What Ho! Ah! To live with a What Ho on my lips and a Gentleman's Gentleman… {sigh}… Such is life…

Mamli's 9th Birthday Party

Mamli turned 9 yesterday, March 8, 2008. I still have difficulty absorbing the fact that my little baby is growing up so fast.

She had a small birthday party for her closest friends in our apartment in Hyderabad. She helped Padmaja make the cake and do the icing.

Mamli's Birthday cake (click picture for full size image )

Bablu our almost-4-year-old son was perhaps even more excited than Mamli. Bablu will celebrate his 4th Birthday on March 21, 2008. Incidentally it is Holi that day and we expect to have our hands full with the festival as well as the little tyke's birthday party.

Mamli & Bablu share a laugh (click picture for full size image)

Mamli's best friend, Afshan, was there to share the moment as she has for the last 8 years.

Mamli & Afshan (click picture for full size image)

Mamli cut her cake at about 7.00 p.m., after all her friends had arrived. The kids loved the cake and the Chatt Padmaja had made.

Mamli cutting her Birthday Cake (click picture for full size image)

They played a game of stick-the-bindi-on-my-face-while-blind-folded. Padmaja later told me that she had played a similar game 25 years ago at a friend's birthday party when she was Mamli's age.

Playing a party game (click picture for full size image)

Tomorrow, Monday, is Birthday-at-school day. No uniform, candy for her friends and teachers, and a shinny new pink colored school bag. She does so love pink!