Thursday, July 9, 2009

Thamma's Visit




"ALOO!"


Random June-July Pics

Doing some grocery shopping at the Metropolitan Market exhibit at the Children's Museum:


Driving the bus:


Playing the drums:

"Na-Ked!"

Touch pools at the Aquarium with Han:


Baby dinosaurs at the Zoomazium:


Wednesday, July 8, 2009

18 month update

I know, I know, we are WAY closer to 19 months than 18 months, sorry we've been so bad about posting. But, we're super busy these days,so the update is going to be unorganized and bullet points this month:
- Big event is that Luca gave up his binky at the beginning of the 18 month. yay big boy!
- He also started referring to himself as "Kuka" My mom (Popo) taught him to answer two questions--What's your name? ("Kuka!") and How old are you ("One!").
- He has also embraced colors, letters, and numbers. Pretty good at reliably naming colors, and can identify most of the numbers (0-9) and some letters (mostly vowels).
-Has gotten very good at putting together 2-3 words. Some of my favorite examples are: "Daddy's baby" "Mommy's baby" and "Luca baby". "Mama's good" "Daddy's good" and "Aiyi's good". He likes to label small things ("Tiny ball" "Tiny bubbles" "Tiny baby"). He is also obsessed with cars (Mama's car, Daddy's car, Aiyi's car).
- he seems to get the concept of "two"--he will tell us when he has two balls, or two pens, or the other day at the park he said to us "Two girls".
- He also seems to remember family really well. He now likes to look at pictures of Thamma and Popo, and Papu Kaku. He still remembers which of his books are from Thamma and will bring them to us and say "Thamma's book."
- yesterday, he picked my underwear up out of the laundry basket and told Agnish "Mama's diaper."
- made a pee pee on the potty this week!

I can't think of anything else for now, so maybe the 19 month update will be more successful! :)

Friday, July 3, 2009

Vashon Island Day Trip

Sorry for the recent lack of posts...we'll get better soon, and we still owe some pictures of the recent Grandma visits...

First, here are some pictures from last weekend when we took Luca for a short Day Trip to Vashon Island. He loved the Ferry and the beach and we all enjoyed getting away from city life for a bit, even if we could still see the city in the distance...








Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Picnic at Agua Verde

Aren't the Chakravarti boys handsome?





Yard Work

As mentioned below, we are getting Luca to work to help pay for his upkeep.
This past weekend, Dad had some big plans to have Luca help haul some dirt and compost.

Things started out well....

very eager to help...




Until Luca figured out a better plan! Much more fun to have Dad give him "rickshaw" rides!




Quick SF trip

Agnish had a quick work trip to SF and Luca and I tagged along...

Luca wanted to meet his new girlfriend Mika...

Hang with the Redwood Shores boyz 

and most importantly, snuggle up with Papu Kaku!


Luca at the Little Gym

Here's a video that Joanne took of Luca "working out" at the Little Gym:


Videos by Joanne

Here are some videos that Joanne took of her adventures with Luca!


Friday, May 22, 2009

Helping Around the House

It turns out kids cost a &*!@ of money...so we're glad that Luca has recognized that he needs to help around the house and do his share...

Helping Daddy cook some Chinese food...




Helping Mommy take in the garbage cans...




We'll get him started on some light housework next month.