I recently celebrated my 30th birthday and it was wonderful to say the least. We kicked it off with a family lunch at an old time fave restaurant Pedro's in Los Gatos a few days before my actual birthday. It was fun being there with my mom, dad, Paul, Syona, Paul's mom, Jackie and Dwayne. My mom walked around the restaurant with Syona and brought her back a red balloon. After lunch we walked around Los Gatos for a bit and then came home. At night we celebrated with a cake which Syona kept trying to touch and accidentally stepped in right after I blew out my candle. I then took her hand and smashed it into the cake and had her feed me and later my mom and dad too. We then took her foot and kicked it in the cake and had her feed Paul, it was soooooo fuuun. The day before my actual birthday we drove up to San Francisco to stay the night at Bij's new luxury pad. It was the perfect mini vacation! We had breakfast at Squat and Gobble, bought Syona a new sun hat and some peter rabbit books, and then went back to the apartment and rested a bit with Syona. After taking
turns taking naps, we gave Syona a bath and went out to dinner to Barney's in the marina. It was the perfect place for us since it was family oriented. Syona didn't want to sleep that evening, it seemed she wanted to party for muma's birthday. After dinner I had Syona in my moby wrap and went to Tutti Melon's for gelato. She was all bundled up in her snow hat since it was cold and there was no one more I wanted to cuddle with as we strolled along the city. She went to bed around 10:30 that night and slept through the night. After Paul and I almost drowned in Bij's shower (they need a new shower head) we went to bed. The next morning we went to breakfast at the Grove which was super fun and talked to another Dad who was out with his little boy. We then drove back home, wished a good trip to my mom before she headed off to India and then made our way to the AVAC pool to take Syona swimming for the first time. I couldn't have had a better birthday! Just as I had expected (and as I did when I was little), Syona LOVED the pool. I was worried the water may be too cold for her but she didn't even flinch. She loved wading through it with us and splashing up and down in the water. I have never seen her laugh as much as she did this day! It was sooo fun holding her in the water and trying to get her to float. She had sooo much trust in us and she was not scared at all. At one point, when we took her out, she squirmed in Paul's hands until we brought her back in. That's muma's little fish! For my birthday, Paul has got me mom and baby swimming lessons with Syona and I am excited to start that next week!
Syona fell asleep on the way home, she was sooo tired after a day of splashing. We gave her a bath and put her to bed very quickly. We then ordered a pizza and watched entourage at night. Paul had also gone to the store and brought back some salad, roses and a cupcake which was very sweet. It was such a wonderful day. Check out the video:
Syona and I enrolled in a Mommy and Me swim class at the AVAC swim school. This was my 30th birthday present from dada and I couldn't have asked for anything more than swimming with my little fishy. Dada accompanied us to this first class. After changing Syona into her certified swim diaper and baby gap swimsuit, we waited in the viewing area for them to call her name. The pool was heated at a lovely 87 degrees F, perfect. After sitting Syona on the side of
the pool and sliding in and saying, "Ready Syona" and bringing her in after me, we sang a welcome song to welcome each of the 4 kids in the class. We sang, "Who's in the pool? Syona is in the pool" as we swayed our babies side to side. Soo fuun. We learned and practiced kicking and back floating. At one point in the class, the teacher exclaimed, "Good kickers Syona!" Mama was so proud! Haha. Syona was really enjoying the backfloating also and was so comfortable she was even reaching to find her toes on top of the water, hahahaha. During her second swim lesson, Syona learned to dunk her head underwater and also practiced "Big Arms" which are the arm strokes. After class, we put on Syona's Nike Women's pink swim robe like a true athlete and she fell asleep on the way home!
nd hold Syona. Shilpa and I ate together for a minute that night before taking Syona back. After getting our meal paid for (thanks for looking so cute syona), we had tutti melon and retired at our nice getaway apt ( courtesy of Bijel). The next morning, Auntie Jackie and Dwayne headed over to take care of her while mama, & dada went to train with the Nike women's group. Syona was good girl as she played with her morning sitter's. After the 4 and 14 mile run from the parents in respective order, we all went to squat and gobble. By that time syona got tired and slept for a while as we got our stuff together and headed to uncle Eddie's house. She woke up just in time for her feeding and swimming at the
koo's. By the time the family headed home, we were all so poop'ed that the next morning we all slept in until past 11 ( minus the customary 1 hour feeding/morning play time at 6). After that we went to check in on cousin Chloe's broken arm. She seemed to be in good spirits and her pink cast got a couple more signatures. :) we then went to Carolyn's where we enjoyed another round of swimming and good food. This is the story of syona's busy weekend, she was a total trooper... That's why she's the weekend warrior. 
