Good morning and happy happy happy happy ISHAAN’S BIRTHDAY WEEK!

We are so excited because Mama and Papa Mathur drove in from San Ramon yesterday and got in around 8pm night. Ishaan was already asleep, but he must have had some sort of sense they were here because when we got into bed around 10:30, he woke us up at 11pm and stayed awake until 3am. I swear, he knew something was different. Either that or some more teething. But, anyway, this mama is TIRED and going to go drown herself in some caffeine.

We spent most of yesterday cleaning up the apartment and going through mail that has piled up over the weeks. The thing about cleaning with an almost-toddler in the house is that things get messy again when he wakes up from nap time.

Oh well. We got some deep cleaning in. Which, I realized, I haven’t done much of. I used to reserve my deep cleans for when we had company come over. And since that is so infrequent these days, the dust has built UP.

We also watched the most recent episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Which I like, but it’s no WandaVision, y’know? Ankur and I also started watching Shameless on Netflix and it’s such an interesting and engaging show. I highly recommend.

We did the usual breakfast sandwich for breakfast and this salad with wontons for lunch.

These wontons remind me of my Weight Watchers days because I could have 12 for some minimal amount of points. I gotta say, it feels REAL nice to not obsessively count out my wontons.

And Ishu Pishu ate quite a bit yesterday! I’m loving how much he loves to try different foods. Yesterday, he ate some sweet potato with this combo of farmers market goodies and love love loved it. Spicy and delicious.

He also downed a smoothie and inhaled half an avocado and had some other snacks throughout the day.

Even though his birthday is on Wednesday, we are going to wait to celebrate until the weekend. And the one thing that I’m most excited about is to see how he does with a smash cake. This kid GOES TO TOWN with regular ol’ food. So this mama wants to see how he dives into a pile of sugar.

I’m predicting there will be icing everywhere.