Hitting

Yesterday Jones, Varna and Duane had come home. C was fighting with Jeevan for toys and other things. C was also addressing Jeevan and Jeya, which Jeevan didnt like at all! In one circumstances, C hit Jeevan. D became very angry and asked C to apologize to Jeevan. C apologized reluctantly after a lot of hesitation. It looks like C is comfortable with Jeya, because of his age.

When they left, I closed the door too soon lest the pooochis get inside (also the city had just fogged the street with bug spray...which smelt like kerosene and I didnt want that smell sneaking into the house!) C started crying loudly, because  she could not say goodbye to the Js. She was crying for a long time till D told her that we would bid goodbye over the phone.

missing appa

Yesterday C missed me very much it seems. Mondays are hard for her because I am with her during the weekends. She became teary eyed in the morning when I left. Since then she has been telling everyone that called that appa has gone to office. She called me at office and asked me when I would come back.

She told D that she wanted to go and see fish at the Chinese store. Since that didnt happen, she asked me to get fist when I returned.

கண்ணா மூச்சிவிளையாட்டு

சாண்டல்  கொஞ்சம் கொஞ்சமாக கண்ணா மூச்சி விளையாட்டு படிக்கிறாள். ஒன்று முதல் பத்து வரை எண்ணி விட்டு, நாம் அவளை தேட துவங்கும் முன் அவளே ஓடி வந்து விடுகிறாள். நான் சொல்லிக்கொடுக்க முயற்சி செய்தேன். அப்பா 'turn', சாண்டல் 'turn',  என்று சொல்லிக் கொள்வாள். சற்று நேரம் கழித்து புல்லில் இருக்கும் பூச்சிகளை பார்த்து பயந்து வீட்டிற்குள் ஓடி விடுவாள். அப்புறம் 'microscopeல்' பார்க்கலாம் என்று ஓடி வருவாள்.
நேற்று திடிரென்று போய் படிக்கட்டில் உட்கார்ந்து கொண்டாள். 'Chantel is sad' என்று சொல்லி, மூக்கை உறிஞ்சினாள். என்னவென்று பார்த்தால், நடித்துக்கொண்டு இருந்திருக்கிறாள்! கார்ட்டூன் அல்லது மற்ற குழந்தைகளை பார்த்து செய்திருக்கிறாள்! 

ரயில் வண்டி

நேற்று நாங்கள் ஜோன்ஸ் வீட்டாரோடு பக்கத்தில் உள்ள நீராவியினால் இயங்கும் ரயில் வண்டியில் பிரயாணம் செய்ய சென்றோம். ஷாண்டல குச்சூ குச்சூ என்று கத்திக்கொண்டு வந்தாள். 12 இன்ச் தண்டவாளத்தில் சிறிய ரயில் வண்டி மெதுவாக காட்டு பகுதிக்குள் ஓடுகிறது. ஐஸ் கிரீம் வாங்கி கொடுத்தான். பின்னர், எல்லோரும் எங்கள் வீட்டுக்கு வந்தார்கள். வெளியில் விளையாடுவதற்கு மிகவும் வெக்கையாக இருந்தது. ஜெயா வீ விளையாடினான். ஜீவன் ரயில் விளையாடினான். எல்லோரும் பூரி கிழங்கு சாப்பிட்ட பின்பு வீட்டுக்கு சென்றார்கள்

This appa; this daph amma

C is growing up quite fast and acquiring quite a bit of social skills from cartoons and may be from other kids. Yesterday some intern girls form office had come home for dinner. Just after they had entered the house, C went towards and told them "this appa; this daph amma" They may not have understood, but it was cute.

She was also talking a lot of Tinglish to them and they thought we understood everything she said. No.

When we sat to eat, C was very adamant to sit on her high chair. I put her on it. But everybody else took their plate and sat on the carpet in the living room. C waited for some time (10 secs) and again demanded that she be let off the high chair and join the masses!

Sprinkler

Today we started the sprinkler and let C play in it.

 

She was very excited and wanted both of us to join her. We didnt join her and preferred to stay near the back door, far from the water droplets. C realized that went towards the sprinkler,

and got hold of the rotating head and aimed toward us

and was bubbling with joy once we ran helter skelter away from the water!

July 15th

C gave me a flower for the bday and she also left a message "Happy Birthday" on my office phone. Evening she was a bit afraid of the candles, however, she blew it along with jeya, jeevan and dalton. She also distributed Daph's date cake to everyone.

C also talked quite a bit in her english during the get to gather.

July 14th

Somebody rang our calling beel at 10 pm.  D got worried that there were some strangers outside and tried to look at them through the upstair bedroom window. I was not well and asked them to identify themselves else I would call the cops. I was really worked up by then and at that time they started singing Happy birthday. C got afraid and started to cry really loud!

It took 5 mins to calm her down. After the cake cutting, C came with a bowl and when we placed a piece of cake in it, she promptly took it to others and served everyone! That was real nice.

Poochi

C is quite afraid of poochi, ever since the retreat. We have a microscope at home and I started showing poochies (insects) to her through that. First she didnt know to see through one opening, but now she is ok. She is very excited with it. We started with the lyme disease tick that was removed from my body (!!!). After that, surprisingly, we could not get any bugs. I tried the whole house for it.

We got an ant from the hotel and C was very excited to see it too. Nowadays, whenever she sees a poochi, she says "microscopla pakalaama?"

Baby

I use the term 'baby' with her quite often like, 'lets roll, baby"; "Thats right, baby" etc. Even though she could not copy the 'kan adithal' she has mastered this. She even says this with the correct emphasis and time gap ...like "Thats right....1 sec...baby"

appa bday

D has told C that appa's bday was on July 15th. C has memorized it and is saying that she is going to give this or that for my bday. She already has candles for me and is quite excited about it.

Kan adithal

C has been practicing quite a bit to "kan adithal" I use that quite often with her, and she tries hard, but both her eyes close and open at the same time. C would say "Chantelluku panna mudiyalai!"

These days what she does is to use her hand / fingers to close one eye for an instant to mimic the kan adithal. Looks quite interesting... as long as she does not use the fingers while eating spicy food!

Sucking - part 2

C is still sucking her upper lips. The right part of the lips has swollen quite a bit and is quite evident in pics.
I asked her yester - why do u suck your lips? Do you like it so much? She promptly replied yes. I asked her to suck her thomb instead. She tried it and told me that it would spoil her nail polish!!!!!!

from HP iPAQ

Room

Before driving back to STL, we decided to visit to a Benedictine monastery because of their very nice church. We took the tour and then had lunch in the only restaurant in town. C wanted to go back to the room when we told her that we are going home (veetukku porom). She started crying. She wanted to go to the room. I told her that we were going to the room - chantel's room - in our house. C looked at us for some time, and started crying, "Hotel roomukku pohanum!" Luckily she fell asleep and we drove all the way back home. C didnt realize that we were going home till we turned into our street. When I parked the car in the garage, she started to cry. However, by the time, i retrieved the camera to take a photo of C crying for this blog, C stopped crying and became fine!

C on tour

C was very happy during the tour. She wanted to go to restaurants adn then back to the room. Inside the room, she was always running around and switching on the microwave, or turning the AC knob, etc. She took D's shoes and put it inside the wardrobe drawer. She pulled all the napkin from the holder and was throwing them around. (got a spanking for that!) She wanted to help us take our luggage back and forth and was actually pulling the backpack with wheels all by herself ("Chantel help panrain...please")

Geranium restaurant

We arrived in new harmony for dinner. D wanted to eat at the geranium restaurant. There were candles et al ... The costliest dinner we ever had.
The candles were enclosed with glass cover and I playflly asked c to blow them. (c was already excited that it was a bday candle) she tried to blow the candle once. Then she realised about the glass enclosure and so tried to blow the candle from top of the glass enclosure .
(the pics are from the cell phone in low light!)
from HP iPAQ

July 4th trip

We reached around five pm. C got a kizhu on the way for lips sucking. At the hotel c got settled watching tv cartoon. This photo was taken then.