Compliment and Advice from the big boy!!

I made Karthigai vadai on Karthigai and the kids loved it. As soon as Ashu took one bite he said, "Mommy you are the best cook in the whole world and this is the best vadai i have ever had" and i was flying high for a while and he bangs me with "You know, you dont have to make these things only on festival days, we will eat if you make it on a regular day also!!" LOL!


I am finally glad that AJ has slowly started enjoying the indian food now. He loves all deep friend batchanam and love idli and dosa as of now. No fuss there. He still has no interest in rice, but if i make daal he doesnt fuss a lot. Ashu is typical southie..enjoys rasam and sambar a lot!! :D He loves all batchanam and he lovvvvvvvvves puliyodarai and lemon rasam so much!

On Sunday, i made pooris as it has been quite some time since i made them and both the boys like pooris.I decided to make something very light for dinner and when it was time for dinner ashu asked me for vadais. I told him it is not that quick and easy and we shouldn't have too much of deep fried stuff on the same day and he was very upset. He was almost in tears that i refused to make vadais for him. So,i said i will make some quick namkeen and i made kaara biscuit (dont know what it is called) out of left over chappati maavu and he was quite happy. It was really funny for me to see his reaction when i said no and also it easily made me feel guilty for saying no!! The kids know how to play the card already!! :D


AJ found one of ashu's worksheet book and told me that he wanted to do multiplication and "Dive"ision before going to bed. I told him that he has to master addition first, then subtraction and then need to move on the multiplication and division and he was very upset and even in that bad mood he said mommy it is "Dive"ision and not division. LOL! When i checked on him after a while he was sleeping with an angry face and was holding on the the worksheet. It was so sweet :) He is doing addition quite well..actually i should say he was.. Ashu taught him 2 times table and now he is all confused between addition and multiplication. Sigh..i have to start over! :D

Friday funny - Marriage life

On our wedding anniversary i worked from home and AJ didnt goto school either! So, in the evening i told AJ that we will be going to the temple after appa comes from work because it is our wedding anniversary and he asked me what is wedding anniversary and i said we got married on the same date 12 years back and he said..oh i want to marry you on the same date too. I said Sorry dude..you cant marry me coz i am your mom, so he goes, can i marry Janani? I said nope..she's older than you and then he said..okay okay i will marry Tanya!! :D Ofcourse, i was happy with his choice as Tanya is such a darling..and as much naughty as AJ!! :D But dude didnt stop there..he added one more of his classmates!!!.. I asked him what about Srinithi, he said she's older..what about harini and he said she's a small baby!! Konjam nyayam therinjavanaa dhaan irukkaan!! And he didnt mention Aparna and Ananya..as they are not morai pons..but made me wonder how he knew! :D


Then i said let's go pick up ashwin and he said..what?! You are taking me to his school? I thought you were taking me to the marriage life!! What he meant was "taking me to the temple for wedding anniversary" It was hilarious when he said marriage life :D

AJ the lawyer

I think i have mentioned this before that my paternal grandpa was a lawyer and my dad once mentioned that it is his wish to have one of the grandkids become a lawyer just like his dad. I dont know why he said no when i wanted to become one...Hmm!! Anyways, i used to think Ashu had the potential to become a lawyer with his non stop logical questions and his habit of correcting us technically..but after some time i started thinking he sounded more like a walking encyclopedia handing out facts than a lawyer. Or in short, a  professor and that was his nickname in the previous school too :-) Couple of days back AJ made me realize that he is my dad's dream! Read this to understand what i mean...AJ was troubling Ashu constantly, so i scolded him. No,w AJ is a menaa minukki who doesnt like to be scolded. He gets upset even if we say a loud MMMM and we end up with a Llama llama what a drama! ;-) So, when i scolded him he was so upset that he came to me and said, "I am not going to talk to you" and i was not in the greatest mood either and so i said "Fine. Me too". For that he said "Mommy, i said i am not going to talk to you and you said Me too, does that mean you are not going to talk to yourself?" I could not answer at that moment..That was the first time where i couldn't come up with a smart alec reply!! So, we have my thaatha's vaarisu now!! :D

Thanksgiving break

We stayed at home and relaxed for the most part. We did some shopping on friday and had our friends for dinner in the evening. Kids enjoyed the most. Ashu even told me he had too much fun on friday. Saturday was a lazy day. did nothing. had leftovers, so didnt cook either. Browsed and watched t.v. happily. Kids were happy to be at home too. I taught ashu to fold t.shirt the japanese way and that kept him amused and busy for a while. he was very proud and kept doing it again and again..and the little copy cat was trying to do that too :D If only he had followed my instructions he would've got it too..but he told me to stay away and said he will do it himself!! The little brat! :)



On sunday, it was quite nice n pleasant. (Now Sudha, if you are reading this..i am NOT rubbing it on you..hehehe) We didnt miss the opportunity and went to a (not so) nearby park and it was very nice. They had a big horse arena and the park looked pretty. Boys were running around and all of a sudden the temp dropped down and we had to walk quite a bit to get back to the car as we got carried away and walked quite afar. From there we went to Panera's for dinner. AJ just ordered a kids grilled cheese sandwich and 2 giant cookies. He got a kids yogurt with the sandwich.. Ashu ordered grilled cheese and kids mac n cheese and got two yogurts. One was red and one was blue. AJ asked ashu very nicely that he wanted to exchange his red with ashu's blue and ashu gave his blue. After couple of minutes, he said i want my red back and took it and didn't bother to give the blue back. When i asked him he casually said both blue and red are his and ashu got only one!! Ashu was quite nice and said he can have it..so no tantrum there!! Phew!



B and I watched "Boss engira Baskaran" on thursday and it was quite entertaining. We watched it quite late after the kids went to sleep..so we really couldn't make it to the Black friday shopping early in the morning..Aadi asanju when we went most of the doorbuster stuff were gone!!