The devil wears Prada

Ranbeer at his naughty best this last week...

Daksh's 2nd birthday

Mamma, Papa and Chota Chowdhary were invited by the Gautam's for Daksh's 2nd birthday celebrations on 7th March, at their house in Gurgaon. Gagan was back from the US for a vacation, and this seemed like a good idea to meet up.


Photos : (L) Birthday Boy Daksh (R) Mona's lollipop son Aryan

Amist pizzas and burgers and beer ( for the adults), Chota Chowdhary had a blast, lotsa toys, lotsa little girls and little boys...( OMG that rhymes!)
Watch him in action below..

When Shanaya came home

Finally Sumit-Rupali's little cupcake, Shanaya came home this Saturday night..She was guest of honour for whom a gourmet meal of cold pasta salad, shaami kebab, afhgani chicken and Sanjha-Chulha rolls were laid out ( WTF, she will grow up and say !) After a long time, Punkaj-Garima, Kapil( without Neelima), Vishal-Meenu ( without Aarav) got together at our place.
After Shanaya spent a couple of happy moments in Papa Chowdhary's arms, even Manish admits that he would love to have a honeybunch of a daughter like Shanaya. Garima and I have been secretly hoping Rupali will get tired managing 2 kids one of these days and put up Shanaya for adoption. We both gossip that we dont know how Rupali and Sumit manage, but they do have a cast from which very pretty girls come out :)

A few pics of that evening..

In which i am stopped in my tracks

Me went along to pick up hubz shaver from Philips repair at the MGF Plaza Mall on MG Road.
Was also wondering as to why there was so much police on the road...when i was done with my job, and stepped out, i saw that the road had virtually stopped in its tracks. A passerby mentioned that President Pratibha Patil was passing by. Infact, she had just landed behind the mall, in an open ground in her helicopter ( Indian copter version of AirForce 1 I guess) and was making way to meet a minister. Time stood still, i could notice restless policemen ( traffic ones, khakhi ones, and some special ones) on the road everywhere, vehicles stopped, pedestrian cleared off the roads, snipers on all road facing building ( including the one where we were standing) and then, came the entourage of atleast 8 cars, a Max hospital ambulance, and a fire ambulance....and no where did it seem to me that i was witnessing history ( lol, to say the least)...captured the following images on my E 71...



And while twiddling my thumbs...i captured these also on the steps of MGF Plaza mall...
Pretty in pink.....

And hot in red ( the auto is the advert for Khaaja Chowk, the street food resturant at MGF Mall)

Read tagline " Maal mein dam, daam mein kam"... WTF

When i first called out your name...

Why will i always remember 28th Feb? Becoz thats when you really called out my name....

We have been playing the game of Ranbeer identifying mamma, papa, dada, dadi, chachi , chachi for long now. When you coax him, he points out and calls for you...

Feb 14, in Jim Corbett, he called out to Manish, "papa" and asked him to pick up his toy from the floor...but "mama" never came out on its own. It was always prompted..

Feb 28, Manish and I took him to the park behind the house...i was walking 2 steps ahead of Manish, who was holding Ranbeer in his arms..

Mumma....and i turned, and he smiled...and i knew , this was not prompted, my baby did call out to me...these words swell one's heart with happiness and pride..oh what joys of motherhood..unparalleled with anything else..

Sharing one of my best pictures ever...one when Ranbeer was "shown" to me when he was born...