look who's here....

Little sister arrived! More photos to come... Born yesterday, April 5th.

Oranges!!

Sarina has a new found passion for eating oranges. Good thing we have a neighbor with hearty orange trees we get to harvest.

Sunny days

Sarina is enjoying the sunny weather and her new sunglasses. Here she is being chauffeured to school by her Aji....we love the sun!!

Running, Running, Running

When Sarina is excited, she often starts running. She's clearly excited here, running back and forth between mommy and daddy.

Dr jain and dr vakil

Sarina and Aji are fast friends once again. Here they are playing doctor...

Out for a jog

Sarina's all ready to go for a jog with daddy on this rainy and cold weekend. We had a little sunshine break and decided to take advantage of it by heading outside. To help with the sun sarina us sporting the new sunglasses mommy bought her.

Please, daddy: can I brush your hair now?

Sarina brushing mommy's hair this morning.

Big Bird Dance

Sarina has a hilarious dance she does after bath time - especially when she has a big bird diaper on! (great marketing pampers!!) Usually she dances around nangu or with her diaper but I figured that was too x-rated for the blog - so here she is fresh out of the bath with pj's on doing the big bird dance!

Throwing rocks

Sarina and I discovered a little stream near our house that we can walk to and play near. I had promised her all morning we were going to go throw rocks in the water and here we are throwing rocks and competing for big splashes.

Eating noses

Sarina is big into pretending she's eating noses. I have no idea where this came from (though I suspect it has something to do with Daddy) I, of course, missed the first half of the actual nose eating where she was laughing so hard she could barely breathe, but I got some good giggles on camera. My favourite line is "I ate it ALL" ...

Daddy Daddy!

Sumeet was out of town for a week and a bit - Sarina was SOOOO excited to have daddy back home she made up new lyrics to her favourite song to serenade him. Here she is performing for him.

Train Conductor? Or Sarina from the 'hood

Sarina popped her conductor hat on backwards tonight and proclaimed "See-na choo choo hat on backwards!"She thought that it was hilarious (and so did I...)

Good morning!

All dressed up for school (and our first dentist appt...)

Mommy and Sarina

Here's a cute photo of mommy and Sarina post bathtime.

Sarina's Birthday & Birthday Party (much delayed!)

Apologies for how late this is but better late than never! Sarina turned the big "2" on Christmas Eve 2010. On her actual birthday we took her to do one of her favourite things - play at the beach. Yes, only in California can you have a Christmas Eve Birthday and enjoy the beach! We also sang happy birthday and blew out candles multiple times ("More? More?" every time the song ended) ... We celebrated her birthday with friends a week later and were so lucky to have Sarina's Dadi and Dadu, Booa, Didi and Bhaiya all in town from the East Coast to celebrate with her. (Sumeet's parents, sister and her kids!) She was a little overwhelmed by the crowd but enjoyed the party overall!

Daddy and sarina mowing the lawn

After enjoying her beach time sarina wanted to help daddy mow the lawn.

Beautiful beach day

Daddy and Sarina headed off to the beach this morning to enjoy the beautiful 70 degree day. She of course demanded convertible "top down" on the way over...

My sweet happy girl

On the way home today.

Our little singer!

Hawaii Last batch!

Mostly pictures from Kona - enjoy!

Walking with Shilpa Moushi and Isha

We met up with Shilpa Moushi and Isha on Saturday. Sarina was so happy to run around with Isha and hold hands while she walked.

Swinging

While the east coast is freezing we are enjoying the outdoors this weekend! This smile is for daddy who is out of town...

hawaii post #2

Here's the 2nd batch of photos! enjoy. These are also all from oahu... some from the eastern side of the island (Wailea and Lanikai beach)

Hawaii #1 (first of 3!)

For those of you who don't want to be bored with 3 blog posts worth of Hawaii pictures, please just skip the next 3 posts! I couldn't get the number of pictures down to one post's worth no matter how hard I tried.

Sumeet Sarina and I had an amazing time over the thanksgiving holiday in Hawaii. Smita hadn't been since 6th grade and it was Sumeet and Sarina's first trip! As you'll see we enjoyed it immensely and will probably be back some day soon. The first batch of photos is all from Oahu...

Fun in the sun

Finally a California winter day! Sarina loves playing outside and it is so much better when we don't need jackets!

Tis the season

For holiday parties! Sarina has been enjoying eating and being merry at many holiday and birthday parties this month!! Mommy is still gaining weight faster though....

Smita

Sarina on a train ride

Sarina is in her fascinated by trains phase. Were taking a caltrain ride to check out big choo choo

Sick day

Sarina was feverish this morning so spending day with mommy. After a nice nap we hit the Japanese garden. Here she is saying hi fishes!

Hawaii (preview)

We just returned from a wonderful trip to Hawaii over the thanksgiving Holiday. We have lots of photos to sort through and lots of stories to tell. In the meantime, here are a couple photos as a preview... these are of Sarina in her almost daily routine of heading out to the beach (swimmy diapers, swimsuit, sunscreen, hat beach shoes and toys.) Clearly she has everything she needs for loads of beach fun.