Playing peek a boo with Mani

As Mani continues his development he's becoming more and more fun. Now walking he's also playing with us a lot more intentionally. Recently we've been handing things back and forth and here's a little video of "where's Mani?".

Happy Birthday Mani

Yesterday was Mani's first birthday. No big party. Just Friday night dinner with the family including Ali who captured the moment with Zahra's new Flip Video ultra

Mani has started walking!

It's been amazing to watch as Mani learns to walk. Over the last few weeks he has been working on standing up and walking on his own. At this point he can take about 8 steps before falling.



Salma likes to help him and gets excited when he stands and walks on his own.

Halloween

Sorry for the long pause between posts. I've loaded a bunch of halloween pictures into a picasa web album. Check out my first pumpkin!

Salma turns 2!

Salma turns two tomorrow. It's fantastic to see her growth and development. She seems to understand everything. She loves to help around the house. She seems to really care for Mani. And today she spent much of the day without diapers without accident.





We had a party on Saturday. Buby was in town from Toronto and made lots of great things to eat. Pascal bounced the kids on the sprinkler beach ball. Weather was great. It was fun all around.

Ay bee see dee

Mani seems to really want to get up and run around but his body is still working on sitting up. He continues to be a smiley baby. And he definitely enjoys his rice cereal.













Salma has taken to singing "Ay bee see dee" at all opportunity. She seems to have learned it at the day care with Roxanna. Last weekend they had a party... complete with clowns, candy floss and live afro-peruvian music. Her latest feat was to trick Ameneh's boyfriend David into walking with her down to the toy store. Hopefully khale will tell us the story herself. It seems the Salma is engaging more with her environment, enjoying it and talking about it.















More photos online:

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Mani starts eating solid food

Today Zahra gave Mani some rice cereal for the first time. He ate it well. And the weening begins...

I put a more unabridged set of pictures in Picasa web albums. You should be able to order hard copies from here. I'm considering other services, so let me know whether or not this was convenient.

Mar / Apr 2007

Passover 2007 in Toronto

We had a wonderful time in Toronto despite the cold. Was great for the kids to spend that time with Buby and Zaida. Salma had a great time with Nathan and he was very good to her.

Dec 7, Mani's bris

Buby and Zaida came in to play important roles in the bris... hold him down and keep him drunk. Uncle Paul and Aunty Toby were there virtually through the magic of the web cam. Mama Jaleh, Dayi Ali, Amu Nersi and Azar were there to lend moral support. Thanks to Nersi for the pictures.