Dressing doldrums! !

Oh boy! My 2 year old  is soooooo fussy about dressing up. She won't wear whatever I show her but will pick up her oldest clothes and insists only on wearing them!! Now who doesn't like to see one's kid dressed up in nice and new clothes??
Guess this is one drawback of having a willful child..is it? Manya...I am sure u will prove me wrong when u grow up coz u wud have a great dressing sense...but till that time I can't let u live in 'ur choice'!!

Shanu bal

"He papa cha blanket ahe, he mala kashala dete" iti shana bal :) & mind you...she is 2 years 1 month precisely!!!!!

I am talking!

Today when rahul was taking shanu out for a small walk/play in the evening,  she was taking long to dress up. He sent her to me finally saying u get her dressed up. I have a great rapport with shanu and I understand her very well. When I askrd her as to why she is not getting dressed? She says 'I am talking to papa' so I started to listen carefully,  she kept talking (a bit gibberish ;) in English to ragul as if she is trying to convey something. We couldn't understand and asked her to repeat.  Again the same stuff in same sequence. ..but we just couldn't figure :)
Then somehow I managed to get her dressed to go out.
My little birdie is already talking in English :)

Fun

Papa=fun (though mom says its silly fun most of the times!!) No wonder we loved to call silly papa ;)

& mom= pure love *-) + teacher + good fun + friend for life (almost like friend, philosopher & guide ;)

:) :) :)

Tula he pahijeee?

Shanu is eating her khudum khudum from a bowl sitting on a sofa, I am  sitting next to her. She asks me " mumma tula khudum khudum pahiijeee?" I say "no beta" ! One khdm khdm gets given in my mouth to eat. Second time "mumma tula khudum khudum pahiijeee?" I say "no beta"! One more khudum khudum lands in my mouth. ..again the same question comes......and it continues :) :) untill the khudum khidum gets over from the bowl... :D :D

Aushadh

By now shanu knows that one doesn't eat when one's tummy is full. Or doesn't drink when one doesn't want to. So here's what this smarty does!!
She has cough right now hence coufh medicine gets given to her regularly, & but off course she doesn't like it. Its either given to her by engaging her somewhere or plain forcefully :( sorry pillu , some things have to be done that way.
Today after dinner, I told rj to give her her medicine. She saw her dad approaching her with medicine and this girl says "papa maza pot bharlay, mala aushadh nako" !!!!!!! Oh boy, how cute is that smart innocence!!!! I couldn't stop laughing :) :)
She repeated " papa, ata maza pot bharlay, mala aushadh nako"!!! Hahah..maza laadoo khup god ahe :)

What r u doing?

My bachha is super fluent in her mother tongue already. She can express her thoughts,  emotions very well in marathi. Now she is learning English, super fast again :) By now shanu knows quite a few sentences and she uses rhem often. One such funny and cute example is... she knows the meaning of 'what r u doing?'
So what my doll does is, she tells me or rahul " mumma tu shanu la what r u doing mhanu" :) :) :) Nothing on earth can beat the cuteness with which she says it. Just another sentence of her's may be "mumma tula he pahije?" More about that later :)

Alright, so I ask her "what r u doing shanu?" To which she replies very well then by describing whatever she is doing at that point in time. For ex. "I am playing piano" or "I am jumping on the bed" etc. Etc. The same question then gets asked to each parent and they answer their pillu too :) :)

2nd Birthday

Shana had a great birthday this year. Last year she was wondering why so many people have gathered and why everyone just wanted to talk to her :) even though she enjoyed having so many kids around and dancing a bit. This year she very well knew its her birthday and she is the star :) The day started a bit late, rahul had already left for work so I wished her when she got up. I made batatawadas for her as a special dish, nothing sweet as anyway there ws a party in the evening. After she got ready, we quickly visited the supermarket and ordered  a cake with fishes and stars (both r loved by shanaya) on it. Actually,  we had been to the cake shops day before also but i couldn't finish ordering then. After that we came home  & she took her afternoon nap. Whn she got up, I told her that we are having a birthday party where her friends and few people will show up and it will be a lot of fun. She was excited to wear her new pink dress (she was not ready to take it off on trial in babyshop :)  I had to tell her that we have ordered it and that the store will directly send it to our address on her birthday :) Yes, it was hid in the house all that while. By that time rj was back too. Then deepak and family came to pick us up.We drove to the hotel where party was organised. Shanaya was a bit quiet initially to see the hotel, we were early and good that she had time to settle before the guests would start coming in. When she saw the balloon blower, she wanted to do it on her own but obviously she was to small to do tht :) so with a bit help from me she managed to blow 2 balloons and then playfully settled for a big bunch of balloons.
We cut the cake around 8 pm when everyone had come. This time it was fun since shana really knew what to expect & she loved cutting the cake and eating it too :) She had fun playing with alia, saiesha (aadya was sleeping) . Not many kids were there as all the Indian kids here in gulf go back home for summer vacation.

Tv addict :(

Shanaya ne aaj Aakand-tandav kela!!! TV sathi!! This is the second time now. Today she cried non stop from 2.15 to 3 pm for pep pig. I know, it is very very very high time for me to put her to some playschool.  Will chk the babyshop one latest