Our Rockin' NYE

Ah yes, our New Year's Eve was rockin'. What a blast! We all (Andy chacha + Mahesh Chacha + Nirlesh chacha + Us) went to South Plainfield at a private party to celebrate.

Kids had their own fun with the food, small toys that the host provided. Sara danced a lot with all of us and slept at about 11:30 pm. We came back to our home instead of going to chacha's since we had to pick our new car from the showroom...:) all excited!

A New 'Do

I had no idea that Sara will look so cute with short hair!

First snowfall!!

It's been declared a blizzard and is apparently record snowfall for the NYC area for the month of December. The snow starting coming down around 12 PM last morning and has continued all night long (and accumulated to something like 2 feet!). I thought it would be neat to be snowed in...but I was sort of done with it by this afternoon. :) It sure is pretty though, and makes for a quiet Monday. We picked Baa just in time yesterday evening and arrived ahead of the storm. Since Sara was a little bit under the weather, we didn't play in snow this time.

Fun @ Coco Key

On Christmas day, we all (Vishal, Sara, Ashu, Chacha, Chachi, Maansi, Varun & I) decided to go to Coco Keys resort in Mount Laurel. Shipra di with kids joined us too.

The resort was small but fun. It was great to play in the water - warm 84 degrees, where we all splash around having a blast! Sara had so much fun with all the kids. She went on slides, the indoor/outdoor spa, the river and many other interesting fun rides. When we reached home, chachi made her delicious dosa. It was an awesome day. Love you all!

Merry Christmas!

I was very excited for Christmas this year because Sara is starting to understand the holiday. She was interested in the lit tree and the presents and knew that Santa had been to our house because Vishal & I had been telling her about it for a while now.

 

We all headed to Andy Chacha's for a Christmas party in the evening. At the party, Sara enjoyed some quality time with everyone especially her Maansi mausi, Aashi di & Shreya di. We had a great time - Sara got so many great presents from all and was very excited to play with her first Santa toy.

 

Few pics from today:

 

 

Shipra Di as always arranged the birthday cake for me. I spent my day with friends & family ....can it get any better than that?!

Birthday Lunch

We all including Ashu went out to lunch @ Tamarind Tribeca for my birthday today. Sara was so much fun the whole time, we all ate leisurely and enjoyed the yummylicious (as Sara says) food.

After lunch, we drove around in the city to see beautiful Christmas lighting's. Since, Sara slept in the car we decided not to stroll in cold.

Now i know my ABC!!

Sara loves the alphabet song...she keeps singing and watch the song on YouTube at least once a day. Since Ashu was here, he taught her to make a nice big building using her alphabet blocks. Absolutely fun game!!

Colorful Lights!!!

I went to Target this evening to buy some colored Christmas lights. Sara has been asking for these for many days. Whenever we drive back home from somewhere these days, I ask Sara if she wants to go straight home or if she wants to drive around the neighborhood and look at Christmas lights. Most days we drive around. :) During these drives, I began to notice that she was more excited for the colored lights. There could be an entire house decorated with icicles and other white lights and it's just not as "fun" as the colored lights or the blow up characters. I'm not there yet with the characters and don't plan on getting any of those, but I gave the green light on colored lights.

Vishal & I decorated the front of our house a little bit with the lights. I don't have a pic yet but will take soon :)

My Baby

Here's an evidence that she's a mommy-blogger's kid. These pictures were taken at her request. After decorating the Christmas tree she said, "Take a picture! Meri picture loo.....mein achi achi lagti...today's special day.....take my picture!"

Inverse Relationship

It appears Sara thinks that little people grow big AND that big people (grown-ups) grow small. Adorable! I don't remember what i asked Sara. But she replied, "Mommy, mein big ho jaogi and app small ho jaoge" Ah, if only it worked that way Sara...if only just time alone could make me smaller. :p

Santa Claus Special

To indulge Sara's love of trains, we visited the Whippany Railroad Santa Claus Special. I didn't get much educational information from this visit to the museum. But that's okay- I'd rather see these things through the eyes of my three-year-old. We enjoyed looking at the moving model trains and the engine cars, riding on a real train with Santa, playing with the toy trains.

The highlight for Sara was riding on a Real train with a Real conductor...and Santa, the engineer was making rounds too. Sara was so delighted to get a soft toy from Santa! Awesome....Retro fun!!!

  

And we're back...

I will be posting blogs for Nov/early Dec as I get time...since there's a lot that happened in our life's...we've been too busy and tired, to blog about it. But I do want it documented for us- that's a large part of why I blog. It's for our friends and relatives who want to keep up with us and it's for US. So I'm apologizing in advance for the flood of posts that's coming...but then that's how our life has been lately. :)