Muma's 32nd Birthday

Cake time on the evening of muma's birthday

I realize now with the little ones, nothing makes me happier than to spend my birthday with the kiddos making them happy. This year, Syona and I went to raging waters while Ba and Bhabhi watched over baby Kyran. I thought Syona would really enjoy it since she loves slides. It was such a warm day, I love how my birthday is in July- we went down one small child slide and after we got dunked under water she was a little thrown back and wanted to get out. haha. We made our way around the park and she was drawn to the long long river. So we waited in line for a "boat," an inner tube, and basically went around the river 6 times. She loved it. She was so particular how I sat in the inner tube with her and wanted a duo boat instead of just a single one. Then we got out and she said she was ready to go home, haha. At night, I just wanted to stay home, have Paul make dinner, and watch our Netflix shows. Dadu, Ba and Bhabhi took Syona out to the mall and CPK for a few hours so we could just be at home. Then we had cake and that was it! 

India Relatives

It was so nice to have our extended family from India come visit for the wedding. They had never met Syona or baby Kyran, and it was perfect that Baby Kyran was born just in time for the celebrations. We had Surekha Bhabhu come from India, Priyanka (Bena) from Boston, Kiran Ben, also from Bombay along with Vishal Bhai, Tina Bhabhi, Aatu and Keishu from Bombay with Jayant Dada as well. Syona had SO much fun with the girls swimming in the yard, playing and watching Dora, going to parties, restaurants and everyone's houses for evening parties like Faiba's, Bhaven's, Bhabhu's, Ba's, Rupal Masi's and ours!

Growing up

Kyran smiles so much now. He just wants you to hold him and talk to him, and he gets really focussed and just starts smiling. He likes to suck on his hands too. He's getting better at slowly finding his thumb but still keeps his fingers in a fist and tries to get both hands in his mouth. haha. He's becoming a real butterball as well! I think he drinks about 1.5 oz every hour and 15 minutes. Baby Kyran, which has kinda stuck as his nickname, has a very sweet look. He likes to watch TV if it's on, but he's probably only looking for the light. When he does we always say, "Baby Kyran, you're too little to watch TV" hahaha so cute, like he can understand.

Syona says all kinds of words and phrases these days. The other day she said "that's so cool." I heard her say "awesome" once and "i'll be careful' when she was walking on the cushions of the couch and Bhabhi told her to be careful. She definitely has been loving all the new family in town but I'll speak more on that topic in the next blog post, Masi's wedding :)

Pretty Pretties for Masi's wedding

Earlier this month of July, the kids and family were all engaged in the several days of celebration involved in a typical indian wedding. It was Sejal Masi's and Bijel Masa's wedding and true to form, the kids spend a good week of attending family functions and wedding functions leading up to the big day. What this meant is that Syona went through several set of pretty pretties, while Baby Kyran had a few warddrobe get ups of his own (he put on his first suit jacket).
Every night there was a new costume lined up to be put on. Shilpa had to spend a days to plan out which garments to dress the family up in for which day. Unlike days without the kids, where Shilpa can just look into the closet to pick out her clothes (and mine), these days she has much more to plan for every time we have an outing to go to. Now imagine the work to do this 1 whole week of outings in a row. Good thing Syona and Kyran have so many nice uncles/aunts that pass their gently used hand me down dresses and warddrobes- this way Shilpa (and Syona) have a good selection to choose from. As for me, I guess I have to go back to settling on picking out my own attire as I've become lower on the rung - good thing for guys, it is easy to get ready, either just a suit or nice pants /long shirt. :)

On the day of the wedding, I had the fun task of getting the children dressed up. It's a different life when the majority of the day went by making sure everyone in the family have their nice indian clothes for the event. The coordination is to make sure that there is no accidental spit up or "other" stains, which I somehow managed in between the bangle coordination, hairpins and baths. The hard work really was in the planning though and I'm glad everything was labeled for my benefit or I wouldn't have had time to color coordinate Syona's bangles (yes I spent some time putting it together after syona went through putting all them on in whichever order she wanted) It was really fruitful to see the colorful the indian costumes on thought(thanks to Ba/Dadu/Masis and Masas) for getting these clothes together when they were in India. Got a few snaps of these in prior to the wedding.

What an amazing experience it was for us all and can't wait to see all the pictures at the actual event.