Its surprising how quickly time goes by. It was only yesterday that Aria was born and I had decided to pen down my thoughts about her...its been 1.5 years since then and even then no single post .
Anyways, its Jan 1st 2015 morning. We had a simple new year celebration at home and once Vandita/Aria slept, I tried real hard to take a nap, yes nap ! I think I was awake for almost entire night. I am not sure what exactly kept me awake but yes I was. Its 6 am in the morning and I feel super fresh, despite the fact that I have slept for hardly 2 hours !
So what was on my mind this entire time. Many things
- Aria
- Life here with Vandita and Aria
- Family back home
- Health concerns
- Job pressure !
- How life has changed since Aria
- Generally how did we spend 2014 !
So many thoughts and my mind is racing.
2014 was an eventful year to say the least.
It started with our Guys weekend at Vegas in Jan ...we had such an awesome time. Its kind of becoming our guys tradition to have one yearly trip for a weekend. Be away from all responsibilities and do total "masti". Family, job , responsibilities does take a toll on us. This yearly getaway is such a nice breather, everyone is kind of appreciating it. Hopefully it continues every year. Even the respective wives have been supportive of it..Surprising ..yeah surely.But again we also ask them to do the same ...a gals weekend getaway. So far they have had night outs :P weekend getaway is next in line...
Vacations:
Other than the regular summer outings, Thanks to Vnadita, we were able to manage two nice long vacations.
Cancun, Mexico : what a wonderful vacation. We went for about 6 days and every little bit of it was so much fun. It was amazing to see Aria being such a sport , away from home. This was early in the year around May.
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic : ohh boy, this was indeed one of its kind. First time ever that we went out for 11 days for vacation. Somehow all these years I never believed in long vacations. Guess I was terribly wrong. We played, danced, relaxed and witnessed how eager Aria was to learn new things...Every day at Puna Cana, she was yearning to learn new things. Guess what this was the prime reason why we decided to put her at Day care post the trip..
Growing by leaps and bounds !
Yes that's how Aria navigated. We had such a good time when aai, baba, ketki, archit visited us here at NYC. long drives, trips...weekend vacations..everyone njoying with aria. All round fun. best time of the year. Mummy Daddy visited this year as well. Even they couldn't believe how vandita turned from wife to mom !! ...we celebrated her first birthday with friends and family. Its so strange, somehow kids have this unique ability to make everyone revolve around their lives. Everyone, literally everyone wants to spend time with the baby. Every little thing that they do is Cute.
Aria this year started walking. I remember it was almost 13th month and she just showed no sign of taking her first steps...I started getting worried unnecessarily, only to see her take those steps in next 10 days. Once she tool those first steps, there was no looking back. In hindsight, somewhere deep down it feels she should have taken lil more time to walk ..you ask why..
let me say this..it was so much easy to just hold her, hug her earlier. Once she started walking, we lost that freedom :( . now its a fight to hold her in your arms :)
Reading books,identifying objects,participating in kids triathlon... repeating simple words..acting on our instructions, getting comfortable with strangers, sometimes sleeping independently through the night.... the list is endless. Every day there was something new adding to her laundry list. If I ever had to reflect back one thing that makes me super happy about 2014..then its going to be this
- Aria following instructions or doing this funny thing for me :
Every day when I am all set to go to work, I sit on our couch. Aria goes running to the Shoe stand and somehow manages to lift my office shoes/socks and ting ding ding ding..there she comes
running towards me with my shoes in her hand, places them near my feet, sits and waits for me to wear it. As I write this, I can literally see this happening in front of my eyes.Lovely.
And then as I walk in the lobby to the elevator, she used to run outside and follow me all the way to elevator. Love it love it looooveee it. Will miss this moments..forever. I hope she continues this for a long time :)
Vandita and I have had our own share of moments. Fights about how to raise Aria..Getting back together later realizing both want to get to the same goal, just with different ways ! Emotions are always running high when it comes to babies.
No India trip this year...kind of sad, missed loads of functions and weddings. Everyone felt bad , but there was no way out, we just couldn't manage India trip. This year however talks about going back to India were at heightened spirits..As usual no concrete outcomes, but at least there was a vibe. Its a constant push pull :(
There is this one particular thing that kept bothering me through this year. My back pains !
Because of them, I do not go to gym or have reduced myt rkt ball time...
Due to no exercise/game time : I start getting anxious..
gain weight...in tandem
start emotional eating...
gain weight..
more back pain !
This is troubling me and hopefully in 2015, we will have a solution.
It feels sad to get back pains at this age.. Not getting any younger it seems.
On that note, we happened to discuss about "mid life crisis" this year ! lol it might sound funny, but is it on the cards some time soon....What to really do with that extra job promotion...that extra responsibility...where are we really heading ? such questions took the limelight. Long way to go, however I am happy these questions are at least cropping up..I believe its a good sign.
Anyways
Would love to tag couple of pics for this post...but its already too long a blog and no sleep is finally taking a toll on me now..I guess naps are after all necessary.
Adios.
Anyways, its Jan 1st 2015 morning. We had a simple new year celebration at home and once Vandita/Aria slept, I tried real hard to take a nap, yes nap ! I think I was awake for almost entire night. I am not sure what exactly kept me awake but yes I was. Its 6 am in the morning and I feel super fresh, despite the fact that I have slept for hardly 2 hours !
So what was on my mind this entire time. Many things
- Aria
- Life here with Vandita and Aria
- Family back home
- Health concerns
- Job pressure !
- How life has changed since Aria
- Generally how did we spend 2014 !
So many thoughts and my mind is racing.
2014 was an eventful year to say the least.
It started with our Guys weekend at Vegas in Jan ...we had such an awesome time. Its kind of becoming our guys tradition to have one yearly trip for a weekend. Be away from all responsibilities and do total "masti". Family, job , responsibilities does take a toll on us. This yearly getaway is such a nice breather, everyone is kind of appreciating it. Hopefully it continues every year. Even the respective wives have been supportive of it..Surprising ..yeah surely.But again we also ask them to do the same ...a gals weekend getaway. So far they have had night outs :P weekend getaway is next in line...
Vacations:
Other than the regular summer outings, Thanks to Vnadita, we were able to manage two nice long vacations.
Cancun, Mexico : what a wonderful vacation. We went for about 6 days and every little bit of it was so much fun. It was amazing to see Aria being such a sport , away from home. This was early in the year around May.
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic : ohh boy, this was indeed one of its kind. First time ever that we went out for 11 days for vacation. Somehow all these years I never believed in long vacations. Guess I was terribly wrong. We played, danced, relaxed and witnessed how eager Aria was to learn new things...Every day at Puna Cana, she was yearning to learn new things. Guess what this was the prime reason why we decided to put her at Day care post the trip..
Growing by leaps and bounds !
Yes that's how Aria navigated. We had such a good time when aai, baba, ketki, archit visited us here at NYC. long drives, trips...weekend vacations..everyone njoying with aria. All round fun. best time of the year. Mummy Daddy visited this year as well. Even they couldn't believe how vandita turned from wife to mom !! ...we celebrated her first birthday with friends and family. Its so strange, somehow kids have this unique ability to make everyone revolve around their lives. Everyone, literally everyone wants to spend time with the baby. Every little thing that they do is Cute.
Aria this year started walking. I remember it was almost 13th month and she just showed no sign of taking her first steps...I started getting worried unnecessarily, only to see her take those steps in next 10 days. Once she tool those first steps, there was no looking back. In hindsight, somewhere deep down it feels she should have taken lil more time to walk ..you ask why..
let me say this..it was so much easy to just hold her, hug her earlier. Once she started walking, we lost that freedom :( . now its a fight to hold her in your arms :)
Reading books,identifying objects,participating in kids triathlon... repeating simple words..acting on our instructions, getting comfortable with strangers, sometimes sleeping independently through the night.... the list is endless. Every day there was something new adding to her laundry list. If I ever had to reflect back one thing that makes me super happy about 2014..then its going to be this
- Aria following instructions or doing this funny thing for me :
Every day when I am all set to go to work, I sit on our couch. Aria goes running to the Shoe stand and somehow manages to lift my office shoes/socks and ting ding ding ding..there she comes
running towards me with my shoes in her hand, places them near my feet, sits and waits for me to wear it. As I write this, I can literally see this happening in front of my eyes.Lovely.
And then as I walk in the lobby to the elevator, she used to run outside and follow me all the way to elevator. Love it love it looooveee it. Will miss this moments..forever. I hope she continues this for a long time :)
Vandita and I have had our own share of moments. Fights about how to raise Aria..Getting back together later realizing both want to get to the same goal, just with different ways ! Emotions are always running high when it comes to babies.
No India trip this year...kind of sad, missed loads of functions and weddings. Everyone felt bad , but there was no way out, we just couldn't manage India trip. This year however talks about going back to India were at heightened spirits..As usual no concrete outcomes, but at least there was a vibe. Its a constant push pull :(
There is this one particular thing that kept bothering me through this year. My back pains !
Because of them, I do not go to gym or have reduced myt rkt ball time...
Due to no exercise/game time : I start getting anxious..
gain weight...in tandem
start emotional eating...
gain weight..
more back pain !
This is troubling me and hopefully in 2015, we will have a solution.
It feels sad to get back pains at this age.. Not getting any younger it seems.
On that note, we happened to discuss about "mid life crisis" this year ! lol it might sound funny, but is it on the cards some time soon....What to really do with that extra job promotion...that extra responsibility...where are we really heading ? such questions took the limelight. Long way to go, however I am happy these questions are at least cropping up..I believe its a good sign.
Anyways
Would love to tag couple of pics for this post...but its already too long a blog and no sleep is finally taking a toll on me now..I guess naps are after all necessary.
Adios.
