More burping

Hanging out on abba's shoulder...

Out for a walk

Sarina likes to take her baby for a walk around the block. She points out all the flowers, ceramic rabbits and everything else she finds interesting! Sometimes she uses it as a jogging stroller and speeds down the sidewalk...

Testing the crib

Sarina has been a great little helper. Here she is doing a trial run in samara's new crib. She's making sure all is good and safe for Samara.

My favorite burper

Samara is so lucky to have her Abba Visiting. He is our family's expert burper and both newborn Sarina and Samara benefitted from his services!

Here is Samara on Abba's shoulder waiting for "the big one"...

Reading a book to little sister

Sarina has a special book about two sisters who love each other very much. We read it to Sarina (its one of her favorites) and Sarina likes to read it to Samara. Here she goes on a quest to get the book to read to Samara...

Tummy time part I

My head is way too heavy to lift. I shall rest and eat my fingers instead.

Look at me...

I'm out of the swaddle and having fun with my arms and legs. Yay!

Nursing a monkey

With mommy feeding Samara, Sarina has been very interested in nursing. She nurses all her dolls and animals. Here, she's nursing one of her monkeys (mimi ah-ah) which will follow with it's diaper change.

Rock a bye baby!

Sarina is getting a lot of practice nursing, swaddling, patting, shushing etc as she helps out her baby (Michelle) here she is helping Michelle sleep complete with nursing stool to put her feet up to relieve her back strain :)

Pretty, pretty

Here's pretty pretty sarina checking herself out in the mirror just before going to school.

Sugary goodness

After a fun filled Easter egg hunt, Sarina cracked open an Easter egg to find some jelly beans. Here she is as she eats her first ever jelly bean. It didn't take long for her to become a fan of jelly beans.

Sarina singing "if you're happy and you know it" this morning

Sarina has been breaking out into song quite frequently these days...

Hair cuts

Mommy gave sarina a hair cut today so now she is giving everyone of her deemed haircuts. Here she is giving ah ah a haircut. He has been promised a red lollipop if he is good.

Beep beep!!

Sarina's favorite thing about grocery shopping is the cool shopping carts. Here she is steering me around our local grocery store.

Samara likes fur

Fixated on the mobile

Here's Samara very curious about the bears spinning overhead.

Look who got a popsicle (for the first time) today

There's a boogie on my hand...

Sarina is big into making up her own songs. This weekend while we were playing outside, she accidentally wiped her nose with her hand resulting in a "boogie on her hand" ... and this song resulted!

Look who's here to visit

Sanjay mama!!!

Samara goes Genentech....

my coworkers gave me some awesome "company wear" for Samara at her shower. Here she is posing for what looks like a Genentech ad...

Very proud big sister

Here are some photos of a very proud and excited big sister. Sarina is being a great big sister to Samara, taking care of her whenever she cried. It also helps that Samara made a good impression by bringing Sarina lots of fun presents.

At her first pediatrician appointment

Letting out a big yawn.

Good morning

Is it day or night? Who knows...

All four of us

Here is all four of us (including a very excited Sarina)

Welcome home Samara

She's home now swinging away.

The three of us just after birth

 

Introducing Samara Jain

Dear Friends and Family:

We are happy to announce that our punctual little girl, Samara Jain,
arrived on April 5th. She arrived on her due date at 5:03pm; as if to
say, "My time in here is done, I'm clocking out," and arrived after
putting in a mere three minutes of overtime.

She weighed 7lbs 2oz and was a whopping 20" long. Mom was a trooper
and completed most of her labor at home, we arrived at the hospital
just for the final stages of labor and shortly after arriving, Samara
made her entrance.

Samara and mom are both doing great and Sarina is proving to be a
caring older sister.

We will continue to keep our blog updated:
http://liljain.blogspot.com/

Attached is a photo from Samara's first day.

Love,
Smita, Sumeet, Sarina & Samara

in the meantime

Here's Sarina doing her morning yoga with Aji

sleeping

Peacefully sleeping. (we know now, the peaceful sleep stage doesn't last long...)

We've renamed this blog...

Same URL, but now we're called, "two little monkeys jumping on the bed"