In the months between our last post and when Kabir arrived here's what you missed:
- Friends and Family Baby Shower: Grace and my Mom hosted my first lovely baby shower! The Divita and Lawson Ladies helped prepare the festivities which included games (like tasting baby food), ducky punch, and a beautiful cake decorated by Nicky! Thomas Divita made us a beautiful drawing for ourgn guests to si that included landmarks from India, our college, the church where we were married, and our apartment building! It was such a special present!! If you'd like to contact him for some personal amazing artwork, here is his information: thomas.divita@hotmail.com and his prices are 8.5x11: $50; 10x14: $75; and 11x17: $95. Some pictures are below, and I'll post more pictures to my Facebook. I had such a wonderful time!
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| Guest Eating |
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| Nicky's Beautiful (and delicious!) Cake |
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| Thomas's Picture |
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| More guests eating |
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| More Guests |
- NIST Baby Shower: Jay's office hosted a baby shower for us too!! Many of his coworkers came out to celebrate with us and we guessed who baby would most act and look like- Work Grandma Monica saved the results to see who guessed right! Once again, we received lovely gifts of clothes and baby goods to start Kabir off right, including hist first NIST sweater! And we were showered with so much love, attention and support!
- Thanksgiving: My whole family came out to celebrate Thanksgiving together which we haven't done since I was a Freshman in college! It was a fun time albeit ridiculously busy! We cooked Thanksgiving dinner, went Black Friday shopping (late), hosted a baby shower, and ended the trip with a nice family dinner out.
- Mom's Baby Shower: Mom invited my cousins and family from her side over to celebrate some more! It was great to see my Perima and most of my cousins and their kids. I received an Indian blessing from my mom, Perima, and girl cousins. Kabir is one lucky guy because he received more wonderful things!! Then it was families chatting and eating. There was a onesie fatality thanks to an uncooperative iron, but I think our monkey onesie will survive! And like old times, the younger cousins some how found ourselves at the kid table :)
- City of Gaithersburg Baby Shower: My office hosted a wonderful shower at our local watering hole in the beginning of December. It was Dr. Seuss themed: "One fish, two fish, red fish, new fish!" So many of my coworkers came to shower me with so much attention. It was lots of fun and I was surrounded by so many wonderful people! We played baby shower bingo, there was a diaper cake, and each present included a book to build baby's library! I definitely work with the some of the kindest, sweetest and most thoughtful people! I don't have any pictures of this wonderful event because I was scatter brained! But I'll see if anyone else does :)
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| The Invitation |
- Educational Enrichment Committee Baby Shower: At work, we have an Educational Enrichment Committee that I recently began to work with. Instead of our usual December meeting they surprised me with a wonderful breakfast baby shower- complete with a balloon sculpture of a baby on a swing! They all shared stories of what they did as parents, and also gave lovely gifts. I can't wait to share some of their ideas with Kabir as he grows!
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| Swinging Balloon Baby |
- Odds and ends: Welcoming a baby means plenty of other things need to get updated and so we made our list and are making our way through. It's funny how such a little person makes you start getting things done. It also means BIG belly! I waddle, and enjoy every moment of it! Jay likes to play with Kubs already- he makes sounds and feels for the kicks and jabs, or shines flashlights and plays tag. Kubs is a mover and kicker! He loves to roll around and kick and jab all day long- we'll see how well I fare when trying to dress him!
