Valentine's day

Both kids had parties today, but they didnt want any parent volunteers at aj's school. Thank God! They usually pick the same time and make me feel guilty one way or the other :) I had volunteered at Ashu's school. The organizer had planned for bingo and Ashu won bingo (1 row) and got a lo...ng candy. Then they did the final round where they had to have all the rows filled in and whoever won was supposed to go out with the teacher for pizza lunch and could take two of their friends. Guess what, 5 kids had same sheet and they all called bingo at the same time :) Ashu was one of them. Since there were 5, the teacher decided to take the whole class for pizza lunch now :) Ashu was extremely happy since he won twice :)

AJ said they decorated cookies with sprinkles and ate it. He also was happy with his valentine loot bag. Quite a number of candies :) Ashu also shared his bingo candy with him and made him happy.
Yday, i asked both the boys to write their own Vday cards and Ashu had to do only 20, whereas Aj baby had to do 32!! After 20 he fell asleep and i finished the rest. Today morning when he saw that everything was packed, he asked me, "Are you sure you wrote AJ and not Vidya?" :)

B dropped him today and before he left to school, i told aj that he will have lots of fun today since they will have a party and will have lots of cookies, cupcakes etc and he added " and a special cake for the birthday boy" and i asked "who?" and he goes "Me!!!" Then, i told him just because his birthday is in Feb doesn't mean they will have a cake for him for any party in FEB,. He grinned sheepishly and left :D

Dream Vs Nightmare

Last week (10-Feb) AJ woke up crying. B, Ashu and I were all in the living room as it is a snow day and school was closed. B and I both decided to work from home and ashu woke up early too, so he was reading a book in the living room. When AJ woke up crying, i got scared he fell off the bed and got hurt and ran inside, but he was sitting intact in the bed and crying. I asked him why he was crying and he said because you, daddy and ashu left me and went and i tried catching up but i could not. I figured out he had a bad dream and it must be becasue he saw the trailer of home alone in sun t.v. So, i told him, dont cry aj, we are all here..it is just a dream. He was still crying and corrected me saying "Mommy, it was not a dream, it was a nightmare!" LOL!




This reminds me of the time when ashu corrected me..When he was 4, he used to be very careless and bump into things or drop things and break them and then say "Ooops, it was an accident". My dad thought it was really cute and he started doing it on purpose. One day, i got annoyed and said, "Ashu, if you do that one more time, my foot will meet your butt and i will say Ooops it was an accident" and he said, "if you say that and then if your foot meets my butt, that wont be an accident, it will be on purpose"!!

Ofcourse, my dad thought it was cute too!!

Jan Recap

In the last few months, i have missed capturing lot of the cute things the kids say / do, in this blog and i dont remember them all.

That's what you pay when you dont update the blog regularly :- (



Harry Potter :



After we came back from orlando, ashu has taken after harry potter now. B downloaded the whole set in kindle and he is done with all the books in two weeks!! It was really funny to watch him..Any free time he got he was stuck to HP. weekends...HP..and luck favored him and he had 6 snow days in that two weeks too!! Even though it was cute, at one point i got mad at him and told him to limit to kindle to couple of hours in the week ends now. Otherwise this boy will forget how to talk!!! He only reminded of me of my childhood friend's cousin who would come all the way from bombay for summer vacation and would not talk to anybody. Her nose would always be buried in books and she was older than us by 3,4 years and would look at us like we are a bunch of disgusting pests running around, making noise and disturbing her :) I dont want ashu to turn into her. I want him to be balanced!



MLK Birthday :



When the schools were closed for MLK birthday, i asked AJ if he knew why the school was closed and he said, yeah, i know..it is Martin Luther King Junior's birthday. He said Luther like L"u"ther and not L "oo" ther. And all of sudden his face brightened and he ran to his daddy and said, Daddy, come let's goto chuck e cheese, we need to throw a party for Martin Luther King Junior's birthday!! Nice!!





Random :



One of the snow days, i was testing ashu on the tables and AJ was upset and said he wants a test too. Ashu has taught him 2 tables and so i gave him some questions randomly and he said Mommy, i dont want random, give it in order. I was quite surprised. Not sure, when i knew the word Random and this dude is already using it :)



Spelling Bee :



Ashu didnt get selected in school spelling bee. Actually he did really good when we tested him at home, but we didn't know they would time him as well. Lot of parents didnt..so none of the 3rd graders made it to the final round. It was anyway a practice for the 3rd graders as most schools have this only starting 4th grade.



AJ really has a chance at spelling bee..when we tested him with 3rd and 4th grade list he did awesome! My bro even tested him with big words and when i broke them he did awesome :)



Math whiz :



I think i have mentioned before that AJ was doing addition real well till ashu introduced multiplication to him. One day, janani decided to test him and she asked single digit addition and he did good using his fingers. It was funny that when she asked little bigger one where he had to use both hands, he put the phone between his legs and counted :) Janani was super impressed with him and then asked him if she can ask big numbers and he got excited and said yes. She went with 10 + 10 and he said 20. He knows those..

Then she asked 40 + 40 and he said 80..then she asked 100 + 100 and he said 200..that's it, Janani was praising him so much..and now he got all excited and everytime someone wants to tlak to him on the phone he goes test me in addition or two tables! but, what janani doesn't know is..if she had asked some other two digit numbers his answer is a constant 75. LOL!



Best Friend :



Ashu's friend Rohan's mom called me on saturday (29th jan) and said she will take them both to watch HP.. After i dropped ashu at rohan's house AJ was pretty upset. So i made brownies for him and when the movie was over, she dropped them both at our place as she had to run some errrands and that was the first time AJ actually met Rohan. AJ was trying to strike conversation with him several times as if he came to play with him and not Ashu. It was really funny. B and I were laughing so much..After rohan left, i asked AJ who his best friend was so i could tell him he can have aplay date with him / her and he says "Rohan is my best friend" Ashu was soooo ticked off when he heard that. LOL!



The way AJ said was so funny..as if Rohan and him were jenma jenamama friends...he just met him for the first time!!!



Solar System :





Ashu had to do a solar system project for the school. They said no kits allowed. So, he had this great idea of making the planets with play dough and then hang it on a rod. He started with it and AJ made a huge mess to it. Ashu was extremely upset.Then i also thought that it may be difficult to present as ti would get heavier when it dries off so i told him to check with his teacher if he could do two dimensional model and teacher was fine, so i gave him foams and he did a good job. He said that his teacher liked it. I did help him, but i wanted it to be his idea and it came out good. I didnt take a picture..I should if it is still in good condition. I saw aj playing with it yday!!