sathya narayana pooja

keeping beside ashus play school tantrums,now its about the Sathya Narayana pooja we did at our home on sunday the 25 th nov.
as usual everything is out sourced starting from breakfast,lunch and the pooja as a package,and we dont want to take any tension like whether we bought enough flowers,fruits,will the coconut be good?how much do we need to buy?
where to buy?,who will help,can we do bargaining? .........

everything comes as a package now except u and me,so better to avoid any mess and its true every bdy would love to be calm and cool .
pooja went very well and its like our long time dream come true as we are longing to do this once aswath was born.anyways its good it happened atleast by now.

very few of relatives and more of friends attended the pooja ,the total head count was expected to be 40 ,but it turned out to be 60+.
we had an immense sense of satisfaction and happy that god gives us the opportunity to do poojas and wish to do the same every yr. if possible.
since it was a get together with family and friends ,why not to celebrate ashu's second birthday on the same day atleast by cutting the cake .

its my idea to get a cake in the shape of car and ordered it and it was promised to be delivered on 25th morning and good it was deleivered on time.

here is ashus cake:



ashu in his new suit: gifted by his Ramya pinni(my sister) on her first salary.



Total mast and majaa and ashu had lots of fun,and kept my father on toes through out the pooja and the next everybdy in my office started singing aswaths puranam,obviously its expected with this naughty brat.

Independent 2yr old baby--crazy mom

Ashu seems to have improved a lot in play school ,"he stops crying after 10 minutes Mam,now he got adjusted mam",this is how teacher says to me when i throw hell lot of questions on her.
sorry i cant help,i have to find out whether ashu eats or not?,whether he passes sussu in toilet or in his dresses?.I know he plays with other kids ,no need to ask that question,may be i can ask whether he troubles all the kids by displaying his affection with hugs and kissess,hhuuh,sure it will happen with ashu.

i have seen him lot many times without any inhibition he will get along with anykid he sees in the mall or restaurent ,may be he got this from his father and for sure not from me.

I accept i tend to be reserved intially ,but later if i feel comfortable and like their companionship i will be a good friend for sure.but his nana will easily get along with others.
now a days we used to ask him what he learnt from school,he tries to sing the BAA BAA Black sheep song,like BAA BAA BAA,BAA.(u know its too much to expect a 2 yr old baby to sing a rhymes )still its fun to listen to him and the gesture he makes while singing.
sometimes i think am i too crazy to send him to play school and is that bcoz we both are overenthu ,we push him like this???
but i have my justifications also,he needs some exposure and that doesnt comes by watching the cartoon channel all the time or any mega serials my maid watches when we are not around.
ofcourse maid cant communicate in english all the time and we expect rather,but we can arrange for something which gives him the little exposure in this little age ,Thanks to god ,we are affordable for that and we dont him to be super fast ,super intelligent,super and super in all.
but wants him to enjoy the little he is along with other kids and the basic and important thing he should and must develop is being INDEPENDENT.

I know ,its too much from him,As mad as a hatter ,but a little effort from the independent parents.

we (myself and hubby) dont depend on any body as such in our life so far,in all sort of thing we do,its bcoz of my husband i have learnt how to be independent,i can say iam still in the learning process only,he has fine tuned me ,he has refined me ,tries to bring the best out of me, a multitude of transformations has come into me thru him. Gods gift to me and touch wood iam very proud of myself what iam now.
and its one more feather in his cap

Ist Day to Play school and Nana Birthday

Nov12th is an important day ,reminds me of two special things ,one being hubbys birthday and another is ashus first day to school.

Ashu at play school on vijaya dashami day:




Proper schooling starts on Nov.12th after diwali holidays and on the first day he dressed up in pacca formals and some clicks on our mobile(we dont have patience to take the camera out ,do the settings and do the clicking) so always its mobile cam. pics...




after getting scoldings from nana to stand properley:





With his new cycle(Diwali gift from Nana and amma):


On 11 th evening i forced my hubby to take me to a mall (to buy some secret gift for Bday),but as soon as we entered the mall ashu asked for pastries and overenthu parents we tried to finish the full one ,atlast ...he did VVVVV---Vomit.
Irritated and upset of him,we left the mall without buying any thing ,no window shopping also..

Next day he went to play school,we dropped him back to home at 11.00am ,we left for office in a hurry.
On the same evening by office cab dropped me at 7.00 pm,so i thought should get him a cake atleast, so i went to the near by bakery and got a cake for him.
Hubby came at 10.00 pm only bcoz of his work load,surprise surprise ,surprise for him

Diwali Celebrations!!!!!!

Diwali at Bangalore:
Back from pune trip on diwali hubby got lot of goodies for ashu,remote contolled Aeroplane,dresses ,eatabelss.....
This time we invited my parents to bangalore for diwali as every time we used to go to chennai for festival.
sweets preapartion started from wednesday and i took off on wednesday and friday ,so totally bunked office for 5 days...

Mom prepared murrukku,adhirasam,ribbon pakoda,rava ladu,gulab jammoon.Now i decided i should do something ,so that i can also say i prepared sweets for diwali ,showoff.

Day before our office gifted us a dry fruits pack for diwali,so i thought i will do Badam alwa ,but every time we have to heat the alwa while eating ,so i decided to mix gram flour a little and make it as a Badam Cake ,thank god it came out well ,to my surprise:-)

ashu is not that much interested in carckers and was curious to close the door whenever people fire crackers outside,but still i went with my father and bought sparklers,flower pot ,some crackers for hubby ...

This time we celebrated diwalion friday instead of thursaday as hubby came on thursday evening only.after doing Kedara gowri pooja in the nearby temple ,we relaxed at home and had good food.

Later we decided to go to movie ,but dont know which movie is screened where ,finally ditched ashu with thatha and avva, me, hubby and my sis went to ATM ,
I likeed the song Maduraikku pogatha deee.

Next day it was saturday ,i had a long time plan to visit the Airport road Shiva temple,so i proposed it and evry bdy agrees ,so we went to the temple in Kempfort.

ashu started jumping out of joy on seeing the cartoon characters standing outside the shop.

We miss u Nanaaaaaaaaaa

I was impressed by the curriculum presented in one of the baby site for toddlers.
It includes Letter of the week,Theme words,read aloud,music,indoorgames,speech and vocabulary(shuld do this at bathing and dressing time like shirt is red,pants are blue ).

The title indoor-games captured my attention and made me curious to learn abt the indoor games which i can play with aswath.

Game 1:Cleaning Up? or Maybe Not!
you should have a basket and toys spread over the room and u should show how to put them in the basket,now dump them out and start all over again.

ashu:when i tell ashu to do that he wont listen ,but when his nana is around ,no need to even utter a word ,he will do things automatically as expected.
he will put all his ABC blocks back in his Toy Box.

Game 2:Arranging the Blocks:u need a set of blocks and show ur toddler how to stack a tower 2 blocks high,then tower 3 , continue as much u can.

ashu:he wants to arrange all the blocks one over the other and move it from one place to other by dragging the base,if anything falls he will starting crying....
if it doesnt fall he will clap his hands and tries to showoff .

Game3:Climbing the stairs:
ashu:as far as climbing is concerned he started doing that when he was around 18 months.we were at marathalli house,where we have a balcony and it will lead to stairs and no longer u keep the door open ,u can catch ashu in the middle of the stairs.

by now he is trying to climb the dining table thru chairs and open the water tap on the Bubble top and letting the water to floor ..

Game 3:Hats Galore
Use summer hats and winter hats, sports hats, rain hats, job
related hats, and so on. Your toddler will love trying on the different hats. Be sure to put them on your own head as well, as your toddler will like to see how they look on you.

ashu:ashu tries with his moms bindi and keep it in his face and enjoys looking his beauty in the mirror.he tries to wear the goggles and make me wear it and cries if i remove it even after 20 minutes also.i should wear it continiously ,till he says ok,u can remove it,...god save me on those instance.

Game4:Cereal Transfer

This is a game for fine motor skill development. Find two containers that your child will find easy to put his hand in and out of. Fill one of the containers with some dry cereal. Show your toddler how to move the cereal from one container to another.

ashu: ashu enjoys doing the same with noodles and semiya uppma,where he will tranfer noodles from one bowl to another plate and from the plate to bowl.
sometimes if i give water in one glass,he will transfer it from that glass to another glass,so carefully ,but goshhhhhhh almost everything will be spilled out...

Game4:Telephone Talk

For this game you will need one or two toy telephones. Just have a fun pretend conversation with your toddler on the phone. Toddlers love to imitate and talking on the phone is a favourite.

ashu: ashu enjoyes talking over phone and tries to respond to the other person.
my seeing his face expression we can make out .he enjoys talking to my father in phone and whenever he picks the phone he will shout out loudly THATHAHHHHHHAAA....


Game 5:Line up the Shoes

Start with a pile of shoes and show your toddler how to place them together in pairs and line them up along a wall. Don't
worry if your toddler doesn't match up all the pairs, but placing them in a line should be a fun task!

ashu:
He got 4 pairs of car in diff.colors,now he will arrange the cars of same color together and will say dirra ,but gradually started saying as ca(r)sss (here r is silent).

Game 6:Cars Go Down!

For this game you will need some toy cars and a ramp of some sort. You can make the ramp with a board, or a tall book. Watch the toy cars race down the ramp.

ashu::Nana and ashu love to play this and they use a black board as a ramp.

Game 7:Ball Play

You can roll the balls, carefully pass
the balls, or gently kick the balls around the room. You can line up the balls in size order. You can also comment on the color of each ball. There are always
ways to bring learning into regular play. Just keep it fun!

ashu: he wants both amma and nana to play this with him.rather than he kicking the ball he wants us to do that ,if we sit after running behind the ball for 15 minutes also he wont excuse ,till he gets diverted with some other toys he make us do that.

Game 8:Advanced Peek-a-boo

For this game you will play a very simple version of hide-and-seek. You can call to your toddler from another room, and as she gets close to you jump out and say peek-a-boo. You can hide behind a chair or door. Have fun!

ashu: we used to hide ourselves and will be extreme happy to find out.
joy has no bounds ..

he likes playing with ballon and asks me to throw the ballon over the fan and claps his hands.

Now a days he started saying a single word for each and every thing and that magical word is Appeel(apple)

whenever his nana talks to him over phone ,he will ask few question

nana:a for ???
ashu: Appeel
nana:what is ur name:
ashu:Athu
nana:are u a good boy? (when he started saying yes i framed this question:-))
ashu:Yesss
Nana:Do u like to eat food??
Ashu:No.

most frequently used word is thanks ,irrespective of if he gives something to some one or some one gives him some thing.
Ashu is already missing his nana(i hope nana also miss him a lot) and waiting for Thursday to come sooooooooooon..

Any way he got his Diwali gift as a Cycle from Amma as per nanas recommendation.I will write abt the cycle next week ...