Mala Koala and Meena Bean

When I was in 10^th grade, my world history teacher used to say “My cup runneth over!” whenever, as a class, we were particularly well behaved or could recall some random fact about Indonesia. At the time I thought she was eccentric…a little crazy if you will, but this phrase is what comes to mind for me these days. My girls are now sharing a room so at night before I go to bed, I quietly sneak into their room to take a little peak at them. Mala is sprawled out flat on her back with arms and legs all over the place, the blankets destroyed just like her daddy sleeps. Meena is in typical baby sleep position in her crib, on her belly, feet tucked under her, little bottom in the air, and all I can think is…”my cup runneth over.” These sweet girls bring me so much happiness these days.

Don’t get me wrong, we are not in any way perfect. There is always something to bicker about with Kumi. Mala drives me absolutely crazy with her stubbornness (particularly regarding clothing), Meena wakes up too early and is getting into everything (has pulled just about everything down on top of herself except our Christmas tree). But I will just say…my family is in a good place right now. I am so grateful for my parent’s health, Anil’s parents’ health, my girls are happy little girls, my sister is marrying (in less than a month!) a fabulous person whom we refer to as Uncle Michael. We have a lot to be thankful for this Christmas.

Some fun things Mala and I have done this year:

Made Christmas tree cookies

Made a gingerbread house

Visited Santa

Seen the Nutcracker

Seen the (free!) lights in Carolando neighborhood

Seen the singing bears in Founder’s Hall

What Meena has done this month:

Learned to Crawl

Started pulling up on everything, sometimes on things that end up on top of her and she ends up flat on her back

Started cruising

Started saying “Mama”, although it is not necessarily directed at me…it is exciting because she used to just day “dada” and “baba”