Observations

Miss Aghooness is dressed as Minnie mouse for halloween.

Yesterday when we came home, a surprise waiting for her-- her chittha had sent her a " pumpkin pie" costume:). She immediately wore it and had fun prancing around. She also very happily chatted with her chittha and told him about her day , her life etc..

Snippets

Chitha:- Aghoo, where is dada?
Aghoo :- " dada is in office. lotsa work.he is shooo tired.. dada miss me !!!"

On seeing chitha's friend's jeans,

" hey , i also have jeans- upstairs:)"

" Look at my pumpkin chitha .. I made it"

When we were walking back from school, our neighbor's daughter Abigail ( who also goes to Aghoo's school) was walking with us. She was chewing gum. Aghoo asked me what it was- Me being the mean mother who wont give her kid gum, said " I dont know".

Then when she was chatting with her chitha, one of his friends came on the screen and he was chewing gum. Miss Madam looks at it and asks me " Amma , grass la vandhala andha baby per yenna?" ( whats the name of the baby who came with us on the grass( lawn)?

I said " Abigail" and Aghoo says " aah! correct. Abigail maari indha uncle sapidara".. ROTFL!

Today was her school's halloween parade too. Somehow, seeing her  walk in a straight line, with her hands behind her back - made me teary eyed..She is still a little baby and she has these wild tantrums at home- how tamed she looked at school.Our culture is such that kids are suppressed and made to follow orders at such a young age.I dont think there is an alternative to this , given how our society functions and it is even good in many ways.. It just makes me sad to see MY baby like that.

Anyways, all her classmates screamed because they wanted to go to their parents.. Little minnie mouse was smiling and posing for the camera and generally happy. She was intent on collecting the goodies that parents were handing out.

Just stay as you are baby- Cheerful and happy!

Octoberfest

Lot of events happening in october. Aghoo/ Dada and I took a trip as a family after a long time to Monterrey.
Aghoo pappa had so much fun at the beach and the aquarium.. She was THRILLED by the fact that we were staying in a " bye bye home" ( hotel) for a night. The only thing she hated was being strapped to the car seat. She screamed all the way back.Since we walk to/from school, she has lost the habit of sitting in the car seat and screams every time.We have decide that we will fight that battle when we come back from India.

We went to a dandia with V& V - Aghoo was dressed up in  a chaniya choli and wore one of my jhimkis even. So cute!
Unfortunately, by the time we finished dinner and reached the dandia place, she was too sleepy to do too much dancing :)

We also went to a pumpkin patch - again the only glitch was madam screaming in the car seat. She loved the tractor ride and climbing the hay stack.
Aside:-I got her a little cars themed umbrella yesterday and she says" just like tractor uncle"- one of the fathers in the tractor was holding a similar umbrella! I cant believe she remembered it !

Today was her school's pumpkin patch- all the little kids look so cute walking in a line holding hands and picking their own pumpkin :)

Tomorrow is her schools Halloween parade- cant  wait to see all her friends.She will be a minnie mouse.
I bought this wig for myself to attempt to dress up as Daenerys Targaryen.. She had soo much fun playing with it.. :)

Have fun little baby :)

Ava's surprrrrrrrrrrrrrise

Since Ava is getting married in about a month, I started to plan a bridal shower for her about 1.5 months ago.
It started as a single email that I sent to her friends asking for available dates. Two of her friends - S&N, got soo enthu and planned the whole thing- including an awesome flash mob :)

It was a lot of fun keeping everything secret till the last minute- especially my amma who wanted to let Ava know and did not like the idea of a surprise :)

The party was to be on sunday morning. Ava's hyper enthu friends landed at home on Saturday evening. We practiced dancing( yes ! I did too) late into the night. Aghoo had lot of fun playing with all the mamas and aunties and loved the attention.

Finally, when the moment came, it was a complete surprise to Ava.We sang, dances, narrated their story ate cake and had so much fun.Achu also proposed-on one knee no less and complete with a solitaire- not that Ava had a choice in the answer :)

All in all - a fun and fulfilling weekend and party.Like Aghoo says" thirpi surprise pannalam".
When the party was done, Aghoo went to nap and everyone left. When she woke up she kept saying - "yellaraiyum call pannu ma. come panna sollu" .. poor baby :(. She saw that the decorations were still there and thought that the party was still on :(.

 Now, Ava will leave for India in 2 days and I dont know how Aghoo ( and us) is going to cope :(:(.. stay strong baby girl!

Conversations with Aghoo

Amma:- Aghoo , sit on your high chair. Time to eat
Aghoo:- Amma , I sit on dis chair ( pointing to the regular dining chair) appa dhan " style" a irukum !!

The cleaning lady has pushed out her crib from our bed( which  usually is right next to our bed). She takes a look at it and tells her dada

" Dada- fix pannu Riya bed. illati Riya babal vizhuva..lips big oww aagum". The back story is that , the last time cleaning lady did this, I was lazy and did not push her bed back into position . She jumped from her bed to ours, fell down and got a deep cut below her lip :P.

On having a pee pee accident

" dada- sorry dada. Fast a pee pee come panniduchu. yaya panniten" . Ofcourse that melts the said dada :)

She threw up twice on saturday night and was ok on sunday.So, she wakes up on monday morning and tell me

Aghoo-"Amma . No school today. Ok?"
Amma- Why baby?
Aghoo- because nethikiu naan blah ( her term for vomit) panninene. yenaku oww.

Amma-ok.Doctor ta polama?
Aghoo- illa. Dada magic panni fix pannuva.( every time she falls down , we do " one two three magic!!" to " fix" it ;)). Aparam naan home la irupen. Lots of icecream sapiduven.

Aghoo( to dada):- nee oww fix pannitu office po. Amma and Ava and Riya home la ice cream sapiduva. Not for you dada :P

Dada:- " yen da?I also want icecream"
Aghoo:- ok. Office poi ice cream sapidu !!:P