Crawling

Uh-oh, Rohan has definitely started crawling properly this weekend...the photo may not prove it, but he's also doing a lot of downward-dog (think yoga pose) and squirming/wiggling. Deven may have the hardest time of all; as now he can't just steal Baby Brother's toys without a fight.

We are about to embark on a 6-8 week bathroom remodel (wish us luck), and as part of that we're cleaning out stuff we don't need. We sorted thru Rohan's clothes &, in addition to the newborn-3 mos stuff we'd already given away, we sorted out the 6 mos items. Our wonderful nanny is herself pregnant, so we will give her all the clothes.

Without getting too teary-eyed, I was able to put in a bag to give away:
- the adorable blue-green "My Aunt Loves Me" onesie
- Lots of other froggie-stuff from Aunt Heather
- the blue-white striped train-engineer overall & cap outfit
- the hand-me-down items from Sarah Daly-pretty much too used/stained to give back now
- the other teeny stuff I remember opening @ Deven's baby shower, and marveling @ the size and wondering what experiences we were going to face.
We will keep just a few items - the sweater Daadi knitted; the outfit of name-brand khakis with ducks on them & belt, button-down-shirt, and argyle socks; and hats - the 2 yellow-white ones that Aunt Carolyn knitted, and the blue hat with ear flaps & handy neck-tie from Aunt Anne. We still have- and are using- the knitted baby blankets, and will keep those, just like my mom kept a few outfits for Heather & me.

But our boys are growing up, and giving away the clothes are just one reminder!

La-zee Days (not)

After a harrowing Sunday morning, where Deven melted down big-time (for what? We think it has something to do with blood-sugar level, but I digress), we went to the park on a brilliant but blustery San Francisco afternoon.

And there, while Deven was showing off his new-to-us seesaw skills, Rohan took his first few wiggles! (No he didn't actually crawl, but as the movie here shows, he's getting ready). Eek - we've gotten lazy about babyproofing - need to redo some of the things we've gotten lax on!

Just the Cutest Thing Ever!

Don't you agree? Deven doesn't - in fact, he's been showing more jealousy of Rohan lately. But Rohan continues his sweet good-natured self - Deven pushed him pretty hard today, and Rohan just giggled. Perhaps he's keeping score until he's big enough to push back.

He's starting to stand on all-fours and push back-n-forth...a precursor to crawling (aack!). & no he's not cross-eyed, but he was very close to, and enamored with Aunt Danielle, the photographer. :)

We're planning a quiet (ha!) weekend here, then headed to the Berkeley Kite Festival next weekend where we'll meet up with some friends we don't see nearly enough, and hopefully see LOTS of pretty kites to excite both Deven and Rohan.

Enjoy the video of "Horsey" too...

Singin' & Swingin'

Recent videos of the Sherwood Sharma boys...singing, swinging, flying, and laughing. Enjoy!

Recent Videos

Enjoy the videos of recent Turbulence and fun at the schlide-schwings. Notice how bundled up the boys are outside - that's summer in San Francisco!

Deven the Tool Guy

Testing posting via email from my BlackBerry here.



Deven has always been a tool kid - here's the latest proof. We've hired an architect to give us plans for a 2nd bathroom, and Deven waited until he let to melt down - then started to do so, until we gave him the tape measure.



He'll start preschool on 8/26 - wow, he's growing up fast!

Surprise! Happy Birthday, Daadi!

Daadi's birthday isn't actually until this Wed 7/8, when she'll be 74. But, to throw a proper surprise party one has to plan, and make it fun for the surprise-ee, so Yogesh did the following:

- Listened to hear which ones of our friends she talks about, and invited them
- Had Aunt Danielle make a *yummy* cake
- Had flowers brought (by Aunt Danielle & Aunt Jen)
- Bought streamers & balloons, which we hung & blew up, respectively
- Had a local Indian restaurant deliver, so we could avoid suspicion before the party


...and it worked out great! We hid in the living room while Daadi was in the kitchen, and she opened the sliding doors, and we sang her Happy Birthday, had cake before dinner (and again after dinner, in my case - jiggly thighs be damned, that cake was worth it).

Deven was thrilled to 'help' blow up the balloons (and summarily let them go before tying them, to watch them flying-burping around the room); Rohan was content to roll around the floor (he's rolling, wiggling, and sort of scooching himself backwards on his belly in a semi-reverse-crawl now), and I was content to let the madness go on around us while keeping Daadi's suspicion down.


She won't tell us much, but we know she was thrilled to have a (small) fuss made over her birthday, because she giggled about the cake the next day, and gobbled down the leftover Indian food (after she was positive that others had had their fill, first). She did enjoy meeting our new friend Peter, and said as much the following day.

The rest of the weekend was spent in typical San Francisco summer fashion, playing outside in long-sleeved shirts and pants in the fog, and recovering from the party (with the requisite random popping-balloon to scare everyone).

Almost 74 years ago, Daadi was born in Ajmer, India...and I'm willing to bet her forefathers had no idea she'd end up here, in San Francisco, as live-in grandma to 2 little 'gora laerkas' (whitish boys) who love her more than anything in this world, in 2009. Happy Birthday, Daadi!


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Play with me, brother!

Ha ha!

Aaa-aaaaaaaah!

Hee hee!

Ik-eek-eek-hee hee-huh!

GRIN

GRIN-DROOL

GRIN-BBBBTH.

Yep, faithful readers, I am proud to report the above as a true and factual accounting of a conversation yesterday between Deven and Rohan. The two of them have begun to interact and play with each other. Though they're not saying much yet (at least not much that we in the potty-trained set can understand), it's clear that they have fun together and, if this trend continues, should (we hope) become fast friends.



We've had a wonderful weekend here, went to two different beaches - Crissy Field in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, and Robert State Park in Alameda today. Both were wonderful, and except that we forgot beach-toys both days (& I got a little sunburned despite SPF 1001+), a great time was had by all.

WHO'S THE BALDIE?

Photos are of Auntie Heather and Cousin Ante (who, Heather reported, has 2 teeth now, but still is as bald as the day he was born).

Isn't Ante cute?



Auntie Heather invited us to come to their vacation home on Cedar Lake, Indiana this summer. We are hoping to take her up on the offer - we're trying to coordinate a bathroom remodel @ home to finally give us 2 bathrooms (yay!) - but the work will be painful (boo) - so we want to be away for at least 1 week during that time.



I'm not sure Tommy approved the invite before it went out...but the cat's outta the bag now, so watch out! :)

Daddy's Tired

Daddy yawned. Daddy should sleep.

...this is what Deven told Daddy, when Daddy was reading Deven a goodnight story tonight and Daddy yawned. Daddy agreed. Why? Well, Rohan has gotten a little bit better at night, but still isn't really sleeping, per se. He will go down ~ 7 - 9 pm (notice the later down-time...but he just won't go down earlier - and what are we supposed to do...let a cute gurgling/happy/giggling baby lay there to fuss? No...so we don't) - we then dream feed ~ 11:00pm, and a few nights, he's actually made it through until 5:00am.


...but then Deven will cry out. We think he's teething (2 year molars).

...and if he doesn't, Rohan will wake somewhere ~ 2 - 4am. And Daddy often is getting him because Mommy's back hurts (really).

So, Daddy's tired!

NAANI & GRANDPA'S VISIT


Naani and Grandpa came this weekend as part of their cross-country tour. It was great to see them, and spend a nice Father's Day weekend with them. Saturday, we went strawberry picking at a local pick-your-own farm, and Sunday we visited the USS Hornet historic Naval aircraft carrier, then visited Danielle and Peter, who were reading on the shore and kitesurfing at Carlsbad State Beach in Alameda, respectively.


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Their visit was too short, especially considering the nice weather we enjoyed at the USS Hornet and on the beach on Sunday afternoon. I'm now mounting a very-public campaign to get Naani & Granddad to buy property within 1 hour of our home here (lots of foreclosed homes in the San Francisco exurbs!), and within 1 hour of Heather's home in Chicago (...and you thought San Francisco area real estate was cheap...just wait until you look at the bargains in the Chicagoland area!)

...So, if anyone reading this is a friend or cohort of my parents, help me convince them! ;-)

Rohan's First Haircut

...wasn't really meant to happen this weekend, but it did. Because Deven freaked out. I mean FREAKED OUT, when we took him to get a trim recently. He did this last time Yogesh took him as well - and it ended with a poorly-executed haircut, a traumatized kid, and a true fear of scissors. Look carefully @ the photo and you can see a perfectly-straight bald spot where Rohan's hair was trimmed as an experiment to get his Big Brother Deven to try to calm down...an experiment that didn't quite work.




This Saturday morning, we took Deven to a hairdresser, where he was so fearful that we even tried taking scissors to Rohan's head and snipped a few locks (unevenly above his ear) - but Deven wasn't buying the "it's safe" routine.



I tried repeating "Hairdressers are nice" to Deven - which he was happy to repeat with me - but it didn't help, either. So, we keep a hat on both for now, and hope that either their Nanny, Sangye, can make Deven sit still; or better yet, Naani and Grandpa don't notice the loooong hair behind Deven's ears because he's so cute eating strawberries (as he was doing in the 2nd photo), and so they just don't notice things, when they come to visit later this week!