Maestro

We sat Sarina in front of a little piano at Anish and Pia's place. She quickly got to work banging out some sweet music. It took her e few seconds to figure out that the keys were a level below the top of the piano but once she figured that out she couldn't be stopped.

Six Month Birthday

Sarina turned a big 6 last week... that is, six months old. The three of us celebrated over lunch downtown. Smita dressed Sarina in a cute birthday dress and we headed to the ferry building for lunch outdoors. We then picked up a strawberry chocolate cupcake from Miette for her birthday treat (which Mom and Dad ate on Sarina's behalf)

Mitul and Tanvi come to visit

This past weekend Uncle Mitul and Aunt Tanvi came to visit from Los Angeles. Even though Sarina was feeling a bit under the weather, she loved spending time with them. Aunt Tanvi looks like a natural holding a baby :)

Horsies!

Sarina is a very active girl. A very popular pastime is riding the mommy and daddy horses. Here she is going for a ride...

Sumeet's first Father's Day

Sarina has come to learn that daddy's favourite desserts involve bananas, and so she decided, to surprise daddy with a homemade banana pudding pie for father's day. Daddy had only asked for one gift on father's day - for Sarina to feel better - and she gave it to him by end of day. Despite being a bit tired as she was getting over a fever, Sarina spent most of the day playing with her favourite daddy, including rolling over every which way, giggling when daddy lifted her in the air, and catching the bubbles he blew towards her. Below are a couple pictures of the festivities.

Random set of pictures

We have been out and about a fair bit these last couple weeks. With birthday parties, casual get togethers, picnics and visitors, the three of us have been little social butterfly's.

Over the last couple weeks, we've also introduced solid food to Sarina (some of which she is starting to enjoy!) . Here's a collection of pictures from the last couple weeks.

Butternut Squash

After a few days of rice cereal, we started Sarina on a new food... butternut squash. Mommy lovingly took raw organic butternut squash and cooked and pureed it for Sarina and made lots of little containers for future use.

Butternut Squash was a hit... Sarina is much happier eating it over the tasteless rice cereal. Here's a video of her first time eating it for the first time...

First Solid Food

We started Sarina on solid foods last week. Her first food was rice cereal... I tasted it, it isn't very tasty so I can see why she isn't so excited by it. Good thing is that food eating is progressing well... more to come. Here is a video of the very first time Sarina tried solid food; we used a silver bowl and a silver spoon as per tradition in our families.

Proud to be an American....

Last week, Smita officially became a citizen of the United States. The citizenship process has been quite long (must be because Smita had been a citizen of the hostile rogue nation of Canada...)

Sarina and I were there to cheer her on! The event was quite grand at the Paramount theater in Oakland with almost 1,000 people from nearly 100 countries taking the oath at the same time.

Good times with Daddy

Though Daddy is a busy working man, he makes lots of time for Sarina! Here are some recent pictures of Sarina hanging out with Sarina. This is hard to capture in a picture or video, but Sarina smiles instantly when she sees Daddy smiling at her. He can be all the way across the room, but the instant he flashes a toothy grin, Sarina's face lights up. It's a bit self fulfilling too, because then Daddy grins bigger, and Sarina grins bigger and so on... and they both end up with sore cheeks from all the smiling at each other. A Daddy's girl indeed...

Don't Call Me Shorty

I was showing Sarina photos of everyone the other day, when she came across this one from Sanjay Mama's wedding. She noticed that Daddy is quite a bit taller than everyone else. Daddy claims he is standing on a bit of a hill, but none the less, Sarina took note that he looks a lot taller than Mommy's side of the family.



Since then, she has professed a preference for the Jain Family genes for height, and is now taken to wearing an outfit showing a small giraffe that says "Don't Call Me Shorty" in support of her cause. (thank you soni!) Perhaps the strangest coincidence is that since she started wearing it a couple weeks ago, she's grown to the point where the snaps barely do up at the bottom. Maybe her plan is working.

Sarina and Helen

Sarina has been having play dates with several of her friends lately. They are now getting to the point where they are curious about each other. Last week, Priscilla and Helen came over to play. Mostly they stared, played footsie and tried to size up how they could fit each other into their mouths but it seemed fun! Oh - and Sarina seems to be half naked because it was hot out that day and she'd decided she was done with her clothes.



This last photo is a keeper. Helen looks indignant that Sarina is touching her! Also, Helen looks like she's sporting Priscilla's long locks.

Bubbles!

Here's a little video clip of Sarina playing with bubbles for the first time. I think she's hooked...

A few pictures of Sarina

Here's a few random pictures of Sarina is all her wacky poses over the last couple weeks.

Scoot-Scoot...

Little Sarina is starting to enter the world of self-mobility. In the right set of conditions she will scoot herself over to her favorite toys. Whenever she does so, she always finished with a roll-over. I think its a little embellishment after showing off her new skills.

Sanjay Mama...

Sarina got to see Sanjay Mama during his recent trip to San Francisco. Looks to me like she remembers him from month one of her life...