Kai is 3

Kai celebrated his 3rd birthday last week. Daddy took the day off for his birthday and we celebrated by going to an amusement/water park. To kick off the day we had yummy cake for breakfast and Kai opened his gifts. He choose Lightening McQueen for his cake. My fabulous cake extraordinaire friend, Sini, can have pictures put on cakes. She used the shot of McQueen mid-air with the "Michael Jordan" tongue sticking out:) And that was one of his gifts as well--a LMQ car with his tongue sticking out:)


We are so blessed to have Kai in our family. He's still the "baby" mostly due to his entertaining (and genuine) baby talk and funny antics. He keeps us laughing. I wish he could stay this age:)

Bollywood Wannabe's

Some of Brian's coworkers have taken up the hobby of film making. First it started with a cell phone camera, then upgraded to a Sony Handycam. They asked Brian and our family to play a part in their latest movie. Brian tried his hand at speaking Kannada, a local language, in the film and did a great job! He doesn't know Kannada but has heard so many coworkers using it that he picked up the accent:) His coworkers and our housekeeper were impressed. So was I:)

Brian plays the American father of an adopted, 20-something, Indian son. My 30 second cameo was dialogue free--thank goodness-- as the American mother blessing our son's future wife. The boys made an appearance in their pj's (Brian's stab at making a horror film a comedy:) (Yes, it is a horror film but thankfully our few minutes had nothing to do with blood or guts:)

The scenes are at an office and then an engagement party. The story is about a middle class guy (our son) who falls in love with his cook's sister (a no-no in India) and becomes engaged to her. We gave him our blessing but the cook/brother, who happens to be the villain, puts on a happy face but then turns psycho and kills everyone (joy:) And then, as only can be done in India, karma comes into play when the son and cook are reincarnated and the son gets revenge on the cook in his second life. Interesting. But I do think it will be a comedy when they premier it at the office because most of the guys at Brian's work really love to have fun and laugh at themselves and each other so this movie will be bringing lots of laughs.

I wish I could have filmed our family's part in the movie as we blessed our future daughter-in-law and then did a typical Bollywood scene of dancing, hand-in-hand in a circle (more joy:) When we get a copy I'll have to post that one!

It was a lot of fun to turn our home into a studio and pretend to be Bollywood stars:) Part of the crew
Director, Cook and Son
Party Decor for the scene--the star is made of strung flowers


One scene:


TAKE 1


TAKE 2


TAKE 3

Haddon's Adoption Day

We celebrated Haddon's 4th Adoption Day this week! This is the day he was officially adopted in front of a Texas judge, although he became our son the day he was born and went home with us from the hospital when he was 3 days old. It works out nicely because his Adoption Day and his birthday are about 6 months apart so he gets two celebrations a year! Here are some pictures from our outing to play arcade games at the mall. You will notice the boys are wearing their dinner on their faces:) Pizza:) And, as with all of our parties here in Bangalore, they are only made complete with a cake from our friend Sini. Haddon chose a Spiderman cake:)