One Week Birthday!

Neal is one week old and is doing great! He sure loves to sleep and gets along great with Olive. Sonia loves to rock him in his car seat and sing "rock a bye baby."

Here are some pictures of his first week:

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WELCOME NEAL!!

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We have a new member of the family! Neal Mohan Patten made his appearance yesterday, July 24th at 3:42pm, 8 days ahead of schedule! He weighed in at 6lbs 13oz and is 19inches tall. We are all doing great and Sonia is thriving in her new role of "big sister." Here are a few shots from the past day, and we will definitely add more soon :)

Sonia's 2nd birthday!

This past weekend we celebrated Sonia's 2nd birthday at our house with a backyard party. It wasn't quite hot enough to pull out the kiddie pool but nobody seemed to mind. Sonia was decked out in her new party dress courtesy of Aparna (complete with her name on it!) and had 15 of her friends join, along with their parents and our friends, for fun. And we were so happy that Aparna and Ammamma were here for the festivities! Here are some pictures, along with an album with more.

Photo shoot

It wasn't a professional shoot, but one day Sonia actually let us keep barrettes in her hair, so we took some really fun impromptu photos. Enjoy!

Fourth of July

Auntie Lolo and Mike came up to Seattle to visit for the 4th of July and what a treat that was! It was so great to spend time with them and Sonia absolutely loved Mike (especially because he would blow "yellow bubbles" with her on demand)! We had our semi-annual 4th of July Party - complete with a performance of the AshPat famous play "A New Flag for a New Country." And in typical Seattle fashion, the weather was overcast and dreary, but the sun came out as planned on July 5th! But that didn't stop us from having a great 4th. And to top it all off, we watched the amazing Fireworks show from our front porch and didn't even have to leave the house.

 Thank you Auntie Lolo for this holiday-appropriate dress!!

 Holiday tattoos were a hit!

Sam's first Independence Day!

Reilly and Sonia munching on corn and hot dogs

Andy, Mike, Margaret, Katie & Aaron in character

Daddy and Sonia doing sparklers outside.

India Fest

A few weeks ago, we headed to the east side (land of Microsoft) and spent the afternoon at an India Festival.We ate really good food and danced alot to all the live music. Sonia wore her beautiful top that Aparna and Scott brought her from India, very modern!

Sonia ate BOTH plates of food. We had to get dinner for ourselves later!