During the New Orleans visit, C had been asking D, "When will appa come back?" everyday.
D started cleaning the car one of those days, and C was having a good time inside the car, pushing and pulling things. She also tried my cooling glass, tried to start the car with different keys. After having all the fun, she told D "appa varavendaam?" because C thought appa will scold her for ravaging the car!
Kelly invited us to join them to the pumpkin land last saturday. It was a huge playground and even though the ground was a bit wet, C had a lots of fun running around. She was a bit afraid to go on the slide and the rope bridge. She climbed the ziggurat with D. But would not go into the dark, cavernous walk through into the ziggurat.
C also tried the maze. However the maze was punctuated with slides, and sliding poles which C particularly didn't like.
So, she shortcut the maze by climbing onto the maze walls!
Both C and D got their heights measured. See, C is not 60% of her mother's height (10% of her mothers age!) At this rate, C should be 30' high when she is her mothers age? May be not.
We didnt get to go on the hayride with j and k tho :(
Here is an old picture of c and j and j playing. Jones is entertaining them with bubbles.
More than enjoying a flying bubble, C likes to go after it and burst it. She likes to burst bubbles so much, sometimes, she would do it even before the bubble is fully airborne. See says , "Gotcha" after bursting the bubbles. Again, we don't know where and how she learnt that word.
She is also slowly learning to blow the bubbles herself. Most of the time she blows too much and the bubble never materializes. Sometimes she tries to compensate that by blowing very slowly and the bubble never takes off. At this point she says: chantelukku mataingela (ஷண்டல்லுக்கு மாட்டேன்கல (= முடியல) )
2 days back, we were watching tv and i was sitting on the comfortable side of the chair (sofa). When I got up to get my second dosa, C sneaked behind me and occupied the spot. I asked her to relinquish the post after I returned back to the seat in vain.
So, I lifted her up, and sat on the spot and placed her on my lap. C would not have it. She wiggled away from me. Then she positioned herself in between the TV and myself and demanded that I leave 'her' spot. She even put her hands to her hip, like a typical குழாய் சண்டைகாரி.
I tried to pacify her. I gave her the spot next to me. The spot on the other side of the sofa, which had similar comforts. She still would not like it and went to D and started crying very loudly. D also took her side and argued that a 'spot' did not belong to anyone.
Neither of us budged. Only when we were about to leave for walmart, C became ok, thinking about the prospect of buying some stuff for her!!
Yesterday, when I went to get my second dosa, I made it a point to tell C that "I am sitting here. I am going to get dosa. and I will be back". I think C understood it. Lets see how far this goes!!! When we were kids, jones and catherine and myself used to fight like this for magazines... and news papers. (First reserved!)
The other day the cricket match we were playing at the Hazelwood Cricket Ground got delayed. The more darker it got, more number of mosquitoes bit us. C was also there and mosquitoes had a good time.
When we returned home, both C and myself had lots of bumps - allergic reaction for the mosq bites. It was really itchy. C said that she had 'allergy' and wanted medcin. Daph applied some of C's dry skin cream on it.
During the same time, D had some vaai punnu, and was applying some medicine for it. C wanted that too.
D also amazingly encouraged C to have sore throat lozenges somehow. Everyday C would come and 'cough' and say "Give me medcin". D would give the lozenges. C has become quite regular on this. I had to swap the lozenges with hard candies (which looked similar, so that C does not notice the difference) in the medicine cabinet.
When she comes and 'coughs', I ask her, "Shall we go to the doctor and get an injection?". She goes running.
Yesterday Jones and kelly visited our house. K brought coffee cake for us and C wanted to eat it before lunch. I told C that C could only eat it after finishing up her rice. C started crying. when I tried to pick her up, she wailed, appa வேண்டாம்!
Later everyone went to see the fall colors at the creve couer lake. C slept while coming back. When she woke up in the evening, Jeya and jeevan had left. C was crying quite a bit as she was climbing down the stairs from the bedroom. When asked for the reason, she said, Jeya and Jeevan had left and she wanted to go to their house. However, the moment she saw the coffee cake, she changed her tears towards that!
Today C was chewing away one of her tooth brushes. She has been doing that for the past one week. I told her to take it away from her mouth. She said: நான் brush ஐ வச்சு சீவிட்டு இருக்கின் லா?
C was very lively at the office picnic Saturday. She was very friendly with Claudia and asked her to show her house, etc. After the tour, we were standing outside and chatting. C wanted to go inside the house again to see something. We tried to discourage C by telling her that the thing she wanted to see was lost and could not be found. Then C told Claudia "dont worry; i will help you find it!" and made Claudia take her into the house again
C sometimes gets scared of stuff on TV. We sometimes tried to close her eyes so that she cannot see some violent scenes. She was afraid of the witch in the sleeping beauty (Or something similar) While watching another kids movie (night at the museum), she was very afraid to see the dinosaur and was shaking but when we tried to safeguard her, she would not have it and still wanted to watch it!
Some other times, she would tell us that she is scared and would ask us to close her eyes with our palms.
This happened long time ago.
The Tamil Sangam had a picnic at Vlasis park sometime back. We were picnicking on the western side of the park. C wanted to play in the slide. The slide was on the other side. D and kelly had to take C to the slide. After some time, D wanted to return to the picnic and brought C along. C was not happy.
Everybody forgot about the slide and was playing. Suddenly we realized C was not to be found. Luckily D saw the top of C's head vanishing behind the sloping undulating terrain of the park, way over on the other side, towards the slide play area. If D had not seen C, it would have been very difficult to locate C in that huge park!!!
D ran after C and brought her back! (pic)
We went to botanical garden last saturday. C was very elated to see the flowers and was running around. C was afraid to climb some of the sculptures.
There was a set of water fountains and D changed C's clothes, so that C could go and get wet. C would not get wet in clothes and wanted D to remove her dress.
After D took C's dress, C had lots of fun in the water.
C is crazy about Barbie, thanks to D and the DVDs she got from the library. C called her barbie que for some time until we corrected her. C is also craZY about princesses and sleeping beauty, etc. But we realized that we should not let her watch (even) these kinds of movies when she asked me to run my fingers through her hair (like the prince does it to barbie?) while kissing her!!!
We went to sneha/joel's house warming some weeks back. C was quite elated to play with their dog. After the ceremony was over, she also tried the drums a bit.
C has grown quite a lot. The other day D measure her to be 3'. That is more than half of my height! Most of her dresses have shrunk and C says "size illamma". Her set of shoes have become small and we had to buy new ones. I also feel that she is getting chubby and have asked D to switch to 2% milk. D feels that she is ok. D also feels that we should switch to organic milk, so that, traces of unnecessary hormones (that were injected to the cows) won't get into our bodies.
