First Diwali

Diwali is one of the biggest festivals for us Mumma was telling us. Its the festival of lights. The festival signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil and hope over despair! Hmm…now we get why its so important!
To celebrate, mumma and papa had called some people over the day before Diwali, which is called "Choti Diwali" or Small Diwali so that we could all join in the party fun. We even helped Mumma with the rangoli!

Here is proof that we helped….it did  take the longest time to figure out how that Rangoli went together!

Everyone wore their indian outfits including us, or did you have any doubts! Zara got to wear her matching bangles but Zoya wanted nothing to do with them and cried till they all came off! Here are some pictures of us all dressed up.

All dressed up! Posing for the camera!

Zoya chewing on her bangle!

Zara likes her finger better!

Mumma is she laughing at what I said or just because the sun is in her face?

Am I cute or what? 

Waiting eagerly for all the guests to arrive.

Once everyone got here, they all took some celebe…something something shots! No silly…not those ones. Those ones hurt! They were all enjoying and drinking theirs. Maybe next time we will get these shots instead. The ones we got so far have been nothing put painful and uncomfortable. Note to self…. we need to ask our doctor for these shots……

Look… they look so happy to get their shots?!!??

It was time for the Chinese lanterns. We all went outside and lit the lanterns. We don't know if anyone made any wishes or not… we sure didn't …we were mesmerized and busy looking at the lanterns flying away into the distance.

We were exhausted after the lanterns and went straight to bed. We know that Mumma, Papa, Nanu, Nani and all the Uncles and Aunties were having a lot of fun as the music kept getting louder and louder and also their voices kept getting louder and louder. We think there was some dancing involved. Obviously they didn't take any pictures at that time, as they didn't want us to know that the party went on without us…and more over that they had so much fun!

We did find this one picture from after all the fun…SEEEEEEE they were having waaaaayyyyy too much fun!

The next day was actual Diwali, so we helped Nanu set up the mandir for the pooja, did pooja and had our Parshad. We love helping everyone around the house….ask Mumma! It was now time for the FIREWORKS!!! Oh My! We had seriously been missing out all our lives!!! ( all of our 11 months)! Now this is FUN! We went to the mandir for the fireworks and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.

Helping Nanu!

Ready for pooja!

Zara ready to go light an Anar with Papa!

We were having so much fun watching the fireworks that we didn't want to turn for a picture. 

Fuljadi with Mumma!

We came back home and ended the day with some  Chinese lanterns! What a fun filled festival! The best part being the fireworks. We can't wait for next year …maybe Papa will let us light some on our own! Fingers crossed!