Nov 2011 - Funnies

Counting sheep! 

AJ kept troubling me saying that he cant goto sleep and i told him to count from 1 to 1000 and went to do the dishes. He was behind me in few seconds and was making "grrr" sound. I asked him what and he said, "if i have to count till 1000 i will become a grandparent, can you suggest a better idea?!" :D

Troubled/Troublesome?

I didnt goto sunday school with them one day as i had too much work. I asked B to take them and AJ said "Mommy, are you sure you dont watn to come? I will feel so troubled without you" and AShu says " You will feel troubled? Others will be troubled without mommy coming with you"! LOL!

Nov 2011

Birthday party! 

For his mama's birthday, aj wanted to go to india and celebrate it right away! and he got mad at me for not taking him to his mama's party! :D When mama asked him what he got for his birthday he generously said "Pokemon cards" (that belong to ashu!!)

I told B that we need to make sure we highlight Ashu's name in bold, italics, double quotes and what not..in our will :) 

Thankful for self! 

For thanksgiving AJ had written, " I am thankful for my brother, my dad, my mom and myself" :) Ofcourse seeing brother on the top of the list melted the big brother's heart (for few minutes!) 

Generosity!!

I got my new iphone 4S and AJ had been waiting longer for it than me because he got to play cut the rope at my friend L's place and unfortunately it was not available for android..well the free version and i didn't order the full version because i knew i was gonna switch to iphone. So, as soon as my phone came they used it to the heart's content before i even figured anything out! Ashu downloaded HP spells and AJ cut the rope! And then he made some bad choices the next day - he was talking back and in general not listening to anything i said. So, i refused to give him my phone and he said, mommy i am sorry, can i please have your phone. i said no and he said he would give his piggy bank to me and i can take all the money from it. I couldn't stop laughing, but i said, but you don't have that much savings anyway so i dont want it. And he generously says "You have mine + Ashu's savings - all of it, if you give me  your phone". Now that is an offer because Ashu is good at saving and has a decent money in his piggy bank ;-) I told Ashu that AJ offered his savings + ashu's to get the phone from me to play CTR and the look on Ashu's face was priceless. ROFL!

Parent Teacher one/one for both the boys :

They both made us proud!!

Ashu : Ashu's school they have groups based on the level of the students in each subject. Teacher said he is in the highest group for all the subjects and is quite happy with him. She said that there is very limited number of students that go for gifted program and Ashu didn't make it to the gifted program yet, by a tad difference in aggregate marks (they consider tcap scores from prev. year + initial assessments for this year) and she is going to give him additional assignments and take it to the gifted teacher and show that he should be in gifted program. hope that works out :)

She said that she likes Ashu particularly because he takes his studies very seriously, but when it comes to recess he is a typical kid out there. She gave me an example that when she did spelling test, he was making some careless mistakes and even though she knew he could move to the next level, she kept him in the same level and he kept asking her what he needs to do to move to next level :) She said she hasn't seen many kids who cared this much about the levels :)

AJ : is idenitified as gifted child too and is being given more challenging work. Ofcourse AJ's school being a private school, they don't have a separate gifted program and they just give additional work to him. They are doing Kindergarten level work with him already and said they will move to the next level when they feel he is ready. His teachers are pretty stunned at his reading level and also math :D

AJ-ism

A brilliant question : 

Aj asked me amma what is the difference between a truthful person and a liar. I said a truthful person will never lie and a liar will lie all the time. He said.."Wrong! A truthful person will lie only when he goes to sleep and the liar will lie through out the day till he goes to sleep" 

Monopoly: Ashu got monopoly as a gift from V aunty for his birthday. We played it one day and boy AJ could beat our ex-tenant Rex in rent problems! When he has to pay the rent to us, he would just say no and say it is not fair that we keep asking him money, but when we reached one of his squares he would snatch the money from us promptly! If i ever come to know that our ex-tenant Rex buys a house i am sending AJ as his tenant and take revenge!!

Oct 2011

SanFrancisco : 

B had to goto SFO on a business trip. Aj cried the evening B left to Sanfranciso and when he called he said, next time make sure you take your wife and the kids! :) LOL! 

Knowledge : 

AJ  keeps going to school late whenever B is not in town. I have a meeting at 8 and i need to get him ready before that, but he stalls and stalls and somehow we were 10 mins late everyday. I got frustrated and said AJ if you continue to be late like this they will stop you from school and you will have to watch the buffalos and cows that your dad will buy for you.  That means you will stop gaining knowledge and he goes " No..if i watch the cows and buffalos and try to find if they have horns or not, that means i am gaining knowledge" Case closed! 

Tooth problem :

A week back Aj saw my mil's dentures in the bathroom and asked Ashu what it was. That's when Ashu noticed it and explained to AJ what dentures are and why it is needed. 

After two days, i had terrible tooth ache and had to have a root canal. After root canal, i had severe pain and had tears in my eyes. Ashu was terrified,i guess. When B called from SFO he said :DAddy, please take me to the dentist as soon as you come. We haven't visited the dentist in a year. I neither want a root canal or even worse the dentures. ROFL 

Stale Mate : 

Ashu lost the first match at chess club and then next week he lost again and said GRR i am so mad i end up playing with the same kid every week and he ends up winning and he's older than me so it's not fair. Then this week he had a stale mate and was quite pleased with himself and said atleast it's better than losing :) 

He also wants to become like Vishy Anand (Thats how he refers to Vishwanathan Anand). I told him the story of Anand winning all the t.v contests about chess and they called and said you come and take whatever books you want, but please give other children a chance to win :) He was super impressed and now the little dude is impressed too and they both want to become like Vishy! :D

Golu:

 

 

On sat, i went to couple of friends' house for tamboolam and it was both good. I left ashu with his friend H and took only Aj. Aj was pretty upset that i took him to girls houses only. Next day he was even more shocked when i invited my friends for tamboolam. LOL! He was fighting for men's rights!! Kaalam maari pochu!!  He said i need to find something for men to celebrate!!

Sep 2011

Not much updates this month. It was just so hectic getting back to a routine. Ashu started his chess club again and Ajay is getting back into routine as well. I have signed him up for keyboard classes at school along with abrakadoodle. Will sign him up for tumbling when they start it back in October.

 

None of the extra curricular classes have started yet for Ashu except Chess. Will decide what he will be doing once we get the announcements. Apart from the school activities, i am thinking of enrolling him in guitar as he has been asking since the school started.

 

Sunday school started and is in full swing. This time it is little more organized than previous year and am happy about it :)

 

Since Ashu was sick during his birthday week and also the weekend being a long weekend, we decided to skip the party and went with his idea and took him and his friends to watch smurfs. Before that, we took them to chuck-e-cheese for lunch and they didnt want to eat obviously. So, B came up with a trick. We first gave them few coins each and when they were done we said whoever has a slice of pizza will get some more coins and made the kids eat even more than what they normally eat :) They had a blast. After lunch we watched Smurfs. Cute and funny movie. all the kids loved it. The kids were good overall and troubled me only when i was driving. My car had 5 kids and lucky B had only 3 kids in his car. I really thought i would become deaf that day and luckily i can still hear :) They were loud as it is and one kid started with who can scream the loudest contest :-O  Poor Me!! Ashu said this was the best birthday celeb ever..Well, he says that every year anyways ;-)

Happy 9th Ashu :)

Ashu turns 9 today! As i always say it's bittersweet as they grow. Where is the baby ashu? Well, he will always be our baby and that's different. :-)

I still remember what a rowdy Ashu used to be till he was 2. Then he started changing. He got more into reading and less into the rowdiness :) He is now a full fledged book worm. You give him a book and he is the happiest kid in the world. It's nice to see him that way and there are times where it pushes the wrong buttons as i dont see him do anything else :-) I have to push him to get active and get out and play. Given a choice he would rather bury his nose in a book.

He is turning into a fine gentleman with a very generous and soft heart. Sometimes i worry that people may take him for a ride and i teach him the importance of assertiveness. Haven't seen him be very assertive, but i think it'll slowly sync in.

He is a loving elder brother and takes good care of his brother to the extent where the little brother gets annoyed and it ends up in a fight. He helps me with some chores too.

I wish him happiness always and many more to come :)

Aug 2011

Llama Llamas acting in a drama!!

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I signed up both the kids to act in a panchatantra tale "Tiger and the brahmin". D called me and asked if they would be interested and asked if ashu can do the brahmin role. He said, "I am a brahmin, so i am the right person to act as a brahmin" and agreed to it immediately. Then, when she sent the script he wasn't too happy. Brahmin character was throughout the script with too many dialogs. lol.

 

AJ is elephant. the original plan is for him to just stand there and the narrator would say the lines, bue when Ashu was practising his lines AJ just learnt his and surprised everyone :)

 

1-Aug-2011

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AJ got his first certificate in Kumon and he said "Boy, i am so happy..i have been waiting for ever for a certificate :)" Ashu got two already and close to getting his third..but, with little kids they take tests in parts..so it takes more time and he was really worried about not getting one.

 

2- Aug- 2011

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Took Aj for his well care checkup - almost 6 months overdue!! Had it postponed so many times due to something or the other. Last time i postponed because of Aj's fieldtrip and his teacher was asking me if i could postpone since it was a fun trip for the kids. So today when we went late and i told her i had been to the doctor she asked oh is it the one we asked you to postpone and i was quite surprised that she remembered. i didnt even remember i had to postpone because of that. First they poked his blood for bloodtest and aj whispered in my ears that i should never bring him there again..and then the doc gave him a sucker and he was all happy and said he liked that place after all! His doc is real fun. She knows how to talk to kids and made him feel at ease. She asked him to sing a song and he sang abcd and then she asked him to count with fingers and he started counting till 4 and started singing abc again!!

so much attachment to that song...then she asked him to draw mommy and he drew a big square and i was wondering if he's thinking i am that fat and then he drew a thin lady inside it and put a roof on top of the square. Phew! she asked what mommy does in the house and he said she walks around all the time :) I remember when Ashu was 4, he said i do dishes all the time! Thank God neither said i keep yelling 24/7!! 

 

The doctor said that he is way above average for height and average in weight, but when they take the height weight ratio he is really underweight :( I wasn't surprised though. I told her what a fussy eater he was and she gave him some advice. AJ didnt open his mouth. When i came out and asked him if he heard what she said about eating. He said, "Nope"!

 

29-Aug-2011

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Aj got his distinction honor roll cert in Kumon :)