Little Window To Our World

We reached home to a Welcome soo sweet from the super creative aunt Neelima... what i was mostly looking forward to in this trip was a bond between mahi and her two brothers,aunt neelu and fufu because we never get to spend much time with them .. otherwise,we are lucky to be able to meet the rest of the family at least twice or thrice a year...

And all the presents she got from her brothers!!

I guess we started for India being too positive and all the travel plans that we made... sadly we could not do anything as planned for all the stomach bugs and food poisonings.. mahi just stopped eating and once that's the scenario me and kalyan simply lose all enthusiasm. We preferred staying indoors as much as possible and the kids had such good fun playing together... not to miss our dumb charades evening sessions which were just soo much fun...

We had the pooja performed which is done every once in a year for the peace, health and prosperity of the family.. Mahi participated quite actively this time and for her age it was really good for her to sit in for almost half an hour performing rituals and sitting with hands folded in devotion.

We went to see where daddy and all his siblings went to school and missed Aunt Nivi so much :(

On this trip to Kalyan's hometown a lot of names that i have been hearing from years got faces.. Munira di was one of them.. a very special person to our family and an absolute beautiful person both inside out.

It was so nice to see all three ex students get so excited while they told their stories.... Even the trees had tales to them...

Had a little play time with the kids ... apparently it's become an all girl school now but back in those days it was co education until class seven after which dad went to all boys school ( that's when they say your daddy turned into a brat )

And these kids never grew up!!

Mahi was so excited going to the classrooms and it worked well because she was to start playschool as soon as we reached back home..

We also did a little Ramzaan special dress up .... All thanks to Munira di. She dressed us all in her beautiful Burkhas gave us these very special moments..

For one day when we all felt a little better we decided to go to a place nearby which has a mini version of Hampi( a very famous temple) replicated. As we were not going to see the original one we decided to at least have a go on this one.

The only photo I could get of the grandparents with all their grand kids!!

We all spent almost one full day there playing and exploring around and on our way back mahi again had fever :(

A few of her solos... sulking solos :)

Mahi and the boys spent some real quality time together and that served almost the whole purpose of this trip...

Sweet aunt Neelima and mahi's candid moments :)

Our super hero!!

Had a great time meeting Ajit , Teju and their beautiful boy krish ... We stayed up until morning partying and starting from where we left in 2012 when we met last. It was a great evening and the fond memories of which shall last until we meet again!!

The last days were spent with this adorable family and I run short of words to describe what incredible hosts they are... and what a great cook this lady in red is :) We might have had a very challenging trip in terms of mahi's wellness but spending the last few days here made everything seem alright...Aunt Nivi ordered a farewell cake for us sitting in Australia :) so we blew the candles on that one ...

Mahi had some nice playtimes in the shopping mall :)

and just like that three weeks of India came to an end and it was already time to go back ...

Missy's passport obsession didn't seem to have reduced a bit and here she goes again!!

Mahi loved all the auto rides she took in Bangalore and every time we would go out she would start screaming " AUTO AUTO AUTO " also managed to stop one once. We were so occupied in shopping all the time that could never get a decent photo of her in it, so for all those time sakes we had to get a picture of us in it when we saw this fully decked up beauty...

Cheers! to all the good times and to the times which got on to the last nerve in our system , our love for you will never ever fade... will see you soon INDIA :)

Finally settled after a month of holidaying and today I stole some time to at least get started with documenting few of the many things that are suppose to go up. We made a random plan to visit India and as my parents are overseas we thought of only doing the south side of India for the three weeks that we were going. I was wanting to make traveling all fun this time for mahi and therefore we crafted a pretend passport and boarding pass for missy.. I had a little hand bang surprise for her which had her passport , boarding pass, a phone, a comb and a lip balm ( makes a girly handbag complete)

This time I also made sure to have enough fun stuff in the baby bag to keep her settled during the flight, it was after all a thirteen hour flight.

We started from Canberra a few days prior to when we were flying out because we had plans to see Sydney's Vivid light show with our friends and it was all so worth it... !!

Look at these adorable two!!

Had a splendid evening.... the kids played so well and no one cranked up,,,, we enjoyed the light show in such a beautiful company..

Adi daddy( yes that's what she calls him) and mahi having a soulful chat !!

The weekend was awesome and the kiddos had too much fun just like the biggies :)

Monday morning we left for the airport in the morning and met aunt shubha there who was also coming along with us..

And boy she walked the place like a grown up!! showing her pretend boarding pass and passport ....she definitely had fun and left not one officer from whom she didn't get her docs approved...

At the immigration she went :- " Excuse me! Please can you check my passport" and the friendly guy checked and put a pink band around her wrist which said .. handle with care ....she was so happy to get that and was unstoppable after that. She pulled one officers jacket to make her look down and went" You want passport" ... then to the other " Can you please check my passport" ... Thankfully Sydney airport has a very friendly staff and were not just looking at it but also having a good talk with their most enthusiastic little passenger.