Super Stars!!

Today was the Diwali party and that means...the Fashion show and the Dance event. I was soooo nervous that Ashu will forget his steps because last 3 days of practice, all he did was to goof around with his friends and not concentrate on the steps or the song to remember to change the steps. Guess what! He did awesome! All of them were awesome. He didn't forget the steps and infact, he reminded Hiren to join hands at the end. But, it can't be flawless isn't it? In the beginning of the song, he had to move out of the circle and join his partner Swarali and he went to Tanvi instead. It was funny, but he quickly realized and went to Swarali.

We didnt take the camera or camcorder as they confused us by saying they've arranged for video and photos. Almost everyone had their own cameras and camcorders! Sigh! But, i will nag my friends and get the copies :)

Last but not the least, Fashion show was terrific! Both looked great. Aj was so funny and cute. He went and stood in the middle of the stage and was standing like a statue, posing for the cameras. Ashu was looking very handsome and walked only half the stage and turned back hurriedly during the first round. Second round he had to hold hands with Shweta and walk as a couple. While returning back he left her hand and walked fast, leaving her behind!! Mrunal was making fun of me saying 'your son left my daughter' :-)

On Friday, we had the dress rehearsal at Swati's house and wow, what a chaos it was. Aj refused to wear the kurta. He was in dhoti type bottom and T.shirt. Looking like a Telugu movie hero!! Considering that i had no hopes today that he would wear his kurta and he did. Ashu's group did the dance okay on Friday. Not their best, but today they were awesome! I got them the rewards that i promised them. Girls got the Cinderalla light up pen with bubbles and stamp. Boys got the batman pen with whistle. They were very happy.

All said and done about the cultural show, i have to tell you my soga kadhai. I comitted to make Besan Burfi for the party. I had never prepared that before. Actually, i haven't even eaten it before..so no idea how it would look. I assumed that it should be something like Mysore pak, which it was, but the process was worse than the pain in the rear!! Last week being so crazy with me running around the town, taking ashu for his practice, Karate and Leaps, i ended up making it only at 11 pm last night for today's party. It took me an hour and i ended up with terrible pain in my arm. But, the pain was worth it. It was so good and there was not a single piece left. Even Ashu came and took 4 pieces of it, which is very rare!! :-)

Yesterday was Amit's birthday party and Aj was fully charged like the energizer bunny and was going on and on and on with his veshamams there. When nobody was looking, he digged in the cake and all red-faced! Almost everyone commented on how active and naughty he is (like we didn't know before!). People came and asked me and B what we feed him and i was tempted to say 'Beer!' ;-) They came to a conclusion that something's crazy in our house that we ended up with two naughty boys who are T3 and T4 (Terminator 3 and 4!). He continued his veshamam today and kept me on my toes the whole day..I can barely walk now!! :-(

Mottai paapavin attagasangal...

Aj's veshamam is getting...toooo much! On friday, i forgot to mention that when i was sitting in the living room sipping my tea, enjoying my short break(which was shorter lived), aj went silently into the kitchen, pulled the stool near the countertop, climbed on it and was pouring the oil from the oil pot to the plate which was next to it. There was a trail of oil from the pot to the plate and i spent next few minutes cleaning it. So much for the short break...Seriously though, i will go crazy without the short break :-) It is really a tea time kushi for me...



Yday, lucky dude (B) was sleeping in the afternoon and Ashu was in his room reading a book and i was cooking in the kitchen after i put the pebbles cd for little dude. He was awfully quiet. It was the calm before the storm kinda quiet. So, i took a peek into the living room and there he was taking each and every post it strip from the marker pen and sticking it on the t.v and then scribbled something with the marker on the t.v.!! Maybe he was writing reminders for the t.v shows and marking it with the post its!!

Can you see the drawing with the pink marker on the TV?

After yday, we both started saying 'Ashu nallavaru, vallavaru..' We used to think Ashu was the naughtiest kid in the universe and Aj makes him look real saadhu!!

TGIF....

TGIF stands for Thank God it's friday (although it is technically Saturday now..it's 12:19 now!) Anyways, i saw this wording in the church nearby and it put a smile on my face ...

TGIF - Thank God I'm Forgiven. Cute, eh?

We were all lazing around in the evening and AJ was the exception and was roaming around the house :-) After some time, he sat down in the corner of the living room where i keep the juice box pack so i won't forget to put it in Ashu's bag in the morning. He started taking one by one out and i was still cool with it because even Ashu and I find it difficult to poke a hole in it with a straw and sometimes goto B and get it opened. I thought as long as he's quiet and playing with it i am okay and started enjoying some t.v time. Wouldn't you know that i get punished immediately if i watch TV :-) I heard some slurping and i turned my head to find AJ sipping the juice from one of the boxes. He had opened the straw from the wrap, poked the hole and started drinking! I was really dumbstruck! Ashu and B too. After few sips he started shaking the rest of the juice on the carpet and threw the pack and decided to open the next pack! If only our carpet has a mouth, it will cry so much :(

Later, when i was talking to my mil, he brought two onions from the basket and was peeling the skin. It was 11:30 in the night and i decided to let him handle the breakfast tomorrow ;-) What do u say? :D

Aj can say sunday - saturday. Yay!

It sounds more like



sunday, monday, tooshday, weshday, thashday fiday, satututday :-)



Ashu missed his Karate class today. Poor dude is sick :( He started with fever yday and missed going to Beverly hills chihuahua. He did something funny yesterday. He slept off in the couch since he was sick and we didn't want to wake him immediately and send him to bed. We sat down and were watching the Presidential debate. Aj started troubling me and then i had to do the dishes also.So, i went to kitchen half way thro'. After i was done with the work, i came back and asked B who did better in the debate and Ashu answered 'Obama', without even opening his eyes :-D and continued saying 'Obama is going to win the election' and fell asleep right away. It was soooo funny :)

Partyyyyy after the circus saga...

After the circus saga, we had a quiet friday. When i say quiet, u should understand that it is just relative ;-) Saturday was okay as B was returning from Atlanta and that kept me going and as soon as he came, we went to a birthday party.It was Yash's 4th bday and his sis Anou's 1st bday. They were both born on Oct 11th, cool eh?

Ashu had a blast. It was at the new indian restaurent and it is not complete yet, so the kids (big ones) had lot of space to play.Aj was busy as usual. Getting thro' the nook and corner of every table that was close to the wall. Maybe he's reminding me that i need to shed few pounds ;-) He was playing with Kalyani and Shivani for most part...There were 3 other kids around his age and they were quiet and sitting like laddoos making me Jealous of their moms who were happily chatting ;-) Well...Aj was a laddooo too, but a rolling laddu :-) People were asking me what i feed him because he was full of energy. They also commented (or cursed) that he looked so energetic that he might not sleep before 1 in the night! He did stay up till 12, though!!

I taught him Farmer in the dell about 2, 3 weeks back and he loved it. He didnt repeat a single word though when i sang it to him. After few times he lost the fascination for the song and we moved on to the next and then to the next..and so on..Yday, i went back to this song
while changing his diaper to keep him still and i was so surprised that he remembered each and every thing in the correct order. Ashu got so excited.

The song goes like this and Aj sang the words highlighted in blue...at the right place, at the right time :-)

Farmer in the dell
Farmer in the dell
Hi-ho the dairy-ho the
Farmer in the dell

Farmer takes his wife
Farmer takes his wife
Hi...ho....

Wife takes the child
Wife takes the child
Hi-ho the...

Child takes the nurse
Child takes the nurse
Hi...ho...

Nurse takes the dog
Nurse takes the dog
Hi...ho...

Dog takes the cat
Dog takes the cat
Hi...ho...

Cat takes the rat (vat)
Cat takes the rat (vat)
hi. ho...

Rat takes the cheese
Rat takes the cheese...
hi..ho...

Cheese stays alone (vone)
Cheese stays alone...(vone)
hi...ho...the dairy ho the
cheese stays alone

Ashu is a total mama's boy - mostly. The rebel in him pops out quite often after he started school.I think it's the age. I tried telling him nicely that throwing tantrums will not get what he wants. Nope..didn't work.He was all over me and took advantage of the fact that i was being nice. Then, as a next step we had screaming matches.It was a lose-lose situation and didn't go well with me. I am not the kind who can yell and just walk away. I sit and brood over it for hours and
it ruins the whole day for me. Now, what is the next tactic? I record his favorite programs in DVR and if he throws a tantrum which is not reasonable, i delete a program. This works like magic, mostly. It is not nice, but i've learnt that nice doesn't work with boys! :)

Sunday monday...little dude

Little dude can say 'Sunday, Monday, Tooshday, Weshday' now. Awesome, isn't it? He calls everyone in the daycare as honey (including the teachers! )..We need to watch out ;-)



He says lot more words...and few sentences too.

Some of the sentences that came to my mind now are :



Caa sheys meom (Cat says meow)

Whash gonan wok teamwok (What's gonna work, team work)


Ashu tried cartwheels today and he's almost there :) Me proud of him :D

Circus Saga

As you all know, B is in Atlanta this week and we had Circus yesterday. It was only one day as it was a mobile circus. I had no plans of taking them at first. Somewhere down the road, this guilt feeling creeped inside me that i didn't take Aj to any fun place this summer. Actually, we did take him to NJ and to the central park there, but that didn't strike me until it was too late ;-) So to overcome the guilt, i decided to take them to the circus all by myself. I mentioned it to my friend S and asked her if she wanted to join me and she happily (Poor thing!) accepted and we were all happy and set. Btw, i was so determined to take them even if nobody was accompanying me. I dont know what i ate or drank...I was completely out of my mind :-O Anyways, yesterday afternoon when we were making plans on where to meet and at what time, S's roomie K stopped by and she overheard Circus and was all excited and said she wanted to come with us too. More the merrier. We all left at 6.45 and reached there by 7.15 after finding a good parking space. So far so good...As soon as we entered fairgrounds, we saw the cages where the tigers were locked up. The tigers were walking inside the cages majestically and Aj got so excited to see them and screamed 'Dokky Dokky (Doggy, doggy)'. Poor tigers! What a great insult to them! :-) We proceeded and found a place to sit and lo and behold! Aj got all hyper! Ashu was so good, thankfully. Aj didn't want to sit in one place. The circus was supposed to start at 7.30 and there was no sign of it. Finally there started few minutes shy of 8 and that didn't control Aj either. He was way too wiggly and trying to squirm out of my hands. He didn't bother to even turn his eyes towards the circus and what was the reason we came to the circus in the first place? Sigh!

Halfway thro' the circus, K got Ashu a light up sword and Aj kept snatching it from Ashu and that made the quieter one angry. I started feeling that the time wasn't moving. And to add fuel to the fire they gave a long break. I gave aj to S and took ashu to get popcorn. He cried and created a scene and made S come looking for me. By now, she must've regretted coming with us :( Poor girls! :-) Finally, the circus ended with an accident. Three bikes inside the cage fell one on top of the other :( The crowd started moving and we didn't know if anyone got hurt badly. We left the circus too. We took Chalupas as takeout from Taco bell and went to S's, had dinner and reached home at 11 in the night! After all this i feel that i should get 'Puraskar' award for being so brave! :-)

Dance baby dance

We are having a party on 26th Oct for Diwali and they enrolled Ashu for dance and Aj for kiddie fashion show. I didn't goto that meeting since i was sick and i am thanking my lucky stars that they didn't count me in for ladies dance :D Well, if i think about it, the audience should thank their lucky stars...Naan aadi yaar paakardhu..if i dance, hollywood, bollywood etc will come to a stunning halt!!

Anyways, i took Ashu to their first dance practice and i had my doubts that he might end up dancing like Bhagyaraj as he has never attempted to dance before. It's not in his genes either!!

Now comes the tough part! Aj's fashion show ramp walk. I am supposed to dress him up in some traditional outfit and make him walk. He has a kurta, so outfit is not a problem. Once he wears that...he might end up screaming in high pitch, drowning the VandeMataram song they are planning to have as the BGM! I am saying this because of my previous experience at the photo studio. He was really irritated with the kurta and refused to sit for the photo. It could also be because of the photographer. Whatever it is, wish me all the luck!

Polambal

I'm sooo irritated..For the passion i have for footwear, i can't even find a single pair of footwear that fits me good! Sigh! If the footwear looks good it doesn't fit and if it fits, it is sooooo ugly. Grrr! On friday, i wore a new pair of sandals to work. They were so pretty, but i ended up with bad shoe bite and i couldn't even walk. I went home during lunch time to change them. I went with B and on our way back he was trying to irritate me because he was bored. I got so mad at him and said i will just walk to work instead of going with him and he said " Why don't you walk wearing those pretty sandals! " I couldn't control my laughter on hearing that, but i still managed to put on a mad face! :D

I took Ashu for his Karate trial class and he loved it. He did good. I could observe only for few minutes as Aj started running around and i started chasing him! The Karate teacher told me later that he focused good and is very flexible which is good. One thing i noticed was that he didn't have enough strength to do certain things. Hopefully this will help him become strong! He's starting his first class this thursday. It's also fall break this week and next week and he will be going to Victory gymnastics and is pretty excited about it.

I took the kids to Urvi's birthday party at the children's museum. Kids had a blast. Ashu was playing with his friends and Aj was exploring the museum. He was attracted to the tic tac toe on the wall. They had Xs and Os with velcro strips and he was holding the X and kept saying Y :-) Ashu says 'It was close!' :-) They really enjoyed a lot and i am thinking of taking them there often. It's a small place, but pretty neat with decent amount of stuff to explore!

Today i taught 1,2,3,4,5 once i caught a fish alive song and Aj sings it so well...in chinese! :-)
He sings 1,2,3,4,5..chinese..chinese..fish chinese. It is very sweet to listen to. It's also amazing that he fills the words he can say at the right spots. Ashu and I get a kick out of it. You should listen to itsy bitsy spider. Except for the 1/2 line everything is chinese, but the action is perfect and is pretty funny. In Gannu mama's style, it is like watching super subarayan :) Ashu literally rolls on the floor laughing when aj sings itsy bitsy.

October is here...

It's just october and it is already cold! Brrr!


Yday, I went to work at 9 after dropping aj at the daycare and at 9.30 they called me saying aj is rubbing his eye and there was a case of pink eye in his class. I went back and took him to the doctor. Doctor said he has mild pink eye and gave some eyedrops. He troubled me soooo much when we were waiting there. First few minutes he was awesome. Happy and playful. After 5 minutes he wanted to get out of the room and walk around and open all the trash cans he found on the way! He was crying so much that one nurse took pity on me and called the doctor and asked him to check AJ first. Don't know if she took pity on me or wanted to get rid of us :D

Reason for crying : He had runny nose and wanted to wipe it on my shirt and not in the tissue paper! Go figure!

They are taking Ashu to Autumn Acres today (2-oct) for pumpkin patch. He's pretty excited about that. B gave him money to buy a book from the book fair too. So, doubly excited.
He did something funny yday though. Just before he got down from the car, he asked B to give him 3.99 to buy a book and B had change and he gave him $4. Ashu came back
with a long face in the evening and said..They said the book was 3.99 and i got $4 from appa and now they say i need to bring the tax money too. I was ROFL. B didn't realize the cost of the book was 3.99. He thought Ashu wanted 3.99 totally.