We spent the day in Northern Virginia visiting with family.
Here are the girls with their Aunt Toni.
Diya refuses to let us feed her, but it is okay when her Uncle helps her!!
Me and my girls. I absolutely love these two beautiful girls!!!
The girls and Daddy. They have him wrapped around their little fingers!!
We celebrated Isha's fourth birthday with a pizza party with a few of the neighbors. Here Isha is blowing out the candle on her ice cream cake, yummy!! The kids all had a great time playing and Isha got to know the little girl her age that moved in down the street!!! What more can you ask for...ice cream cake and a new friend!
Isha's Uncle Bobby, Tia Viviann and Stephen sent Isha a cookie bouquet. Of course all the cookies were of her favorite princess, Jasmine. The girls enjoyed munching on the cookies.
I think it is funny that Isha gets as many magazines as me. She loves her Turtle magazine that Grandma Louise sends her and she always asks me where her teacher is in the Tae Kwon Do magazine. I am glad that she has a wide range of interests!!
We made some popcorn and the girls snuggled in for movie time. Of course we watched The Great Fairy Rescue.
It was so sweet to see them snuggled up together enjoying the movie. I was surprised that Diya watched the whole movie!!
The girls are enjoying the new playroom!! It is really nice to have a place to keep all the toys and it is also nice to have a place for them to play when I am trying to cook dinner. 
We put a gate up so that when I am cooking I can lock them in the playroom. You would think they are being locked in solitary confinement when I shut the gate!! I have learned to not listen to the crying because they stop after about 30 seconds and then they are happy to sit in there and play.
They also love haning out in the Fairy Fort!!
After a big trip and a round of the stomach flu we are all glad to be happy and almost healthy on Christmas morning!! We decided to convert our morning room into a play area for the girls. Luckily Jai started feeling better so that we were able to get it done. There is no way I could have done it alone. We had to take the table out and put the floor down and get all the toys down from the third floor!!! Man was that a work out. 
Here is the new playroom that Santa left for the girls on Christmas morning.
Lots of new toys to keep the girls busy.
Santa brought Isha the Barbie house she had been asking for. It now lives in her room where, for the the most part, it is free of Diya's destructive hands.
It's Christmas morning, why not let your kids eat cookies for breakfast?
Isha loves her new Polly Pocket.
Diya is checking out all the loot from her stocking.
Isha loves her new Barbie house. She is closely guarding her Hershey's Kisses!!
Santa brought us all Singamajigs. Isha loves hers and Diya loves to listen to them sing. Mommy is happy that Santa also brought her one!
Our neighbors, James and Karina, brought the girls these adorable little incense burners home from their trip to Europe. I know that these will be a great keepsake for the girls. I still have Christmas ornaments that my grandparents got for me on all of their travels and they are some of my favorite Christmas decorations.
Here is our little princess doing some Tae Kwon Do moves on the Bop It Buddy!! A great way to get some aggression out.
Santa also brought the girls a fairy fort! Here are Jai and the girls trying it out.
There was definitely a theme to this Christmas ... Princesses!!! Isha is all about the princesses and fairies!!
We had a great Christmas. It was so nice to be home!!!
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!
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.
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.
The girls loved the beach!! Diya ate a few handfuls of sand and Isha enjoyed making sand castles.
I absolutely love this picture!! Nothing sweeter than a Daddy you can trust to keep you safe!
This was after a mouthful of sand. She also enjoyed putting it in her hair.
Me and the girls on the beach! I can't believe I am putting this picture out for the whole world to see.
Daddy and Diya checking out the ocean.
This life jacket was awesome!! We got it hoping that Isha would be a little more independent. She still wanted us to hold her in the pool. She doesn't trust that she will float. This summer there are some serious swimming lessons in her future!
The beautiful beach Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Some castle building. Isha would get mad every time the waves would wash her castle away. 
By time we were done playing I think we had made 20 castles that were all washed away by the waves.
Diya enjoying the feel of the sand on her feet.
