October update

Oct 20 - Left top molar..Finally!! :)


Oct 14
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Had 32 month evaluation at Aj's school. I had to fill out the form by testing aj with whatever they had mentioned. Dude was 100% on everything except fine motor skills..but, that's my fault because i dont let him dress himself up or i dont give him fork to feed himself. But, he was still on the above average for those and teacher said there are no concerns with his growth. Before and during the evaluation, Ms. Cathy really sodhichufied my porumai. First of all, i went during the lunch break so i dont have to take time off..She made me wait for 15-20 minutes saying that she's going to the restroom and then she was searching for the papers..Finally, she was talking a lot during the evaluation..Romba sodhichuttaa..and she gave me a ottai pen that leaked on my beautiful pink top and sweater..I doubt that the stain can be removed. GRRRRRR! Anyways, after the evaluation i was thinking that i should start working on making the kids a little independent. I should let go of the indian over protective motherly way and start working on few things - first on the list is - to teach Ashu to brush his teeth and take bath under my supervision and to teach aj to eat by himself. And for me...i should learn to ignore unwanted comments about my parenting!!


Oct 17
B returned from SFO only yday and this morning he woke up early (not because it was diwali!!) and went to run in marathon for the race for cure. A charity event for Cancer patients. Since it was 4 a good cause i mannichufied him for committing to it on Diwali..Marathon odittu vandhu aal 2 hours-kku gaali..that's another story :D Idhukku dhaan he should've listened to ashu's advice..Ashu saw the map and saw that the marathon was for 4 miles and he decided that B cannot run 4 miles and told him that he should run 1/4th of the distance and take a turn when no one's watching and run backwards and reach the final line and that way he can win :D B was mad at him...haha.. I got a beautiful scarf from that event. B odinadhukku enakku prize! :D Anyways, he was gone for more than 3 hours..and i had to deal with the boys!! Rendayum ezhuppi nalangu ittu Ganga snanam panna vekkardhukkulla...SSSSABBBBBBBA Kanna kattiduthu!! :-O Adhukkapram..getting ashu ready was easy. i dressed ashu and aj in similar kurtas. Ashu was good an cooperated..Aj was grumpy the whole time he was in kurta. He REFUSED to smile :-( He also told me he does not want Indian Costume!! :-( We had diwali party at Swapnil's house on diwali evening. Kids had a blast with fireworks..I know ashu is not scared and this is the first time for aj and he was too casual about it!! I was watching from upstairs and all the dads were with the kids and enjoying the fireworks..this little dude just went and lit the sparkler himself and nobody was watching..i panicked and yelled and screamed and B and another friend noticed at that time and guess what they did..instead of pulling him away, they went and lit their sparklers from his!! Men!!! They are certainly from MARS!! I recorded Padikadhavan and watched it next day..SO..SO..idhukku ivlo build up! Some of the jokes were really good though :-)

Oct 20

You know how they say you have to watch what you say in front of your kids? I learnt my lesson today..I use the word non-sense quite a bit.. I dont want this nonsense explanation..What nonsense? Why didn't y ou finish the lunch? ..blah blah... Today,i made nan-wich for ashu and packed the rest of the naan in the cover and sealed it with bag clip. Aj was watching the whole scene and asked me 'Have you seen the bag clip?' and I said, Aj i just put it on the naan bag and you saw it..and He said ' What nonsense naan bag is that mommy?' : -O He imitates Ms.Cathy a lot too..He just smacks Ashu for no reason and like a big yogiya sigamani he will tell himself..We do not hit our friends!! If i think of it..maybe he's saying 'we do not hit our friends..but brother is okay?' :-O Ashu's fall break is over..He went to Victory for the break. They were supposed to take to some movie and there was controversial review for it so the cancelled it and had a movie at victory itself..and a pizza party. He said he was hoping for Monsters Vs Aliens but they showed some other movie ( Doghouse...or something like that!)

Oct 23 :

Big B's birthday :-) Kids gave him a card and i gave him two cards. We got him couple of t.shirts :-) Aj kept singing happy birthday daddy all day. For Ashu's birthday, he kept singing happy birthday aj and also made Bro and jan sing for him too..ippo daddy-kku dharalama he sang. Ashu-oda enna potti? :D I made Diamond sweet (kaju burfi) and it vanished in one day...Got a 'Super yum' certificate from both Ashu and B..Aj ate it..so i assume it was yum for him too.


And today (Oct 25) :

Today was Aj's first play date!! I was soooo tensed to send him, but Pushpa kept reassuring me that she will take good care of him and i finally did it. He went there and spent 4 hours at their house without troubling them or crying for me :-) They said he was too good. Ofcourse, Ashu went with him, and they said Ashu took good care of aj too. What a good boy! It was Amit's birthday party and since Ganga's mom passed away this year, they kept it low profile and invited only kids and both kids did fine there. They came back with nalla per that they both were very well behaved and well mannered :-)

Looks like Aj was the center of attention for all the kids. Pushpa said everybody started writing words and asked him to read and he read all of them and kids were all excited and kept doing that!! Thanks to Ritu :)