Aj wants to goto 1st grade!

:-) Yeah right! Everytime we drop ashu in his class and come out he runs right back to his class :-) Y'day i was talking to Ashu's teacher to find out if they have any program for Gifted children and this dude saw the other kids with open crayon boxes and jumped from my hands and tried to get his hands on their boxes. The kids were pretty excited with the distraction and started playing with him. I guess they were happy about not doing the classwork :-)

Today both kids have gone to sleep earlier than usual..Must be my lucky day...Darn! i should've tried my luck with lottery today.hehe..

Had a long chat with B today and gave him kids update and cookeville updates. He suggested taking the kids out for dinner. Hope he was just kidding :-O

Bored...Bored...Bored!

It's only 3 days since B left to india and i'm soooo bored here...This is inspite of the kids being themselves in full form + work + regular chores...and i still feel bored..bored..bored..did i say i am bored? I know what i am missing...I'm missing the most exciting part of my daily routine===Troubling B!! ;-)

I think the kids are missing him too...so they are taking extra-special care to keep me busier...Yday aj sat near the safety gate and kept saying bye bye. He says that when daddy goes to work. Maybe he remembered that. After sometime, he said bye to me and got down the stairs. That sneaky li'l dude! He had a big fight with Ashu on saturday night and today for the blanket - poor little ashu's blanket. He snatched it successfully both days and rolled it and laid on top of it to prevent ashu from taking it back. Luckily for me ashu didnt care about it and laughed it off...

First Day of School

for both the kids. Ashu wasn't too keen about returning to the school so soon. :D
He was asking me why they had to open in july as summer was supposed to be till august end and it is really a summer break and they shouldn't open till summer was over. How can i argue with such a logical question? ;-) If you ask me they should give summer break for offices too...i guess that's why i am not asked for any suggestions :D

When i dropped Ashu, he said he felt little nervous in the morning about going to first grade and i assured him that he will do great and he was fine after that. After dropping ashu, AJ walked back all the way to the school gate and didnt ask me to carry him. What a big boy!

He went to new room today. Orange room for toddlers. Ms.Allison (Ashu's purple room teacher) is in Orange room now. Yay! She's great with kids and another Yay! because Ms. Cathy who is AJ's fav is there too :) But, he was little upset when i left him there as he didn't see his old teachers. They said he was fine within 2 minutes and had a great time today. He loved the sink that was at his level and wanted to wash his hands all day and didn't want to get out it seems!

When i picked him he was happily playing in the ride on car :-) On the way back from school after picking the kids i asked Ashu how he liked his 1st day at 1st grade and he said, 'Well they only made me do stuff that i already knew and that i already did in K'. I couldn't control my laughter and i told him that they were just brushing up and they will teach him new stuff soon.

I asked him if he made any new friends and he said he made a new friend Nicholas. He also said that he talked to another boy John and we can consider him a friend too..but not like nicholas yet! Another Ashwinism there! :D

After coming home, we called Daddy who had reached Chennai today and gave him an update on the kids. Ashu repeated what he told me when Dad asked him about first day at 1st grade :)

More later...

1st Grade Registration

Today was registration for 1st Grade. We didn't even goto the classroom. I filled in the registration form, met his new teacher Ms. Rhonda and she said that's it and asked us to come on Monday. Ashu and his friends A and Sam are all in different class though :(

After registration i met Pushpa and her family. She gave a lollypop to Aj and Aj casually opened it and started sucking on it. She didn't expect him to open i guess...her jaws dropped to the floor :) Then, we went to meet Mrs.Hall, Ashu's Kindergarten teacher. She was so happy and excited to see us. She said Ashu had grown ta...ll. I think so too. All of a sudden he looked little taller than his friends today :) She was busy with registration so i left within few minutes but she wanted me to come back and check out her son's wedding pictures.

Aj now moves the big step stool with so much effort to the sink and checks out if i have any dishes there...if so he tries to take the dirty dish and throw it away :( He keeps me on my toes..That little dude has big attitude! :) He keeps jumping up and down like a little spiderman all the time...er...spider baby :)


Amazing Aj :)

I taught him the color yellow 2 days back. Today he was holding that book and i said yellow and he searched and opened the correct page!
I guess it's not a coincidence :) He also said eyow and back..like the previous time. He was watching teletubbies and the kids were saying in and out..
several times and after few times whenever the kids said in..he said out :)

I started making him sleep around 10 from tuesday. His crib is attached to our bed, so i put him in his bed and pat him and he goes to sleep in 10 mins.
He has been consistently doing that for the last 3 nights...hope i didn't jinx it!! It's so much easier than (thondai kizhiya) singing for hours without any results!

B was singing ABCDEFG...Aj continued HIJK blabber blabber blabber..So, he now knows till K :) Yesterday B went to nashville so he came home late. Aj went to the safety gate around 6 (usual time that B comes home) and kept saying bye seewho... I guess he will miss him a lot when he goes to india.

Ashwinism - The funny quotes of Ashu ;-)

Ashu is a keen follower of my food blog. Everyday he checks my blog, especially the visitor location. He saw that there were many visitors from different countries and said, "Mommy when i get married, can you please teach my wife to cook and create a blog like this.." I asked him why and he said that he wants her to be famous like me too :D

Last year, when we were going to nashville one day, he showed Dollar tree to appa and said 'Sridhar, that's dollar tree..if you go inside you will find a tree with dollars and you can pluck some if you want'

Summer Break

This week is summer break for Aj's daycare. We didnt send Ashu to the summer camp either. I was working from home...and it was managing work and aj. Aj kept me on my toes. I could keep Ashu in control by giving him t.v., homework and pc time...Aj was non stop. It was fun though.

I was chatting with my cousin Karthik in the morning and i said Karthik to Ashu and Aj repeated Thathik. He said the following :
Thatha, Paati, pappu, nani(janani), sheeya baby (Sridhar), thathi (radhika), shee (srinithi) and appu. He refused to repeat gau and ananya..Probably potti?

But here's the best part..he kept saying mama for Vinod..I tried several times and it was constantly mama :) Now he sings 'ak agove' for 'up above' in twinkle twinkle little star. He waits with his hand ready to go up for me to stop before up above :) He was checking out his colors book that he got from the library and i pointed to yellow and black which were adjacent. He said eeyo back..i repeated several times and after couple of hours i said yellow and he said back..He remembered i guess :)

Yday we were watching Dasavatharam. Nepolean was talking in suddha tamil and Ashu came and asked me 'What kind of language is that?' Hehe...The story wasn't great, but it was entertaining. I guess that's the purpose of that movie. Logic illaa magic. I liked the way the 10 characters were linked and i liked the paati kamal very much. The dialogues were pretty funny. I didnt sleep one bit and watched the full movie..that was a surprise!:) Offlate, i have become like my paati and sleep right after the first scene :) That's why you shouldn't make fun of somebody!!!

Last week we watched Bhootnath and Ashu loved the movie..I enjoyed it too, but i was kinda sad too. I wish Ashu could interact with my dad like that! Thro' out the movie he kept asking me questions about appa.

That reminds me...I read an article about a book called 'Do dead people watch us' in MSN last week. It was written by a person who is a medium. Made me wonder what a medium is and came to know taht there are people in the world who can communicate with the 'other world'...or it's the other way..i dont know. The article was soooo unbelievable and unconvincing..but lot of the things she said made me wish those were all true.

More words from Aj and Learning website

I was talking to amma today morning and i had the speaker on. When amma was talking aj turned and said paati :-) Don't know if it's coincidence or if he said it because i bore him every time to say paati when i am on the phone. He used to say poppy, but today he said paati. He also used to say appa and today when B called us, he said daddy and bamboo (butchering his name ;-)). As soon as he heard his dad's voice he was singing ABC coz his dad is the one who sings ABCD to make him sleep.

Here's a photo of ashu's a, aa, e, ee in tamil : He wrote it long back..i just took the time to upload it..

These are the recent addition to Ashu's favorite websites :

http://www.primarygames.com/
http://www.starfall.com/
http://www.franklintheturtle.com/
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb
http://www.seussville.com/main.php?section=home&isbn=&catalogID=&eventID=

Graduating..

Tomorrow will be aju's last day at the redroom (infant room). He will be graduating to orange room (toddler room) the week after next after enjoying a short break. I took the kids to get thank you card and gift cards for the teachers. I could keep Ashu from troubling me by throwing couple of (false) promises...I thought i can control aju by keeping him in his stroller. Boy oh boy! That little boy troubled me inspite of being tied up in the stroller. He would hold on to anything near by and steer himself forward to grab something out of the store! Luckily nothing breakable was reachable.

See hoo...

what is that? Aj says See you as see hoo and Ashu thinks it is too funny :)
Yesterday, i was busy making parathas and ashu started having his dinner while i was still making for aju and me...They were too quiet to believe, so i went to the dining room to see what's going on and Aj had poured yogurt from the cup and was smearing it all over the dining room...The maids had just cleaned the house about an hour before he made this mess! The best part (or the worst!) was Ashu was watching it grinning from ear to ear....

There is an update on me for a change. I got an outstanding performance certificate and a t.shirt with the company name, for leading a project successfully. It will be hard for my cousin pappu to believe as he thinks all i do at work is chat with another cousin K :-) I tried on the t.shirt and it had no shape and it looked like a pillow case..boo :(

Birthday pary at bowling world

After B left to Atlanta yday, i took the kids to the bowling world for a birthday party. It's Ashu's friend D's party. She's a sweet girl and i like her so much. I was first hesitant to go alone with the double trouble, but i decided to give it a shot :-) Ashu was very well behaved and was busy with his friends. Aj was well behaved too..no crying or screaming, but he was his usual naughty self. Running around and climbing on everything that was there. He wanted to run in the alley and catch the 'heavy' ball too. So for the most part , i was holding him on my hip. When i finally let him go he went into the game room there and had a ball (no,not the bowling ball ;-))

When Devy cut the cake, aj heard everyone sing happy birthday and got pretty excited and started singing something real loud. Sounded more like chinese :)

Ashu calmed down after we came back and relaxed with a book that he got as return gift. Aj was still jumping around and in full form. He finally wound down at around 11:00. Gee! What a party animal he is!!

I will upload some pics that i took after the party, later.

Kids update - more on AJ since he's doing lot of new stuff

I found some great websites for Ashu and he's very happy. I'm also working on making him follow a time table now so that it will help me with bedtime battle and the morning rush! Can't comment on how it goes yet since it's only 2 days since i started it.

Aj has started saying lot more words now...2 days back he said fapabee when i asked him to repeat strawberry. It was so cute and i told Ms.Tammie about it. She tried very hard to make him say it and everytime she said that he gave a naughty smile and turned away, but repeated the other small words like cookie, baby and bye. After few tries he started laughing out loud everytime he heard strawberry. Now he has stopped saying that for me as well. He thinks it's funny and just laughs. Yday i taught him to sing johny johny and when i finish the last line he goes 'hahaha' in a cute way too. Ms.Tammie said that he has started repeating words after her also.

Today the maids came and everytime one of them went out to get something he would say bye and when they came back in he would say hi. Quite funny. He has some good manners now and keeps saying 'thays' (thanks) everytime we give him something. This morning Ashu left with his dad to the summer camp and Aj woke up after that. He looked around saying 'Ashi...Ashi..' It was very cute.

My first post in the new blog...

I wanted to create a blog to update about my kids because i just realized how outdated i was to maintain a notepad after i ran out of pages in the baby books :-) This is a neat way to maintain a journal of their activities and when we get older we can always look back and get a chuckle or two :) Why didn't i think of this before? :)

Ashu is almost 6 and Aj is almost 1.5 years old now and it's a lot of fun with two boys :-)

Ashu is enjoying his summer vacation in full form. We enrolled him in Sylvan's Leap and Learn summer camp and he has a blast there. They take him to a fun place every friday for field trips.
So far, he went to local parks twice, watched Kungfu Panda in imax @ chattanooga followed by lunch at Rainforest cafe. Brought back a souvenier cup for Aj. He also went to a restaurent called Chuckles at Crossville. He loved it there. Another reason for him to like the camp is because his best buddy H goes there too. Last week Sylvan was closed, so he went to Summer camp at Victory. They took him to the community center one day and to the Bowling World one day. This week he will be back at the Sylvan.

We invited Ashu's friends H and A over for play dates few times. He loved it. Aj loved it too but poor Aj was left out cause he was too much trouble :) He started snatching things from them. I had to entertain Aj the whole time since they didnt want to include him.

Aj is speaking a lot now. Mostly chinese...He can say around 20+ words now. He's getting naughtier and naughtier and following the footsteps of his big bro. He can now sing to the tune of 'This old man' and sings 'eieio'. He can also sing 'thee thee..' from the movie Shivaji. He has some good manners too :) He says Thathunk (for thank u) and peas for please.