It was Ashu's 6th birthday yesterday. Didn't have a party, but invited just 2 of his friends to come and play with him. He told me like a big boy " Mommy, i love my family and i dont want a party this year because sridhar thatha is not here, but can i have Hiren and Atharva to come and play with me and can i have Kungfu panda cake for AJ? ". I got a cake and kungfu panda stuff separately and arranged it on the cake. The funny part was the cake had some ribbony decoration on it and as soon as i opened the cake to put the toys he removed the ribbons saying who will eat those wrapping things! Boys!!
Appa promised to come back this year for Ashu's birthday and i was thinking about it and at 12 in the night the small clock in the living room started playing Happy Birthday tune and completely startled me. I guess i must have set it long long ago and had completely forgotten about it. If i think of it now it's funny...
Ashu had a great time with his friends and slept around 9 itself. AJ kept running behind them and all 3 of them either ignored him or ran away from him screaming like they were scared. Poor tutu. He got so mad at them and started screaming out of frustration. After some time he figured out they were not going to include him and started troubling me as usual ;-) Not only does he sing a lot of songs now, he imitates everyone. Ashu was talking to amma and he kept his hand near his ear and said 'havo paati' in the same tone as ashu. And when i sang some song for him to sleep he was singing aa..aa horribly. I hope i didnt sound that horrible :-) He also fights a lot with Ashu. He screams on top of his voice if ashu doesn't give him what he wants. All 3 of us have keech voice. Poor B!! :-)
Tomorrow is Hiren's birthday and Ginni called and asked us to drop Ashu at their house. We got the call right after ashu slept. He will be pleasantly surprised tomorrow :-)
Two days back, AJ turned on the TV, changed the TV/Video button and turned on the DVD player and started singing 'aapu tee knowye shee d'. He had loaded the dvd upside down and hence nothing happened. He waited for few seconds and said 'Aapu tee come'. Too cute and funny. Just last week amma asked me if he started opening the rice box and today he did. I moved it to pink room closet...He makes sure that i dont put on any weight! :-O
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Back to blogging...
My pc was down for 2 days - thanks to little dude! B fixed it yesterday and when he was trying to fix it, AJ went and tried to put his hand inside sneakily. He was way too curious. It was funny. B said no couple of times, so he thought he outsmart us and would look here and there and show off as if he was interested in something else and suddenly detour back and put his hands inside!
Today when i picked up ashu he said he got 'smarties' - a candy for being good and not getting any cards pulled and he said " i would've got two smarties if my team had won the word game but, we lost because one kid was not concentrating and we lost by two less points"..After a pause he clarified that he meant T-W-O and T-O-O and asked me not to think his team got too less points. When i told Ms. Allison (Aj's teacher) she laughed and said she knows kids that go to college and their english is not as good as his! :)
Yday, Aj jumped on Ashu and that made him cry. I told Ashu not to cry and aj is a baby and doesn't do these things on purpose. I asked him not to be mad at aj. After few minutes, aj jumped on my back and i shrieked with pain. Ashu came and said " Now you must know how it hurts!"... :-O
Yday was Aj's 18 month birthday. He wasnt in great mood for posing for photos though. I did get some though.
Today Ashu got his progress report and he got 100 and in all subjects and 99 in math. He made a careless mistake.
Today when i picked up ashu he said he got 'smarties' - a candy for being good and not getting any cards pulled and he said " i would've got two smarties if my team had won the word game but, we lost because one kid was not concentrating and we lost by two less points"..After a pause he clarified that he meant T-W-O and T-O-O and asked me not to think his team got too less points. When i told Ms. Allison (Aj's teacher) she laughed and said she knows kids that go to college and their english is not as good as his! :)
Yday, Aj jumped on Ashu and that made him cry. I told Ashu not to cry and aj is a baby and doesn't do these things on purpose. I asked him not to be mad at aj. After few minutes, aj jumped on my back and i shrieked with pain. Ashu came and said " Now you must know how it hurts!"... :-O
Yday was Aj's 18 month birthday. He wasnt in great mood for posing for photos though. I did get some though.
Today Ashu got his progress report and he got 100 and in all subjects and 99 in math. He made a careless mistake.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Oooooh my back! :-s
I made AJ sleep in my lap on saturday and bent down to put him in the bouncy seat and rrrippp...my back started hurting like he....ll. Had a rough weekend continuing today. Went to the doctor and he has given me painkiller. I wrote a meme in my food blog that i will go mad without internet. I guess i jinxed myself somehow and i couldn't even check my blog/mail since saturday night. But, i didn't go mad ..i think :-)
Anyways, with all the pain we managed to go to nashville yday as it was my little Krishna (Ashu)'s star birthday. They had dressed up Sri Krishna beautifully and there were murukkus hanging around him. Ashu was excited that Krishna ummachi shares his birthday and i was praying to Krishna ummachi that AJ should not see those murukkus hanging above him and pull it. My prayers were answered and he didn't notice those murukkus ;-) He was non stop though. When they did Archanai..he started singing Om Namooo like Kamalhaasan :-O
Later when we were done with our prayers somebody else started with Lord Satyanarayana Puja and for every line of the Shloka AJ started with Om and ended with eieio :-O
And to top it all, i went away from B to get something and he started singing meow meow in the tune of Mayya Mayya in the temple. B was quite embarassed and was mad at me for teaching him a song like Mayya mayya. He just didn't believe that i taught him Cat says meow meow in the tune of mayya mayya :-( Poor Me...
Today, i got all the tests that Ms.West conducted for the week on Friday and Ashu had scored 100/100 in all except one math test where he had scored 98. I checked the answers and poor dude had written the correct answer as 19, but due to bad handwriting the 9 looked like 8 and the teacher had reduced 2 marks. All the spellings and the rest of the math tests were 100/100. Atta boy!
Btw, Aj got his 12th tooth - left bottom molar. No wonder he was biting me hard and often over the weekend! Biting bites!
Anyways, with all the pain we managed to go to nashville yday as it was my little Krishna (Ashu)'s star birthday. They had dressed up Sri Krishna beautifully and there were murukkus hanging around him. Ashu was excited that Krishna ummachi shares his birthday and i was praying to Krishna ummachi that AJ should not see those murukkus hanging above him and pull it. My prayers were answered and he didn't notice those murukkus ;-) He was non stop though. When they did Archanai..he started singing Om Namooo like Kamalhaasan :-O
Later when we were done with our prayers somebody else started with Lord Satyanarayana Puja and for every line of the Shloka AJ started with Om and ended with eieio :-O
And to top it all, i went away from B to get something and he started singing meow meow in the tune of Mayya Mayya in the temple. B was quite embarassed and was mad at me for teaching him a song like Mayya mayya. He just didn't believe that i taught him Cat says meow meow in the tune of mayya mayya :-( Poor Me...
Today, i got all the tests that Ms.West conducted for the week on Friday and Ashu had scored 100/100 in all except one math test where he had scored 98. I checked the answers and poor dude had written the correct answer as 19, but due to bad handwriting the 9 looked like 8 and the teacher had reduced 2 marks. All the spellings and the rest of the math tests were 100/100. Atta boy!
Btw, Aj got his 12th tooth - left bottom molar. No wonder he was biting me hard and often over the weekend! Biting bites!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Hectic Week...
This week was kinda hectic so couldn't post anything in my blog. As always both kids are keeping me busy and doing lots of new stuff.
Ashu has the making of a good lawyer and/or he could go into marketing. Sales will shoot high upto the sky with his marketing skills :-) Right now he is busy reading all the books that came from India. I'm happy 'coz he's learning all about indian mythology. I asked him few questions and he answered them all right. He knows almost all the characters from Ramayan and obviously like any other child he's fascinated by Hanuman of them all.
Aj is as usual naughty and saying more words and singing more songs..ofcourse the songs are more of fill in the blanks.
Me : Amma inge
aj : vaavaa
Me : Aasai mutham
aj : thatha
Me : Ilayil soru
aj : potthu
Me : eeyai thoora
aj : ottu
Me...continues with proper lyrics and he continues with chinese version from here on :)
He also sings 'Om namo...' with two hands together above his head...How cinema influences children!!!
I think i must've sung the vaadi vaadi kai padadha cd sometime or often without my knowledge. Today i called him for diaper change and i sang AJ vaadi vaadi kai padaadha..and he casually said cd :-O
B took ashu to sign him up for cubscouts and ended up signing up as a parent volunteer too. Hehe..Good thing i didn't go with them :D Ashu is all excited about it because his buddy A has signed up too and H went last year.
Ashu has the making of a good lawyer and/or he could go into marketing. Sales will shoot high upto the sky with his marketing skills :-) Right now he is busy reading all the books that came from India. I'm happy 'coz he's learning all about indian mythology. I asked him few questions and he answered them all right. He knows almost all the characters from Ramayan and obviously like any other child he's fascinated by Hanuman of them all.
Aj is as usual naughty and saying more words and singing more songs..ofcourse the songs are more of fill in the blanks.
Me : Amma inge
aj : vaavaa
Me : Aasai mutham
aj : thatha
Me : Ilayil soru
aj : potthu
Me : eeyai thoora
aj : ottu
Me...continues with proper lyrics and he continues with chinese version from here on :)
He also sings 'Om namo...' with two hands together above his head...How cinema influences children!!!
I think i must've sung the vaadi vaadi kai padadha cd sometime or often without my knowledge. Today i called him for diaper change and i sang AJ vaadi vaadi kai padaadha..and he casually said cd :-O
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Shhh!
A funny thing happened yesterday at daycare. When i went to pick up AJ another kid was just screaming on top of his voice because he thought it was funny. One of the teachers said...'Shhhh...we only use inside voice'. Aj was watching this and when we were about to leave, all the teachers said bye at the same time and they were little loud. Aj put his finger on his lips and said Shhh! I thought they didn't notice, but one of the teachers said 'Look at him..he's saying shhh to us' and started laughing :-O Have to be careful with this dude!
B is back from India. That's a grrreat relief for me :-) Now i can officially dance like Dora...
"We did it..we did it...Lo hicimo.." :-) Ashu was jumping with excitement when the limo arrived in our driveway and B got out of it. Aj was all excited and went to him as soon as he came in. After few seconds came back to me and kept looking at him. It was funny :-)
Took ashu and aj to Pushpa's house for Varalakshmi Puja and they both had a blast. On the way we dropped in at Atharva's house for sometime. Ashu had a great time with him. Me too :)
Today i made Vadai and Appam for Avani Avittam. Ashu loved them both and asked if appam was the indian doughnut and asked me to post that in my blog and say that my first kid loves vadai :-) When we were having lunch, i tried to give tomato pachidi to AJ and he refused to take from me and he wanted to eat by himselt. Looked like he loved it 'coz he was all over it and was licking the cup away..After he was done he came to me with 'thayir vadiyum mugam' with a happy grin.
We were looking at the medals tally for the olympics and Ashu asked us..'What! India got only one medal'? We both told him..but it's Gold and he still didn't quit..He again said 'But it's only ONE Gold medal'..GRRR!!!
B is back from India. That's a grrreat relief for me :-) Now i can officially dance like Dora...
"We did it..we did it...Lo hicimo.." :-) Ashu was jumping with excitement when the limo arrived in our driveway and B got out of it. Aj was all excited and went to him as soon as he came in. After few seconds came back to me and kept looking at him. It was funny :-)
Took ashu and aj to Pushpa's house for Varalakshmi Puja and they both had a blast. On the way we dropped in at Atharva's house for sometime. Ashu had a great time with him. Me too :)
Today i made Vadai and Appam for Avani Avittam. Ashu loved them both and asked if appam was the indian doughnut and asked me to post that in my blog and say that my first kid loves vadai :-) When we were having lunch, i tried to give tomato pachidi to AJ and he refused to take from me and he wanted to eat by himselt. Looked like he loved it 'coz he was all over it and was licking the cup away..After he was done he came to me with 'thayir vadiyum mugam' with a happy grin.
We were looking at the medals tally for the olympics and Ashu asked us..'What! India got only one medal'? We both told him..but it's Gold and he still didn't quit..He again said 'But it's only ONE Gold medal'..GRRR!!!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Exactly a year...
Since i met appa... :(
I finally booked the tickets to india...but there is no excitement this time though :(
Have this knot in my tummy. It's hard to goto india and not see appa. If i close my eyes, i just see appa standing outside the airport waiting for us...and Ashu squealing with joy calling Sridhar...
"Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone." - J. Krishnamurthi, Indian phliosopher
I read this in a blog and it's so true...so touchy...After appa left i have this feeling of having a big hollow space in my heart, i guess that's the part that went with him.
I finally booked the tickets to india...but there is no excitement this time though :(
Have this knot in my tummy. It's hard to goto india and not see appa. If i close my eyes, i just see appa standing outside the airport waiting for us...and Ashu squealing with joy calling Sridhar...
"Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone." - J. Krishnamurthi, Indian phliosopher
I read this in a blog and it's so true...so touchy...After appa left i have this feeling of having a big hollow space in my heart, i guess that's the part that went with him.
Back to school after five day break!
When i dropped Ashu today at school, his teacher Ms. West said that she is planning to start him on AR (Accelerated Reading) Program very soon. She said he's a fantastic Reader :-) When she was talking to me all the kids got busy and started talking and was moving around. She clapped her hands to get their attention and to get them back in their seats. Aj was very impressed and he kept clapping his hands at the kids. She had a good laugh.
Both my kids are sooo opposite to me. They like to touch animals!!! I still can't bring myself upto touching them. I can see them from a distance and admire. That's about it!!
They have a bunny called Thumper in daycare. He's a cute bunny who started as a baby when Ashu started there and he's quite big now. I've not seen such a big bunny in india. Anyways, before dropping AJ off in his room i spent some time near the thumper cage and Aj was sooo happy and he kept trying to touch him and i had to stay at a distance to make sure that he doesn't touch him :) He was so happy and was smiling ear to ear when he saw thumper jumping around. He again wanted to see Thumper when i went to pick him up later in the afternoon. I'm sure this has become a part of my drop-off/pick-up routine now :)
Both my kids are sooo opposite to me. They like to touch animals!!! I still can't bring myself upto touching them. I can see them from a distance and admire. That's about it!!
They have a bunny called Thumper in daycare. He's a cute bunny who started as a baby when Ashu started there and he's quite big now. I've not seen such a big bunny in india. Anyways, before dropping AJ off in his room i spent some time near the thumper cage and Aj was sooo happy and he kept trying to touch him and i had to stay at a distance to make sure that he doesn't touch him :) He was so happy and was smiling ear to ear when he saw thumper jumping around. He again wanted to see Thumper when i went to pick him up later in the afternoon. I'm sure this has become a part of my drop-off/pick-up routine now :)
Monday, August 11, 2008
Kuzhal Inidu Yaazh Inidu
enbaar...Mazhalai sol kelaadhar :-) Let's review aj's mazhalai vocabulary as of today :-)
1. Amma (He says it like Shivaji Ganesan...very emotional ;-))
2. Appa
3. Anna
4. Asee (for Ashu)
5. Vaa
6. Come
7. Ok
8. Okay aw white (okay alright)
9. Meow (he started saying meemaa..which was too funny)
10. Mama
11. Athai
12. Mami
14. Paati
15. Thaathik (Karthik)
16. Car
17. Doggy
18. Eeyo (yellow)
19, Back (black)
20 . Bye Seeyou
21 . Moo
22. Cac (Cat, quack and clap)
23. Ta (Tap)
24. upabove (used to say ak agove)
25. Pichi pi (pichi pichi)
26. Aachi
27. Po (like Sadhaa in Jeyam movie ;-))
28. Cookie
29. Baby
30. Enna
31. Daddy
32. Manmama (Good morning amma)
33. nigh (good night)
34. nnnnnooo
35. down
36. Hi
37. Havoo (Hello)
38. How u (How are you)
39. Aapu (Apple)
40. Nani (Janani)
41. Indhaa
42. Aadu
43. Eeyi (ilai)
44. Ball
45. Enna
46. Ajay :)(more like aaaa...jay)
47. Peas (please)
48. Thathunk (thank u)
49. Thays (thanks) - he says it whenever we give him something :)
50. yummy yummy (for gulab jamun)
51. I see (for i see you)
52. tt (teletubbies)
53. tittee (tinky winkie)
54. bitsy (dipsy)
55. yaayaa (lala)
56. Po
57. uh-oh
58. Moyee (Molly from big comfy couch)
59. Vaa
60. Theetha theetha (tootie ta tootie ta)
61. Peekoo (peekaboo)
He says more and tries to repeat almost everything. These are the words he says consistently :)
And moving on to the rhymes :
When we sing twinkle twinkle..and stop after how i wonder what u r, he says 'up above'
When we sing johny johny...after eating sugar he says nnnno
telling lies...he says nnnno
open your mouth..he says hahaha
He does action for undi undi kaasu, half of veragu araikkarthum.
He sings eieio for every line of old mc donald :)
The funniest is this rhyme :
Me : Two little hands to
Ajay : Cac Cac Cac (clap clap clap)
Me : Two little feet to
Ajay : Tat tat tat (Tap tap tap)
Me : Two little eyes to
Ajay : Rolls on the floor laughing (He finds 'open wide' soooo funny)
Me : One little head goes side to side (Ajay shakes his head side to side so fast and so many times!)
Now he sings in the tune of Om namo narayanaya..if we sing kallai mattum kandal...
But, u can understand only Om :-) then it's all oyn and boing :D
Everything is funny and cute...but he would'nt let me record though :(
Now..if i start reviewing Ashu's vocabulary..it might be longer than Ramayan ;-)
Good news...We went to the doctor and he said Ashu's all better and can go back to School tomorrow...Well..that's good news for me..Ashu is probably bummed..hehe :)
1. Amma (He says it like Shivaji Ganesan...very emotional ;-))
2. Appa
3. Anna
4. Asee (for Ashu)
5. Vaa
6. Come
7. Ok
8. Okay aw white (okay alright)
9. Meow (he started saying meemaa..which was too funny)
10. Mama
11. Athai
12. Mami
14. Paati
15. Thaathik (Karthik)
16. Car
17. Doggy
18. Eeyo (yellow)
19, Back (black)
20 . Bye Seeyou
21 . Moo
22. Cac (Cat, quack and clap)
23. Ta (Tap)
24. upabove (used to say ak agove)
25. Pichi pi (pichi pichi)
26. Aachi
27. Po (like Sadhaa in Jeyam movie ;-))
28. Cookie
29. Baby
30. Enna
31. Daddy
32. Manmama (Good morning amma)
33. nigh (good night)
34. nnnnnooo
35. down
36. Hi
37. Havoo (Hello)
38. How u (How are you)
39. Aapu (Apple)
40. Nani (Janani)
41. Indhaa
42. Aadu
43. Eeyi (ilai)
44. Ball
45. Enna
46. Ajay :)(more like aaaa...jay)
47. Peas (please)
48. Thathunk (thank u)
49. Thays (thanks) - he says it whenever we give him something :)
50. yummy yummy (for gulab jamun)
51. I see (for i see you)
52. tt (teletubbies)
53. tittee (tinky winkie)
54. bitsy (dipsy)
55. yaayaa (lala)
56. Po
57. uh-oh
58. Moyee (Molly from big comfy couch)
59. Vaa
60. Theetha theetha (tootie ta tootie ta)
61. Peekoo (peekaboo)
He says more and tries to repeat almost everything. These are the words he says consistently :)
And moving on to the rhymes :
When we sing twinkle twinkle..and stop after how i wonder what u r, he says 'up above'
When we sing johny johny...after eating sugar he says nnnno
telling lies...he says nnnno
open your mouth..he says hahaha
He does action for undi undi kaasu, half of veragu araikkarthum.
He sings eieio for every line of old mc donald :)
The funniest is this rhyme :
Me : Two little hands to
Ajay : Cac Cac Cac (clap clap clap)
Me : Two little feet to
Ajay : Tat tat tat (Tap tap tap)
Me : Two little eyes to
Ajay : Rolls on the floor laughing (He finds 'open wide' soooo funny)
Me : One little head goes side to side (Ajay shakes his head side to side so fast and so many times!)
Now he sings in the tune of Om namo narayanaya..if we sing kallai mattum kandal...
But, u can understand only Om :-) then it's all oyn and boing :D
Everything is funny and cute...but he would'nt let me record though :(
Now..if i start reviewing Ashu's vocabulary..it might be longer than Ramayan ;-)
Good news...We went to the doctor and he said Ashu's all better and can go back to School tomorrow...Well..that's good news for me..Ashu is probably bummed..hehe :)
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Tension tension tension
I feel like singing the song from Rangeela...yday was full of tension for me. Today is little better. Ashu was sick yesterday and i got very scared and nervous since B is not here. His wheezing was quite bad and we had to give nebulizer and make it better. I was out the whole day running around with both the kids, to the doctor twice and to walgreens twice.
Today he is troubling Aj and me..How wonderful it is to see him back in action :)
Today he is troubling Aj and me..How wonderful it is to see him back in action :)
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Lipstick
No i am not talking about the Zee t.v serial here :) Look at the pathetic state of my lipstick here ...
All i did was to take my eyes off of Aj for 5 minutes to help an offshore guy with some setup :( His hand was red and there are red spots on the carpet which was only cleaned by the maids yesterday :-O Ah..the joys of working from home!! Ashu came for my rescue and snatched it from him before major damage was done to the carpet. Thank you Ashu! Now will anybody even consider using this ? :-s
All i did was to take my eyes off of Aj for 5 minutes to help an offshore guy with some setup :( His hand was red and there are red spots on the carpet which was only cleaned by the maids yesterday :-O Ah..the joys of working from home!! Ashu came for my rescue and snatched it from him before major damage was done to the carpet. Thank you Ashu! Now will anybody even consider using this ? :-s
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Ashu - the sweet and sentive boy...
Kids were both tired today and went to sleep before 9! I am tired but, i dont feel sleepy. Wierd! I took the kids for a walk in the evening and there were dogs everywhere..we got scared and came back. Aj dozed off in the stroller just before entering the house and when i took him off the stroller he woke up. He woke up before one can even say Catnap :) Boy was he cranky!! ...i ate my dinner in instalment. For some reason he got crankier if he saw a plate in my hand. He didnt want me to eat :-) Poor baby is teething and was crying so much before falling asleep.
I think both are coming down with cold. Ashu started sneezing and Aj has runny nose..Next 2,3 days will fun-filled i guess! School is closed for next two days and i dont have to deal with the morning rush...That's the only consolation.
Coming to the sweet and sensitive part...
Here's a flash back first: Months back he was very upset that he wont be able to see Sridhar thatha any more and i told him that when he grows up Sridhar thatha will be born as his baby. He asked me who he and AJ were then and at that moment i told him that he is either my kudimi thatha or B's thatha and Aj is my mani thatha (and i have strong reasons to believe that :))
Coming back to today.. when i picked up Ashu i was hungry and cranky..Hey, moms can get cranky too you know...Ashu was pushing my buttons by not listening to me. I told him that his kids will trouble him more. He immediately related it to the flash back conversation and said that Sridhar thatha will be born as his kid and he will infact trouble me and not him since i troubled Sridhar thatha when i was a kid. I couldn't say anything back at that point. After couple of minutes i saw tears in his eyes and i asked him why he was crying and he said all this reminded him about Sridhar thatha and he misses him a lot :-(( I felt so sad too :(( I hope reincarnation is true and i hope Sridhar thatha will be his kid.
I think both are coming down with cold. Ashu started sneezing and Aj has runny nose..Next 2,3 days will fun-filled i guess! School is closed for next two days and i dont have to deal with the morning rush...That's the only consolation.
Coming to the sweet and sensitive part...
Here's a flash back first: Months back he was very upset that he wont be able to see Sridhar thatha any more and i told him that when he grows up Sridhar thatha will be born as his baby. He asked me who he and AJ were then and at that moment i told him that he is either my kudimi thatha or B's thatha and Aj is my mani thatha (and i have strong reasons to believe that :))
Coming back to today.. when i picked up Ashu i was hungry and cranky..Hey, moms can get cranky too you know...Ashu was pushing my buttons by not listening to me. I told him that his kids will trouble him more. He immediately related it to the flash back conversation and said that Sridhar thatha will be born as his kid and he will infact trouble me and not him since i troubled Sridhar thatha when i was a kid. I couldn't say anything back at that point. After couple of minutes i saw tears in his eyes and i asked him why he was crying and he said all this reminded him about Sridhar thatha and he misses him a lot :-(( I felt so sad too :(( I hope reincarnation is true and i hope Sridhar thatha will be his kid.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Dolch List and Puzzle!
Ashu had squishy ball with him when i picked him up. He told me that it was his gift for finishing the Dolch list first in the class. His teacher asked him to pick up a gift from the class treasure basket. Pat in his back! :)
In case you are wondering what a Dolch list is, it is a list of sight words that are more frequent in the books that the students read. They gave 11 lists and he read all of them when the teacher tested.
Next about the little one, yesterday when i dropped him at JL, he took the ball peg and put it in the correct place in the puzzle. I was quite surprised. After that he started singing ABCDEIG and said Yay and clapped for himself. Made every one laugh :-) He speaks lot of words and imitates Ashu and says Ok aww white (for okay alright) in the same tone. He also speaks something that sounds like Chinese. The teachers from other class said they love to listen to that and keep talking to him! :) Today i wanted to confirm that he can indeed solve the puzzle, but he took apple and kept saying aapu aapu but didnt bother to put it in place. He was just holding it and singing :-) But was happy he recognized apple :-)
He loves playing muttu muttu...but he does it so hard these days. Reminds me of a comedy scene where Vivek's wife would muttify him real bad. Don't know which movie it is, but it is quite funny :) Aj muttifies the same way :( Not so funny for me! :)
In case you are wondering what a Dolch list is, it is a list of sight words that are more frequent in the books that the students read. They gave 11 lists and he read all of them when the teacher tested.
Next about the little one, yesterday when i dropped him at JL, he took the ball peg and put it in the correct place in the puzzle. I was quite surprised. After that he started singing ABCDEIG and said Yay and clapped for himself. Made every one laugh :-) He speaks lot of words and imitates Ashu and says Ok aww white (for okay alright) in the same tone. He also speaks something that sounds like Chinese. The teachers from other class said they love to listen to that and keep talking to him! :) Today i wanted to confirm that he can indeed solve the puzzle, but he took apple and kept saying aapu aapu but didnt bother to put it in place. He was just holding it and singing :-) But was happy he recognized apple :-)
He loves playing muttu muttu...but he does it so hard these days. Reminds me of a comedy scene where Vivek's wife would muttify him real bad. Don't know which movie it is, but it is quite funny :) Aj muttifies the same way :( Not so funny for me! :)
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Just a regular update
Weekends are bo...ring without B :( It feels like it takes hours for even minutes to pass!!Don't know if that makes sense! Anyways...i was very brave yesterday and took the kids to Kohls for shopping. Wanted to buy new shows for aj for school. This weekend is tax free weekend so thought i would buy something without tax :-) Ashu made me buy a bedding set for his new bed. I dont know how he talked me into it. He can go into marketing!!
Kids didnt trouble at all when i was buying their stuff. When i got to the ladies section aj started getting cranky so i had to get out :( Ashu was a gem though!
Today i took them to Swati's house and they both had a good time with her daughter S.
Aj was talking non stop and troubled the other two for a while. He was flat on the way back home :) He loved the Gulabjamuns he had there and kept asking for more saying 'yummy yummy' :)
Now he takes the phone and keeps it in his ear and says havoo paati (hello paati) all the time. He probably thinks amma is the only person that i talk to. Y'day while talking to B, Aj kept blabbering something and didn't repeat anything, but after i hung up he kept saying hi daddy..babu...etc.
He got his 11th tooth today! It's the right molar..so he's little cranky and keeps biting me. He bit me so hard today when i brushed his teeth :( By the time he gets his 20th tooth i will lose a finger i think!
Kids didnt trouble at all when i was buying their stuff. When i got to the ladies section aj started getting cranky so i had to get out :( Ashu was a gem though!
Today i took them to Swati's house and they both had a good time with her daughter S.
Aj was talking non stop and troubled the other two for a while. He was flat on the way back home :) He loved the Gulabjamuns he had there and kept asking for more saying 'yummy yummy' :)
Now he takes the phone and keeps it in his ear and says havoo paati (hello paati) all the time. He probably thinks amma is the only person that i talk to. Y'day while talking to B, Aj kept blabbering something and didn't repeat anything, but after i hung up he kept saying hi daddy..babu...etc.
He got his 11th tooth today! It's the right molar..so he's little cranky and keeps biting me. He bit me so hard today when i brushed his teeth :( By the time he gets his 20th tooth i will lose a finger i think!
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