Look who's talking....

or at least saying "uh oh" ... usually this involves many things landing on the ground as an opportunity to say "uh oh"

One picture. Lots of family.

Somewhat miraculous that we got everyone looking in the right general direction without any crying or sticking their tongue out...

If you're happy and you know it - cousin style

Happy valentines day mommy and daddy!

I painted it myself.

Posing with Dora

Crawling game

In just a few short weeks, Samara has become a crawling expert (and is not trying hard to start walking.) Here's a fun crawling game with Mommy...

Samara and Azoba

Samara and Azoba have a very special bond.. they both are extra happy with one another.. and especially when playing horsey.

my New Favourite picture

Daddy and Samara (as photographed by Azoba)

Walking with Aji and azoba

Standing

My baby is in a rush to stand already. Her newest pastime...standing!

Recent Videos

The girls have been so much fun over the last month. They are playful with each other, and with Aji and Azoba. Samara is enjoying making raspberries at Azoba and crawls to him whereever he may be. Sarina is getting into big girl games like Memory Match and Fish (although she doesn't get the concept of holding her cards a secret) Apologies for the late posting (and 3 videos in one!) but we were busy globe trotting to Buffalo for the holidays to see Dadi and Dadu and with settling back in for 2012. Happy New Year all!

yay... crawling...

Our little Samara has been working incredibly hard on her crawling the last few weeks. She learned to move from sitting to a crawling position a few weeks ago and then learned how to crawl... but only backwards. Poor Samara would get so frustrated because she would want to go forwards to get something or to come to mommy or daddy but could only go backwards. We were happy to see her move around but sad to see her so frustrated.

She's been working hard at it the last couple weeks and today, for the first time, she crawled forward. She's excited and so are we!

The first video is her from about 10 days ago... crawling, but backwards, and getting sad and frustrated.

Video two is from today - she got it!

My beard

No, this isn't samara dressing as Santa Claus, this is just her sporting a yogurt beard.

Sarina at lagunatas brewery

Good morning everyone.

Mommy making Samara giggle....

with her silly tricks!

Mmmmm. Beets

Saturday morning choo choo ride

Sarina and daddy on a little train ride to a farmers market.

Football!

I've been working on teaching Sarina a little about football. Here she's practicing running for touchdowns. I haven't yet gotten to the part that stopping to give your little sister a kiss isn't part of the game (you can hear her when running say "I want to give samara a kiss."

sister love...

Sarina singing to her little sister. Samara goes in for a little hug.. and Sarina gives her a big hug back. So much sister love.

Samara giggling..

Mommy found a funny little laugh that made Samara giggle... non-stop

Minnie mouse and daddy

Samara at the 50 yard line.

Check out my new hairdo

I'm definitely a muppet!

Good morning kiss

Pink jacket twins

I love holding my sisters hand.

Samara playing

Unicorn hair

Ready for tour de france

Racing around the school yard top speed when I picked her up today.