Adventures in Fatherhood: The Baby Shower

Nidhi (Missus) & I are fabulous at managing and arranging one another. So we threw each other a baby shower. We Gujaratis call it 'Kholo Bharwanu' ('God Bharai' in Hindi and 'Filling the Lap' in English).

I'm normally not one to throw a party or organise a get together. The Gujarati inside of me would rather save the money and put it to good use when the little one is here. But Missus likes to dress up. So the argument was settled even before it started.

Atman made the invitation, Missus & I went and got a dress for her, booked the venue, and invited everyone whom Mom, Missus, and I wanted to invite.

Yours truly insisted on a minimalist motif. From the invitation to the venue decor to the food to the agenda. Did not take any gifts either.

It was fun. Maami put some rice and other stuff in Missus's lap and then took it back. Then she repeated the whole thing 15 more times. Atman gave Missus a backhanded slap. And I wanted to know why the f*** we were doing all of those things.

We then played a game of guess the songs where Atman & I played oldie tunes on our respective musical instruments (keyboard and flute). There were The Jungle Book and Duck Tales theme songs, Ek Mahal ho Sapano ka song, and a Hindi numbers including 'Jab koi baat bigad jaaye' and 'Ajeeb Daastan hai ye'. The second game was Dumb Charades. Here, yours truly was at his creative best weaving a twisted and obviously hilarious tale of our pregnancy with famous Hindi movie dialogues. (I could do a separate blog post on this game itself).

Father in Law and Grand mother spoke their minds and in the process took Missus's and my case with some fun banter.

At the end of it there were balloons and chocolates and dinner and desserts and discussions and photos and Selfies.

Missus and I did a good job on the baby shower with some help from Atman.