Nikila 4th and Pranav's 1st Birthday

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Today is Pranav's first birthday party and Nikila's 4th. We thought for a while if we should combine both the parties or not and decided to do combine. We were a bit lazy in selecting the hotel and finally chose Athidi in Sunnyvale. The party hall is big here. We engaged an entertained that dressed as snow white and did some magic show and balloon twisting for the kids. We ordered balloon from Party Fiesta in San Jose. They came and arranged the balloons before we came to the hall. Since the hall is a big one the decoration seemed a little less. The cakes were ordered at Peacock Santa Clara. Nikila wanted Thomas train for her and Cars for Pranav.
We were in the party hall around 11.30 AM and Bharani and me did a few decoration arrangements. Pranav was good most of the party time and was almost getting ready to sleep around 2PM. We hurriedly arranged for cutting the cake as we thought he might sleep soon. He cried a little bit around that time. The food was very good but we did not get a chance to have it. Thanks to Bharani, Sai and Baker for taking pictures and video.

Pranav turns 1

Pranav completed 1 year today. Its been amazing that time flies so fast. We got a small cake and make him cut it. I will upload the photos after the party

Pranav gets first Rakhi from Nikila

Today is first Rakhi for Pranav. I did not remember this and never thought that we can make Nikila tie Rakhi to Pranav. The previous evening Neelima called me and told me to get Rakhi. It was fun seeing Nikila tie Rakhi to Pranav. She asked us why she needs to tie Rakhi. Neelima told her that its for being happy forever. Nikila immediately said "we are happy".

Pranav After 11 Months and first professional photos

Pranav completed 11 months and he is now able to walk mostly without holding anything. As soon as I come home in the evening, the first thing he does is show me that he can stand and walk and as he does this, he gives a big smile and shouts. He is getting bigger every day.
We never did a professional photo shoot for Pranav and all of sudden decided to do one this weekend. We got ready and went to Kiddie Kandid at Babysrus and they said that they don't have any free time for the day on Saturday and asked us to come on Sunday. Since we got the kids all ready, we went back home and got a few pictures for both Nikila and Pranav. On Sunday we went for the photo shoot and got a few more pictures.
It became very difficult for us to make him smile at the shoot. We tried a lot and he would not smile at all. After almost at the end of the shoot, I was holding a cap and dropped it. He then started laughing a lot. Only if we knew this trick at the beginning...
The last few pictures in the album are from the professional shoot.

Half Moon Bay

This is purely coincidental that we always make a trip to Half Moon Bay in August. It was very clear all the way but once we reached Half Moon Bay, it was cloudy and a little cooler but was manageable. This is the first trip to beach for Pranav. Initially he was hesitant to get into the sand (like Nikila was at this age). But after a while he had no hesitation to get covered by sand. We were there for almost 3 hours and had fun. There were big waves. Usually after the beach we go to the Peet's coffee and have a nice hot coffee. But I miss the coffee now as we stopped taking coffee. But still went there and got milk for Nikila.
BTW, the parking fee is now $10 at Francis beach and I felt it was like a big hike.
Nikila slept on the way back around 6PM and did not wake up till the next morning.