Cookie Baking

After our trip we needed to get back into the holiday spirit so Isha and I baked some Christmas cookies.

Cooking with Isha is always an adventure. This girl loves to talk and she does a great job of keeping me company in the kitchen!

Isha is the official cookie taster. She is more like her Dad, after a few bites she is done. Meanwhile I am scarfing down cookies like crazy. Diya on the other hand takes after her mommy. That girls loves sugar!!!

The Oberoi Family In The Dominican Republic

Here is our family picture. Too bad Isha wasn't looking at the camera, but with two little kids you take what you can!

My girls and me.

This is Diya and Abrahan, our favorite waiter. He was so sweet. He always called the girls his "American daughters". Isha was a little shy, but Diya loved him!

After awhile Isha warmed up to him. I think she likes to play shy to get some extra attention. Abrahan also showed us the picture of his two little kids. I think of him often and hope that all is well with him and all the other great people from the D. R. that we met.

Daddy and Isha hanging out in the swinging chair!

Our big girl all by herself in the big chair.

Getting ready to leave the room. By the end of the trip we were all getting pretty tired and were ready to come back home.

Isha and Diya relaxing in their jammies in the room.

The Pool

Diya enjoying some lunch. Actually she is eating an appetizer of goldfish and drinking a virgin pina colada from a sippy cup!! This is the life.

There was an area next to the pool where they had brought sand in. Diya and I hung out here, eating peanut butter crackers while Isha and Daddy enjoyed a drink in the pool.

It's a rough life!

This girl loves to pose.

I don't know, maybe she is doing Yoga. It must be the Indian in her!

Playing in the baby pool. It didn't matter how warm or cold it was the girls had a blast playing in the pool. We brought a floaty for Diya, but she was having NONE of it, so I had to hold on to her the whole time. You try to be a good parent and plan ahead and then it all backfires when the kids don't go along with the plan. We tried to let another family borrow it and of course their baby didn't want to have anything to do with it either.

Relaxing by the pool in the swinging chair with Daddy.