First Birthday Cake

On Arya and Amiya's actual birthday we didn't do a whole lot. Rachu and I took them to the park but they got cranky because it was really hot and muggy. I made them a cake and we sang Happy Birthday to them after their dinner. Amiya really dug into the cake and went to town eating it! Arya was eating each sprinkle one by one. It was really cute!


We have had a week long birthday celebration with the girls. I will post pictures later of their party and cake smash later. Here are the pictures from their birthday. They were super excited when we sang Happy Birthday to them. I have been teaching them to clap their hands when they hear theHappy Birthday song and they got really excited when we began singing. Amiya was jumping up and down and Arya was clapping her hands!

Of course all the pictures are taken by Rachna Photography!

Happy 1st Birthday Arya & Amiya!!!

One year ago today my life changed...OUR lives changed - Forever
One year ago today I was excited
One year ago today I was scared...how am I going to do this????
One year ago today was the best day of my life
One year ago today my sweet, beautiful, happy and healthy baby girls were born
Our family of two became an instant family of FOUR


Here is a walk down memory lane....

Driving to the hospital to be induced

Stopped for coffee...its gonna be a long night!

Akhil just got off of working a 7 day night stretch so no sleep in sight for him!

All ready to go!

Grandparents are waiting
I can't believe I was this huge. How does my uterus even stretch this big??

My Arya was born vaginally at 5;45pm

Me and Arya snuggling

Dadaji and Nanima meeting Arya

My little Amiya born crash c-section at 5:58pm

Best friends!

That was one year ago today, and here are my little angels TODAY!

Father's Day

Akhil's first Father's Day was spent solo...he worked until afternoon and then waited for us girls to come home from Toronto. We didn't make it in until about 5:30pm. I felt bad that Arya and Amiya couldn't spend the day with him. They both were so excited to see him though. When we pulled into the driveway, Arya excitedly kept saying dada dada dada. They were so pumped about seeing Akhil and to finally be home!

We were out of town in Toronto for my cousin Rakesh's wedding. It was a fun filled but exhausting weekend for us all! I will post pictures from the wedding soon

Here Arya and Amiya are just about to give their dad his Father's Day gift.

and here is a frowny face Amiya!

Silly Girls!

The girls are having fun with all their toys and exploring the house. These girls are just so silly and fun! Yesterday after giving them a bath, I first took Amiya out of the tub, wrapped her up in her towel and took her to her room. I don’t know why but I thought she would just lay there and wait for me. (This girl does not sit still for a second!) I forgot to shut the door behind me when I went back to get Arya out of the tub. I took Arya out, wrapped her in her towel and was about to take a step and I saw little Amiya right below me with the towel draped over her head like a veil and she looked up at me and said “uh-oh”. (Uh-oh is her favorite word right now!) The naked little girl crawled to the bathroom because she didn’t want to be alone in her room! Ha!


As usual, Amiya trying to snag some food from the fridge

Typically Arya doesn't hide in a corner and play...but here she was quitely playing with the floor vent...usually I find Amiya doing this.

Full of giggles over their new monkey




So excited to play with her monkey guy.

Typical day for the Bindra girls

Busy Busy Busy Playing

It is so nice to have an extra hand with mobile 11 month olds! Akhil's job has gotten SOOO much better since March! I can't even extend on the SOOOOOOOO much better. He seriously was working so much the past 4 years he hasn't had time to relax or take a moment to breath. He really missed out on alot with Arya and Amiya. I felt bad that he would only see them at night by peeking in on them while they slept. But now he is no longer going to Akron General very much. His group has expanded and he is going to University Hospitals now. The hours are great and I love having an extra hand in the evening when I am highly frazzled and stressed to get both girls fed, bathed, and to bed by 7 pm. So he generally is home now by about 5:30 but still works every other weekend. On the weekends he is home by 1pm so it isn't bad at all. His other partners are still working like dogs at Akron General but I'm not complaining!!! I really hope those awful 15 hour days are done for good! But now in Akhil's "free" time he is trying to spend it by studying for his pulmonary / critical care boards that are coming up in October...ick!


A post could not go without some pictures of my cute babies! Here are a few recent pictures that I have taken in the past month.

Both girls fight over books. They get so excited when I put a bunch of books on the floor for them to look through. It usually ends up with someone getting mad though!

Both girls love playing with the spindels on the stairs because it jingles a bit

Amiya gets very excited when we get boxes.

She loves to climb them and then pound on them

Right after I took this pictures one of them push the toy over

and both girls ended up on the floor not so happy!




Arya clapping her hands as usual. When we say "yeeeeeeaaaah" she claps her hands.

Amiya loves going to the mud room to either play with the loose string on the carpet, the door stopper or her carseat. I get so nervous when its about time for Akhil to come home from work and she is in there. I am afraid he will open the door and smack her in the head. As much as I try to get her away from there, she keeps heading back to that room!

I was in the kitchen washing dishes, then I come out to find her inside her changing table.

This girl is in everything!

I know I have a lot of pictures of Amiya posted here. She is doing a lot of funny things!

Here she was amazed by the sunlight shining through the window on the carpet.

She kept touching it and was trying to figure it out.