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

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!!