A lovely gift for the new year

The new year 2010 dawned on a brilliant note for us :). Well, it was not meant to happen that way originally, but I am so glad that it did. Thanks to my dear cousin bro S and his wife L.

The "Anthakshari" session with Jillu was on at that time and it was already way past Jillu's bed time (owing to New Year Eve) and the bell rings. 

Hubby, all innocence, says "Who could it be at this time ?" (For,I later came to know that he was totally aware!). So off we all go to open the door and our late night visitors happen to be none other than  S & L. And what have they got with them for us ?

A big 20x30 lamination of collage of photos from Jillu's 1st birthday. Superb and Brilliant it was ! It is ! I just love it ! 

It was actually meant to be Jillu's birthday gift, but thanks to the delay from the studio, they could not present it then. But then, it made a wonderful New Year gift :). Though I had earlier got wind of (or rather anticipated) something like this happening when my hubby took a few snaps in the pen drive for S, I was unaware of the impending visit on the New Year eve and the end result is so magnificent and I am so thrilled.

I have to thank my SIL "L" for the idea and bro "S" for the implementation :)

Thank you so much, bro and SIL.

A start of another wonderful year !!!

Jillu, you turned 2 yesterday :). Happy Birthday, sweet heart. I know, we have all told you nothing else but "Happy Birthday" for the whole of the long weekend that just passed away. And what a weekend it was!  Especially Sunday and Monday. But more about that later.

The year has gone by so fast. It seems as though it were only a few months before that we celebrated your first birthday, why the day I held you for the first time in my arms seems as though it was only yesterday and now the second year is also gone.  You have been such a wonderful delight to all of us. You have won all of our hearts over and all of our every waking moment is somehow or other filled of your thoughts. Your naughty smile, your mischievous look, your cheeky retorts (yeah, you have started that as well, recently), every single thing that you do amazes us and gives us so much pleasure. Now, I cannot even imagine how life was before you came in to my life.

You have turned my whole life upside down, made me weep with joy & anxiety. You have made me want to enjoy every moment of life, made me want to record all that you do. You gave life to this blog. You have made me look at myself hard and evaluate myself all over again. Now, everything I do or say, is looked at from your perspective first, for you learn and imitate all, the talking and the action,  from us directly. You have made me take the alternate path in life, taking care of you full time, for which I am looking forward to with much pleasure.

Though I still wish that time would stand still and we can all enjoy you the way you are now, a cherubic little sweet angel that you are, we still look forward to the future.Your every progress & mile stone is much celebrated and shared with your grand parents on a day to day basis.  No one conversation ends without speaking about you. You have made us all run behind you with a slightest twist of your little finger.

Life has indeed blessed us with you and I am grateful for it.

Happy Birthday da Kannaa (I am allowed to say this again for this is the "BIRTHDAY WEEK").

I Love You and God Bless You !

We all Love You :)