the fourth

Though Indians ourselves..... ....because it was a holiday and we have a cute little American boy... this year.. we decided to indulge in the spirit of the fourth of July. i had dreamt of greeting our friends Happy 4th with home-made choco-chip muffins in red-blue-white cupcake liners and some sparklers.

however not much of my dreams materialised... and what we really ended up doing was to drive to Pittsburgh-downtown wearing our American-flag tees...

 park our car somewhere in the 9th street and walk down three blocks ......

 

to Point State Park, where most of the locals had gathered for the final day of the 35th EQT Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta  and the 4th of July fireworks. 
At the Regatta, amongst other things the Powerboat Championship caught our fancy...

 besides this intricate and massive sand sculpture which was an absolute centre of attraction.

most of the evening our boy was happy... shouting and cheering with the crowd.

but by the time the fireworks begun he was totally exhausted  and the last thing he probably wanted was the noise of the fire-crackers. so  half-way through the show we had to leave :(

 

  nevertheless we enjoyed the day and hope to plan the next fourth a little better than this one...

postcard from me

just yesterday i had been planning a tea-party for our friends here and cursing our moody oven for betraying us in such prime time. and the next thing you know is that there's a knock at the door.... and the maintenance guy walks in with a replacement of the oven. yay !! now i can make puffed pancakes for Sunday breakfast and delicious moist brownies and cupcakes for our friends.

and for now i'll leave you with some photographs of the kids on our blocks. all of these were taken on Saturday at a friend's place were we gathered for a potluck farewell dinner for Paromita-di !!

p.s. Pradyot is now 8 months old. and with his new antics he is pretty much the centre of the universe for Nishi, me and my parents.

pps: in the first party-photograph Kabeer and Pradyot are dressed in kurta and dhoti/pajama, an ethnic indian custom that my parents sent from India.

BLUE.....

yesterday wasn't one of the better days... lets just say ... i wasn't in my elements...

 so when nishi returned from work and admiringly commented on how handsome my baby looked in his blue onesie... 

i decided to put on my new blue frock and have a photo-shoot with my boys....  

surprisingly the shoot lifted my spirits and made me feel happy and sunny in the middle of the blues..

 

  ps : its almost 6 months since Pradyot arrived. can't believe that i have been his mommy for only  24 weeks and a few days  !!  it feels like ever....

a stripy post....

 coz mommy is in love with stripes these days.....

hope you are having a great week... as for me .. i am eagerly waiting for the weekend to come... you see.. with a wriggly giggly baby around it is always nicer to have daddy around...

spring so far....

 spring made a fleeting visit last week before winter decided to take charge of the weather-affairs again... 

so two little collages and 2 photographs are all that we managed to preserve of this spring so far....

dear spring,  we hope to see more of you in the weeks ahead... please come back soon .
                                                                                                   yours admiringly....t

 

Ferberizing

for the third night in a row.... mommy has had to wake up in one hour intervals (read literally stayed awake) so that baby could sleep. the little dude doesn't mind sleeping in mommy's lap... but nothing less will do.

so today i searched online for sleep training guidelines... and it appears that Ferberizing is the way to go... so cry it out dude.... and while mommy learns to hold herself back ... you'll learn to drift to la... la... land....

update (3.10.2012): it probably would have worked if i kept at it a little longer... but could not let baby cry it out alone... so i am back to being the cuddly mommy again....