May 2014 - London!

May was freaking awesome!

I got my first opportunity to give a really BIG talk.  At Google in London and took the whole family along...which meant we had our first family plane trip.  S was such a good sport on all that travel (thanks to all my many friends who gave us tips and tricks).  We got to meet Doddamma, my sister, for the first time - YAY.  And Hasan ROCKED the supportive husband and father work.  S's natural state of liking to observe and take in new things really was amazing to see in action in London.  All that while celebrating H's birthday as well.

May also had some away time in Lambertville, New Jersey for just me and Hasan.  That was wonderful as well as we stayed at the fancy Lambertville House.

Here are some pictures from the month.

April 2014

My absolutely favorite video of this girl of ours is above.  Just love love love it.  It captures who she is so perfectly.

April was the start of spring, which meant we were outside as much as we possibly could be.  See the sidewalk chalk drawing pictures as proof...and the soccer photo.  (She's pretty good, by the way...when she isn't protesting the silly aspects of training techniques.  This girl has a pretty darn serious side.  Go figure.)

We went to Virginia to see our cousins - totally fun to see the children play together.

That's about it - so close to being caught up!

Here are the other pics from April.

March 2014 - Birthday girl!

Someone had a wonderful birthday month...but someone's mommy is tired of being so far behind on posting here so she'll keep it brief!

• A school birthday party with a surprise cake, hats, and Elmo galore
• A birthday day trip to see dinosaurs and the Shake Shack.  We all know which one is more important.
• A home family-only birthday party preceded by S's first trip to Amma's hair salon to get her hair braided.  
• All her father's side cousins spent the night in her room.  God bless those children figuring it out - and Hasan for dealing with it all.  I was at a loss as to what to do with that many children jockeying for space, air time, sleep time, Sanaa time, and so on.

And despite all this, when I ask her even now how old she is, she says ONE!  Methinks it's a plot to drive me crazy.

Here are pictures from the month's fun.