Where is China?

I just made up a song and was singing where is japan where is japan do you know and AJ said, I dont want to goto Japan..So, i continued with different places in the same tune. When i came to china and sang where is china where is china do you know and AJ goes 'Yep! It is in wendys' :D LOLOL. Ashu couldn't stop laughing at this. So, on our way back from school, Ashu asks AJ, do you know where u.s is and AJ points to a storage building on the road and said there it is! :D He can't say no, i guess :)

They had bookfair at Ashu's school last week and ashu got himself a bunch of starwars book. After i got him one from Memphis he's all into starwars now. He also got one teddy bear book called Old bear for AJ. It's a nice one about seasons. Simple book with nice illustrations. AJ loves it, but he wants the star wars too. When B said that all star wars books are Ashu's, he said but i only want the clone wars (The title of one of the star wars books :)). This week they have the bookfair at AJ's school.

Birthday Bash - 3

Update on the real party..Finally. We managed to find a slot at the bounce zone for March 7th. All other places were pretty booked up till next weekend and hence the delay in the party. But, Aj got to celebrate his bday all week, so he was quite excited.

We were very lousy this time with our planning. B travelled again and till thursday all we had done was booked the party hall. Food n Cake were not ordered. Return gifts were not bought. The catch with this party was outside food was not allowed and we could order only from them and the only choice they had was pizza, ofcourse. We called on friday to order pizza and they said, you can't order till the party date. They said they will come and check with us on the final count of the guests 1/2 hr after the party has started and bring it when it is time for food. This shot my BP, i say... I had no hopes..I thought we were doomed. But, they really managed to bring it on time. Phew! We ordered cake from outside though, as that was allowed. We ordered Return to Africa (Madagascar 2) and the cake looked beautiful. The party was from 1.30 to 3.30 and i only packed the return gifts at 11 in the morning. Some guts i had!! We still reached there on time and still managed to protect all the gifts from AJ :) On the way, Ashu suggested that we put the cake between him and AJ and i said then we can practically forget the cake :D I guess he forgot what happened last birthday.

While we were waiting for the Arena to be ready for our party, he went crazy over the cake and did not understand why we could not give him his own birthday cake. He must've thought "I am here..cake is here and it is my birthday party..so why is this Cruella De ville not letting me have it? " :D But, as soon as they opened the Arena, he vanished..He ran as fast as wind and was enjoying the most..He was all wii influenced and saying, now i am going to play obstacle course and things like that. As soon as we entered, ashu's friend Atharva came and Ashu vanished afte that :) One by one all the kids came and they had a blast. It was fun. After 1.30 hrs of play time we went to the party hall and had food and cake and we were all done. Kids were really hungry after all the jumping i guess. When i lighted the candles aj blew it right away before i called everyone to gather around the cake. so i lighted it again and then he blew it again. He has to do something funny every birthday i guess. He was still pretty excited the next day and said he wants to goto bounce zone again and not school. Yeah right! :)

Something funny :)

This was few weeks back..I had way too much work that i had to bring home some work. If i have to work from home i wait till the kids goto sleep as i dont want to compromise on the time i spend with them. They dont let me work peacefully either...so why bother :) As soon as i came home i wrote down a todo list so i wont forget later. Aj saw that and came and wrote To Do Droid. B's phone is Droid and he has an eye on that. I guess he wanted to mess with it and wrote it as his todo list :)

My sweet kutty and birthday bash 2

Sweet Kutty : B was not in town last week and i had a hectic week at work too. It was pretty exhausting and when i was doing the dishes one day, AJ came and said he had to go potty. So, i stopped doing the dishes and went with him and he was taking his own time..On seeing this, Ashu said i should teach him how to do the dishes. I thought he meant AJ and said he is too young and he said, no mom, you could teach me so if AJ troubles you and you can't get things done, i could always help you with the dishes. How Sweet! I was so touched and had tears in my eyes.

Birthday Bash 2
Not so much of a bash!! We had a simple celebration of Aj's bday at the daycare. I got cupcakes and took some gifts for the kids and that's about it. B is out of town as usual and the teacher was little strict about the timing, so decided to go with cupcakes. She wanted to do it during the snack time so i didnt take any extra snacks for them. Kids were happy to get cars cupcakes. the cupcakes had a ring on top of it with lightning mcqueen or mater and some kids picked mcqueen and some picked mater..our star wanted both!! i gave him mcqueen only. he used the ring as a scoop..how creative. i washed the ring and gave it back to him and all other kids wanted me to wash their rings and i did, but i didnt remember who had what. i managed and gave whatever they wanted. one little girl was really mad at me and said she was sure she had mcqueen and i gave her mater and she said i gave her mcqueen to L and L said he had mcqueen and she had mater..Anga poyum i had to take the naatamai role. i managed to confuse them and solved the problem! :)

Will update about the party later..

Birthday Bash-1 and more

As always we decided not to have party on birthday. This was a lesson learnt after Ashu's first birthday party. We all had a great time, but Ashu was soooo tired and did not enjoy at all. So, we decided not to torture the kids on their birthday and decided make it a family event and have the party on the following weekend. So, since the party is still not on i'm calling this Birthday Bash -1 :)

I made gulab jamuns for AJ's birthday. Both the kids love GJ so they were really excited. I think i have not made GJs in a long while because ashu said he didnt think it could be made at home!! But, i'm proud of my determination to not make sweets at the drop of a hat. I used to make sweets for everybody's birthday in both sides of the families and we both have large families..so you can imagine!! After it started showing up at wrong places i cut it down!!

Back to the main track. After lunch and watching some t.v, we finally moved our butts and went to the temple. Did archanai, had laddoos and then went to Chuck-e-cheese for dinner. Before leaving the temple we met Roma. AJ and Roma were just giggling at each other and Roma wished AJ for his birthday. We could not stay longer as it was already late and we headed out to chuck-e-cheese. First i thought i will goto Target as i wanted to buy some closet organizers and when i said Target AJ got super excited. For some reason he loves going to Target and i have nothing to do with that. But, we had to cross CEC to goto Target and the moment he saw chucke he changed his mind and declared he doesn't want to goto Target. It was his birthday after all..so he was the boss. Kids had a blast. They were non stop and enjoyed a lot. Had to literally drag them out right before the closing time. The next morning the first thing AJ said was 'Daddy can we go eat at CEC?'. Ashu enjoyed a lot too..They both did their own thing. AJ was hanging out with daddy and ashu with me..so i got to play more ;-)

Also the 3 year old boy can be officially declared Potty Trained. He was potty trained a while back, but he never asked to be taken to the potty chair at school. But since last week he has started telling them and they said i can start sending him in regular underwear!! So, i guess that's something to prove that he's growing up faster!! PT-ing him was tougher than Ashu, but not too tough. Ashu was easy breezy and i dont know how i did it. He was trained in a week!!
With AJ, there were lot of inconsistencies to begin with. I started training him late...then i was not consistent due to some health issues..and then finally christmas break was the right time to be consistent and with some bribing we got it done!!

We are planning to have his party on sunday at the bounce zone.