SAFFY BIRTHDAY!

I can't believe how fast one year goes by!  It really feels like yesterday that we were in India, waiting for this little unknown person to make his or her entrance into the world.  We were in the waiting room in Eden Hospital listening closely at the doors when we heard this loud cry in the room next door, then Dr. Shivani called us to say "it's a girl!"  Saffron has brought so much joy into our lives and has made us a real family.

For her cake, I wanted to make her something that represented India and the culture of her egg-donor and surrogate: Ganesh surrounded by marigolds.

Happy New Year! (Almost 11 Months Old!)

2013 was the best of our lives!

The birth of our daughter, spending a month in India, parenthood...it was an amazing journey that went by so very fast!

We have just about a month until Saffron's first birthday and it's just so hard to believe, looking back to the beginning of this blog (March of 2012), how far we've come, how fortunate we are, and to never take any of this for granted.

We wish all of our friends & followers a very happy and prosperous new year.  Happy 2014!

Happy belated X-mas!

Who the hell are these button-eyed gingers at my window?

I love my polar bear!

10 Months

Happy Holidays!

Saffy's a walking maniac...  You know that feeling you get when someone enters the room when you're not looking?  Well we get that all. the. time.  New sounds, babbling, mimicry, finger-crossing (I don't know where she learned that), the transition from bottle to sippy-cup, and a plethora of new and delicious finger-foods are just a few of the new things going on in our home.  Time really flies by!  Meanwhile, someone really hates having to get bundled up just to go outside (we all do, but she hates it more).

Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

TRYTOPHANTASTIC!!!

To our Canadian friends, we hope you enjoyed yours last month; to our Australian friends, according to Wikipedia, you don't have a holiday in November (what's up with that?), so I hope you're able to get a long weekend before the summer holidays; the same goes to our friends in the U.K. but change that to "winter" holidays; and lastly to our Indian friends (we hope you had a happy Diwali earlier this month).

Today is a day for giving thanks, so in our hearts we thank our surrogate, egg donor, and everyone who helped us become a family and to those cheering us along from the sidelines!  In the U.S. we celebrate by eating (overeating) a turkey dinner and watching American football (although  we watch movies instead of sports in this house).  So without further adieu...

GOBBLE-GOBBLE!

9 Months!

Time goes by so quickly!  Our little girl is already beginning to stand on her own: no couch or toys to assist her!  I feel that she may be walking (or at least taking a few steps here and there) by Thanksgiving (Nov. 28th).  Not much is new since Halloween.  This daddy got a cold, then gave it to Saffy - but we're both on the mend.  Till next time...