Summer Fun

Last Saturday we went to the New Haven children's museum. I've been wanting to take Paras for a long time but I think he is only now getting to a point where he can enjoy it. They had a reading of a book called "Bugs," followed by a puppet show involving two dogs who shrink themselves and then walk through the backyard meeting bugs. I don't think Paras really followed the plot but he seemed to like watching the puppets.

Paras has been really funny lately with his imaginative play. Here is a photo of him "driving" George in his make-believe car. Notice the frisbee for a steering wheel and the pliers and blanket he's used for seatbelts on George and himself, respectively. (Apparently he's driving in the U.K. or some other Commonwealth country.)



Meanwhile, I finally got iLife '09 so I have my Flip movies on my computer. Here is a video of Paras having breakfast with my mom (whom he calls "Domi"), before going to school:



Sahana had a bit of a breakthrough last night -- she slept till 5:30 am, straight from 11pm! For some reason I feel like 5 am is the tipping point, and after that it's just a matter of time before she's sleeping till 7am. I'm hoping it's not a fluke -- I don't think so, since she slept till 4:45 a few nights ago and till 5 the night before last (after a brief wakeup and re-put down at 3:30). She's also gotten to be a much better burper -- nowadays it's the actually feeding that takes a while. She treats formula like it's a fine wine, and likes to sip it over the course of oh, about an hour. Very annoying. Paras used to down his bottle so fast we had to have a second one on deck because he would go beserk if you took a break to make a new bottle. Hopefully this means that they'll be different in other ways as well, such as throwing howling temper tantrums every night before going to bed.