Luca Roll

Luca started rolling over for the first time...

Bengali Baby

Luca knows his heritage (at least half of it)!

Last day of PEPS

We were sad that this past Monday was our last official PEPS meeting. Happily, our group has decided to continue meeting every other week. Here is our last official PEPS photo--look how much everyone has grown!

To see the original photo, click here.

And, to see the "behind the scenes--making of the photo" here is a hilarious video which shows a bit about what Monday nights are usually like!

Month 3 highlights

Uncle KevDogg

Look at this gorgeous family!



Luca's reading with one of his favorite cousins...


And the family feast at our favorite Chinese restaurant...

Papu Kaku

Luca's youngest uncle came to visit this past weekend, and they had tons of fun together!
Here are the handsome Chakravarti men:





Hearing stories from the family's historian/biggest gossiper:

Chilly!

Our heat went out this morning, so here's how Luca is surviving while it's getting fixed...

Some Professional Photos of Luca

Luca has a friend Benjamin from his PEPS group; when we went to Benjamin's house, we fell in love with the pictures that his parents had of him---turns out that the pictures were taken by Benjamin's aunt Judith.
Last Saturday, when Luca was 99 days old, we went for an informal photo session.
If you want to see a sneak peek of the photos, click on Judith's blog below!
If you're interested in seeing the full set of photos and/or ordering any, drop me an email and I can send you the password protected site.

http://fernstromphotography.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/mr-chatty.html

Luca's 100 Days Party

Luca turned 100 days old today - as part of a Chinese tradition, we invited some friends over to celebrate.

Some highlights:

Getting into the mood...



The last emperor...



Some of the other kids posed with Luca...



Luca was a little grumpy at first, but later came out to charm the ladies...






Luca is wearing a necklace made out of cookies. Each guest took a cookie, made a wish, and told him not to drool. We hope he listens...



We ordered lots of Chinese food for the occasion. Here you can see Luca helping cut his cake...



More scenes from the party....

After the party, a well deserved rest...

3 Months Old + A Trip to SF

Here are some pics of Luca the week before he turned 3 months old:


Relaxing with Mommy



Getting ready to go out...



Enjoying a post dinner nap in his swing (Dadu Bhai, does this remind you of anyone?)...



Then we went for a trip back to California for Mommy's conference. We got to see Stanford so that Luca could see where it all started...he would never had existed if it hadn't been for the b-school's lax admission standards.

Here is Luca with his third "Grandma" - Mommy's advisor from grad school. We also got to play with Grandma's very cute daugther which was fun.



On Saturday we went to lunch and played with Auntie Greta and Uncle Eitan - they were the ones who bought Monkey for Luca, one of his favorite toys...



Then we went to dinner again with Auntie Johanna and Uncle Lance, but this time with all the kids. You can see Luca's future girlfriend on the right...




The next day we went to Dim Sum with the Fongs and Lees so that Luca could meet more of his family.

He loved to walk around with his Uncle Henry.

And fell in love with his Aunties Shana and Kirsti...

Later that day we went to Auntie Mibs and Uncle Milo's house for their son's 1 year birthday party (his birthday is on St. Patrick's day).

"Hey...wanna play?"

"This is pretty fun"...

Their older son was very sweet and brought Luca balloons to play with...

"I'm with the wrong Mommy!!!!!!"