Birthday in Virginia!

Costa Rica or Bust

We decided we needed a relaxing break from the rigors of San Franciscan life... so off to Costa Rica we went! Here I am in the airport showing my teddy the airplanes.
My tia Abril... she's so sweet and kind to me!
My abuelito...With tia Gianni and Ela making some fun art projects.

Small field trip outside of Pune

We took a 2-week trip to another city north west of Bangalore called Pune. Here we are with daddy's coworkers somewhere outside of Pune in the mountains. We did lots of cool things like ride camels and horses and feed monkeys and eat deliciously fresh strawberries! Mmmmm yum!

This is a picture of daddy and me with a good friend named Rixt. She's from the Netherlands and oh so nice!

We saw people para sailing... too bad we didn't have time to try :(




We saw a really neat vintage looking cab... apparently somewhat common around here.



I made lots of friends during a trip.... and one of them saw that I really liked this little statue and bought it for me!!!! I was SOOOO excited and grateful!


I tried schmoozing with the locals...
We went to a really nice look out point and watched the sun set with a ton of other interested locals.
I pondered my goals in life as I stared off into the distant sunset ... one important one... to taste every flavor of ice cream in the world. A difficult task but one in which I am willing to strive to achieve ;)
Rixt and Sumeet agreed... a difficult but ultimately rewarding goal indeed.

Random recent photos

Me enjoying my pizza... but only the cheese part....


Like my new hat and scarf???Visiting mama's old college and her favorite small town coffee shop!

YUM!

Hyperion coffee... yes, it's better than Starbucks people!!!

Mama taking a picture of herself in her favorite coffee shop in the world... (so far).
Birth of Baha'u'llah event at the Northern Virginia Baha'i Center.... Mama reunites with old friends :)
Want to see my most recent photography skills??? ...
Nope, too close...

Ahhhh... that's it! I call it... "The Hello Kitty"

Grandpa visiting me...

Video update

So, I realize I haven't put up any videos in a while... thought this would be a good time.. ya know, between watching Hercules the movie and eating pasta for dinner. Enjoy! And tell me what you think. I included one of my little cousin 'cause she's just too cute!


I've watched this video so many times I can sing along to it and even copy the dance moves! I'm one step away from hitting "the big time"! Hollywood here I come!


Bahiyyeh joon trying so hard to pronounce "por favor". It reminds me of that Friends episode where Joey was trying to learn French! hahahahaha :)


Mama always tells me that when food falls on the floor when we're outside that we should leave it there for the birdies... well, I didn't take that lightly when one day I was outside enjoying my delicious vanilla cookies and one happened to fall down. Nearby, to my great dismay, were a gang of birds .. and they were eying my cookie and headed straight for it, I could tell. Well, what happens after that realization isn't pretty folks. This video isn't for the faint of heart... beware.

Happy Halloween people!

This year I decided to be original with my costume.... I knew all the other 2-year-olds would be the typical princesses... but me... I'm unique. I decided to be a butterfly... (mainly 'cause my grandma already made this butterfly costume for me) hehe :) Bahiyyeh came over and we headed out for halloween fun!

Bahiyyeh dressed as Princess Lea and Uncle Houshy.... well, he was Darth Vader (this is the third year in a row!) He's kinda crazy about Star Wars ... if that wasn't obvious enough.
We went hunting for pumpkins first...
Daddy got a kick out of Uncle Houshy's costume.



We made Uncle Darth hold our pumpkins..... 'cause... well, it just looked funny.
Then we went to the mall for trick-or-treating. But first we had some food.
We didn't get too much candy this year because the mall was CROWDED .... but we still had fun. Lots of children and their parents wanted to take pictures with Uncle Houshy... it was funny (and I think he liked the attention!)
At the end, we stopped by Grandma's work to say hi! She couldn't stop laughing!