More Aghooisms

Picture this-
HD is travelling on work. I am going crazy trying to cook lunch / get Aghoo to brush her teeth / fill her bottles / clean vessels- all at once.

I am unusually ( erm.. usually?) cranky trying to hurry things up t get to work for a meeting. Miss Madame is taking her sweet time to eat her eggs and milk. I give her a stern warning "amma thirumbi varadhukulla 2 big aas ( mouth fuls) sapitirukanum- ok?" and I rush back to the stove to check on the sambar.

30 sec later a little voice pipes up " What you doing amma? Angry?" What choice do I have but to ROTFL?!

10 min later..I am again angry with her because she wont finish her eggs- so I give her noodles. She goes " Amma angry?" and I say " Yes Aghoo I am angry. You did not finish your eggs" ..She says " Amma see". I turn back and I see this WIDE fake smile :P.. What can I do but ROTFL?! And I laugh,, she says " Amma angry?" and I have to say " No baby I am not angry :P".

10 more minutes later. I am trying to rush her upstairs to take her bath - and we are already very late. She is dilly-dallying again and I get angry and shout( :( I know- bad mommy shouts!). She follows me to the bath room and when I trying to get her clothes ready, she climbs on my lap, hugs me and says "Amma angry?"

 She definitely knows how to pacify me - I she is much better than HD :P

Lately, she is fascinated with colors..I think , much to my dismay, her favorite color is " Gween" :P. This is karma for all those years when I said I hate green :(.

Aghooisms

Miss Aghoo's verbal skill are developing by leaps and bounds..

She is very much into identifying colors right now. So any object is an opportunity to play the color game.She goes " idhu yenna" with a very tapori accent to ask for the color- its incredibly funny :)

She loves to meet other babies- only unless they stay away from her amma and dada though. Poor little Kitty got lectures on friday about being  " yaya"( not clean).Kitty baby , the sweetie pie, came to me as soon as I called him and Miss Aghoo had to make a scene and make me carry her.

She does still have her OCD about cleaning up any mess. She has a small napkin that she hangs from her toy kitchen's oven door ( just like the real one!) and will clean up any mess the minute its made.Sometime I think she loves cleaning so much, that she makes messes only to clean up ( a la Monica ?)

She is very diligent about saying  thank you  (shank you :) ) and "you are welcome". If she says thank you to you, she wont let you be until you say " you are welcome"- a good thing I think :).

She is definitely not very generous with her " sorry" though- especially to people other than me ( dada and ava). I have to coax her and threaten her to say sorry.

Her " Violet" gets the brunt of her anger and her affections- Violet is frequently given time outs and hugged frequently too :)

I know I should record more of her chronicles here- should try to be regular..

Airport Musings

1) Dear Lady with the toddler,
I know the look you have- that wistful look when you are watching a couple of teenagers talking to each other, while your child is running amok all over the gate. You will get there one day. I promise.

2) Dear dad of teenagers,
You want to be included in the conversation that your children are having. You keep trying and they keep ignoring you. Sigh. You look at the toddler with such longing...Dont worry. Wait till they are in their 20s. All they will want to do is talk to you.

3) Dear old couple holding hands,
I want to be like you one day. Graceful/ yet smart. You are both reading on your kindle /ipad and holding each other's hands. There is a distinct familiarity and a look of content on your faces. I hope we get there some day.

4)Dear mid aged lady in the inappropriate clothes,
Grow up- those clothes are definitely not for you.Wear something appropriate and you will look much more elegant.

5) Dear lady with a cold,
There are kids running around- please close your mouth when you sneeze!

6)Dear guy sitting next to me with you iphone,
I am just people watching- I am NOT interested in reading your stupid work- related emails. I have 100s of those in my inbox !!

7) Dear toddler,
You are beautiful and such a joy-even though your parents may not tell you this enough( I know I don't tell mine enough). You remind me of my own baby waiting for me at home :)

2011-The year that was and HOLIDAYS!!

This year has been one HE$$ of a roller coaster for us.

The High-s
1) Little Aghoo turned one year old- became a toddler ( boo hoo) :)
2) She started to walk / talk and order us around.
3) My dad's visit and him spending time with my aghoo baby.
4) Learning to manage family/ work/ baby all by ourselves...
5) Our bitter sweet India trip- Aghoo's first trip to India . She had a blast with various chithis/chitappas/thathas and pattis
6)Aghoo's chitha( chitappa) got engaged!
7)HD's dad's visit.
8) Friends and family- as always..


The Low-s
Well -there was a huge low that basically was the biggest of them all. Aghoo lost her beloved patti. :( No words..


Now, coming to our Vacation..

Aghoo / Dada and amma are all set to go to- ME-HI-CO!! o yeah baby.. Cabos , here we come. We are going to a beach resort for 5 days . I know Aghoo will have a blast- because she loves water and anything to do with this.CANT. WAIT.


Here is to hoping that next year will be a little less taxing on our family and filled with more happy memories ( chitha's kalyanam to start with !!).

I wanted to write a few words for Aghoo's patti in heaven..

Dear aunty,
I know that you are somewhere out there watching out for us. I just want you to know that we all love and miss you.Aghoo papa prays to you everyday ( of course you know this) before she goes to sleep.Please watch over us.
I wish you did not have to leave so early- but I am sure God had his own reasons for his actions.
Your legacy lives on through little Aghoo- for she is a splitting image of you !


Happy 2012 folks!

Aghoo's OCD

1) when she puts her lovey-violet the doggie- to sleep, the little hand towel she uses as a sheet CANNOT have any creases. If it does,she will not just straighten the crease, but she will first odharify it( don't know word in English) a couple of times and place it carefully on the floor.

2) When she goes to sleep, the bed room door HAS to be closed.

3)when she goes to sleep, she should switch the fan on.Also both the green and red lights on the fan should be ON. The red light indicates speed and the green light indicates timer. So , if we switch off the timer and she sees that the green light is off- even in the middle of the night- she will get off the bed and go switch it on.

- we have a remote for the fan and we evil parents switch off the green light all the time to watch her irritation;)

4) there is a pink sheet under her high chair to catch all the mess- she won't eat if the sheet is folded even slightly. It has to be perfectly crease free!

5)Any spills or "ya ya "s need to be cleaned immediately by Amma. She won't leave me alone until I clean whatever mess is bothering her. Most times she herself will try to clean it with a dish rag:)

Aghooisms

Aghoo is so into books right now *preen*. She loves bringing her oob (LOL- thats what she calls books :)).
So, this morning, she got frightened by the cooker's whistle . I was trying to distract her and asked her to bring a book. She brought this one.we get to the last page, where the books says the baby bird lives with its family. Here is how the conversation goes.

Amma:- In the baby bird's home, it lives with its amma bird and dada bird.

Aghoo- yeah  which is her favorite word right now :)

Amma:- So who lives in Aghoo's home?

Aghoo:- Ava, Amma, Dada and Cuckerrrrrrrrrrrrr ( cooker ) LOL!


Aghoo's language

oob- book
pa mum- banana
Pashta- pasta
ooooof- juice :)
appai- apple/ or any fruit that looks like it - pear etc
gape- grapes
ssheeeesh- cheese
jojo- take a bath
bardie- birdie
mleow- meow/ cat
vow vow- row row row a boat :)
all thu town- wheels on the bus song

There are many many more things and songs and Aghooisms- which I cant seem to recall right now :(.
Aghoo's dada is India on business ( grrrrrrrrrrrrr) and we are both missing him a lot. We can DEFINITELY be pacified with material gifts though- just saying :)
Aghoo papa woke up screaming for dada this morning :(:(..

For you UD

Dear most UD

It is not fair that I live so many many miles away from you.Where did that promise of "moving to the US at least for a short while" go ?
I hate the fact that I haven't seen you since May 2008 ( thank God for official India trip :)).I soooooooooooooooo hate the fact that I wont be seeing you this year when I come down to India either ( don't burn me- I will explain over phone).

You know what I hate most? That my Aghoo hasn't met her aunt UD yet and I wont be meeting your little panda anytime soon. Not fair at all!

When I need you most, when I want to talk to you ( like the last couple of days)- mundane things like time difference and work come in between us and I let the moment pass. When I finally wrap up my chores for the day and think about calling you, your work day has already begun. Its not fair you know!

I just wanted to write this for you - because I feel terribly guilty that I wont be visiting you and more importantly - your panda this time :(

There is always hope for a next time- illa?

Love,
me


PS:- my other blog is dead - so writing in this one..