Today morning, I told C that it was D's bday and asked C to wish D. C just stared at me. I told her today was August 29th. C Didn't budge. I think, she would believe only if she sees a cake! After sometime, during the group hug, she reluctantly wished D. When I asked C, where D's gift was, she கையை விரித்து உதட்டை பிதுக்கினாள்.
D has been so excited with Disney movies and has started placing orders at the Library. Usually whenever I come home, C is watching something or other, and I had to fight with her to get the TV from her, so that I can watch comedies. I tell C that she can watch it whenever I go to office the next day.
We got the sleeping beauty the other day. The moment C saw the DVD around 7 pm, she wanted to watch it. But sadly I was watching TV. C fell silent for sometime. Then she said "appa jollyia office ponga, naan sleeping beauty pakkanum!"
We still dont know how she coined such a sentence. Once or twice, I have irritated C by telling her that I am going to office to have fun and she and D were stuck at the boring house... It looks like C remembered!
The other day (Thursday) we went to the zoo in the afternoon. C was very pumped up and wanted to see the monkeys. We decided to see the Planet Earth 3D movie at the zoo (which we typically dont do) The movie was horrible and C didnt want to wear the 3D glasses at all.
C and D both wanted to experience the water mist. But when they came out of the water mist, it was more like, water droplets, and both became completely wet.
After we saw the monkeys, C wanted to see the elephant. When it was time to leave, C would not want to leave at all and was crying and screaming all the way to the car.
In C's world, kalyaanam is equivalent to kalyaantom. She would say Jeev mama, varna athai kalyaantom; jones periappa, kelly kalyaantom; cedric mama, palin athai kalyantom; appa, amma, chantel kalyaantom!
C also realizes wedding or anything similar to that in the movies. Yesterday she say the little mermaid movie and said there was kalyaantom in the end!
We bought this water fountain at Walmart. There was a huge hole in it and we could use this for only 2 minutes. C had fun!
I wanted to return this at walmart but we lost the receipt, and so, it is still in the car trunk!
C was sleeping during the reception dinner, which worked out fine. C woke up after the dinner and was running around. When they started to dance, C was all excited. But she would not come with me to the dance floor when I asked her. She wanted to dance off the floor next to our seating. After a lot of cajoling, she came and danced with me for 1 minute and then ditched me and went with Prisci. After this she didnt turn back. She danced with rosi, then prisci and didnt stop! She danced with D and would not want to leave the hall!
Recently I took some pics of D and this is the first time I asked her to pose in a certain way and she did.
Chantel is doing great by God's grace. She is quite interesting. Sometimes she is the sweetest kid on planet earth. On Nicholas' birthday, after he cut the cake, C was pestering him to give her a piece in a bowl. When N gave her the cake finally and to everybody's surprise she started distributing it to all the guests....without even tasting it first!
Then again sometimes she behaves like the rowdi rakkamma of St Louis. The other day, she was colouring with some other kids. Most of them were bigger kids. She was pulling and distributing crayons to these other kids, with or without their consent. None of the other kids liked what she was doing. Finally she bullied everyone to give up their crayons and closed the big crayon box , while the bigger kids watched her helplessly. We had to pull her out of that place, kicking and screaming, telling her that that was inappropriate behaviour!!!!! (For a pic of this see here)
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C was quite lively at the Tamil comedy event. She would not sit on the chair nor on her stroller. She was walking around and was clapping hands for the joke, etc. We had to take her to the back of the auditorium to cool her off. She joined some kids in coloring. She was bossing around even older kids and became the regulator of crayons - who has them and not, when the crayon box should be kept closed, etc. She was also trying to color the sheet of her neighbors. It the neighbors retaliated, she would give a dirty look (pictured!)
Really abhorrent behavior. I am guessing that she gets it from D and D says it is from me.
