Baby Genius

Some time back, when i went to pick up AJ, he had a new teacher for SAC and she was going gaga over how brilliant AJ is and said she was spelling out lot of words and AJ got them all right, right away. She said i even spelt big words like Montessori and he said That's my school, Montessori :) She should've stopped with that..she said she spelt Genius wrong and he not only said the word, he also corrected her. This, she said in front of him and he was grinning..I dont know when this will come and bite her (or me) back!!

SSSSSSHABBBAAA

I have this signature in my email that says " Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life ;-)"

And ever since i added that my work life got soooo hectic..not that it made my home life any better. With the move, it only got worse. I survived only because my mom was here. Anyways, work is a little stable now. No more 12+ hours of work everyday!! But, if i have to rate something worse than work and the chores at home, it is the chores given to parents by the school. I dont know how they always manage to pick the hectic weeks. I am to be partly blamed here too..I bit more than i could chew. Everytime i goto PTO i see very few indian parents and ore pheelings!! So, i signed up for lot of things and now i am like SSS Habba!! :D Ashu's school is quite reasonable and they schedule meetings after work hours usually and it is the activities that we signed him up for that takes more work from us, so we are to be blamed. But in AJ's school you have to do some voluntary work and i told them i would like to pick the ones that i can do off hours..And they gave a list of garden supplies and asked me to get that for his school. I thought no big deal, just go ask someone and grab those things and come. They wanted two big white mums -none of the stores had white mums...Baaah! After couple of stores, i decided that's it and picked pink. They wanted 6 small containers of pansies..the small containers were super tiny and the next big containers were little large. ore confusion...so didnt pick it as i needed clarification. then they wanted evergreens..and there was no one around to help us..We went aisle by aisle looking for evergreen and neither me nor B had a clue what an evergreen was.

I said evergreen is probably something that wont change colour during fall and something that is perenial and i picked two pots of green perenials and Ashu said mommy i dont think that's evergreen, it should look like those christmas trees..i hushed him and gave the same explanation and put the pots in the cart and we also picked the bags of potting soil they wanted and started heading out and store guy came and asked if i found everything okay. So, i asked him if the "evergreens" i picked were actually evergreens and he suppressed his laughter and said no. He said he will bring it for me and got me the ones that were looking like christmas trees (small in size) and Ashu gave me a look. Finally, i dumped all of those at AJ's scool the next and thunda kaanum thuniya kaanum-nu odi vandhutten before they handed me another list!! ;-)



And the same week was our snack supply week too and theriyaama i asked the teacher what kind of snacks we can send and she started with a list of conditions ...sort of like manalkayiru s.v.shekar. :-O We managed to find some healthy snacks for all the vaandus and am glad we are done with snack supply for the year!! :D Btw, the snacks did meet all the conditions ;-)

Friday funny - Country names

I was playing the name a country that starts with the letter...game with Ashu and AJ decided to join. He doesnt need any invitation for anything :) So, i said name a country that starts with G and AJ said Germany, then i said name a country that starts with Z and AJ goes 'Zermany'!!




The next day when we were in the car, Ashu became the quizmaster and was asking AJ to name a country that starts with P and AJ says "No..no, you have to ask name a country that starts with C and i will say China". And he also thinks Chennai and India are two different countries and you try arguing with that!! :D

Friday funny - Ashu

My mom said Janani got first in Science and some other subject and wasn't sure if she was class first or school first. I thought i will just assume it was school first and told Ashu very proudly that Janani got school first and before i finished my sentence he said..i can never be school first becasue of two of my classmates. I was totally surprised because there is no concept of rank here. When i asked him to explain he said, " Those two boys are always the first to come to school and i can never beat them!!" I was ROFL on hearing this and when i explained what i meant by school first, even ashu couldn't stop laughing :D

Diwali

For the extreme bad planning that i did, Diwali turned out to be really good :-) Lesson learnt : Dont plan..like unplanned trips, unplanned events turn out to be good too ;-)



Two weeks before Diwali i thought i will prepare kaju katli (Ashu's demand), thattai (ashu's demand again), Rava laddoo and a murukku recipe that my friend gave me long back and i did the whole planning and i was supposed to start my batchanam making on monday. Monday came - no signs of making batchanam...We still have 3 days to make batchanam..what's the problem. Tuesday came, B was sick and i had tons of things to take care of..no signs of batchanam again..Wednesday..couldn't manage to do anything and my BP started raising..so at 11 PM i started making kaju katli, since AJ decided to sleep late that day. I was so nervous and i goofed up by taking it off the stove a tad earlier. I couldn't knead it when it cooled down as it was too sticky. I was soooo frustrated that i didnt bother to fix it anymore and put everyhting in a box and put it in the fridge. The next day when i came from office i thought i will give it one try and ta..da it came out well. Then, i started making thattai and it was super good too. Thursday night things started looking better..but, friday i was working from home and it got a little bit hectic, but i managed cooking a decent meal by getting up early :)

(If only i could do that everyday!! :D) Friday evening we all went to the temple and after sevichufying pillu, we went down and got our dinner to go and then got some crackers and the kids had soooo much fun. As it was too crowded, we came home and had the dinner. The next day, we went to Swati's house for a potluck party and there the children burst crackers again and had tons of fun. We had a great time with great food too :-) Came home only after 2 in the night! :-O

Ashu's street hockey experience

 

I forgot to mention that in October update. On october 26th, in Ashu's SAC, they had two players from Nashville Predators ( Lindback and O Reilly ) come and talk to them about ice hockey and they also played Street hockey with them. Ashu was picked as Goalie for one team and Lindback tied the pads for him and it was all recorded by someone with a big camera (looked like a t..v camera). But they didnt tell us if it was going to be telecast somewhere. Ashu was soooo happy and excited. After that they also got autographs from them in a poster. They told AJ he could get autograph from them and once they gave the poster to AJ, velila vandhu adhu pongi pongi azhudhudhu. I asked him why he was crying and he said they didnt give me autograph. I told him their signature in the poster is what is called autograph and he was so disappointed..Edho auto maari toy tharuvaanu nenachundu pochunu nenaikkaren.

October Update

I cant believe i did not update this blog for a month. I had several drafts so here you go...

Highlights of October :

Glasses :

Ashu now wears glasses. I knew it was coming because he will sit and read anywhere without being bothered about poor lighting. We usually have to watch him like hawk and it is not possible to do that 24/7. Anyways, we both were little upset that he has to wear glasses, but we have to do what we have to do. I am glad we caught it before it was bad and before he even realized the need for glasses. I have to say that he looks very studious and handsome in his glasses :-) Reminds me of my bro when he was in school :) Only he is olli and my bro was a chubby boy :) So, he comes home with glasses on day 1 (Monday 4-Oct) and AJ was after him to snatch his glasses. I told AJ that ashu cant see well without glasses and he shouldn't snatch it, thinking that it will make him not snatch it and he goes..Mommy i can't see anything now..i need glasses!! GRR. I thought i will trick him and showed four fingers and asked him to count. I didnt say i was testing him...i just made it look like a game and the dude goes..oh my God, i cant see anything. I dont see your fingers..you dont have fingers..Sivaji Ganesan can take few tips from him!! After couple of hours he realized he was not going to get the glasses and left it. The next day, when ashu came back from school he went and tried differently...Hey ashu, can i check if i fit well in your glasses? Yeah right!! Nice try!! :D


Cheekwood : We went to Cheekwood one sunday after Ashu raved about it after his field trip. It was indeed very good. The chihuly exhibitis were beautiful and i loved the documentary showing how they made it. We took some really good fall pics of the kids. On the way back Ashu asked me which one i liked the most and B and I both said we liked the Sunset and he asked AJ and he said i liked the Elevator :-)

Halloween : Ashu picked Ninja costume again..Two years back he was Green ninja, last year red and this year black. No more cute costumes for Ashu, that mommy can pick. I suggested Harry Potter and he said the cape looked horrible. AJ picked woody and i was happy that he is still sticking to cute costumes. :-) Trick or treating was funny. Some houses they said the kid can take how muchever they want and Ashu took only one and AJ went crazy...That explained why his basket was HEAVVVVVVVIER :D We had a fun experience at home too...When some of our friends came a dog came in when i opened the door. All the kids went crazy chasing the dog and the dog ran inside instead of outside and i was just praying that it doesn't do it's business on the rugs/carpet. Thank God we managed to send him out before anything happened! It was a funny experience for the kids :-) One more funny thing that happened was we met a kid who was buzz light and his dad saw AJ and asked me if he could take pics of both AJ and buzzlight together and i said yes. When the dad was trying to focus the camera and the buzzlight was busy posing for the camera, our woody bent down and started transfering candies from buzz's basket to his!! Ashu caught him on time and gave the candies back!! :D

Kids are enjoying their Sunday classes at the temple and have started making new friends.
We had a get2gether at the end of navaratri. Our first get2gether in our new house and it was good. The kids had a great time and there were no fights and the toyroom wasn't even messy after the kids left because the older kids were playing wii and the little ones were content with just watching. no fights, no screams..it was too good to be true :)

Kids started going to the local library and they laaaaav it. I haven't stepped in there yet..So far only B has been taking them.

We also celebrated B's birthday in a simple way. For his start birthday we went to the temple and i had cooked a simple dinner for him with his favorite stuff, so we came back home and AJ was totally shocked that we didnt go to celebrate Dad's birthday at chuck-e-cheese :D

Fall Fest : We went to fall fest on the last friday of october and it was fun for the kids. i bought a handbag for myself and so it was fun for me too ;-) I had volunteered for the nail salon at the school and all the little girls took me for a ride...They were so picky about the colours and patterns and it was so hard for me to paint those little nails :-) By the end i was so happy that i have only boys :D They are so easy breezy to deal with :D

Endhiran : We watched Endhiran in theater the tuesday after it was released as we didnt get the weekend tickets. When i picked up Ashu i told him that he needs to finish his homework fast as we were going to watch the movie and he said, why did you book tickets for me..I am not interested. I said, try saying this to mama, he will kick your rear for saying this for a rajini movie and he said but i like only Kamalnaathan. I said you cant even say his name right..he is kamalhaasan and that made him mad. He said, that doesnt matter, i like him better than rajinikant. Apparently he is still so fascinated with Dasavataram! Luckily he had finished his homework in school already so all i had to do was feed the kids and we ate dosas too and were good to go.


Ashu was kinda cribbing about having to goto a tamil movie, but once the movie started he was laughing so much and i pulled his legs asking him if we should go back home and he said NOOOO :D Overall he enjoyed the movie and aj enjoyed the first half and promptly fell asleep. He was upset that the doctor chopped chitti (the robot) and fell asleep. When he woke up this morning the first thing he asked was why did the doctor chop chitti. I said after you slept he fixed him back and he was okay after that. He went to B and said, Daddy i dont want to goto school, i want to go watch Endhiran the robot. Yeah right!! :D
I asked ashu if rajinikant is his favorite actor now and he said no..he said he still likes kamalhaasan better. B was sooo disappointed and so was my brother. They both think it has to do with me and i swear i didnt influence ashu..Heck, i dont even like kamalhaasan anymore..i am "mature" enough to like a movie for the story and real acting than go watch a movie just because i like someone!! (Aamir n Hrithik are exceptions though ;-))

So that's the update for october! Phew!