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!

Watching choo-choo's

One of sarina's favorite things these days is watching trains, or choo-choo's as we call them.

They are a little big and scary though so she prefers watching from the safety of the car.

Here she is watching a choo choo go by at the train station.

More Buffalo pictures

Here are more pictures from our trip to Buffalo. We did lots of outside playing and Sarina had a lot of fun with her Dadhi and Dadhu. We also took a trip to Niagara Falls and her Aji and Azoba came to visit. Fun filled week!

Beans and Chips (take 2)

Sarina was sporting two very cute ponytails when she came from school today. Here she is at dinner tonight - all smiles!

Dadhi and Dadhu

We just returned from a trip to Buffalo to visit Dadhi and Dadhu (Sumeet's parents.) We all had fun and got to spend a lot of time at home. This time, Sarina was all about her grandfather - every morning she would wake up and say "Dadhu, Dadhu..." More pictures to come, for now, here's one of my favorites...

Frequent flyer

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Look who's on an airplane!

Alka Auntie comes to visit

Sarina has a really nice time showing Auntie Alka around her new house! Here she is happy as a clam with Alka.

peek-a-boo

Here's a photo of Sarina playing at her favorite playground.

Coloring at my new table!

Aji and Azoba gave Sarina a fun new activity table and chairs. Here she
is coloring (one of her favorite activities) on her new table. (The
flower was drawn with a little help...)

off the grid... but getting back

Our apologies - we haven't been blogging in a couple weeks. About two
weeks ago, we moved into our new house and that process has been all
consuming. Also, in part of that process it took us some time to get
our computer, internet, etc. all set up again.

In any case, we're starting to feel more settled and even Sarina is now
getting accustomed to her new home (and her new room!). We'll have more
pictures to come, especially with Aji and Azoba (Smita's parents;
Sarina's grangparents) over the coming week.

For now, here's a photo of Sarina on her swing freshly installed on a
great big tree (complete with tree fort) in our front yard.

Our Green Machine

One of Sarina's favourite meals is Palak Tofu. I serve it up a couple times a week since she loves it and it's so healthy. Sarina is getting better at feeding herself with a spoon - although you wouldn't know from this video below! As you can see, she prefers not to have help... as long as food gets in her mouth, I am ok with it even when she turns into a green monster.

Stern Grove (a year later)

Sarina went to Stern Grove last year for the first time. She's already old enough that she is getting into the annual traditions now. She's now a regular at the grove - another favourite Sunday afternoon treat. This particular Sunday was Hawaiian music, which we enjoyed with Andy and Courtney and a huge crowd on a beautiful day.

Of course none of this mattered to Sarina as long as she had a) Daddy b) doo-doo and c) a monkey

Daddy's favourite Meal!

Sumeet and I used to have a brunch club... our membership is down to us and one toddler now, but she seems to enjoy brunch as much as daddy. Here she is on the weekend enjoying a leisurely sunday meal...

July 4th in Sonoma

We went up to Sonoma for July 4th. It was a beautiful day and we got to enjoy some sun and outdoor time. Sarina of course loved running around, seeing the flowers and animals and spending a long weekend with mommy and daddy. On this trip, Sarina also enjoyed drinking water out of a fancy wine glass!

Lowes and Slurpees

We are starting to prep for our move. Sarina's been quite patient (all things considered) with us, wandering around carpet stores, hardware stores, etc etc. Yesterday, after moving boxes around and shopping at Lowe's, we thought Sarina deserved a treat. We always feel bad that she can't have ice cream ... so we got her an icy cold, very red Slurpee... she loved the sugar rush and was covered in sticky red liquid for the rest of the day.

Croquet anyone?

We went to a fun bbq to welcome in summer a couple weeks ago and Sarina tried her hand at Croquet. .here she is on a Sunday afternoon playing!

Sarina's 18 month photo shoot!

A few weeks ago we did another photo shoot with one of our favorite photographers, the talented Vero Suh. She same over and spent an hour with us taking pictures as we went out to the park for the afternoon. It is so fun for us to see her photos and slideshow come together. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! (click the play button below when it appears...) If for reason you don't see it correctly below, you can also see the slideshow here: http://www.verosuh.com/gallery/sarinajain10/

Cereal... by herself

Sarina is ALL about feeding herself these days. She wants to feed herself and is getting better with utensils. She also really likes cereal for breakfast (Especially when daddy is having cereal too.) Here she is feeding herself cereal....

Fun concert day

Last weekend the three of us went to a concert at AT&T park (the baseball park where the Giants play.) At the concert we got to see Natasha Bedingfield, the Fray and Counting Crows. More importantly we got to enjoy the great weather, listen to fun music, dance and see some friends. It was a super fun day... here's some pictures. Some video clips to come too.