More rangoli, greeting card and plants

Adhu has a real LOVE for plants...loves to water it, touch it, feel it feels elated when they grow.. she comes running to us saying 'i have a good news, see the flowers....'

Then rangoli...she can keep on doing it....

Then arts and crafts... can do painting on and on....

This is a greeting card made for het echu chithi....who gave is extremely dear to her, both are somewhat similar in their likes and dislikes even features. Eswari,amma's bro'd daughter is frequent guest and loves to spend time with Adhu, not missed any of her birthday's and engages her so nicely..Thank u echu, i always longed to have a sis...ur certainly filling it up...

Two leggy lasess....

Oxymorons

We got a new laptop and hence a renewed update to my blog with promises of loads of posts....

Let me get started with Advitha's oxymorons:

Advitha was playing with her fevicol bottle and spilled quite a bit

Me: Adhu dont spill, you seem to be wasting quite a bit
Adhu: No ma , i spilled only lil lots of it!!.....

Well!!only kids can speak like this....'lil lots of it!!'..jus hoping i get to see more and more of her kiddy talks like this..

Cousin love

Read it somewhere and i can't just help a post on it potraying the effects on my daughter
"Cousins are a person's first friend, nobody understands ur crazy family as you and your cousins do"

When it comes to cousins, Advitha instantly relates it to Jonah, her first cousin and athai's son. She has stayed with him for a couple of weeks, played,bathed, went out and slept along with him and had tremondous fun. she took the role of 'akka' immediately at ease with the boy.

In the past couple of weeks, she has been saying that she wants to celebrate Jonah's second birthday in bangalore at her home calling all her friends, not considering the fact that the boy is comfortably settled with his parents in the US of A!!!.......But considering her memory power, donno how i will convince her.....but i jus hope this love for cousin stays put even as she grows and gets sulked in her own world and likes...................

All about azhagu rani

Well a conked laptop made me totally cut off from my blogworld. But thanks to my MIL!s iPad my blog is getting renewed life again So many things happened.

•  A lovely wedding a srirangam

  Adhu kutty was the first to climb the 1000 steps and reach the top. This brat really has some power i should say...

• Diwali celebrations. Adhu nicely bursted crackers. In the night we had a spectacular view of the cracker celebrations in my apartment

                                                   Her thatha admirning her antics

•  Come December, it was the month of holidays for Adhu, her vanaja paati was their for most of the time and they spent their time making colorful rangoli's , dressing up, puzzles and of course lots and lots of Chota bheem

Adhu is so atypical of me..i).Loves to do rangoli all the day (special mention of her vanajai paati who involves her with rangoli deisgns...not any flower designs, its elephant one day, lion the other, christams tree, doggies rangoli..etc..hehehehehe ii) then loves to wear flowers..iii) wear lots of bangles..hmpf.pretty high maintanence..)

•  Adhu is becoming big on talks, sometimes kiddish , sometimes wise and sometimes too matured and snobbish. Like ethe other day when I lost my phone

Adhu: amma you have lost your phone.?
Me: yes dear. It has very important contacts. I don't know what I wil do
Adhu: amma, oh no!my drawing class mam said she wil message about the class.

I just couldn't help rolling eyes and thinking of the proverb 'avan avanuku avan kavalai' Then the other day she went to a drop -in birthday party. She was there for two full hours. I just couldn't sit at home. When I went to pick her up,her freindsmom was in all praise for her story telling, dancing et al.. Hmmm!so I understood her tantrums are all reserved for home...good in many ways

                                                     All set for drop-in bday party
                                                 
 Dressing up God! She dresses up a lot. Always wanted to decked up with chutti, chain, lipstick, kolusu, bangles and not to mention her change of dresses for only 6 times a day! But what will she do? She just does not have a good company to play with. I hope she gets a BFF soon !!!!god!why didn't you bless me with twins!!!!

Big gal's inncoent question

Today afternoon, the dialogue went like this:
After a susu session:
Adhu: Amma i want to remove my kundi
Me: What, what are your saying?
Adhu: Amma i want to remove it
Me: Its your body part Adhu ,why do you want to remove it?
Adhu: No mumma , always susu and cacca, its boring, thats why want to remove it
We went in splits again...Hahahaha..what an innocence!!!

Fourth birthday celebrations

After the flop show in the third birthday, we took extra care during her fourth one. we started planning days ahead. Advitha was such a sport in giving us ideas about organizing things, distributing the birthday party cards, came along with us to all the places for the tiring birthday shopping

We got a nice party frock with a crown

Main highlight: Arranged for a Tatoo guy. The kids went berserk with the tatoos and each one left with atleast 3 tatoos. Not to mention, Adhu was the first one to get tatooed

Kids flaunting their tatoos

Food was the highlight- we ordered muffins, chips, veg puffs and topped it with a yum pav bhaji (made at home), juice and yummy yummy choclate cake

                              Few yummy mummies enjoying the food

Cake cutting: was really sweet. Neighbour Sudha aunty entertained us with good songs. the highlight was my MIL viewing it in ipad from US

bday party is live relayed to MIL (in ipad)

Cake cutting

Games: Me and ARvind organized two games. A paper dance and pinning the tail. Though the paper dance was a bummer due to the sound levels of the kids, pinning the tail was a huge sucess

Adhu kutty enjoyed the party thoroughly. This time i made it a point only to invite kids of Adhu's age, so she was surrounded by only her friends which made her doubly happy. She and 3 other kids won pinning the tail and i correctlt had only 3 prizes (still a poor organizer). Adhu sported it easily and behaved good as a gold throughout the party.

It was such a fun to organize events for the lil kids (nay darlings!) All kids were well behaved and it was such a pleasure.

Strong dialogues..smart dialogues of Adhu

Adhu is extremely busy this navratri wearing all colourful pavadai's, going around the apartment with bama paati to the beautifully set Durgama pandal and navratri golu in my apartment. So it was the day of saraswati puja and the dialogue went like:
Me: Adhu, wake up amma, today is saraswati puja, u 'll have to keep ur books in front of god
Adhu: No mummy, my books will all get spoiled if i keep it there
Me: (little surprised, as i did not expect this kind of answer): Adhu, no, u should keep ur books and get blessings from God, then only u can study nicely
Adhu: But mumma, i am studying nicely only!!
The way she said cutely, i seriously let her away!!!

The otherday, we were seeing dasavathram movie and Adhu say the last scene where Tsunami hit the shores. Adhu with a serious face asked me what it was! And me being the person I am with her now explaining all big stuff to her, told 'its Tsunami where the waves in the sea will rise to big heights and destroy the city, with the added information of how it attacked Chennai'. She was immediate in revert, 'Mummy, in bangalore there is no sea, so there will be no Tsunami na!! Me and Arvind was stunned and surprised for a minute.God bless her sharpness and just hope she carries it forward!!

         During navratri