2nd year photo shoot

Last month, we spent the morning walking around the Presidio and playing at Crissy Field as part of Ananya's 2nd year photo shoot with one of our favorite photographers, Veronica Suh (http://www.verosuh.com/blog/).

Here are some proofs that we just got - more to come later, but for now, I wanted to share these with you!

It's good to be home

After a whirlwind couple of weeks, we're finally back home and even though things have still been insanely hectic, it's still nice to be home.

Ananya's Ammama (my Avva, her great-grandma) is visiting from India for the summer, so we've been trying to see her as much as possible. We also had some family in town from India after the wedding, so they came up to spend July 4th with us. And Ananya's beloved Eemo came to spend the day and help out since our nanny was on vacation - Eemo took great care of Ananya (and her mommy!) and in turn, Ananya showed Eemo how to scroll through photographs on her Blackberry!

NYC fun!

After Pooneet's sister's wedding, the 3 of us flew to NYC for almost a week to attend Atish Uncle's wedding. We had so much fun, although we almost melted in the insane heat! It was so hot that there were no horses allowed for the baraat. My take on it is if it's too hot for horses, it's too hot for me :)

To combat the heat, we ate a lot of ice cream, played in Central Park every day, visited Bryant Park and had fun in the reading area and carousel, and saw lots of friends and family. Thanks to the heat, we managed to get Ananya to sit in her stroller again (phew!).

During this trip, the rascal that has been emerging in Ananya decided to come out in a big way...amongst other rascally things, she took a ballpoint pen to the white leather couches in our condo and went to TOWN on them. After hours of Pooneet running around to find anything to help and a few more hours of rubbing all kinds of different things on the spots (cologne, baby wipes, 409), he finally discovered that cheap hairspray does the trick. The things we learn the hard way!

Here are some pictures from our trip:

Week of fun

Ananya had a really fun time at her Priyanka Bua's week of wedding fun! So many aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins came from all over the world, and Ananya had fun learning their names, ordering them around, playing in the bouncy house that Dadi and Dadu bought for her, wearing really cute Indian outfits each day, and watching and participating in all the fun and craziness that is typical of Indian weddings! Here are some pictures from the week:

Ananya's 2nd birthday!

Ananya had a FUN 2nd birthday - an awesome party at Peekadoodle with all of her friends and family (pics to be posted soon) - and then celebrated her actual birthday at her Dadi and Dadu's house with her cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and great grandma :)

Connor's 3rd birthday party

Ananya's friend and first kiss - Connor - recently celebrated his 3rd birthday with an awesome party of fishing in a pool, hitting a pinata (which Ananya didn't really get the point of), and having a fire truck and firefighters come visit! So much fun!

Honolooooloooooo

Pooneet, Ananya, and I traveled to Honolulu with some friends for a quick weekend getaway. Here are some pictures from our trip to Pearl Harbor, the acquarium, hanging out with AJ Uncle and Ray Uncle, dinner at Nobu with AJ Uncle's family, and beach time!

My Bua's Bridal Shower

Ananya had a fun time at Priyanka Bua's bridal shower at her Dadi and Dadu's house. Here are some pictures of Ananya with her Mansi Bua, Aayush Bhaiya, and us!