ipad,smart phone,Adhu

ipad slowly made its way to our home...it belongs to my SIL which is now with my MIL...and Advitha has now got  a good grasp of the touch features  of ipad..thanks to our frequent visits to Chennai and MIL,Jonah's visit here for a couple of weeks...

Advitha now easily identifies the aplications with its logo, loves the drawing ,colouring application ,listens to songs...all without any of our help....that has slowly developed her interests in her papa's smartphone...now she prefers her papa's smartphone to draw,play games....and not to mention the deft with which she uses the touch features....amazing...kids these days...:)

The other night...when i was fast asleep...she was all with the smartphone...completely oblivious of me taking the snap as welll and this is what i saw....

Jonah,3 paati's ,Adhu ....in blore

one kid did not sleep properly,one kid not eat properly,toys strewn around the house,house full of talks, no time to sie....but at the end..it was fun, frolicking fun....jonah (SIL's son),Adhu's vanaja paati (MIL),Adhu's kolla paati all three of them were here for 3 weeks and my mother and Advitha had amazing fun with the Chennai people....Adhu reluctantly went to the summer camp...did not got to drawing class and preferred to be with all the paati's and Jonah....

We took all of them to cubbon park,malls,restaurants and had good fun with them.....

Being with family is certainly fun ....i am happy that i was able to giveAdvitha pleasures of  a joint family.....

Eating habits at his heights.........

I feel ashamed and inexplicably bad to say this.....God has bestowed a cute baby doll who is soft as a  sponge...doesn't know what is hitting and beating....speaks a ton...and sings like a melodious bird...but what turns her into a brat the moment i/my mom/arvind  bring a plate to her?.....Yes,,, this is a girl who
--------does not have any likes in food category
--------even she dislike the food that she claims to be her in 'likes' list....am i confusing? yes i am confused here it is:
---she hates choclates, biscuits,cakes,any bread variety,oats,corn flake even icecream but for pink coloured ones
---hates khichdi,dosa,kanji,chapathi,dal even curd at times
--hates milk in any form
----hates fruits as well....
so what is left is only plain rice
so you name it 'she hates it'...even without seeing she says 'amma i don't like it'.....

she is just making all of our lives hell.....
-not because the kids around us that we move closely ,eat food by a ton
-not because i am deprived of any enjoyment in our travel,as most of the time is lost feeding her
-not because after five days of slogging ...my weekends are lost with most of time saying 'Advith sapdu'
-not because i need to answer questions of numerous people on her eating habits and hear gyan sessions from people who hav conviniently washed their hands off their kids....

But it is just that from the stage where i felt bad that she is not eating properly ...i have moved on to a stage where i am getting irritated and let her go off without food...and sometimes raising my hand as well.....a perfect example of bad parenting which i don't want to do .....or is it i am getting subjected to too much peer pressure ?... don't know...lets see how long it goes.......