my birthday party

ema found these pictures from my birthday party, which now seems like soooo long ago!

here's kiran, becca, hannah, tara and i enjoying our lunch, with daddy, sam & lauri in the background:


and this is kiran, becca, hannah and i chowing down on my birthday cake:


this is becca, hannah and i sitting in the "thinking chair" when we played blue's clues to figure out what we would do next:


and this is lauri and sam, enjoying the party:

long overdue birthday pictures

when ema was looking for halloween pictures to post, she also found a bunch of photos daddy took of me opening my birthday presents from saba, savta, doda tali, lee, kiva and dodo karen. i thought you'd like to see how much loot i got and how much fun i had opening all those presents.

one of the many books savta and saba gave me was one that came with scissors! i think they got me this book because when i first started school, every time daddy asked me what we did at school that day, i said, "i didn't cut with scissors." but you can plainly see in the photos below that i can cut with scissors:


dodo karen thought that i needed a library full of books that would keep me acculturated with the bay area. my favorite is the true story about tango the penguin who was raised by two daddy penguins, roy and silo, at manhattan's central park zoo. here's a picture of me opening one of the other many books she sent:


and doda tali, lee and kiva sent me some great wooden toys, including this anatomy puzzle, which i love playing with:

happy halloween!

giddy up!

the baby in ema's belly also wanted a costume, so daddy and i decorated it:


is it just me, or does ema's belly resemble our jack-o-lantern?