Gandhi-Irwin Blog

Today, on the way home from school (a three minute drive) this was the conversation Saha and I had. "Look, an airplane. (The lights of an airplane were visible in the sky) Airplanes go to the airport. We don't have an airplane at home." "That's right, we don't. I don't think that we even have any toy airplanes. Would you like a toy airplane for Christmas?" "No, I want an Elmo!" "Saha, you already have three Elmos. How many Elmos do you need?" "10!" "10 more or a total of 10?" (She thinks for a couple seconds) "10 MORE Elmos!"

A couple weeks ago, we headed up to NYC for Allen's 10-year reunion. It was mine, too, of sorts, since most of my friends are in that class, since that's the class that I started with. On the ride up, Saha had a seat-mate, Grandma! We dropped her off at Kyrsten's on the way up.    Napping in the car. We also stopped of at Ruchi's to meet new baby Preesha.  Aniju made a couple of good friends!   Union Square has some awesome playgrounds that definitely weren't there when we were in college. More Union Square awesome-ness. Oh Union Square Farmer's market, how I miss thee!   Yes, we spent a lot of time at the playground :-) We went before and after brunch. After brunch, Saha made a friend and wasn't too happy when it was time to go. Only in Washington Square Park :-) Reunion. Saha was running (literally) all day and actually fell asleep while she was eating dinner. She didn't nap at all on...

The last weekend of September, we took our annual trip out to The Corn Maze, in The Plains, Virginia. This is the 5th (I think) year that we've gone. So glad that Brette, Nicole, and Mahalie could join us again this year!  They had all kinds of slides there, which is of course heaven for 2-1/2 year olds!  Hay ride at the corn maze!  Different slide.  Yet another slide.  Doing the actual maze and riding a tractor! Picking pumpkins and Mahalie helping Saha change her shoes.

Back in September, Saha started tumbling classes at the rec center just down the street from us. Here are some pics from the first day of class. That same day, Allen took Saha to her first baseball game!

Saturday we went to a Halloween party at the house of a classmate of Saha's. Our pumpkins!  And then trick-or-treating on Wednesday. Trick Or Treat! Saha and her friends, all around 2 1/2 years old. Yeah, that backpack was half full with candy...

Over Labor Day weekend, we went camping in Shenandoah National Park with our dear friends the Tolleys and some friends of theirs. We went camping Sunday to Tuesday, so we had pretty much the campground to ourselves from Monday afternoon until we left on Tuesday. The weather was actually pretty nice. We got there first and it did rain for a little bit, but then it was mostly just cloudy and misty, which was actually nice. When the sun came out, it really was just too warm. Saha's first skinny-dip, at a waterfall in a national park! S'mores for breakfast. Yes, we learned from the first night. Giving kids s'mores and then expecting them to go to bed doesn't work. Putting out our breakfast s'more fire. More pics can be found here .