Simple pleasures of childhood

Wearing Pink sunglasses

Making Strawberry muffin with amma

Looking at Airplanes

Getting your nails painted

Relishing a chicken drum stick :)

Riding a toy go cart

 Playing on the street sprinkler

 

 

Learning to use chopsticks from a nice Vietnamese aunty- who  is also the owner of the restaurant.

Playing in your own little pool in the patio

Eating Strawberry icecream stick!

My little big girl

I know I shouldn't be jinxing this too soon and all that- but I am incredibly proud of my little munchkin.

So, as a follow up to the potty training mentioned in the last post, we sent her to school without diapers for the very FIRST time yesterday. I was expecting atleast 2-3 accidents and send 3 sets of clothes with her.

GUESS WHAT, nothing! nada! she told the teachers every time she had to go ( 4 times, if you are interested) and was actually coming back from the rest room when I went to pick her up.

Fingers crossed that this good streak will continue and no regression will happen!

Love is

When the husband tries to surprise wife by buying her favorite lunch - mutton biryani- from aachi aapa kadai on a sunday...

only glitch?

Wife tries to surprise husband on the SAME day by making shrimp biryani and chicken fry at home !!!

Result? we have been eating biryani for the past 3 meals.. nope.. no complaints !

Happenings

Last weekend being labor day weekend, we went to Lake Tahoe with friends and their parents.

Aghoo, Amma and Dada left on friday at 2 pm, since we wanted to take advantage of miss madam's nap time. She was so excited to go to the " beach" that she was in her best behavior :)The evil parents that we are- we fully capitalized it and used for for almost a week to her to finish her lunch and dinner, go pee pee / poo poo etc :P

The drive , which should have taken us 3 hrs, took 7 hrs!! Poor Aghoo was exhausted- but I was so proud of her for co operating so well. She napped for almost 3 hrs (!!), woke up and was really thrilled by all the junk food I was offering her to keep her happy.We then played the colors game ( I name a color and she finds an object with that color) for some time, did puzzles, colored.All that junk food make her throw up once w hit the mountains - poor baby. Thankfully, we were only 40 min from Tahoe and made it there without more incidents :).

She thoroughly enjoyed the beach, sand, water and loved the " beach home". For the 3 days that we were here, she was so happy  every morning when she would wake up and find herself in the beach home. Our friends parents thoroughly spoiled her too.

She was so sad to say by to beach home  when we had to head back :( and has been asking to go back there everyday.

The drive back was also long - almost 8 hrs. Aghoo handled so well as well. I restricted the amount of junk food in fear of her throwing up again - but we managed to entertain her and got home without any major incident or tantrum :)

This weekend we decided it was high time we made the transition to underwear - she has been in pull ups for almost 2 months now.
Aghoo was soooooo pround of herself- She has been doing no.2 in the potty for almost 4 months now ( consistently). No.1 is the big issue- She went to school in pull ups today, but her teacher thinks we can send her in underwear tomorrow! Fingers crossed !
She only had one accident over the weekend- otherwise, she either told us that she needs to go to the potty or we have taken her every 1- 1.5 hrs.
This morning though- she did not want to wear underwear to school and insisted on a pull up. I think she is still insecure about school and doesn't feel comfortable telling her teachers that she needs to go potty.

So, this morning she was happy to go to school ( she was excited to take her backpack with her) and happily went to off to her Miss Rama. I made the mistake of lingering a bit- because I wanted to talk to her teacher about potty training. Since she saw me lingering, she started to cry piteously when I was leaving.. :( my poor little baby- broke my heart. She said " I am sad .. I don't want  school. (lets )Go home amma"...

I really hope she gets used to school and starts being the cheerful child that she was in day care..
Love you Aghoo baby..

Like I was telling dada yesterday, sometimes, I am overwhelmed by the amount of love I feel for you... I cannot fathom loving another child, like I love you .. ( if and when I have another child i.e.). Your dada, being the more practical one, assures me that I was be gushing the same way with our second one too :P

Meet The little Diva

See how we are all dressed up ? " New new" dress and "neckase" ( necklace) courtesy Ava ( Divya).
Today is picture day at school. She got all excited and dressed up this morning. Only glitch- she refused to let me pull down her leggings and wanted to wear them bunched ( like in the pic).What ever makes her happy I guess :)

When I dropped Ms. Aghoo at school today. for the first time, she went in without a whimper! Hallelujah! Its been exactly 1 month since she started school.

Special thanks to "liss yama" ( Miss Rama) who came to Aghoo and said" wow you look so pretty today. Nice necklace" . Madam walked off to her to show off her necklace :)

The school will send individual portraits of the kids, which we can choose to buy. They also posted a class pic on their FB page

As you can see, the leggings have been un- bunched, but the hair band is gone ! Sigh!
Heres to more happy pictures at school and other wise , my baby!!

Logic

So, my dad doesnt wear a shirt when he is at home. Most days ,when he face times with Aghoo, he is wearing just a lungi and no shirt. Its a game between Aghoo and her thatha - Aghoo always says " thatha dress podalaaaaaaaaaaaaa" and my dad replies " yes ma.. thatha bad boy " :)
This morning, she was telling my dad about our impending lake tahoe trip .

Aghoo:- " Daddy thatha, naan beach poren. anga toys irukum. Lots of aimals ( animals) varum. Zebra eat pannum (?!!)"

Daddy thatha:- " naanum varen da.. yennaiyum kootitu poriya?"

Aghoo thinks for a bit and says " nee va. Aaana dress podanum ok? good boy pannanum. Jacket podanum "

ROTFL!

Last night HD had a work dinner and came home only after Aghoo went to sleep.
When I was trying to brush her teeth before going to sleep ,she was cranky and wouldnt let me.

So , When she was ready for her bed time story book, I instead told her a story how Cindy baby( imaginary character that I use to teach her lessons via stories) refused to bush her teeth and she got " lots of big big poochis" in her teeth and had to go to the doctor.

After listening to the story, Aghoo said " Naan good girl ma. Brush panniten". I asked her " appram why did you trouble amma and fight with me to brush your teeth?". She said " I want my dada amma! adhan cry panninen" . Needless to say the said Dada was pool of mush when he heard the story last night..

Weekend tales

I know it mid week already- but better late than never I guess?

This past weekend was a lot of fun. On friday, we met up with my friend Sri and family who were leaving for India- Little Aghoo and Sahana kutties had loads of silly fun! Sumptuous meal at Amber, Palo Alto followed by yummy desert at this place called "Paris" - awesome end to the evening.

On saturday, we had people (Sakthi and his wife) coming over for dinner. I started cooking in the morning, so that I dont have to give up my nap time ;).I made yummy veggie salna, parotta, palak paneer and jeera rice. Aghoo was her usual charming self and entertained the guests thoroughly.

On sunday, dada and Param uncle had made lot of plans and preparations for a bbq in the park.So, we set out at around 12.30 to the park, where we met with Vijay and Sangeetha( our good friends).
There was a lot of food that we gorged on - chicken, veggies, corn, veggie skewers,lots of appetizers,almond pie( YUM!) , hummus , salsa, juice, wine etc.Aghoo had a great time- because she could go to the play area as many times as she wanted and we also went on a " row row row a boat ";) (paddle boat) in the lake. Lots of fun was had..

Aghoo did not want to leave Vj mama and Sange aunty.

We came home and crashed- exhausted. Little Aghoo while going to sleep tells me " Sakthi mama ( from 2 days ago!) black shirt potirunda. Ashwini aunty purple dress and black pant potirunda!" wow! wat memory!!

My little baby!