itsy bitsy duet with daddy

Sarina's favourite song when she was a baby was itsy bitsy spider. It's back! Now she's singing it. Of course she is a bit camera shy these days, so it's hard to capture the whole song on video. I managed to trick her by using my phone this time but she wised up by the end.

Three pumpkins!

Sarina's daycare has a cool pumpkin patch set up this week for the season... sarina loves seeing the pumpkins and can only really count to 3 (though she has 8, 9, 10 if you ask her for more but nothing inbetween) ... so when she sees a lot of something, it's usually 3 - e.g., THREE PUMPKINS!!

Gooooooal!!!

More pictures to come from our trip to Tahoe with the McCloskey's this weekend, but here's one of Sarina playing foosball with Helen. It's really not clear who won, (unless "winning" means grabbing balls off the table while in play in which case Sarina did)

Eating and Singing

Sarina is taking a little break from eating beans to sing happy birthday! Should be noted that Mommy taught Sarina to sing the song and she has been singing it all the time... but whenever the camera came out she would stop. Eating the beans distracted her enough to sing a bit on camera...

SOCKS!!

Sarina LOVES socks. She loves wearing them (sometimes four at a time - socks on her hands too), she loves picking out socks to wear and she loves sorting/arranging socks. An easy way to get her angry is to try taking her socks off without her permission (just ask the doctor.) This morning when I got out of bed, the first thing she said was "danny, no socks" like it was unthinkable that I wouldn't be wearing socks.

In this video, Sarina is making a little pile of all the socks from the laundry. All the while, she's singing the ABC song...
The rest of the laundry gets tossed aside in search of socks...

No time for talking... eating Dhokla

This weekend, Mommy made Dhokla for Sarina to eat. Sarina is normally fairly chatty when eating, but not this time. She loved the Dhokla (and was probably quite hungry) and had no time or interest in conversation. Just dipping Dhokla in chutney and eating... then repeating Dhokla after Dhokla

Dancing machine

Sarina recently got a fun play kitchen. She's clearly going to be a renaissance woman as she doesn't do any play cooking, but rather the parts of the kitchen she enjoys are the radio and telephone. Here she playing the radio on her kitchen and having fun dancing away.

Bi-see-cul?

Sarina got a new helmet to ride her tricycle! Now if only her feet reached the pedals...

Farm visit

Last weekend, we took Sarina to a farm in Half moon bay. She got to play in the petting zoo with rabbits, baby goats, ducks, chickens, etc. She loves all these animals... from a distance. When up close, they are all a little scary. We also attempted a pony ride (but quickly aborted when Sarina wanted no part of it.) She did love the train rides and in particular the hay ride. We all called it a "hay choo choo" and she still talks about "hay choo choo" almost daily.

On the way, we also stopped for breakfast - of course Sarina loved her big girl glass and munching on a bagel.

Hummus and Rice for lunch

Here's a little video clip of Sarina having some lunch. One of her favorites, hummus. She never forgets to also share lunch with Jalapeno, her monkey (she calls him aah-aah - as in the sounds a monkey makes.) She's also quite good now at dipping crackers and scooping out the hummus...

Q, R, S... yah, yah... V

Here's a little video of Sarina singing a part of the alphabet. The parts she forgets often gets replaced with "yah, yah" as seen here.... She sometimes even sings the alphabet song replacing every letter with the word "no." Another version for another day...

Daddy and Sarina tofu game

Here's a little (ok, a little long) video of Sarina and Daddy playing the tofu eating game. The game involves daddy trying to take Sarina's tofu... usually out of her mouth. That leads Sarina to hurry up and eat her tofu before daddy gets it.

If you listen carefully you can here her say, "no daddy, its mine"

fun, fun, fun!