A special thanks to all our family and friends who were able to attend Nishaan’s first birthday party at Khaana Peena Restaurant. With all the Olympic festivities going on in the city, it was good to see everyone make it out to this special event.
Paul’s stag in Kelowna
The funniest part of the trip was when a couple of the guys decided to pull out this paddle boat.
Make your predictions on our 2nd Baby Pool
I decided to run a baby pool again for our 2nd upcoming baby. The due date has been scheduled for February 20th. You can make your predictions at this website. Good luck to all.
Entering Geek Talk …
What makes this website different is that it is being hosted “on the cloud”. I was able to learn about the new cloud services operating system called Windows Azure at Microsoft’s 2008 PDC conference in L.A. With the help of the tutorials online from the conference, I was able to use ASP.NET MVC in combination with building the app on the cloud. Microsoft is inviting developers to try out the Azure platform for a year before they come up with a pricing structure for the cloud service.
… End Geek Talk. Phew!
Top 5 essentials for our 1 year old baby
Here’s a quick list of things my wife and I discovered as must haves that were overlooked or weren’t considered as relevant for our 1 year old daughter:
5. Treehouse TV
Our PVR has been taken over with Treehouse shows such as Big Comfy Couch, The Backyardigans and This is Emily Yeung.
4. High Chair
The high chair is the only way to lock down an over active child and get them to eat.
3. Flip-Open Sofa with Slumber Bag
This portable slumber bag is quite useful during the day for naps. Also good for the child to sit in and watch Treehouse (refer to point 5).
2. Footed sleepers with rubber soles
For everyday wear, we found that the zippered sleepers with elasticized ankles and gripper bottoms for traction as the best wear. Easy to change in and out of as well as the gripper bottoms help for traction on hardwood and tiled floors. Available at Childrens Place.
1. Soother
Like the credit card commercial goes:
Never leave home without it
Zahra’s new Room
Baby Kaila will be enjoying her new room decorated by her mom.
It’s a girl!
This is the text message that I sent out at 1:18am on Thursday April 12th, 2007:
Just met the girl of my dreams. 7 pounds and 6 ounces. Mother and daughter are doing fine.
Dad is exhausted but will put up more pictures very soon. Nazara (aka Zahra) is now home in her new room and getting ready to see some visitors in the next weeks and months to come. Special thanks to the grandparents, my sister and sister-in-law for making this the most memorable experience of our lives. And a heartfelt thank-you to our uncle Prem Sagar for suggesting the name Nazara, it’s the perfect name for our lil princess : )
NazÄra means beautiful sight or a vision of beauty;