Bye Bye

Rhea waved bye bye for the first time yesterday. I was at home with a sprained back (lonmg story so will skip the details) and was at home. I was upstairs in bed most of the time. Whenever I came down though Rhea would get really excited and babble loudly and smile. When I didin't go and get her from Daddy and Mummy she would have this really perplexed look as if to say ‘Why aren’t you carrying me, mamma'. She would keep looking at me for the longest time. Finally I broke down and carried her few times. She didn’t want to go back to Daddy or Mummy from me after that. Pavam vava. Finally I had to say ‘Bye Bye’ in an attempt to trick her to think that I’m stepping out. I was shocked when she waved back in response. I didn’t know she knew to wave. I was so excited and kept saying bye bye to see her reaction!! It was such a cute sight and she must have been wondering what the fuss was all about. Oue lil baby is growing up so fast…

Halloween Pictures

Spooky??


Do I look like a real pumpkin?


I'm the new Fireman in the Firestation!


Enjoying the fall colors!


Firemen can be silly too


I'm lovin being a Pumpkin!



Awesome Twosome!

Portrait of our Princess!

Am I cute!

Dressed for chilly weather..

Its getting chillier by the day. Days are getting shorter which means that I leave when its drak outside and by the time I get back from work the sun is beginning to set. None of us are liking the extra layer of clothes and jackets we have to put on. Here is a couple pf pictures of Rhea before we left for church today morning.


How's my new outfit


Do you like my hat?

Happy Diwali!

I tknow this post is a few weeks late. But I have the cutest picture of Rhea in her 'Indian dress' as sean referes to it. He even said ' She looks like a princess' when he saw her in the outfit.


I'm a princess

I have to admit sean looked smashing in his kurta-pajama. He didnt want to be pictured and avoided the shutterbug like the papparazi were hounding him :)We went to our friend Kala and Parimal's house for the Diwali party. Sean had a graet time and enjoyed watching the fireworks. Rhea enjoyued being the centre of attention..she was the only baby there and hogged the limelight!

Weekend pictures...

Took some pictures before we left for church...Dada is missing ...next time we'll try to get one of the four of us!


Brother & Sistah


Dada, where are you?

Sean's 3 year stats!

Sean had his 3 year well child check up on Friday. I know...I know..he turned 3 almost 5 months ago...but hey better late than never.



Dr Howell mentioned that he is doing well. He was supposed to get his flu shots next weekend but since we were at the Drs office she asked if we want to go ahead and take it then...well sure why not...its easier to take care of 1 cranky kid at a time. Rhea is also scheduled for her flu shot next week. Sean wasn't too happy about the shot and shed a few years whenn he got poked but bounced back to his cheerful self after the pain wore off in 5 mins. Below are his 3 year stats. He is in the 75th percentile for height and 25th percentile for weight.


Weight 31 lbs
Height 39 3/4 inches
Head Circumference 18 3/4 inches

Rhea is 7 months

Rhea turned 7 months today! She is such a joy!! She has been busy the past month and happend to sit on her own. SH ehasnt repeated the feat and I attribute it to the long nasty cold that really borught her down. She is slowly bouncing back to her normal self again. She is very close to crawling on all fours. But she has figured to scoot from one point to another and manages to go after all her toys and cheta's choo choo trains.



I'm 7 months old!

My New shoes!

I have been meaning to get a new running shoes for months. The last time I shopped was right after I resumed jogging after Sean was born..so about 2.5 years ago. I was beginning to get knee pains after my runs these past few days, which definitely is sure sign of worn out shoes.

Aji, Sean and Me went to the running store on Saturday. The one I was wearing was a Mizuno Wave Rider and I had fell in love with it because its so light and also has lot more room in the toe area. The store didn’t carry the same model in the latest version in my size and the gentleman showed me a pricier model that had lot more support. It felt great but was $40 more and I felt that I couldn’t justify the extra $$. He said that he could place an order for the one I wanted. In the meantime I tried out other brands to see if I had more options – Nike, Asics, Saucony, Brooks…I tried them on and did a quick jog on the track in the store. One after the other my feet screamed – NAH..NAH...NAH.They seemed to still be in love with the Mizuno Wave rider. On a side note - one cute thing was every time I tried on a shoe and ran down their indoor track Sean would get excited and he would run up and down on the track. It was fun to see him getting hyped to run on the strip of indoor track. Hopefully he will develop a love for running and in couple of years we can all go for family jogs! We placed an order for my shoes – he showed me one in a smaller size and I loved the color too…it was a combination of lavender, blue and purple different from the Orange, grey and white I have now. I guess they change the color of all their models every year.


My new shoes

My shoes arrived earlier than expected and I picked it up on the same day(Tuesday) but couldn’t run the same day or on Wednesday since Sean was really cranky (no nap) both days after I got home late after my trainings and I just spent time with the kids. Finally yesterday I got home at my usual time, spent some time with Sean and Rhea and got on the dreadmill (yes I dread the treadmill…I prefer running outside, it is so much more enjoyable and the time passes quickly when u have so much to gawk at :). I ran for half hour…kness felt good and I was HAPPY!

Sean came down by the time I was done and as I was stretching he looked at my shoe and pointed to the lavender color and said ,

I don’t like that color
Me: Which color, the lavender?
Sean: Yeah.
Me: See its got purple too. They didn’t have any other color shoe Sean.
Sean: In the store they had a pink one. I liked the pink one.
He was referring to the more expensive one. I didn’t think he’d remember that.
Me: Purple is nice too. Maybe next time I’ll get the pink ones Ok.


Maybe next time this model will be in pink and I don’t have to shell out the extra 40 bucks.

Visit to Cox farm!

Yesterday we went to Cox farm which is 10 mins from our home for the Fall festival. We've been meaning to make a trip here for the past 3 years since we moved but it happened only on Monday. Rhea stayed home with Appacha and Ammachi as she had a lingering cold...


Seany and Dada


Look at all the baby pumpkins!

It was a lot of fun...sean had a great time. Anishchayan and fly, Parimal, kala and kids and our new friend from church Roshan and his kids were also there...



Sean was quite the dare devil and we were tremendously impressed! He was not scared to go on any of the slides and even came alone on most of them.



The bigger steeper slide, Mommy and Sean did together.

Woohoo!!!

Dada and Sean did bungy jumping there was also a ton of other activities like - Penny search, Hay ride, fun mazes with hay, milk the cow, lots of baby animals etc..


Sean, searching for penny's in the Penny Pit


Hello Bessie, the cow!


How tall am I??


We followed the rules and had a bum-bastic time!!!

Me and Aji had lots of fun doing silly stuff too...






That was fun! Can we do this again tomorrow???

Winter Ready ?

Yesterday I finally sat down and took out Sean's winter coat from when he was a baby. I wanted to make sure Rhea can use it. She seemed pretty excited to get into it but lay still afetr we zipped her in. I guess there wasnt much moving she could do in it.


I wonder if she will fit in her baby car seat with this huge one piece winter suit. We will have to try it and see. Hopefully it will work and we wont have to buy a car seat now!

Sean has outgrown his winter jacket from the past 2 years. So we need to get him one. he is not a huge fan of shopping (I guess i can attribute it to the Y chromosome) and was alomost in fits when i suggested we hit the stores yesterday. We will have to look around soon though since it is getting chillier by the day..

All set for Halloween..

I already got Sean's halloween costume for this year. Its a secret so you will have to wait till the end of the month for the scoop. I mean it not a huge surprise if you know his fascination for all the 'BOY' stuff.

Well, for Rhea I didnt want to get a new outfit since we had sean's first costume. We tried it on and it was a perfect fit. She looked so cute in it...



So here's a fun trivia - take a look at Rhea's picture and guess what she is going to be ...no prizes for guessing right since its a no brainer...

Sitting up.

Rhea sat up on her own for the first time yesterday..YAY!!!

She did it only once so far and Ammachi was the sole witness. She is trying mighty hard to repeat the feat. She can now stand aon all 4's effortlessly and most of the time she will rock herself back and forth as if to gain momentum to make that final turn to sit. She is at it all the time and we're sure in no time she will do it with ease. Its a cute sight to see her work on it...i'm alomsot always tempted to help but what good would that do...

If we catch her in the act again I'll try caprure the evidence and post it here...

GO RHEA!!!

Mamma's little helper!

Sean has been insisting on claening the table after dinner these days. Appacha does this everyday and he decided it is his job to do it. He is pretty good at it and even puts the mats away after he wipes it. We didnt show him how to do it, i guess he was watching appacha everyday.


Cleaning the placemats..


Putting the placemats away..

The only downfall to it is that after the first couple of days he has been running out of patience to wait till we finish dinner and slowly sneaks in one mat after the ohter while we're still having dinner. We tell him he doesnt have to do it (well, not for another couple of years) but he is adamant about it so we let him have his way

Fall already...

Well the weather certainly feels like that...it was quite chilly this weekend and I had to give in and take out their fall clothes...

This is right before we left for church..


Aren't we cute!


Looking pretty!

piano maestro..

Yesterday I took both the kids to the basement and we played a lot. It was a lot of fun...Rhea looked like a prodigy on the keyboard. Of course she got a lot of help from her big brother too...Here are the pictures...









Clowning around...

Sean had a lot of fun wearing his clown hat and being silly...he also played in the tunnel and Rhea had fun playing all of cheta's toys...it was her first trip down to play and she had a blast..