St. Martin & Anguilla

Last few days we've been on vacation in St. Martin & Anguilla. This was our first family vacation in 2009. :)

The property was absolutely Perfect with a pool, hot tub, hammock, swings, shady trees, and sand and a kids play area. We didn't even need to load up and walk the short 500 yards to the ocean each morning for Sara to play in the sand.

Later that morning, we went to visit a local market of the island. It was gorgeous. Sara likes to walk by herself. I think it's funny to see this little person just trotting along- crowded streets or not.

After returning back to the resort  we played in the pool. Sara Loved jumping in. At first it freaked me out, but she kept asking "Jump? Jump?" and it was fun catching the little butterball! As she jump in the pool...she'll shout.."dada dekho, dada dekho".

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Cutie!

Sara in one of my favorite dresses.



Out of the mouth of Sara

I find I'm enjoying the stage Sara's in a lot more than I thought I would. I'm a not much of baby person- I Love only clean and super cute babies. But Sara's at this stage that can only be described as HILARIOUS at times. I'm documenting some of her cuteness so I don't forget it.
Here's some other cuteness we're hearing lately:

"Birdie, Daddy, Phone...She says these words with Gujrati accent. (learning from her nanny.)

She uses "too" appropriately and often. We'll be driving in the car and I'll say something like, "I see an airplane." and she'll say, "I see Too!" (often emphasizing the "too"). Sometimes she does use the third person and say something like, "Sara ko bhi dikhta hai" She switches back and forth.

"Careful." and it's cute because it's sounds like "Be cayaful" :) She says this when she's doing things like climbing up or down stairs or chair.

"Good job"...She says that a lot too-- "Good job" and there's something about an almost 2-year-old commending your actions that I find Very amusing. :p We were driving in the car and Sara said, "Top sign!" and I said, "Yeah....car rokhegi mummy.." and she replied, "Good job Mummy."

Sara's Always singing these days. Her favorite song is the ABC song, which often leads in to Shahrukh songs. lol

Weeeeee!

Last weekend we enjoyed the beautiful weather by heading back to the park Sara loves so much. She got daring enough to go down the longest, highest slide by herself! Good job lil girl!

I Scream, You Scream

We all scream for ice-cream!!  Our fun-filled day continued with ice cream. Yummy!

 Sara enjoyed it!

16 Months

Sara is such a busy body!!! Talking so much more. She is Miss Independent that is for sure and thinks she is bigger than she really is! Sara has really started to throw fits when she doesn’t get her way. I am not sure if this is normal or if it is because I give her everything she wants. I am sure some of both.

Some Words that Sara can say:

• She says her name as Sasha :)
• Mumma
• Da da
• Bye; Bye-Bye
• Ba (Ball)
• Cheese (usually in the terminology to smile for the camera)
• NO NO (very good at saying this)
• Boo (meaning BOO or Book) sounds the same but uses them at the right times
• Dar (Car)
• Shair (Chair)

Eating:

• She loves to feed herself
• She loves the following
• Oranges
• Bananas
• Yogurt
• Pizza
• Cheese
• Goldfish
• Cheetos/Doritos
• Raisins

Things she loves:

• Try to climb on more things
• Loves to walk around in the store, she pretty much refuse to stay in the cart ANYMORE
• She loves her baby :)
• Likes to throw things in the trash
• Likes to throws things out from a cabinet/drawer.
• Loves to watch ads in Desi channels.
• Follows me around everywhere I go

Sara knows her shapes

It has been a long time since Sara played with her shape-sorter game. Previously, Sara wasn't interested in putting the shapes in the correct holes, but preferred taking the lid off and just putting the blocks in and taking them out. Today, Sara put a few blocks in the correct holes before losing interest and taking off the lid. Afterwards, I asked her what the various shapes were and she correctly said "stah", "quare", "trangle", and "cir." I don't know for how long she's known her shapes, because we haven't pulled out that toy in a long time.

Our Little Pumpkin - 2008

Sara wore the pumpkin dress and we went to the parade in our community. I don't have any pictures of my little pumpkin!

Family Pictures

We went to 'Picture Studio' to get some professional shots. Sara smiled easily for her. It was a great shoot. Some of the pics:

Happy Halloween!

Our little habanero celebrated her first Halloween today. She is a little too young to go trick-or-treating door-to-door, but we did take little Sara outside to take part in the neighborhood Halloween parade. Can't find any pics. May be vishal took from his phone....will ask him to send me few to post.