Season's Greetings

Happy Holidays! Pooneet, Ananya, and I are heading to India today and before we left, we wanted to wish you and your loved ones a happy holiday season.

Wish us luck on the flight :)

Fun Friday

Pooneet and I took Ananya to the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park this past Friday. The weather was perfect, and Ananya loved looking at the colorful fish, seeing beautiful birdies and butterflies in the rain forest, touching a starfish, and walking around the park, chasing dogs and pointing out the airplanes flying far away in the distance.




Here are more pictures from the day:

Fun with friends

Ananya is having a pretty major social life these days! She has a friend's birthday party every weekend this month and is greeting new friends as they make their grand debut into the world.


Ananya met her newest friend (and future Stanford classmate?), Aman.




Ananya helped celebrate Asha's 1st birthday at Peekadoodle, where she had a blast playing in the many play areas, painting a photo frame, and devouring the delicious cake!




Ananya wished her cousin, Vunshi, a very happy 1st birthday this past weekend!

Happy Halloween

Ananya (and therefore the rest of us) really got into the Halloween spirit this year! Ananya and I visited the Pumpkin Patch, where she loved patting all the pumpkins, seeing the bunny rabbits and chickens, and trying to eat hay when I wasn't looking :)






For Halloween, Ananya was a pink, sparkly butterfly fairy - and even had sparkly wings to match (Thanks Dadu and Dadi!). Ananya joined a bunch of super cute kiddies at her friend Gabe's house for a Halloween party and for some fun trick o'treating. She loved the idea of selecting candy and putting into her basket...but didn't quite get the concept of keeping the candy and would immediately offer it back!

16 months old

Ananya is no longer a baby, she's a big girl! She walks/runs EVERYWHERE, is so curious about everything, and has nonstop energy. This is such a fun age! She can point to different parts of her body (hair, head, eye, ear, nose, tongue, teeth, tummy, knee, and foot), although she does sometimes get eye/ear and tummy/knee confused. She is starting to finally love stuffed animals, and loves giving them hugs and sharing her bottle of milk with them. As much as I love putting hair clips and bows in her hair, she loves taking them off :) She's getting a little vain - anytime I put a hair clip or a new outfit on her, she immediately runs to the mirror to check herself out! (I say it's because she's her father's daughter, but Pooneet thinks she gets it from me!) She laughs a lot now, oftentimes cracking herself up. She definitely has a sense of humor - she'll pretend to offer you a snack and as she's putting the snack in your mouth, she'll quickly bring it back to her mouth instead! She just started walking backwards, and claps for herself when she does so. And she's crazy about books - she picks out a book, will climb into your lap, and then have you read it to her. And then she'll repeat this 20 times. Fun, funny girl!

Diwali videos

Here are two videos we took on Diwali...the first is a classic Ananya/Dadu video. Everytime she sees her Dadu, she gets into her "Superwoman" position and he flies her all around the room. She loves it and always begs for more! The second video shows how crazy our kiddo becomes when it's past her bedtime and she's hamming it up for her grandparents :)

Happy Diwali!

Pooneet, Ananya, and I just celebrated a wonderful Diwali weekend! We went wine-tasting during the day with our "Tahiti" friends, and Ananya and Gabe had so much fun playing with each other! At night, Pooneet's parents and my mom (dad's trekking in Patagonia) came over to celebrate. We decorated our house with flowers and candles in each room, put the lights up on the deck, did a pooja with our little mandir, lit sparklers (which made Ananya go "ooooh"), and ate lots of sweets. I even made burfi for the first time! It was so nice to celebrate this holiday with our parents and with Ananya, and we wish all of our loved ones a year of good health, happiness, and love. Ananya had a very happy Diwali, especially because she got to play with her grandparents all day and night!










Here is a slide show of some more pictures: