Saanu, meet Keya!

Nisha Ashley is one of my very closest friends.  She has been through almost every difficult moment in my life with me and I have had some of the greatest laughs ever in my life with her.  When our kids met for the first time, it felt so special.  I couldn't believe that after running around, causing trouble and giving our parents headaches as kids, here we were, years later introducing our own kids to each other.  It was awesome.  I'm sure Keya and Saanvi will be just as good as friends...let's just hope they don't get into as much trouble and Nisha and I did ;)

Nisha's younger sister, Neha

Raksha Bandhan

We celebrated Saanvi's first Raksha Bandhan this year with her cousins Veer, Vihan, Maya and Natasha.  Shivani and Summit have celebrated every year since Shivani was born and we want to start the same tradition for Saanvi with her brothers. Raksha Bandhan is a holiday celebrated between sisters and brothers.  Since a brother protects his sister, the sister ties a rakhi as a bond of protection and a symbol that she will also protect him.  It was so sweet to see the kids trying to tie the rakhis on eachother! We have such cutie pie kids in our family!

All the bhais

Maya tying rakhi on Vihan

This a rare happening :)

Shivani and her brothers

Natasha tying rakhi and Vihan...so sweet!

Shivs and Darshanbhai

Shivs and crazy Shamikbhai

Shivs and her bhai :)

Shivs, Summit and the gulab jamun in Summit's mouth

Saanvi "tying" her first rakhi in Veer!

All the brothers and sisters. Veer, Vihan, Maya, Natasha and Saanvi.

Natasha loves Saanvi and helps me take care of her so much! She may need a younger sister...hmm what do you think Autumn bhabi and Shamik bhai ;)

Hanging out with Dadi

I've been celebrating raksha bandhan with my awesome brother in law Prakash, for the last 3 years. Here are a few shots of me and Prakash celebrating raksha bandhan together.

August 2009

August 2010

August 2011

Busy Bee

Here are a few shots of some friends Saanvi hung out with this summer!

VIjyaya aunty and Chandran Uncle

Venu Uncle and Komalam Aunty

Kadambari Aunty and Namboodiri Uncle (next picture)

Mama Sonksen!!

Bill Uncle

Sanju Uncle

Megan, our amazing LPN at Premier Allergy

Hillary, our receptionist and student nurse! Love this girl!

Saanvi went to her very first Swadhya at the end of August.  She sat with her pappa almost quietly during the entire hour! This picture isn't that great, but I had to get a shot of Saanu and Shailesh Uncle.  Shailesh Uncle and Geeta Aunty have been such an important of Summit's life.  He has always gone to them for problems and always looks to them for help and support.  I know Summit strives to follow Shailesh Uncle and hopes to be even 1/4th the amazing person that he is.

Geeta Aunty

Ashley and Shruti, some college friends visiting with their kids Arav and Mitran

Meet the family...

Here are some shots of Saanvi meeting some of her family members for the first time. I don't think this Nair/Shah baby has any idea how big her family really is! She still has a lot of people to meet!

Saanvi and her SangitaFoi in the mandir

SangitaFoi

Velyamma, Aparna Kunjamma and Archana velyamma...where's arathi kumjamma??

Nirali kaki

Sandip kaka

Darshan kaka asking Saanu why she's crying!

Saanu's cousin brothers, Veer and Vihan and awesome Priya kaki who took such great care of me and fed me when I was pregnant!

Nikitadidi

Maasiba!

Still many more Shahs and Nairs to meet!!!

Two Months!

Saanvi is officially 2 months old!  Here are her stats:

• weighs 10.2 lbs.
• starting to hold her own head up
• finally knows that night = sleep (although still not sleeping through the night)
• sucks on her hand...but not a bottle anymore
• starting to become more interactive

Here are some 2 month/ August pictures: