Advitha's latest fetish---panipuri and icecream

Adhu is loving her pani puri these especially the ones at puchkas and not to mentions icecreams at cornerhouse, goli vada pav (definitely not the vada pav but their gola blast icecream:}}

enjoying icecream with her friend

All about Akshaba

This is how we call Akshara. She is growing to be a voraciously independent girl. Its a bliss in many ways and ofcourse really painful in so many ways especially when she urges to eat every morsel all by herself.

The lil gal knows how to hold a pencil or sketchpen properly; gives the remote to put Baby TV; tells us who is who and of course does not talk much apart from the customary appa and amma. An out and out party girl she takes and gives her shoes to her father to put and take her out...babbles a lot; loves finger foods and the best is always wears a big smile at any part of the day....Love you baby

Eating egg by herself

Christmas holidays

For two weeks we were at home and it was mostly the three of us with Arvind adopting office as his home and mom running away to chennai,

We did quite a lot. Advitha diligently did her kumon, read chapter books (Young Cam Jansen, Aesop fables) and practiced tons of spellings and writing. Of course watched Frozen movie countlessly. I also put her in an arts and crafts classes where she made lovely pop up cards every day.

The sisters bonded so well. Advitha could not get enough of her lil sister and was admiring her most of the time. Amma! look at her! she is so gollu mollu, how cutely she walks, how cutely she talks!! were her talks most of the time!

Akshara stuck to me and her sissy like never before, she just couldn't get enough of ringa ringa roses with her sister. And admiringly finishes up with 'hasha, bisha, baa, baa, baaaa (husha, busha all for down!:}}

And of course did our customary phenix mall visits!

                              Advitha doung her shopping at her fabourite itsy bitsy crafts shop 

Busy Busy December

Gals had a very busy December month. A big fat wedding and Advitha's annual day.

Wedding
Arvind's chithi's daughter krithika got married. In a cosy mandapam in the sea facing Thiruvanmiyur, the wedding was a relishment. The food, people, relatives all had a great charm. Advitha had a great time with her cousins Disha, Deepa and relished the yummy food. Akshara though was not comfortable with the huge crowd and was crying much. But enjoyed thoroughly in her thatha's home. The gals were dressed nicely with jumkhas, pavadais and accessories.

Adhu sitting next to the bride

Annual daY

After we were back from the marriage it was Adhu's annual day. She danced for the Lion King song. And I would say it was her best stage dance performance ever. The kids were given intense practice. I immensely appreciate Adhu for putting up with the rigorous practice. There was practice on Saturday whole day, two days rehearsel at the venue and some days even getting late from school. Akshara enjoyed her sister's and other kids dance performance to the core. Didn't battle an eye during the entire performance

Chapter books

Advitha is gradually but steadily progressing to chapter books. At this moment she loves reading and currently devors:
-Young Cam Yansen series
-Clifford, the Big Red Dog series
-Amelia Bedelia
-and Magic Pots in between
Me being the tiger mom, tried Amelia Jane (Enid Blyton) series but understood it is to much for her level and hence currently sticking to the above. It is heartening to see her graduate from pepper, bubbles series to the above chapter books and i only hope the love for books grows


 

Activities together----starting with oil massage

As much as possible i try to do things together for both the girls. Akshara always loves being with her sister and Advitha is only happy to include her always-happy sister in her activities. But their age gap of 5 years is a huge drawback. Nevertheless we try to accomodate this practice as much as possible

This Diwali it was fun giving ganga-snanam to gether for the girls.. What a fun they had!!!

 

 

Akshara never misses a chance to be in Adhu's den which is loaded with pens, pencils, papers and some toys

 

 

Kurumba village resort-Conoor

The diwali long weekend saw us in Kurumba village resort Conooor, actually the resort was before Conoor. I had read some awe reviews about it in tripadvisor and persuaded Arvind to book it (with fingers crossed!!).

What a place it turned out to be!!The resort in the side of a hill or perched in the hillside overlooking a beautiful waterfalls which was in full glory and the magnificent blue mountains on the other side. The drive through the sathy forest was really the best and Arvind at his best of his driving skills took us in straight 5.5 hours. The meals were very good and lots of activities for kids!!

Advitha enjoyed the forest trek, she walked through the forest with elan; ate nicely all the three meals and also involved in arts and crafts activities in the activity place. She participated in the housie game and danced like crazy during the games...

Aksha was a darling!!Had all three meals true to her foodie character, enjoyed the resort, walked the length and breadth of it...

All in all a great getaway!!