February Update

I haven't posted in a while so here is a February update in pictures :)

Arya so proud of her snowman - note the green hat and scarf (her absolute favorite color)

We were making a valentines day art project for the fireplace.  The girls LOVE art projects.  I found this one on pinterest (my obession!)

Morning time dress up...they raided my coat closet.

It is so hard to grab their attention while watching tv. I don't think they even blink while watching their tv shows.

We had fun doing a little Valentines Day photo shoot

Amiya claimed she was stuck in the box...that was on the ground.

This is what happens when Akhil leaves a tissue box within reach of a 2 year old.

Doing Facetime with my parents.  My dad is handing Amiya a lolipop!  (What a tease!)

Having a picnic on the aquadoodle mats.  I put away all their food toys because they were driving me crazy being all over the house.  So they go creative and used legos and magnablocks as food.

This is what happens weekly when they "help" put away groceries

What, dressing up again?

Arya was helping me put sprinkles on cookies that we made for their class.

After we do the alphabet, I always give the girls a "stamp".  The stamp is something that they request I draw with a maker.  Most of the time they ask for the following types of stamps - lolipop, sun, moon, stars, or even water.  This time Arya asked for a Nanima and Dadaji stamp (my parents).  Below are my drawings on her arm.  I tried  :) 

 

January Fun

The girls were helping me blow out my 33rd birthday cake!

Arya and Amiya were taking finger swipes at the cake as we were singing happy birthday!

We went to Disney's Dare to Dream on Ice (princesses on ice).  I surprised the girls with the princess shirts which they were super excited about!  They really enjoyed the show...Amiya enjoyed it so much that she was trying to get on the ice to greet the princesses!

This is what happens when you have two 2 year olds and markers

Dress up time (and Arya's fake smile!)

and again...

Amiya is loving all her jewelery...they are jewelery crazed!

Arya just found this backpack and wore it around the house the entire day!  It was half her size!

So happy to see Daddy!

Another happy girl!

Arya was dancing to her Dora guitar...she gets very animated!

The girls have been asking me to go sledding but we haven't had much snow.  Finally we had enough to go sledding!

 

 

We went bowling which was a lot of fun!  Look at the cute bowling shoes they wore!

 

Amiya bowled pretty good for a first timer!

 

 

 

 

What great outfit coordination!

 

...as you can tell, they love to dress up!

 

They are sporting the cute snowman shirts they made at school

 

Christmas 2011

This Christmas was a lot of fun with the girls! They completely understood the concept of Santa which made Christmas season alot more memorable than last year.

On Christmas Eve, we set out cookies & milk for Santa and carrots for the raindeer.  Of course both of the girls had to dig in before they went to bed.

Amiya insisted on leaving the half gallon of milk for Santa. 

She thought he would need the calcium :)

We were up until wee hours of the night wrapping and putting together toys.  I have never EVER been so last minute with getting Christmas things together but this year I was. 

We were looking forward to the girls expression to when they saw all the gifts under the tree in the morning.  The both looked down in the family room from upstairs and Amiya said "Wow, so many gifts, thank you so much santa.  So nice of you santa".  It was cutest thing ever!

After we went downstairs they both were running around like crazy looking at all their gifts.

I got all crafty with this lego table.  I made it from something I found on pinterest.

The girls LOVE nail polish and were so happy to get some in their stocking!

My happy girls!

Later in the day, Amiya and I went to my parent's house.  Arya had a fever for 4 days which still didn't break so she couldn't go with us.  She was very mad at first but Akhil and her had a lot of fun at home eating popcorn and watching Finding Nemo.