Happy Birthday Ashu kutty!

30-Aug-2009 :

The day started with me and B waking Ashu up by singing Happy Birthday to you...On hearing that Aj got so excited and woke up too...but, when he heard the 3rd line go Happy Birthday dear Ashu..he got so mad at us and gave us dharma adi till we sang happy birthday aj kutty too :) That made Ashu laugh so much. What a good way to start! He also got calls from mama, mami and athai. When radhika called we could not hear her at all. He asked who was it after he hung up saying thanks for the wishes. I said athai and he said no wonder i could not hear her. I asked him what he meant by that and he said it must be srinithi who was making all the noise that i could barely hear athai :) Later, when i called mil i came to know that they were at some kids play place and poor Srinithi had to take the blame! :D When Jan sang happy birthday ashu, aj got upset again and made her sing for him too. Gau sang too and that made aj very happy :) Gau actually recited bhagavad gita for us too. It was very sweet..
After that we called vasanthi paati, kollu paati (or kokku paati as ashu wud say) and rajam paati and got their well wishes. Talked to appu mama's family too. Karthik sent his wishes too. After all the wishing part, we had a mini celeb. A tiny cars cake for ashu and just to have the cake this time aj agreed to sing for ashu :) After singing, aj started digging in before anyone else said anything :) It was presents time and ashu was sooooo surprised to get monsters and aliens from us for DS. He also got math cd and i dont think he was very excited about it. He also got a book set and jumpstart explorer cd. Aj got doctor set, abc cd and a book too. He loved the doctor set.
We then went to woodlands for a heavy lunch. We ate like pigs and they also had ashu's fav. gulab jamuns and my fav. ragda patties..I was not sure if we could walk in the zoo...but we walked so much that i bet all the calories were burned off! :D Ashu enjoyed the visit to the zoo and aj didnt care about the animals and was more interested in reading the signs and kuppai porukking. that made ashu very mad at aj. At the end we went to a place called jungle gym inside the zoo. It was full of fun for them. It had big slides, swings, jumping place for tots and a big jungle gym :) Kids loved it. They close the zoo at 6 and we had to literally drag them out. They didnt want to leave!!
8-Sep-2009 :

We did not have a party for Ashu because of several reasons - They closed the place where he wanted to have a party. It was called cyber tag with laser tage games. He did not want to have the party at bounce zone - the other fun place. Finally, i smashed my finger in the car and was in a bad shape. To compensate for that, we took the kids to Dollywood the following weekend. They had a blast. We stayed in Pigeon forge for two days and went to dollywood on both days and we also went to a place called MagiQuest. It was good too. It was like a place where HarryPotter could live :) They gave us a magic wand and sent us on different quests. By the time we understood and finished the quest our time was up and we did not win. To add to it, aj was troubling us as he did not get a wand. They dont provide wands for vaandus :)

14-Sep-2009
The party continued this weekend too..We took ashu's friends to cici's pizza for lunch. It's a mini chuck-e-cheese kinda place with game arcade. After lunch the kids had a blast in the arcade. Aj figured out that in one of the machines, if you put coin you will get atleast one candy and was after that :-) Ashu, H and A were doing all crazy boy stuff and had a total blast. R and S were all girly and were having fun in a different style. Amit and Aj were the ones who did not know what to do..but still managed to have fun :) The kids wer very well behaved @cici's..so, we took a chance and took them to big o' donuts for dessert. Boy were we wrong! The sugar kicked in and all of them were troubling us...Kanna kattiduthu. Then, we dropped ritu and amit and atharva said he wants to come with us..so we took the rest of them home and they continued to have fun. Veedu rendaachu..that's a different story. It will take me a week to straighten it up i think. The boys wanted to open the RoboSapien that Suresh sent..They were soo thrilled and excited when they opened it and lo and behold we did not have the batteries that were required for it. What a bummer! I told the boys i will invite them again to play with it after getting the batteries. I asked them to play with the gifts radhika sent, but ashu hid it from AJ and did not want to open it in front of him :) Ashu has not cleaned up his room after they left and i am sure Aj is gonna break some things and tear some things and they are gonna end up in a fight. I dont think i have the strength to clean up ashu's room before that happens!! I guess i will just sit and watch how they fight!! We also went to the temple on Friday for his star birthday and i made his favorite kaju katli. Aj who does not eat store bought kaju katli ate mine..Don't know if that means it was better than store bought or if he thought it was not Kaju katli! Hmmm?

In the temple, one guy was doing thoppu karanam in front of Pillayar and Aj went and stood before him and started doing thoppu karanam for him. It looked like he was pazhichufying him. Tension aaitan andha aal and i was so embarassed. It was funny though :)