Welcome home

Welcoming our new family member home - who is such an important part of our lives.
After ten days of struggle, sending back two defective pieces, this good fella is here finally!
Don't you just love the paisley design?

Bye bye

There was a time our fridge was filled with Lindt Chocolate bars - and one by one they were devoured, over the last six months.
This was all that remained in the end as the last piece got over today.
Lindt Dark chocolate with orange and almonds - Love you!

Breezy Monday

One of the best weather days in a long time
An evening in the terrace
Lovely breeze
Little River Band on the iPod
Life is beautiful

Beautiful bread

From Ruci & Idoni
Multigrain with sesame seeds, flaxseeds
Soft and flavoursome
Love this bread

Yoghurt muffins

Very easy, delicious and healthy - mildly sweet
Tastes yum with a pat of jam
Also baked some butterscotch brownies for the Hyderabad Twitter girls meet up on Saturday

Atri see, Atri do

My son is at that stage where he likes to imitate everything we do.
Here he pulled out some old newspaper that was lying around and sat down in the balcony with his morning Biki pretending to read it. Never mind that the paper was upside down :)

Kway-Teo noodles with Oyster Mushrooms

Delicious dinner

Morning sun/ son

It's barely 6.30 am and we are well into our day.
Don't mind the Teacher's container - we use it to store the smaller wooden toys - just in case you were wondering!!

Fridge hunt

Most of you must have seen my rants on FB / Twitter - The hunt which started that weekend resulted in me buying it on this day - but then had to return it twice and over a week gone, am still waiting!!

Kaapi morning

Frothy Filter coffee - just the way I like it

Self

Since a coule of self shots are permitted in a month, this is one of them. Standing by the window, overexposed - from iPhone - what do you expect?

WIlly Wonka @ Cream Stone

Cream Stone is an ice cream chain that combines the flavour of ice cream and other stuff like cakes, candy etc etc on a slab of hard ice until creamy and serves it in a cup or cone.
This Willy Wonka was deadly, lived upto its name - chocolate pastry, chocolate ice cream, chocolate sauce all in one...deadly enough to make us miss dinner.

Shaky car -->shaky picture

One of the few things that managed to scare my otherwise very adventurous son!

Mango and coconut

Two of the trees hugging our terrace wall - coming in from the neighbour's compound to say hello!

Summer skies

The haircut

The day i took the bold step of cutting my hair short :)

Stepping into the world

May 3rd, 2010 - A day to remember
My baby's first day in a playgroup - first day away from familiar environs
He didn't turn around to look for me
Found joy in riding the wheely horses
In two hours, felt tired and sleepy - started getting worried looking for Mama - when the attendants called for me :)
Still, a brave two hours for him and me :0

Coffee and conversations

@ Mocha  near our place

The first Mocha in Bombay which started at Bandra was one of our regular haunts to catch up with friends - superb ambience, restored flea market furniture, the smell of coffee in the air and the best apple pie ever - kept taking me back to the place...

The one in Hyd was a poor imitation of the original - their Blueberry Brain freezer shake was good though, apple pie that we brought home to eat for dessert was horrible, no sign of apple - just some crumbled mix as the filling inside a hard crust! If you ever visit this Mocha, stay away from this seasonal 'fruit' pie!

Plans washed out

Our plans to visit this exhibition were washed out by the showers - which were otherwise most welcome as they cooled up the city so beautifully!

Inside story - Mumbai airport

The new wing in Mumbai airport where gates A1-6 are, is spacious, well decorated and has a bar, food courts, shops and palm trees - but a sorry state of the so-called 'Baby changing room' (pic on right) really saddened me at the insensitivity shown by the people who manage the airport.

The room was not done at all, just used as a mini-dump and by someone to drink his/her mid morning tea.