go out when you have your shoes and jacket on

Loves dinner rolls right now

Tried a yogurt smoothie for the first time and didn’t gag

Went to see Santa. He cried. A lot.

Had his first lolly pop and some candy that Anand had when he was a kid

Loves chocolate and brownies

Very fussy at daycare

Moved on to #4 diapers (well he really should have like a month ago)

Got his first real haircut

Jumps on "1..2..3!"

He's very loving

Understands we are leaving daycare after we drop him. he cries.

He recognizes certain commercials on TV. When they are on, he runs over to watch them. most of them consist of music.

Christmas 2012

We celebrated our 2^nd annual Christmas party at Kavita’s house this year. It was weird because Christmas fell on a Tuesday this year. So most of us had to work on Monday, day off on Tuesday, and work again on Wednesday.  Veer had a blast opening all his gifts. He loves his plastic car mom & dad (#2) got him. He rode it all day long with Mickey and occasionally would let Raka get in it. Poor Raka.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Holidays!

Crafty Crafty: Hot coca in a Mason Jar

This idea has been all over Pinterest for a couple of years now and I finally tired my hand at it. Kavita did it last year (or was it the year before?) for her co -workers and I had pinterest-project-envy (it’s a real thing. Look it up!) at the time. I was mad I couldn’t do a project like that. Well at last I can. I made these for Veer’s teachers at school. I am not a big fan of hot cocoa but I know some people are. I like to drink water or wine or vodka. Everything else is just extra calories. Hopefully the teachers are fans of hot cocoa.

Here is the recipe I used for the hot cocoa (yeild 5 jars):

4.5 cups of non fat dry milk powder

 

2 ¼ cups of unsweetened cocoa powder

 

1 1/8 cups of sugar (i used granulated)

 

Chocolate chips

 

Candy cane

 

Marshmallows

 

 

Combine the milk powder, cocoa, and sugar. Layer the mixture at the bottom of your jar. Then layer with candy cane first, then chocolate chips and top off with marshmallows

I decorated the lid of the mason jar with wrapping paper. I didn’t like the look of just the metal lid, so traced the lid on Christmas wrapping paper and used that instead. Made a tag with instructions on one side and a small tree on the other and viola!

Pray for Newtown

With the recent Newtown tragedy Christmas doesn’t seem the same. The massacre has left the nation in a lull and I think being local it’s even worse. It’s on the news 24/7 I feel like. As important as it is to remember, I think the media over does it. I remember I got a text from Jalpa Friday letting me know there was a shooting in Newtown. I immediately Googled it and saw it with my own eyes.  That was around 12:45pm. Immediately after that the news spread at work and most of were glued to the TV on and off throughout the day. That first day we “learned” these “facts”: the shooter killed his father in NJ, then his mother in CT, and then attacked the school. The mother of the shooter was a teacher at the school. The mother was inside the building. None of these “facts” turned out to be true. There is no need for coverage on every little thing, especially when they don’t have their facts right. It is important we don’t forget but there is no need to be constantly reminded of it. I was driving by an elementary school today and saw a police car parked outside. I had mixed feelings about that. Should I be glad that the cop was there or worried? In what world do we need that kind of protection? Shouldn’t kids have the same experience we did of going to school without worry something bad may happen to them? It’s sad world we live in and something has to be done.  It has gotten so extreme that I sometimes things the Hunger Games world is not too far away.

Birthdays, Holiday Parties, Haircuts

Christmas is right around the corner and for the first time in years I am actually excited about the holiday. It has nothing on my real favorite holiday- thanksgiving (previously it was Halloween), but it’s coming close. I guess that’s what having a kid does to you. You care more about celebrating with them and family versus all whatever the opposite of that is. Last year, I did a lot of x-mas shopping after the holiday was finished – waaaaaaaaaaat!?!? I am only celebrating for commercial purpose. Anyways, we decorated the house right after thanksgiving and I love our house right now. I bet our Christmas tree looks like other interracial homes. The tree supports the catholic side and the ornaments support the Jewish side. That’s how we roll. We don’t segregate. We celebrate all holidays. We’ll have to figure out a way to do Diwali big next year!

 

 

We celebrated Anand’s bday earlier this month with a small celebration at home and then going to Frank Pepe’s on his actual birthday. Veer had a blast eating that pizza, as did Kunal, Diya, and Pari (well she ate a roll).

 

 

 

 

The weekend after we hosted an Ugly Christmas Party with some friends from the recipe exchange. I finally made Anand his cannoli cake and he loved it. Happy 35!!! He is still eating the cake.

 

 Veer got his first real haircut- not the bathtub hair cut I gave him a few weeks before this. I used a buzzer and trimmed his sides and back. He looks so cute with his big boy haircut. If you look at him now you would have a hard time believing that he had curls.

15 months

 

He loves Doritos, potato chips, French fries, and mathiya

We cut his hair after he turned 15 months

He loves Mickey Mouse

He loves his new suitcase his foi's future family got him

Still loves sweet potatoes.

Loves to dance to random Indian songs. He bops his head as a way of dancing

Loves Mickey Mouse playhouse

Saying "hi", "bye" on queue and more clearly

When I come home from work, he literally screams at me

He has had both of his flu shots

 

 

 

Ran out of space

I haven’t posted in a while because I ran out of space. I was trying to blog about thanksgiving, and Veers 15^th month, and Xmas, and miscellaneous stuff but I ran out of space for pictures on my blog. So now, not only am I not getting paid to write this blog, but I am paying Google to let me! Ahh, the man wins this time. So if there is anyone out there who wants to sponsor this blog let me know. It’s a whole $3 a month to do so. LOL.

We spent Thanksgiving at Gee and Parul’s new house. We tried with our tradition of watching Love Actually but that didn’t happen. It did bum me out but it won’t stop me for long. The weekend is almost here, right?! There was no foot in corn, literally, but the day was eventful. We had lots of little rugrats running around, including Veer. There was a memorable game of Uno that went on for like 2 hours. No joke.  Although we didn’t continue with our other tradition of midnight shopping, I did hit up Target the next morning and got some good finds, including this Dirt Devil vacuum for $8. It was talking to me. So I had to buy it. Seriously, 8! It's sitting nicely in the box in the garage.

 

But the day before Thanksgiving was super memorable for all of us. Samit proposed to Kavita.  After months of dating, numerous frequent flyer miles points earned, he pooped the question. We knew he wanted to do it that weekend and we even gave him some ideas on how and where to do it, but in the end he went with his gut and proposed to her in park overlooking New Haven where they first shared first date. *winknudgewink* Congratulations to Kavita & Samit!!!!! Now comes the crazy fun party of planning the wedding!

Shruti's Sweet 16!

 

Long before veer came into the picture, 15 years to be specific, there was Shruti. She was our little baby girl and last month we celebrated her sweet 16. Shruti was 1 at my sweet 16 and Veer was 1 at hers. She was the cutest little baby and I can’t believe we celebrated her 16^th birthday. It felt so surreal to be at her party. It was like watching my own child, which she is in away. I kinda now get how parents get so emotional at their daughters weddings. My little cutie is 16 now!  Veer had a blast and was a little dance machine on the floor. We found out that he doesn’t really like to dance in crowds; he loves the dance floor to himself. Center of attention.