Aadu - Two Years On..

Last Friday we celebrated Adarsh's second brithday.

Aadu chose his Mickey Cake this time. Awaiting his big cake...

Ready.. offff..

Cut cut...

And a family Pic :)

Hope to blog more as time permits !

Aadu's capers, 2013 first half.

It turns out that this is my first post in 2013. That goes to show that life has been just running.
Aadu has become very naughty and here are some pictures we manged to take this year.

We had a good short trip to Innovative File City, Bidadi ! I guess its a decent place for kids to explore.
We enrolled Aadu in a summer camp for 3 weeks. After exciting first week Aadu refused to go to summer camp at the Montessori next door to 22. Aadu loves cone ice creams and his favourite channel is CeeBeeBees from the BBC guys.


No long trips yet this year as summer has been pretty exhausting. Otherwise we've been to Hyderabad and plenty of local trips. English-Vinglish was our the first movie after Adarsh.

 Pongal Pooja at 22

 With Ani...

 Night Dress..

With Chota Bheem at Hyderabad Airport

At the Dino park in Innovative Film City


Hopefully I'll get more time to upload and put in more narration !

ABa

Baked Nippattu

Today we tried making Nippattu at home.
We haven't used our oven for some time for baking and as a trial before Christmas we started off with Nippattu. Thanks to the below link from where we got the recipe.

http://www.manethindi.com/2012/08/baked-nippattuspicy-wafersbiscuits.html

Though the baking in our convection oven took 30 odd minutes at 250c.


My mom-in-law got us some nice silicon baking trays and moulds from Dubai that came in handy.
Next we will be trying some banana walnut muffins for Aadu and Garlic Naan !!
More as we bake !

Mumbai with Aadu

So finally a vacation !! Yes this time it was at Mumbai.

We stayed at the Trident right on Nariman Point. Their buffet breakfast at Frangipani was among the best I've had. I enjoyed my morning runs on Marine Drive, the Tonga rides, Taxis and the Marathi Food.

Aadu really enjoyed it there at the Hotel and the Christmas decorations were in full swing with Christmas Trees all around the Oberoi.

Went to IIT Mumbai to attend Ani's Brothers reception and happen to meet Andrew Zeisserman from Oxford.

Thanks to my dear friend Amit Patil who had previously taken me on Mumbai darshan during my Mumbai marathon and I exactly followed the same itinerary. Marine drive, Prakash (Near Sena Bhavan), Gateway of India etc etc. My mom-in-law went in for Siddhi Vinayak and Mahalakshmi when we were snoozing.


Overall this was a great trip with swimming, steam baths and foot massages and Aadu and Ani.

My good old days of running, diet and traveling are back !

We will come back !