Aghooisms and updates

Aghoo is starting to pick up a lot of English these days . Her primary language is Tamil.

Everyday I ask her how her day was and she always goes " Good" . She usually references herself as "Iya " and has recently started transitioning to "I/Me/Mine" . Yesterday, when i asked her how she was, she said " I fine"!!
She was eating ice cream and she spontaneously says " I like it amma" :)
Her day care provider's father is an old man who walks with a walking stick.She made a walking stick at home by stacking 3 markers and walks around the house saying " like thatha ":):)

Yesterday we had another first of the not-so-nice kind.She fell down from the bed and hit her mouth on the crib. She had a small tear inside her lip and a laceration on the chin.She cried quiet a bit when she saw the blood. She cried even more when we took her to the doctor.

Since HD is travelling, he panicked a bit when he heard the news. When he called my sister to video chat with Aghoo, apparently he teared up on seeing his precious daughter..

** start digression**
Let me record the fact that this guy did not shed a single tear when I, his wife gave birth to his precious daughter-- without taking any anesthesia or pain killers. One measly cut on his precious daughter and the water works open???

**end digression**

So, anyway, at the end of the day, when Aghoo was video chatting with my dad ( her daddy thatha)- she was retelling him the whole story of how she fell down , took her to the doc etc etc. She finishes by saying " riya come home.. dada ipad ( i came home and talked to dada on the ipad).. dada CRY!!!" ROTFL.. She is not going to let him forget this..

She is gong to be starting montessori school in August and I am so nervous for my baby!!

Every night , before going to sleep , she says her prayers ( ramaskanda), then I have to say this whole thing to her where everyone she knows love her.. it goes like this..

Amma loves you
Dada loves you
Ava loves you ( my sis)
Ashu loves you ( my Bil to be)
Chitha loves you ( Hd's bro)
Chithi loves you ( Hd's bro's wife)
Daddythatha loves you ( my dad)
Ammapalya loves you ( my mom)
Appathatha loves you ( hd's dad)
Ummachi palya love you ( hd's mom.. she is ummachi ( God) so ummachi palya)

 and so on .. all her friends, our friends , some times things she will " how abt vacuum?" or how about " blue chair"  and I have to say " vacuum loves you ... blue chair loves you" :):)

We all love you baby.. very much..

So, Whats Aghoo upto?

Since this blog is supposed to be about her and all, I should be chronicling her..

She talks.No - she actually has an answer for every question.She answers questions that aren't even posed to her.I cant believe that the wee little baby of mine has starting spewing so many words and that she has independent thoughts :)

Scene -1
She sees my dad on web cam.He isn't wearing a shirt - only a lungi ;) [ aside- i dont think i can find too many pictures of my dad from my chilhood where he is wearing a shirt :P]

She says " thatha puppy shame. shirt podaliye"
!!
Then she says " thatha- fufu ( hot) iruka? ..shirt podaliye?" ROTFL

Scene 2
We are in the process of potty training her , leading to many many hilarious comments/ scenes.

She comes home from day care and I tell her,
"Aghoo, pee pee time . va bath room polam". She says
" No thank you amma" !!!

Then when she has done the big job in the potty. She says -

"poo poo swim swim pannudu ma" :P I know disgusting!

Scene 3
We are driving home in the car from day care and she is sitting in her car seat .I am telling her something and she doesn't understand what I am saying.
She says " Turn around panni sollu ma"!!


Scene 4
She knows that I have back ache and we have been telling her that that I cant carry her because of that.
Everyday she will ask me if my back ache "mug ow" ( mug= mudhugu and ow= pain) is better. If I say , yes, she will say " appo carry pannu ma"!!

Scene 5
We went to the mall to take professional pictures. There was an animal adoption thingie going on. There were lots of cats and dogs that made Aghoo's day.

So she says " Amma, look! cat!! dog!!
" Yes Aghoo !"
" 1 ,2 cat dog ma" (1,2 = many many in her diction)
" yes baby"
she thinks for a little bit and says " old mac donald had a farm?" ROTFL!

Jerry Sandosky case..

My God! my blood boils when I read about some of the things the witnesses went through. They were children.Under privileged children at that!

The kind of things that they have to actually tell and also prove to a bunch of strangers in a court room. My heart goes out to these kids..

BURN IN HELL YOU A*******

Attempts at Fiction - 1

My attempts- at fiction (;))

She:-hey, why did u call me and hang up?

He- nenapu.. I Mis- dialed.

S-0h..

H- did u want me to call u?

S- no

H- ok. I won't call?

S- No!!!

H- sigh.. Seri Vidu.. What r u upto?

S- nothing.. Hostel common room la iruken.. Need to start studying for tomm.. Potuma?

H- study later. What r u wearing?

S- red salwar

H- with the green pants? Adhu doesn't suit u..

S- hmph!! When did u notice me? Née  dhan yepodum Shilpa va dhane pape?

H- how do u know? Does that mean u r always noticing me?

S- Poda.. Ask ur friends not to shout ur name every time I enter the class room..

H- then why do u smile( slighta) when they shout?

S-No I don't!

H- fine.. Canteen poviya evening?

S- probably... Nee?

H- nah!! Velila poren

2 hrs later

S-so how long were u waiting for me in the canteen?

H- who said I was waiting for u?? Chumma vanden... Yedhuku sari kattitu vande?

S- Chumma.. Yen??

H- u looked cute:)

S- adada compliment lam thare? R u drunk?

H- illadi..seri ippo yena Padika poriya?

S- amam- u better study for a little bit bfor u go out..

H- serida..... See u tomm?

S- k. Bye

2 hrs later

H- hey?

S- hmm?

H- padikariya?

S- trying. Née?

H-velila poga poren

S- ok..

H- I wanna see u...

S- ippava???

H- pinna? 5 yrs kazhicha? Ipa dhan!!

S- r U kidding me?time is9 pm

H- seri varadhey.. Am going out . Bye

S- kochikadhey da....

 30 min later

H- y did u come?

S- oh! I had to make an international call.. So phone booth vanden..

H- nambiten

S- Poda!

H- hey

S-  hmm?

H- thanks da chellam

S-:) ..paathu Po .. Don't get drunk?

H- seri da.. Sleep tight ..

S- :)

Going under

Made the blog Private.
Its not like I am a huge celebrity and people are dying to track me down. Its just that the past few days, I think of writing something, then I am afraid it will be read by someone i know (outside of this group ofcourse)...

Hope to write more..

Aghoo's fun weekend !

Aghoo had a  fun weekend this week.


Friday
I left early from work and went to pick up Aghoo. Dada was assigned the boring task of grocery shopping. Since we eat out on friday evenings, I did not have to rush home to make dinner. We pass our city's lake and its attached park everyday on our way home from day care. Poor Aghoo asks to go to the park everyday. So, we went on friday and had a fun time playing. Our  friend V mami decided to join us and more fun was had.

We then met up with our old friends- T aunty and S uncle. V mami and V mama decided to join us as well and more fun was had :) . Awesome food at PF changs!

Saturday
We woke up and spoke over facetime to daddy thatha and P patti ( my parents) .S aunty had invited us to her house for lunch. V mama/ V mami and Pamai joined us for lunch too. S aunty's mom and Mil are here currently and they made AMAZING food- which was hogged shamelessly by all of us.
Here is the amazing menu

beans parupu usili- Amma and Aghoo's favorite!!
Aviyal
Vengaya sambar
pine apple rasam
curd rice
aval pongal

Coming to dessert, it actually was a surprise birthday party for me- so yummilicious cup cakes was served!Again, stuffed our faces.

Then came the fun part for Aghoo. H-san and S-aunty set up a bouncy house in their backyard . Aghoo pappa and S pappa had sooo much fun. All the thatha/patties/ Ava/ mama/ mamis also joined the fun.

For dinner, we went to one of my  relative- V chithi's place. Their little baby , baboo is the cutesttttt!!!
She is one year old - Aghoo had lot of fun playing with baboo baby too. Another awesome dinner cooked by V chithi's mnom- parata/aloo- patani sabzi, dal, poli . YUM!

We then came home exhausted and slept till 9 am in the morn.

Sunday
Woke up and lazed around.Begged/cajoled Aghoo in to eating little bit of cereal and milk.
We had VJ mama and S mami ( our friends ) coming home for lunch. So we made the following

Egg Fried rice and chicken curry ( made by amma)
Egg masala( made by Ava)
Raita( made by dada).

This was also the day we decided to leave Aghoo diaper free , in hopes of the starting the potty training battle (!). After 3 accidents in the living room, it was close to lunch time- we gave up and dada took Aghoo to give her a shower and put a diaper on her :(. Need to resume next weekend.

Vj mama and S mami came and played a lot with Aghoo papa.They also brought yummy sweets from a new Indian place. After they left,Aghoo and amma slept for 3 hrs :).
Dada then took Aghoo to the neighborhood park and amma made Rava dosai and thengai chutney.
We then went off to lala land .

All in all, a good weekend for Aghoo and all of us :)

The one in which she sings

Aghoo loves to sing- though she doesnt get all the words right, she will confidentley sing her own version. Here are some samples.

Barney's I love you song- I love you, mee na tu ..and then some gibberish.
this old man- Thish ol man, thish ol man, this ol man( in the correct tune )!!
one / two , buckle my shoe- one , two, masha koo,thee four, that the doo :)
kannazhaga- kaaalaaga, kaaaalaga( also imitates shruti's voice, by singing this in a high pitched false voice).

She also loves to wave her hand to kannazhaga..learnt this form one of our friends:).She gets in the car and says"amma no koveri ( kolaveri) ok? want kaaaalaaga"

The other day we were waiting at a signal on our way to day care. She saw a doggie and the doggie started to walk. She says

" Hi Doggie
Gu morning Doggie
no coming doggie (  i.e. dont move)
akka pannu ( sit down)
gu girl pannu ( be a good girl)
 (and the doggie kept moving so,)
see you in the morning Doggie"

She is also such a girlie- girl. Loves to dress up in " nu nu dress" , wear " 1 ,2 clip" or sometimes " 1,2 kumini ( kudumi). She also wears her sun glasses and chooses her own shoes :)

She will preen in front of the mirror for at least 10 min everyday.