Discipline!

I spent hours on sorting the books and yelled at the kids that they do not mess up the book shelves any more. It was really a huge mess that i almost cried when i cleaned it up. Anyways, i told them that they need to bring 10 books each from upstairs and put it in the book basket in living room and read only those until they are done with them. When they are done they need to take it back, put it in the exact place they got them from and take the next 10 books. I was so proud of my rules! What i didnt do was, i didn't complete putting all the books back in the shelves. I did 60% of it - Sorted in groups according to age. The rest 40% was sorted too, but were piled up on the floor. I couldn't get to it next couple of days as work was hectic. Then, i went yday and the books were strewn all over the room. It was quite a sight, really! I almost fainted because, AJ had pulled some more from the shelves and thrown them across. A humongous book mess. All was done in very little time because we hardly spent any time at the house during that time. I sat down and sorted and put away again. This time 90% was done. I am human after all! Couldn't do any more. Today morning i woke up mad because of this and i told AJ in a stern voice that i was so upset the previous night because of the huge mess he made and what he did was wrong and he says "Why did you go upstairs in the night? You are supposed to sleep in the night"!

Gaaahhh!! What will i do when he is a teenager?!! I know, i will be ordering a wig!!

Here i have to give credit to the big kid Ashu. He did not take any book other than what he picked for the week and when he was done, he conveniently went back to dad's kindle!

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

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

Dude with the attitude!!

Today was the kids first classes at the temple. Signed up Ashu for language class and AJ for shloka class as they said the child has to be minimum 5 to be in language class. The classes were in different buildings. To start with, we were late due to bad planning from my side. Anyways, adichu pidichu we went to the class and AJ and i went to Shloka class and they were teaching jai jagadish hare song.. He was just sitting like a kozhakkatai and looking around without repeating. On nudging he repeated couple of words and went back to kozhakkatai mode. After the class was over i took him over to the other building where B was waiting for Ashu's class to be over. As soon as Ashu came out i asked him and he said it was good and he said we were all laughing when someone said something wrong. On hearing that Mr. Kozhakkatai said, even my shloka class was good Ashu, i did great!! After the classes we went to the temple and he was talking loud and i said, shhh! we dont use scream in the temple, we have to be quiet. After doing Pradakshanam, we sat down for a while and people were singing songs. One guy started singing and there was absolutely no shruti and it wasn't very good. He was quite loud too. AJ was staring at him for few minutes and turned to me and said this is temple, can you ask him to be quiet (Thankfully softly!). So, we decided to leave. We saw Roma on our way out and he was very happy to see her again after the shloka class. It was funny to watch them both. They were just looking at each other and smiling non stop. No chit chat.
After the temple, we went to do some shopping and both kids were hyper and running around. So, i showed them the CARS Wii cd and said if you get 50 good choice points they will get it. AJ said Sorry mommy for my bad behavior so far and i said, "Good, you just earned one good choice point" And he goes "sorry sorry, now do i get 2 more"! Ha..nice try dude!!

Mathematic Tamil and the impossible game!

AJ can read tamil fluently now, but cannot write all the uyir mei. Ashu can write them all. I taught him like chinna kombu + ka = Ke and periya kombu + ka = Kay. I taught it this way as i thought he can replace ka with nga, cha...etc and it will be easy for him to pick up. AJ saw ashu's notebook and decided to do it that way and was writing " chinna kombu" + Tha = The. I asked AJ are you writing tamil and he said, no mommy i am writing mathematic tamil, dont you see a + sign?

Today, i told AJ let's play something..you close your eyes and pretend you are sleeping. I will tell Ashu you are sleeping. AJ kept his eyes wide open and said yes mommy i am pretending to be asleep. I said no AJ your eyes are wide open and he said with his eyes opened even wider, no mommy they are closed..so finally he decided to play along and closed his eyes and i said now i will tell ashu that you are sleeping and when he comes near you, you open your eyes and say April Fool and AJ said, "Mommy did you say a bad word? We should not say fool" Aargh! I give up!!

Friday Funny

On one of their swimming classes, AJ was just being lazy and was holding on to the noodle and looking around. The other two kids in his batch were kicking and moving around with the noodle. The teacher said AJ you have to keep kicking and AJ said, but i have a "headache" in one of my feet :D

Same day, after sometime i told AJ that he needs to kick his legs when he is floating in the water and also use his arms. He casually looked at me and said, "yes mommy. you are right" and continued to hang around holding on to the floaty. The lady who was sitting next to me burst into laughter and said he is soooo cool and laid back, i like that! :)

Ashu is now jumping from the bench in the 6ft side, without life jacket. That's a great improvement on his side. He was quite terrified of that when he started. I think another set of classes he will swim without any issues. AJ? I dont know about him..he is just lazy i think. I dont see any fear in him..he just likes to relax and probably party in the pool! ;-)

Certificates and a new English Word

Certificates/Awards :
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Couple of weeks back (yeah i know i am late!) AJ got his first ever certificate :-) and it was unbelievable. He got 5 stars in all. The certificate for his gym bus.

Also, the only reason he goes to school these days is gymbus. He skips daycare the other days and stays at home with ashu and amma. Rendu perum ore kottam. Paavam amma i dont know how she manages :)


Moving on to the next certificate : Both Ashu and AJ finished their first set of swim lessons yday and got the beginner certificate.

Today, Ashu got his Orange belt in Karate. It is usually B who takes him for Karate class and i really had no idea about his progress. I was so proud when the Karate master said he was very proud to have a student like Ashu and he just follows instructions and does really great. I was dumbstruck when he did chinese splits. I didnt know ashu was that flexible. I always thought he was too stiff for that kind of activity. Ashu did really well.

Now to the new english word that AJ coined :

Yesterday, when i got AJ down from the car seat after reaching home, he walked outside the garage and came back saying, whew! it is so windy, it just "winds" my hair. I could not control my laughter. So he had realized by then that "winds" is probably not the right word, i guess. When i told B later that he said the wind just winds my hair, he came and corrected me saying, mommy the wind just blew on my hair! :D

Karuthu Kandasamy!

Whenever i give some advice to AJ i get some advice back. Something that the teachers tell him in daycare. So, if i give some advice like do not hit ashu, you should always love your brother..etc etc..he immediately gives an advice in similar lines..like 'we share with our friends' or ' we take turns' etc. Last week i said something and he said "You can go close to a flower to smell it, but do not eat it". I could not stop my laughter. I dont know which kid got that advice and i hope it's not AJ! :D

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 :)

Funny for the day :)

I have been posting ramayan about our Orlando trip that i missed lot of cute things they were doing. I forgot most of it..and ofcourse, this justifies why i need a blog in the first place..Hope i dont become like Ghajini and depend on this blog for everything :D

Coming back to the funny stuff. Whenever AJ troubled Ashu more than normal, Ashu used to call him bad boy. I told him that he should not say that and it will hurt Aj's feelings. So, the smart alec started calling him B boy and justified that AJ wont understand. But AJ does and we found that out long back and Ashu gave up on that!! I was singing a song yesterday and AJ said stop singing mommy. Hmmm..what an insult..just for fun, i said AJ B boy and retorted back saying AJ is G Boy :-O (Mean mommy needs that!! )

He had mild fever and with all the flu scare i wanted B to take him to the doctor as i had 3 meetings in the afternoon. B said that he was watching t.v in the waiting room and a little boy was playing guitar in it and he said G-Y-T-A-R guitar. On hearing that i clapped my hand and said yay AJ and Ashu said i was crazy to appreciate a wrong spelling :D