Jr. figures it out

Jr. has been playing with the Alto Sax, trying to figure out the Carnatic music scales on the instrument. She saw so many kids perform instrument solos at the Navarathri Golu festival and saw it was an easier alternative to singing everywhere. 

Started with renewed vigor today and she did it! (There was no school today and that meant boredom at home. At least the time was used a little constructively for figuring this out!)

Next year at the Golus... Jr. might be playing a Tamil song on the Alto Sax. Can't wait to see that!

Gods for a day

The kids got treated like gods, quite literally on Monday when we went to a Gujrathi family for Navarathri celebrations. 

The ladies in the house line up all the little girls aged 3 to 10 and wash their feet, put flowers, perfumes on them and then do a prayer with the girls treated as the deities!

Needless to say this is followed by some amazing food...

It was a great experience for the kids and they blushed at all the attention.

Truly happy that they are getting an all Indian experience and are not restricted to a simply south Indian Golu tradition. Only in the bay area!

The budding chef

The kids have been complaining that there are no new baby videos.. that is what they call old videos of them that we see in the blog before bedtime!

So we need more baby videos for three years from now.. Here is a start!

She is becoming quite a chef!

The older one is as elusive as a vampire in daylight! Will have to work hard to catch that one on camera doing something cute.

Have been busy with the new job the last week. Loving it so far. Also have a nice Macbook Air. A Mac work laptop after 15 years. Loving that too.. Getting used to the trackpad as fast as I can. 

The other amazing thing is that it runs VMware Fusion. That means with a swipe of the mouse it goes from a Mac screen to a Windows screen and runs my Windows apps!

We also spent some time with the kids today at Pier 39 watching the Blue Angels fly just between us and Alcatraz. Have some nice photos.. but the editing has to wait till middle of the week.

Until then..