And now for a musical interlude...

Ameneh and David sent a great video for Salma and Mani from London. A day in the life from chocolate, fish and mushrooms in Borough Market...to an blistery evening with the not so itsy bitsy spider at Tate Modern interspersed with performances from street musicians and other cool stuff. It's really well done. I've excepted a musical interlude that I'm sure Buby and Zaida will enjoy very much. Enjoy.

Fun in December

Everyone has been sick these past few weeks. Mani had an ear infection, Salma had 9 days of fever up to 103, Zahra and I got some kind of chest cold. Quite a cacophony some nights at home.

But recently we've started getting better. And to celebrate, I straightened my hair (Don't worry... just temporary). BTW, tomorrow we're off to Palm Springs for a few days.

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.

Visiting Dr. Nasr

Last week we went to visit Dr. Nasr and Shiva joon in Sacramento. Salma and Mani loved watching the chickens and picking all the fruit off the trees.

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!

Toby's Visit

Toby's been here for the last 10 days. Salma has loved having Toby around including, of course, to have someone for the ritual making of the couch bed in the living room. Salma is going to miss her.



Yesterday, Toby set up the kids tent in the backyard that was a gift from Khale Nazi and Amu Hasan. (Sorry for the crappy picture, Toby). Kids loved it.

Mani is crawling!

It happened really fast. Just a few weeks ago I took a video of Mani struggling to crawl. Ameneh thought it was very cold and objective reporting. She didn't quite say cruel. Then, while we in San Diego, he started crawling for real. And now he's so happy to be moving around the house on his own.



Not stopping there though. He stands up at every opportunity. Don't think walking is that far way.

Pics from our trip to San Diego

2007_08 San Diego