BAKING WITH MY LOVE

Jenna is in a stage she wants to help me doing the household chores,be it cleaning or dishwashing .So ,i let her help me sometimes .I love baking and decided i will bake today and let Jenna help me out and she was glad to do so. She helped to pour the measured cup of water, broke eggs too..in between she was licking the mix and was saying yummo!!! She does not have much of a sweet tooth that is excluding cakes so i treat her once in a while by making her favourite chocolate cake.Our next attempt would be making a Rainbow Cake which i have been dying to do for very long.

MEHENDI/HENNA TATOO

Yesterday i had a lot of free time.. (Jenna bedtime was earlier than usual)so i thought i will do something and i ended up doing this..

JUST AFTER APPLYING
AFTER LIKE ABOUT 6 HRS...

I applied on Jenna's hands too...

since she was sleeping it was smudged a little.

I HAVE TO VENT

I think of writing something but my mind is blocked ,everytime i sit to write i think about some things which have happened over the past few weeks and my anger rises... I'm not able to concentrate on anything else.. i want to vent somewhere and thought i will blew the steam here after all its my blog but after a lot of thinking i find its not approriate to talk about someone in my blog so i leave it to that.. before anyone puts on ur thinking hats on i want to tell its not something about my hubby and our marriage.. no everything is fine in my household and im blessed with an awesome hubby..i cannot ask for a better soul mate.. its about a trusted friend who we know for so long and does not turn out to be the person who he is..??????

Since i have some awesome bloggy friends i want to ask you guys a question,just to know what will u do,if someone does not respect women and does not treat them well? Will u just sit and watch and say not my household not my problem or do something??Well, let me know... I'm waiting...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

We are back from the Bay Area.. it has been one amazing weekend.My hubby surprised me with a birthday /Mother's day gift...a spa package in La Belle.. I had luxurious time in the spa... Jenna was with daddy taking a look around the Stanford University along with my cousin who studies there. Hubby took off from work on Monday(my b'day) and cooked for me some yummy lamb biryani. In the evening friends came over to our house and we had dinner with them.Jenna wished me too but Happy birthday sounded as happy bad day ..lol! The only thing i missed on my birthday is my family who are in India but neverthless i got to see them through skype.The funny part is they sang Happy birthday and cut cake for me in India and i got to see all this.Thanks to skype!! Anyway i had an amazing time otherwise and thanks to my hubby and Jenna for making my 25th birthday a memorable one.

19 MONTH OLD

Jenna is now 19 months...can't believe she will turn 2 in few months..

Jenna is in a stage where she understands what im saying,she puts her dirty diaper in the trash when i ask her to.. she fetches me the tv remote,she helps to water the plants.. she has become Mommy's big helper.

She uses the word thank you frequently,the best thing about this is after i nurse her in the morning she says thank you ammi.. which is the most sweetest thing on earth.

She says lets go,thats all,please,i'm sorry..she is combining 2 words now .

She loves playing in the water... if u give her a glass of water she will entertain

herself for atleast an hour by just playing with it.

She can almost repeat any word we say but at time s when she cannot she just babbles something instead.

Regarding ,Nursing..I have decided not to forcefully wean her now and I will wean her when we go to India during summer for 2 months so that it would be easier for her and me .

THE HAIR STORY

Last time when we went to get Jenna 's haircut it was a total nightmare... she screamed all the way through and the lady stopped halfway and said she could do no more since she was not sitting still.So we brought her home with haircut half done but neverthless the lady charged us entirely.. Anyway this time i did'nt want to take her to the same place and did some search on the net for someone who specializes in baby haircut and i found a place very close to my place called Little Kuts. We made an appointment and seriously i was dreading the day because i was sure she will cry again. The place is very baby friendly.. they have lot of toys for the kids to play and they have this cute horses and ducks and the children can sit on them and have their haircut... how cute is that!! But anyway Jenna did not want to sit on that,so she sat on daddy's lap and she cried but not much, she stopped once she knew that no one was hurting her.The lady who cut her hair did an awesome job.. We wanted her hair cut short since its getting pretty hot here ... She looks little boyish now but her hair was way too curly and it was kind of messy always.. now its kinda neat.

TRIP TO PORTLAND

Portland is a beautiful place...it has greenery all around and the weather was gloomy most of the time. Just the perfect place to have some good food and curl up and read a book.Luckily,i had a great friend who let me relax and did all the work and took care of Jenna too. I read 4 novels in a week..and i was not the only person who had fun. Jenna loved being pampered by my friend and her hubby.

We took Jenna to the zoo and she enjoyed thoroughly.It was her first time.She was naming the animals.. tiger was cat, pola bear was dada which means Panda.

The tulip festival was just gorgeous.. acres of land with all these colourful tulips was just a feast to the eyes.

If your a nature person and love all these scenic views ,Portland is the place to be.