Homework sagas....

Identifying words starting with 'a' sound.......horizontal,vertical lines......tracing numerical '1' and drawing an object representing the numerical...is also too much of load for both of us....every week she  receives 4-5 pages of homework (1 activity, 2 alphabets, 2 numericals)....making her do all the stuff at one go or in several dayparts is becoming tough......but still i feel its good in a way that parents get to know of whatz happening in the school......maintaining 'cool' while guiding her is one big task........

still this stage where i help her hold the pencil,,,guide her to read the alphabets aloud......feeling proud after she completed each pages...is relishable

Arvind gobbling up the cheese balls while the lil one slogs it off.....

Kindergarden stories

So Advitha entered her junior kg on June 7th...Time flies in a supersonic jet plane witth her busy school days keeping us tied up....Oh boy!!how much she loves her school....and i am strong to leverage it by stuffing heavy snacks (egg and any tiffin) in the morning and zroom!!!all 3 of us are ready by morning 8.30 with arvind half shaved-half tucked-wearing only socks and saving the shoes for the car.....me.....uncombed hair,just with the office dress and accesories with no breakfast and our doll.. ....all decked for her school..............

Junior kg is quite a job for us if not for her.....making her finish her homework in the weekends,sending her arts & crafts materials, washing her uniforms to make it look prim everyday...or like the recent one where we sent a bowl, bananas, ladle for her to make fruit salad at school......but just the fact that she is growing big and shez loving what shez doing makes life good......

and junior kg makes her smart as well...

Advitha often plays with another kid (nay baby) who is one year old....

Me: Adhu, i think you can play with kids elder to you....it would be more fun
Adhu: It's ok amma, i love that baby...
(need i say more,i shut my mouth)

Initially we got a bigger size T-shirt for her...and realized it after trying it on her...we decided to exchange it..

Me: Arvind ,i think we'll get the smaller size..this one is too lose for her
Adhu: It is ok ma...i am growing big na...it will fit me...
(ennnaku edhu thevaya)

Big fat wedding-Adhu's Aparna athai ties the knot

Its been a long time since i attended a two day full fledged wedding and i was keen that Adhu is also is a part of a complete wedding ceremony for her to enjoy the niceties it has to offer...We were blessed to attend one such .....Arvind's first cousin's wedding in chennai....A flamboyant grand one it was....Couple's Aparna and Harish looked their best and made one pretty pair....Highlights being...
-----Adhu being a Part of mehendi function
-----She enjoying the food..
-----Nice time with her best play date Riya
-----Changing of costumes.atleast thrice a day.we had also altered one of my best pavadai's,a pink coloured one that I got for uncle's marraige some 20 YEARS back, which adorned her to the T..
Though she was cranky here and there pestering us for a play area in the huge choultary...i am sure she had a nice time with the relatives

The pink coloured pavadai i was referring to

With Akash athai who dressed her up for the reception

Showing off her salwar

Her wonderful return gift---Thanks a lot Bindhu athai

summer holidays

It's so difficult to engage these highly energetic,demanding kids during the summer holidays...Apart from Jonah and her paati's visits, 2-week summer camp,a couple of chennai visits.the summer holidays went of well for Advitha...I tried adjusting my work schedules to be with her the most......

Playing with the dolls

Enjoying the intermittent sparing rain

Attending some functions

Arranging the dolls and putting them to sleep

Some laptop time for chota bheem,teletubbies,trains et al...