30-Jul-2009
I went for my EMG test yesterday. It was not as bad as i expected...Totally opposite to the MRI :-)I had no idea about MRI and i thought they would just be done with it in couple of minutes like they show in movies and i was shocked when it turned out to be a nasty experience. It was way toooooo noisy and it was cold and i kept having
the feeling that i was falling off. I felt sick on my stomach the whole day!! This time i didn't want to take a chance and went with B. Adhuve paadhi thembu for me. The crazy doctor tried hard to keep me distracted by asking several annoying
questions about india, and about work. I didn't realize those questions were to distract me and was so annoyed with him for asking so many questions. It hurt only twice and it was bad. I had the pain for over an hour. When we came back, B got me icecream - edho samadhana padutha vaangi tharaa maari irundhudhu :-) The ice cream shop was between aj's daycare and ashu's Summer camp. So, we had already picked up aj and when B gave my icecream and ashu's icecream to me, aj started
screaming and crying thinking he gave them all to me :-) He was fine as soon as he gave his icecream. He is like me when it comes to
icecream, finished the whole cup - satham podama :-) Ashu took just couple of spoons and said he was full. So not like me!!
He even gave us a word of advice that next time we should buy only one and he and AJ will share and that way we wont waste our money.
I told him, he maybe willing to share, but not aj :-)
It wont be fun if i dont share my answer to one of the questions that the doctor asked. He is from Vietnam and follows buddhism. He asked
me if we were hindus and i said yes. He asked how much % of people in india follow budhism and i said close to 0% and he asked why is it so when buddha was born in india and
he is accepted in other countries and not in india. Indha maari kelvi ketta enna badhil solradhu..adhuvum kaila oosi kuthinde. i was totally annoyed, but didn't want to give up
and said 'we all like buddha, but he is human so we could not take him as God' :-)God only knows why! :)


27-Jul-2009 :
We are back to the old routine now. AJ is moving to the next room (Orange to Blue) today.
When i dropped him in the morning, he was so confused when i walked him into the blue room.
He just dragged me towards the orange room and i said, no AJ you goto the new room today.
He wasn't too happy. Then, i opened the door wider and made him look inside. He saw Alaina and
was convinced a bit and entered into blue room, but he still didn't want to let go of me since
Ms.Casey was not there. He gets Ms.Cathy from orange room and Ms. tammie from red room.
Ms.Tammie was his favorite teacher in the red room. When i took him to her, he just pushed her and turned
his face away!! He was quite unhappy with the change. Ms.Tammie distracted him with the paper fish that were
haning from the cieling and i snuck out. i can tell it's gonna be a tough week!!
Ashu is going to Victory full time - this week and next week. He likes it there and his friends come there too.
So, no issues with him. He was quite happy :-) Infact, this annoyed AJ in the first place. He wanted to goto Victory too, but
they won't take kids younger than 5!! :-) Aj was screaming and saying let's go back when i drove to daycare from victory!! :D
Ashu went to G-Force (Disney 3D movie) yesterday with Atharva's dad. Atharva's dad took 6 kids with him (Bless his heart! :))
When Ashu left, aj started crying. He was soooo upset with all of us. I gave him a lollipop and a candy cane and then he was little better.
He slept on the couch. Poor dude. When he got up he was still angry for sometime, then he was back to normal. He has an attitude.
Very stylish attitude, i should say :-) He doesn't listen to us, but deals with all the fuss very stylish-ly. On our way back from Atlanta,
i took him to the restroom to change his diaper. When i was washing my hands, he went and touched the trash and i got sooo mad at him.
I said how many times have i told you not to touch trash cans. He said six. Boy, was i mad or what!? :) Also, when we ask him if he wants
something and if he doesn't care about it, he says No, if he really wants it, he wont say yes. Durai has seemadh Gambiram..he would
just say uh-huh which sounds he is okay if we give it, but he doesn't care otherwise! :-) But deep inside i know he's desparate. If it is Ashu, and if it something he wants,
Ashu will just start begging for it. He'll do anything to get it..but, this dude has an attitude, u see!! Like i said, AJ is into saying 'uh-huh' now..
and we keep asking him..are you naughty, are you a dirty boy and things like that and he goes uh-huh, very stylishly. LOL!

Two more weeks to school...

Ashu's got just 2 more weeks of vacation. I think he hasn't realized that yet because he hasnt started whining about
going back to school. He's actually more excited about going to Victory Gymnastics Summer camp for the next 2 weeks.
Maybe in all that excitement, he didn't care about the school reopen :)
Aj's moving to the next room (Blue room) from Orange room next week. People comment that he can move to the Green room
already since he knows so much!! He has started reading more. When i say reading, it's not just what we teach and by memorizing the
words. He tries and reads most of the new words and is pretty close to him. For example, he has never seen the word 'sled' before
and in one of the rhyming books it says bed rhymes with sled and i read bed rhymes with and he looked at sled for few seconds and
said sssssled. when i showed dragon fly he tried and read it as drawfly. i thought it was pretty close and neat!!

A big update - covering more than month!! :)

Week of july 20 (The sixsigma week!)
I hate travelling to nashville everyday. i have to get up at 5.30 and leave the house at 6.15. Aj figured out on thursday that i'm leaving early and got at 6 and started crying. I put on the chicka chicka video and he was okay after that! Phew! Everyday, he misses me so much that when i come back he comes to me and eeshifies much more than usual and gives me compliments for
my earrings and necklace saying they are pity (pretty) and bootiful :-)
If i konj ashu, he says my turn and squeezes himself between us and gets extra konjing :-)

Jul15 : I took Ashu to sign up for his summer camp at Victory for today and tomorrow for the Splish splash week. The guy who did the registration asked me to spell his name and when i spelt Ashu's name, aj spelt his name to write ;-) He said you are too young buddy. Can you sing ABC? Aj started reading all the letters on the notice board and i think he was floored :D He said, 'you are still too young buddy' :-) Ashu was so excited to goto Victory today. Hiren's there too and he's been asking me for weeks now!!
Today, my mil was watching t.v. and all of a sudden aj bit her fingers real hard. I think he's teething. She screamed and asked him to stop biting her finger and he casually said 'now show me your arm'. That little stinker! Ashu complained that his throat was hurting and he can't sleep when i asked him to goto sleep. I said then he can't goto victory tomorrow and he still said his throat was hurting. i thought he was probably really not well, but before that i wanted to
try one more time and said 'hiren gets to go tomorrow,but your throat is important and you need to stay home and take care of it' and he immediately said 'he was feeling little better already and begged me to take him to victory if he was all better' This trick always works! :D

Week of july 11th
We went to Pittsburgh and Niagara this weekend. I was feeling sad because it was appa amma's wedding anniversary and
knowing amma, i knew how much she would've missed appa that day. For some reason, i was reminded of their 25th anniversary and
the good time we had that day!
The flight trip was horrible due to bad weather. There was bad turbulence and the plane was shaking real bad and was going up and down
like roller coaster. I was scared deep inside. Both the kids were terrified. Aj was soooo scared that he hugged me so tight and when the flight
started going up and down, he went to B and kept saying it is falling, it is falling and fell asleep. Ashu was screaming and at one point,
he said 'if they give me a choice between flying in this flight and eating dog food, i would rather pick dog food. Till that point, i was scared too, but on hearing that i started
laughing so hard and i was feeling better after that. God only knows where he thought of this!! :-)
We reached columbus and took the minivan and went to nearby udipi restaurent to have lunch. We were so hungry that we ordered stuff left and right,
And the waiter kept brining one by one and each of it was MEGA size. I burst out laughing when i saw everything that we had ordered. What were we thinking! B kept asking me to be quiet, but i could not control my laughter. But, i came up with a wise idea and packed the food we ordered for kids and couple of other stuff for dinner. We were good after that. After the heavvvvvy lunch, we drove to niagara and reached there around 9, had dinner and went to see niagara in the night with all the lighting. It reminded me of the trip i went with appa, amma.
We had so much fun that time. Aj was a little baby and was soooo manageable. Actually, appa only took care of him for the most part. Carrying him and walking around. It was easy for me. Ashu asked me why i looked sad and i told him the reason. He said, now that you mentioned it i am feeling sad too because i can never come back to niagara with sridhar. I felt bad for making him sad too.
But, it was unintentional and i could not hide my feeling. This time around it was a different deal with aj. Boy! Was he a trouble or what!! He kept running around and i had to carry him.
It was pretty hard to walk around and the 6 hr drive didn't help my legpain..my feet were swollen and i was polambing and my fil said 'me too' :-)
His feet were swollen too! Mil had a tough time since we had climb down stairs from parking lot and we were all polambing and B was looking at us like janthus..nalla family-nu oru certificate vera!
Next day, we went for maid of the mist and observation tower alone. We skipped cave of the winds this time. Ashu loved the maid of the mist and all aj wanted to do was look at the other side!
He kept saying it is raining. It was not raining actually, when the boat went near the falls, the water was splashing on us and he thought it was raining. When i asked what did you see, he said niagara falling! instead of falls. When were getting out there was a man standing with a pair of parrots and said we could take pictures with it for some donation. Ashu and I took pictures with the parrot.
The way parrot held my hand was wierd. It felt like it was scratching me. Aj was not scared at all. He tried to pull the feathers and the man got kinda ticked off and told him to just pat. Luckily aj stopped pulling the feathers :-)
We left Niagara after lunch and went to pittsburgh. B and I watched IIFA awards in star plus, in the hotel. It was the same hotel where we stayed with appa, amma.
We went to the temple next day and when we came out we met a Sindhi couple from Coimbatore. They were attracted by Ashu and started talking to him and then started talking to us.
They had come for their 25th anniversary. They were very friendly and took pictures with us. They said they will send it by mail and asked us to keep in touch.
Then, we left and came to the airport and left to cookeville. This time the flight journey wasn't all that bad! After the trip, i realized how sweet our home is! Home Sweet Home! :-)

Oh and the day before we left, they had a puppet show at Aj's daycare. Aj's teacher said they made all the children sit down before the show started and asked them to be quiet till the show started.
After couple of minutes, all of a sudden aj said 'Let the show begin' and all the teachers burst out laughing :-) Don't know where he's getting all these ideas from :-)






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Week of july 5
We went to indian restaurtent today and the restaurent owner asked us how the food was and before we said anything, aj said 'it is vely vely good'. Actually, he was really enjoying the pakoras at that time. But, when it has to do with aj, there should be a funny twist, right?
As soon as the owner stepped away, he said, 'it is vely vely bad..vely vely bad'. Boy! Were we glad he didnt say that in front of him. The food wasn't bad, but he's into opposites now..so whatever he says, he usually says the opposite following it :) I dont think the restaurent guy would've bought that!! :D

July 4th fireworks fizzled out...

They said they would have the fireworks at 9.30, so we left leisurely around 8.40 and by the time we reached they were done with the fireworks. apparently, they had advanced it by 45 minutes due to rain. GRR! But, we got to see a private show at our neighbourhood which was good too. Aj enjoyed it from inside. When we opened the window, he was terrified of the sound and ran inside. Ashu was happy that he got to see atleast this private show ;-) Anyways, we were in the mood to cancel our plans to go there as we were dead tired after having guests for lunch. I still don't understand one thing...I did all the cooking and cleaning and B was dead tired?! Gandhari style i guess! I wish this theory works and i lose weight if B exercises or atleast he gains weight for what i eat. HEHEHE!


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Week of jun8

Ashu's got playdate at Atharva's house today. Boy was he good or what? He did everything we asked him to do. B and I asked (keeping a straight face, ofcourse) if he would
do 100 thoppu karanams before going to Atharva's house and he was ready. LOL! You know, he was in the 'thalai kaal puriala' state. It was too funny to watch him.
Aj's got water play time today. Ofcourse he's fish in water..so the teachers will have trouble getting him back to the class. He slept for 3 hours in the afternoon, yesterday and he went to bed only at 11.45 :-OAnd he woke up along with me at 6.50 :-( My eyes have started looking more like Vijaykant's eyes :( Dude did not eat proper lunch at school last week. Hope it improves this week. He ate good at home though. Vickie (my colleague) was saying that her granddaughter (goes to aj's class) eats good at daycare and does not touch food at home. I guess it's universal with kids to trouble for food!!

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Week of jun 1

Wake up, Jeff, errrr Vidya!!
Yep...I'm sooo tired now. Aj woke us at around 2.30 in the night two nights in a row and the reason is : 'C'mon let's go bye'.
Imagine how my head was spinning when i heard that! He was crying so much when we didn't take him bye bye.
One good or bad thing about this is - he is fair to both parents (unlike ashu) and wakes both of us. Ashu's target was always me and only me :)
Ashu's summer vacation started and he's already bored and eats my brain :) He called me a dozen times yesterday. I told my friend (translate as begged to my friend)
to send her son for play date and he just called me once to ask if he can eat the cupcake that Atharva got with him. How nice and quiet it is! :D
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quick update

Aj got his his right bottom molar on 2nd July (17th tooth) and left bottom molar on 4th july.
2 more to go. Aj's teething symptoms were terrible, unlike ashu's. He had diaper rashes, he would not eat well..etc etc. Now these for the ordinary teeth and i was terrified of the molars and guess what! no symptoms. Wierd, but good :)

June Update

June was crazy at work..Version release and late night working and what not?! :( Ashu's enjoying his summer hols..kind of. He gets bored at home sometimes and starts complaining. I worked out a deal with Atharva's mom and he comes here or Ashu goes to their house. So, he's back to being happy. He also goes to Science workshop at the children's museum once a week. Last week, he went to tumbling camp. Dude can do cartwheel now (still has room for improvement) and i'm so proud and happy :)


Aj has started reading lots of words now. More than 100 i would say. He also knows some of his books by heart now. If Ashu reads a book, aj takes one of his books and reads aloud. It's so funny to watch him do it. He keeps his face as if it's a piece of cake! :) He's continuing to be naughty too. This is just a quick update..hope this month will be better and i can write more. With my hand pain, it's hard to type long posts too.