Happy Birthday Ariv !!!!

Yes, he is 1 ...and as daddy says, he is no more a baby but a lil boy of ours.... We had a lot of fun celebrating Ariv's 1st Bday. It was a fantabulous day and Ariv just loved all the attention he got. After lot of debate , we decided to have Indian food catered . It being a weekday, both me and Manish took day off from work , to clean and prepare for evening . We did satya narayan pooja at home, didn't invite anybody as it was a working day .
We were worried how will Ariv sit in 1 place for 1-1.5 hrs, while pandit jee from temple does this pooja. But Ariv was in a great mood. He wore the Dhoti and gujrati style kurta which said " hare raam, hare krishna", so looked absolutely cute .(thanks to mama and mami for sending it) He sat there and was ringing the bells like a rattle, which was perfect.
The pujari was so amused at Ariv's behaviour that he was talking about his 6 month old daughter in between the process and comparing it to Ariv's activities :)
Later in the evening, people started gathering , I dressed him up into a much prettier and glitzy dhoti /kurta and stole...Ohhh he looked so cute, just that the dhoti was longer for his legs and he kept stumbling over. I tucked the dhoti on the top of his tummy to make it short and people started joking that it is the tamilian style....
we had a lovely cake from Shatila for him with some toys and a musical candle. I made some navratan korma and spinach/cheese swirls ,shashi toast ,fruit punch and sooji halwa (pooja prasad) ...ooh didnt realize I made so much. And then we had ordered some Paneer lababdar,gobhi manchurian, veg biryani , onion kulcha/garlic naan/butter nan from Ashoka.
Ariv and Shiv loved playing with the balloons and enjoyed acting like celebrities .

Next day , we celebrated Ariv's Bday in his school with cupcakes . He absolutely loves cake now...thank goodness.