My birthday surprise

T: your bday is coming soon.
me: hmmm
T: we need to do special something.
me: hmmm. so what are you planning?
T: I dont know, you help me.
me: ask baba for help
T: why?
me: its MY bday. you need to plan something for ME -a surprise for me. Then on my bday, I'll see it surprised and say 'OMG, what a beautiful thing.'
T: maybe I could do a beeeautiful (we usually talk in adjectives and superlatives) painting for you.
Looks at me, pauses and says, 'I'm telling that to you NOW, now is not your bday. I wont tell it to you on your bday. then it will be a surprise to you.'
INNOCENCE personified!

valid question

Tvisha: mom, when I grow up will I be still a girl?
Me(driving her to school): of course
T: and Kian, will he still be a boy?
Me: yes
T: when I was a baby, I was a girl or a boy?
(driving me nuts)
Me: you were a girl when you were a baby, you are a girl now and you will always be a girl. (then a lil smarter side of me awakes) but why do you ask that?
T: because, I think all babies are boys and when they grow up some become girls and others become boys.

opened up my eyes lil one. never 'looked' at it this way. thanks for allowing me this privilege - of seeing the world in this special way. Also learnt a lesson (well yet again) - never evade, condone or doubt a child's questions - they always have a justified reason to ask.

photography workshop

Writing, not very far away!

Today tvisha went to Powerhouse museum with aai. This is what she did there;
(she has typed this on her own using the sounds the letters make)
Klok
Klring kya
Dol haus
Magic garden
Zois haus
Robot
Bioscop
Vatr pump
Kafe

Cricket fan

Hubby is a cricket fan, I'm not (not at all)
So, he tries to get an enthu company in watching the world cup matches from TV, whenever she's awake and around that time (has been a couple of times)

'bacchu today is India vs australia'
'wow' goes the 3 year old, with an artificial excitement.
'we'll watch it together,' hubby, 'good you took a nap today,'
'yippee' the lil fan.
'do you know what baba is talking about?' I intervene
'yes, cricket match' (surprised me, she hadn't seen or heard about cricket for almost a week now)
'it's between the country we come from and the country we live in now,' hubby's extra info.
'the blue uniform and the yellow uniform?' asks TV and both of us parents are bowled over.
'yes, wow you remember a lot,' hubby goes.
'and the red uniform? When are they playing?' asks our lil question machine
'Kenya?' 'Bangladesh?' 'Zimbabwe?' 'west indies?' we ask taking turns, while tv is eating her mandarins.
Once done, her mouth ready to talk, she says calmly,'canada' when are they playing? That's where Arjun has come from right?' that's her lil friend. And we are speechless.

Just shows how memory is stored and retrieved in lil brains! Wonder thy name is nature!

Tv is reading 'Pat the Cat'

'This is not like pat the bunny,' says my lil pocket rocket.
'no?'
'no, because in this book, no one pats the cat,' goes TV, 'it's just the name - pat the cat'
So that's the new one she got from her library. And it's so good for her at this stage, I only realized when I saw her read it by herself.

She knows her sounds (alphabet) and thanks to this one she can now read at and all the 3 letter words that end with at.
Cat, fat, rat, nat, sat, hat, pat,mat, bat.

Awesome timing for this flip book. Hope she gets more from the series. There are - Jen the hen. Tog the dog and mig the pig.
Or know what may be I can write some for her With the 3 letter words and rime.

Jen, hen, men, ten, Ben, den, pen, yen, zen
Dog, tog, fog, log, bog, cog, hog, jog, sog,
Mig, pig, big, dig, fig, gig, jig, rig, wig,

Fry, dry, cry, try, wry,
Pie, die,

Beautiful Holi videos

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhwIFbB5iuo&playnext=1&list=PLB9748A156D6A70E6"




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