Sarina's First week...

Hard to believe, but it has already been a week since Sarina was born. We're learning to live with little sleep but lots of new found joy. In her first week, we brought Sarina home from the hospital, welcomed her home, gave her a sponge bath, and have spent lots of time feeding, burping, and napping with our new little girl. Some photos are below:

In the waiting room at the pediatrician office

Sarina's first pediatrician appointment!

Flashback... Maternity photos

We recently received our Maternity photos from our wonderful photographer, Ami Bruce. We took these photos at week 36 of Smita's pregnancy - here's some of them. Now that we've seen baby in all her glory we've been reminiscing about when we were anticipating the arrival of Sarina.

Sarina - Day Two

Here are a few photos from Day Two. Both Mom and Dad got to spend some quality time with Sarina... including Dad in kangaroo mode. Aji and Azoba (Grandma & Grandpa Vakil) made it to town through a challenging set of flights from the East Coast. Smita got a wonderful massage from her Mom and Sarina got some new arms and laps to sleep on.

Introducing Sarina Jain

Introducing the newest member of our family... our long awaited baby girl, Sarina.

Below is a slideshow with some pictures from her first day of life.

She looks forward to meeting you all in the near future. Stay tuned, we plan to continue to update this blog with photos and commentary from Sarina's early life.

Happy Holidays to all!

Fast asleep this morning

Welcome to the world!!

Mom and baby are doing great.

Getting closer

Dressing table all set up.

Big progress

Just hit 10 cm. Time to start pushing. Hooray!

Hanging out in the rocking chair

Smita is still going strong and continues to have a big smile on her face.

Good thing we brought some things to distract a bit, IPod and speakers, cards, movies, etc.

Making good progress

Smita is resting well this morning. So far all on track.

Water broke...

Here we go!!

What will be first?

The car is on the brink of hitting 100,000 miles. We are wondering if the baby comes first or if the car hits 100k first. Hmmmmm...

Week 38... ANY day now

So here they are at the end of week 38. Baby is surely starting to get cramped and thinking about her grand escape to the outside world. So far, no signs of baby wanting to leave Smita's warm belly.

This is also the debut of our new camera ready to greet baby when she arrives.

Movie!

We are going to go see Milk tonight. I'm also writing from by blackberry to make sure I have blackberry blog email updating set up right.

Week 37... FULL TERM!!

Here we are at the end of Week 37. Lil' J is now "fully baked." Over the next few weeks baby J will fatten up a bit, but otherwise she should be all developed and could be born at any time. She isn't showing any signs of wanting to leave mommy's warm belly, but who knows... We're all on alert now, car seat is installed and bags are (almost) packed.

Maternity Photos..

Smita and I had some maternity photos taken this weekend... We wanted to get some good photos of Smita (and I) just before having the baby. These aren't the maternity photos, just me taking some pictures during the actual photo shoot.

Week 36 profile photo

Here is Smita at the end of Week 36. Only a week away from full-term! We also had some great maternity photos taken this weekend which we will post in the near future. Also, I’m updating our blog this week from my blackberry so I’m all ready to go on the big day.

Thanksgiving Getaway - Yosemite

Given our travel restrictions these days, we hit the road instead of flying this Thanksgiving. We thought it would be fun to go to Yosemite, about 3.5 hours away, get in one last road trip and outdoor excursion before our family grows. I've only been in the summer and spring. Fall is a really neat time in Yosemite - the autumn sun hits the rock walls in a different way and the leaves are changing color. We spent a couple days "hiking" (more like strolls for the pregnant lady)... taking in the breathtaking views of giant sequoia's, waterfalls, rockwalls, meadows etc. Lots of fresh air for all 3 of us. I'm experimenting this week with embedding slideshows in the blog just to see how well it works. Here are a few photos from the weekend.

Week 35 Belly Photo (in the great outdoors!)

Here's me at Week 35, on our trip to Yosemite National Park. Thank goodness the stretchy black dress didn't accompany me there. I like this picture because it's hard to feel big in Yosemite when the mountains and sequoias are always SO much bigger.