Go Tribe!

With her hometown Indians faltering badly down the stretch (we're only 9.5 games out of first in the AL Central!), Sachi decided to throw her prodigious athletic support behind the Tribe in hopes of making a September push for some October baseball.  Unfortunately, due to napping delays and traffic, she didn't make it to be ballpark until the 7th inning.  Regardless, she did get a chance to hit the base paths post-game, flashing some serious speed from 1st to 2nd and on her way to 3rd base.  Needless to say, the scouts took notice.  Afterwards, Sachi got us access to some on-field photo-ops with Indians Management and security.

Check out Sachi's arm ink.  She wanted an elbow web or teardrops, but settled for the forearm Chief Wahoo

And how could we resist the post-game banana photo?

The Art of Eating a Banana - by Sachi Oza

Amid toy rubble and while Paipi looks on from the comforts of his sun and saliva-drenched patio bed, little Sachi decided to put on a summer tutorial on the proper etiquette of banana consumption:

Break off small, easily edible bites:

 

Realize that the bite is neither small nor easily edible

Question the initial strategy:

Resignation...

Perhaps a change of clothes will assist in this situation (nope):

Strike a pose and get comfortable for the long haul:

Success!

Change clothes and repeat:

Rendezvous in DC

After speaking with him through his assigned agents (Momma and Poppa Womack), Sachi and her trusted lieutenant, Paipi, decided to hit the road and meet International Man of Mystery, Liam Womack, in our nation's capital to discuss international monetary policy, national defense and a host of other pressing matters.  The summit was hosted by none other than Auntie Anjali Dighe and was co-chaired by one, Devin "The Dude" Dighe.  Here are photographs that were permitted by the traveling press corps and a brief synopsis of their policy discussions:


With an initial focus upon the environment, Sachi and Liam headed to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.  Little Liam was nowhere to be found, although a variety of others (stuff and real) were available for discussions: 


The Dude presiding with Zosan (elephant)

Moose skeleton

Check out the giraffe tongue!

That zebra looks strangely familiar...

 ...connection!

Tough day to be a bird

After returning to The Dude's house, the two principals get acquainted over snacks

What a great four-photo series of infant politics. First up: charming your opponent with your wiles.  

Second: making your demands clear (i.e. give me that cracker).  

Third:  resorting to theft

Fourth: again with the charm offensive to make everyone feel like a winner.  Notice Liam's expression is the same as the first photo (in a word: puzzled).  

Thank god for back up crackers

 Fedoras for everyone.  Poppa Wo with his boy.  Poppa Oza with his gal.  

Womack family says "cheese."  

With the Womacks make the move to DC, the blog may be introducing a more frequent guest star in little Liam Womack, so keep any eye out for additional appearances from this master statesman.  

Sachi Turns One!

So the blog is a little late in providing updates, but if you're weren't there in person, here's what our little Sachi did in celebrating her 365th day strolling this fine Earth.  True to form, Mom and Pops whipped together some last minute plans to outline the day's events.  It got emailed out to folks at about 12:23AM the day of, and afterwards, the Ozas put that plan to action.  What a day!

For whatever reason, the blog won't accept PDFs loaded as files, so the itinerary is broken up according to what we did during the day.

Itinerary intro:

SACHI’S INDEPENDENCE DAY BIRTHDAY ITINERARY

                        

Planning has never been an Oza family strength, so in perfect tradition of our little Sachi’s 1^st birthday, Paipi’s 5^th birthday and America’s 235^th birthday, the Ozas have whipped together a birthday itinerary that outlines our happenings for this exciting July 4, 2011.  Feel free to join us at any of these mentioned pit stops if you’d like.  If you can’t make it, no big deal...we love you anyways.   

If you do think that you’ll want to join up for any or all excursions, call or email rishi and let him know that you’re coming and we’ll find a place to meet.  Oh yeah, seeing that this is being thrust upon all of you at the 11^th hour, don’t go out and try to find anything for a gift.  Sachi is more than happy with the gift of your time.  

Once the itinerary was set, we were off.  Here's a breakdown of what we did:


Time:  6:00AM

Location:  Oza Residence

Sachi wakes up.  Paipi and Pops try to sleep in for another hour and fail miserably. 

Time:  7:00AM – 9:30AM

Location:  Oza Residence (living room floor)

Skyping with Baachan and Jichan Takemoto in Sasebo, Japan, followed by contact with Dighe family in Washington, DC and Desais in Charlotte, NC.  Call to Nana and Nani Oza as well.  Birthday breakfast, birthday cake and Paipi ice cream.

Birthday outfit!  

Time:  9:45AM – 10:15AM

Location:  Beachwood (Richmond Rd.)

Birthday walk with Paipi to Beachwood City Park

Time:  10:15AM – 11:00AM (hopefully)

Location:  Sachi’s room

1^st birthday nap

Time:  11:30AM – 2:00PM

Location:  Cleveland Zoo

Red, white and zoo!  Sachi will be cruising around looking for a temporary substitute for Paipi.  Lunch at the Zoo.  

Elsie came to the Zoo too!

Time:  3:30 – 5:00

Location:  Beachwood Family Aquatic Center

1^st birthday swim!  Ozas will head to the Beachwood Aquatic Center (25125 Fairmount Blvd.) for some fun in the sun.  Its only $10 to get in, so get that bathing suit on and join up.  

Time:  6:00 – 8:00

Location:  Oza Residence

Playtime with Paipi and winding down at the Oza house.  Sachi eats dinner, reads a story and goes to bed.  Hopefully, we’ll get some fireworks that we can watch!

All in all, what a great day.  Next year, we'll be sure to give more advance notice.