Successful 2nd Year

We all were happy to the core to throw out a party to dear and near ones for this special day. We planned to have celebration on the birth date itself even though the date falls on weekday! Her Ayah had taught her that July 2nd is her birthday and she started telling this to everyone and happily invited them for the party. We had planned to celebrate her birthday on the hall which was readily available on our Apts itself.

Morning some how she woke little early than usual and took bath nicely! I made her to  wear new dress and when I asked her what was special today, she told, "Happy Birthday Enaku". It was so lovely to hear this. After breakfast, We went to near by temple and did "Archanai" for her.  Thamizhini was not very much aware that we have a party tonight for her, even though she had attended many birthday parties.

We partially prepared food for the party and order few items from outside to reduce our burden in the evening.  My friend Lakshhmi came early with her kid Gayathri to the party and she was helping us in preparation. I dressed Thamizhini with cute salvar set and she very much liked to wear it. She liked that Dupata very much and sometimes she used to take mine and wear. As this was her first Salvar, she was very much happy to have that Dupata on her. We all were ready by 6pm and moved to the party hall which located in our block.

There were many kids on the party and all were enjoying and playing with balloons and color paper. Thamizhini was in full of joy and I guess she felt that she was center of attraction as all kids were coming and giving gifts to her. She was happily collecting gifts and never worried about who is giving her :D She would have thought collecting is her only duty on that day!

Me and Nalin invited few of our friends from office and rest all are Thamizhini's friend in the Apartment. I was not knowing few of her friends, but she was happily calling them and playing around there. 

We have ordered Brown bear (yeah, Brown bear Brown bear, what do you see?) cake and it came out really well. All kids were very happy to see that Bear cake and all were waiting to cut the cake. We cut cake by 7:30 as most of the invite have come in time. It was really wonderful to have all kids around the table and all were happily singing happy birthday to Thamizhini! We can celebrate each birthday like this just to have all kids around us.

Dinner started soon after cake cutting and my friend Lakshmi helped to serve better. She gave idea of keeping all food in order so that it will be easy to serve without missing any of the items. Kids were enjoying drinks and cake where elders had their dinner relaxedly!

The party was over by around 9:30 and we came back to house after light cleaning of the room by 10pm. Thamizhini was damn tired but still she was not ready to go to sleep. She really does not have any idea about the gifts and did not ask us to open it also. Even we felt not to open now as we all were very much tired and we thought we could not surely control Thamizhini. She was simply carrying all the gifts and covers and was roaming here and there in the house.

I could say the party had gone very well,  Me and Nalin are satisfied ourself that we have retreated all our friends :-)

Amma Birthday!

This is my second birth day with my baby Thamizhini! Wow... If I tell like this, I feel my age has come down... :P As usual, a big cake, new dress and full of happiness! Thamizhini woke me in mid night to wish "Happy Birthday" in her cute voice. Check out the video below how she says "Happy birthday".  A birthday gift from Nalin and a card from my daughter made my day special. 

The birthday card for "Mommy" was so cute and the words were so nice. I'm sure Thamizhini knows nothing about the card, but may be her daddy wants me to become that kinda "Wonderful Mommy!":P

Below decorations were ready when I entered home from office. Thamizhini was so happy to see balloons and were telling Happy Birthday... its kinda of chanting for her!

The decoration!

It is a fruit cake, decorated nicely and the taste was yummy! I had tough time in blowing off the candles.

Fruit Cake!

With my Athai!

Check out her singing....

Hope everyone would have loved her singing. Finally yummy cake to taste!

Tasting cake!

Yuthika Birthday

These days Thamizhini started attending Birthday parties at least once in a month. This time we had been to Yuthika's (Sharmila's daughter) second birthday party. Yuthika's first birthday party was the Thamizhini first party to attend and that time she was just 7months old. Time goes very fast and the little one is completed two now.

Happy Birthday Yuthika

Party was planned at 7:30pm in her house itself, and as her house is quite near by for us, we planned to go by 7 after Nalin returning from office. I came back from office and dressed up Thamizhini and Nalin also joined in time. In another 15mins, we  were there in the party house.

Set for a pose.

Yuthika was so cute in her Pink shirt and blue jean. She is such adorable cute pie, very much soft in her voice and even in nature  She was so happyily walking and running behind the baloons. The room decoration was good and every one is happy to see the baloons everyhwere. Once we entered the house, Thamizhini was bit hesitated to get down from me as there were lot of new people. But after sometime, she got down and started playing with baloons.

Smiling Darling

Around 7:30, Birthday baby cut the cake, kids where so happy to sing Happy Birthday. Even Thamizhini sang "Happy Birthday" After having cake, we had nice and heavy dinner prepared at home. Thamizhini tasted all variety of foods and was feeling so much happy to be with kids. We gifted some of "My Pretty Board-Books" series and Yuthika is so happy to receive it.

Yuthika: Ahh... Gift For me...... :-)

Appa's Birthday

Today is my daddy's birthday. This is his second birthday with me. :P 

I know, for this birthday, Appa has got many gifts from Amma, I don't know why she gave that much. Ok Appa, Anyhow from my side, I can just wish you with a message. But my wish is precious than Mom's, because I struggled a lot to learn this, "Aappy Bothday Balji Pa". Thank you Amma for teaching me this.

Appa, Are you Ready? We are!!!

It was a wonderful birthday celebration that I have ever seen (???)  in my life (yeah, for 18months). I have gone to many birthday celebrations, but they were all too crowded and much noisy too. They burst balloons and do some kind of sparklers. This all makes me scary always, hence I generally do not like to go to Birthday parties. May be knowing this, Amma planned Appa's Birthday at home. Oh! So, do you think, If I don't get scared Amma would have thrown a huge party? Na.. Na.. She would have just cut the cake by placing in a chair itself. Check out my daddy's last birthday celebration, and even my mom's too, for how they celebrated.

Appa, after cutting cake, please gimme these balloons.

Amma decorated the hall with "Happy Birthday" stickers and Balloons. I know what you must be thinking now? Did I allow her to do this? Hmm.. Amma knew me, and she completed this before I return from Park. When I entered home, I was so excited to see the stickers and tried jumping to catch the them. But Amma told me that I have to drink Complan to grow double in size. :P So I left the idea of jumping and started asking Amma to help me out.

Well Set for cutting cake.

As usual Appa came little late than planned, and he did not realize the decorations after he entered home. Yeah, he is not like me. :D But once he saw it, he was so happy and excited than me. I was wondering who is kid here, either me or my dad. He was that much delighted and happy to see Birthday Cake too. Till then everything was ok, but once I saw the birthday caps, I felt frighten. I know, to encourage me and not to get scared anymore by seeing birthday parties, Amma bought these caps and planned in this way.

Appa, Ready, 1-2-3 Happy Birthday to you....

Amma placed a candle on top of the cake and when it was lighted, it sang a happy birthday song. Once the song was over, he blew off the candles and cut the cake. I ask Amma to upload the videos too, in that you can see, how long he took to cut the cake.  Yeah, really! But at last, he finished cutting the cake and he fed me little bit of cake. As I was scared to see the birthday caps, Appa removed the cap from him. Yes, then only I went to him to taste the cake.

Hmmm... Nice taste.

Hmm.. What for I was waiting till then? :-) any idea / any guess? To taste the cake? No... No... No... To get the balloons and stickers in hand. But Amma gave me only balloons and any idea what happened to those stickers? Hmm.... She did not give it to me and stored it for next birthday :-(

Happy Birthday Once Again Appa!!! and Thanks for reading :-) 

With Lots n Lots of Love,
Thamizhini.

What did Sharmi Aunty buy for you?

I got a gift from Sharmila Aunty for my Birthday! Any guess what it was? 

Oh! My God... How to open this??? What is inside???

Oh! Is it for me?? Thank you Aunty

Ennanu thaan sollungale pls....

It was a wonderful Toy Car. I liked it very much. I like to drive this car everywhere inside the house. Whenever I'm bored I press a horn button and it sings a song for me.  

Can I go for a ride????

 It has a luggage box also, I used to put some of my toys and take it for a round! I know how to ride this using my legs. 

Ah... What is this? Toys carrier????

And sometimes I will ask my Appa to push the car for me.  I will keep my legs little bit up on the front part of the car and car will move very fast (and furious too) !!  

Taking Baby doll for a ride!!!

I like that very much. I take my baby doll also along with me whenever I ride this. I love this toy car so much. Thankyou Sharmi Aunty for this awesome gift.

Love

Thamizhini.

So now you guys know who bought this and for what. I ask Thamizhini now and then to make her understand that the gift is from Sharmi Aunty. As she can not tell her name, I ask her like "Sharmi Aunty enna vangi koduthanga" and as a answer she shows her hands to the Car. Wow.... 

The Big Day - Thamizhini's Birthday

Oh! My little one turned one today. This was the day in last year, I experienced hospital bed for first time in my life and got this cute bundle of joy in my hand. All the pain and other complications left out of me, once I had my baby in my hand. Still I could remember the days she was crying now and then and looking blankly at every one. Growing up a kid teaches you everything. I could now feel how motherhood would be as I'm experiencing it for a year. You may get tensed for many reasons when you are growing up them, but at last in the night when they sleep innocently in your hands, you will know nothing is warming than this.

The day was good and we were waiting for Thamizhini to get up on her own and we did not go to wake her up. Once she got up, we made her ready to go to temple after her breakfast. We were in temple for an hour and her Appuchi, Amatha and Mama presented her a gold chain.

Giving pose after getting Chain from Maama

I don't know that she really understood what they have given and but she was happy to hold the box and the chain in her hand. :-)  Look at her cute Pattu Paavadai.  I feel She looks tall in this costume and I liked the color most. It had small stones on it and it added beautiful look on it.

Very Happy to see the box...

After coming back from temple, we packed everything in hurry-burry to start to the marriage hall. And now, here is the point. Whoever were thinking by seeing the "Birthday Invite" that the birthday celebration is going to happen in a Wedding hall / Chaultry, here comes the truth. Yeah, actually Thamizhini's Chithappa's marriage was fixed next day of her Birthday and the marriage functions were happening for two days from that day. So obviously we were in the hall to attend the marriage function.

Yummy Cake...

So to my disappointment and may be later once she has grown up, to her disappointments, we simply cut the cake in the hall. Once we came to know that the marriage was fixed on July 3rd, I (here i do not want to add Nalin) dropped all the plans and creative ideas that i had on mind to celebrate her birthday. Whenever I go for my friend's kids birthdays, I used to dream how will I celebrate my kid's.  

In deep thoughts....

Even though the marriage was happening in one side, we could have planned something better to celebrate her birthday. I was so much disappointed that Nalin did not want to plan anything as the engagement for the couple was about to start and he thought it would disturb them. I felt from where the hell he could get thoughts like this.

That was really really big cake, but still Dad gives very little to me...?

So now you guys know how we have celebrated Thamizhini's birthday. Hmm... I don't want to use the term celebration as we simply cut the cake. Even Thamizhini was so tired as she did not get her nap time properly. She was so moody, clumsy and top of that the crowd. She was crying for dressing, wearing shoes and even for cutting the cake.

I did not get one single snap where she was smiling. She was so cranky. Hmm.. but that is the way the kid used to be. How about her dress? We were shopping for her in the weekends before we started to native. Look at her matching chappals and bangles. :-)

I feel, my mom is prettier than this flower. What say?? ;-)

Look at the pictures for decorative cake and how kids enjoyed the evening. The cake was Black Forest and the taste was yummy. Kids were enjoying the cake and they were nicely playing with each other with the masks. Thamizhini got beautiful gifts from her Kumutha Athai and Selvaraj maama and from her Chithappa too. 

Hey! Look at the green leaf... Is that mean "Go Greeeeeeeeeen!!!"Hmm.. actually we forgot to buy paper plates. :-D

Even though there were no grand celebration, there were lots of good moments to cherish for ever and of course it is natural, you feel good when you are with dear and near ones.


PS: Thanks Babu Chithapa for the photos. It is really good and I'm looking pretty in all the photos. - Thamizhini.

Feb 28 - Special Day

Feb-28, It is a very special day... Ok, for whom and why? Ofcourse it is for me and Be'coz it is my first birthday with Thamizhini.

All time favourite, BlackForeest...

Actually the day did not turn up as I planned, but still this is the day where we can remember for one thing. Yeah we cilcked FAMILY photo today!  Not just because of my birthday, but also we have planned to do mundan ceremony for Thamizhini in the next month. We saw the soft copy of photos in the studio itself and they came out very well. Thamizhini was rocking in all the snaps.

We started around 3:30 from home to the studio and we reached almost in 20 mins. I was thinking how Thamizhini will pose infornt of that still camera and with new guys. But some how she managed to smile and posed very nicely. (Behind the scene: I was trying very hard to make her laugh / smile). I will post the photos once I get them. Keeping watching the blog for our photo shoot!! But look below for the B'day photos:

Amma, first piece is for me... !!!!

In the evening around 7 O Clock, I cut the cake (Yeah, As I said earlier, its BlackForest from Cake World) with Thamizhini. Look at the video for Cake and Thamzihini's expression by seeing the candle (Is it a candle, or a rocket???). Thamizhini tasted little bit of cake (Ya, right. i fed her only very little) and yeah, the cake was very tasty and yummy. 

Thamizhini's Song

You must be surprised to see the title of the post and thinking what is that Thamizhini's song. This 6 months cute little baby recognises the people and hesitates to be with new people. Whenever her Maama comes, she will cry and does not go to him. You know how she will cry? She will see his face and starts crying. But if he shows some toys or deviates her interest to something else, then she will not cry. But if again she sees his face, she starts crying. He has to showcase many things and has to dance by taking her in hand. He visited us for her Dad's birthday and Pongal, it was almost a month back that he was here, Thamizhini totally forgot him. So he took her in hand and danced for the song which is in video. She liked that song very much and she wanted to hear that song again and again.

Her Maama made the below video with pictures and some videos captured on this month.

Thank you Anna for this awesome video! We really enjoyed seeing this and YES OFCOURSE you did a wonderful work with these pictures and videos. I'm sure, once Thamizhini grown up, she will really like to see this video.

My Daddy's Birthday

Hiya, today is my daddy's birthday. I don't know how old is he, But I wish him for a wonderful birthday ever. We cut  Black Forest cake (Mom ordered, that is what she likes) and I tasted little bit.



Amma calls appa like this :-)



Yummy!!! Waiting for my piece

My granny prepared a wonderful breakfast (Kesari, Medhu Vada with Sambar and Curd, Sweet Pongal and Pongal). Everyone ate and I watched them :-( Dr. advised to have solids from next month, else I could have had nice breakfast.

Mom, Don't worry, you are at the back :-)

My Mama also was here with us to celebrate Dad's birthday. 

Maama, Pls shave your beard, Its piercing me.

Anyhow I enjoyed much as all of them were in Happy mood.

It is really a wonderful birthday for Appa.

Love,
Thamizhini.

PS: Hope, Appa will celebrate Mom's birthday too with Cake and Gift. :-D I love you amma.