Medium ironman

Aarav picked up sharvis dress n pants n when I asked him, took my hardback novel up the stairs too. Guess seeing that everyone ends up taking stuff up n down, has rubbed off.

Since morning crying for the to be assembled " medium " iron man ... I said, if we bring him alllll his friends will be sad. He will miss his mom, his dad, his friends .... Poor ironman

Pat comes the reply... " Aaravs too. He will miss Aarav too .. "

After an hour, mama will take me in car. Let's go mama. No ?! Okay. I go alone !!! And off he goes ... Towards garage n scolding ...

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At target yesterday while time mama sAid yes, daddy said yes, Nani said yes. But iron man wants to come home with Aarav. He sad. He wants to come home with Aarav.

When was upset at home, shibham have him His fav small iron man. He said can't want to play with him.

Shubh am said" but he's sad. He wants to play with you.. He coming to tickle you..."

And then came the laughter n batti with iron man.

From mom dad

Aarav real cooking

Aarav helped make brownie today. He poured the oil, water n broke the eggs and licked the spoon ... Checked on the progress with me.

And with all this was " phew, tired making brownie " :-)))

First day flying solo

Got up with continuing headache from yesterday . After the watermark, lunch, steinmart, nap , target trip head was raging ...

Got up having dreamt of writing a piece about sharvi's birth. Felt inspired ... The keyboard wouldn't work, cleaned up office , sat again n got the news of Karan getting notice of getting fired. Wrote endlessly. Fed sharvi, took her down, wrote some more, fed Aarav , wrote, then made brownie, had tea n bread then wrote, changed diaper, called Comcast, read to aarav, Aarav did potty, then watered the plants then took sharvi for bath, put clothes for washing, had bath, fed sharvi, my head was BAngibg by then, feeling faint from hunger, went to market to return lego movie, did basic grocery , picked up chipotle then put away groceries, put sharvi to bed, fed Aarav , n now have come to put Aarav to sleep which was 25 minutes ago...

Half Time ....

Time to breathe

Fwd: Little Helper

From: Aditi w Singh <aws.singh@gmail.com>
Date: July 19, 2014 at 6:00:46 AM EDT
To: aws.singh.mags@blogger.com
Subject: Little Helper

"What you looking for mama ??"

"I lost a paper."

" What is it ? What is it ? "

"It's sharvi's important paper. "

"You lost my paper ?? "

"No Your papers are all safe. This is a paper for sharvi. "

" I lost a paper too. I'm sad... " ( hunched shoulders. Sad face )

[ Later as I come down the stairs in years, frantic ]

" Did you find it mama ?"

"No Aarav ... ( sniffling )

" I'll help you mama... I help you. Let me check it out ... " ( stands with me solemnly as I search then goes back to eating popcorn ... )

It's true. It's the thought that counts .. :) my baby ... He is kind to everyone .. He brings the diapers, bouncer for sharvi.. Blots out dropped water...  ( though these days Loves " making Big messes " as he says .. )

Beach Time

Scene : I'm feeding sharvi. Shibham filling water in bottles and Mom packing back to go to beach...

" but I want to go beach.. "

Me: we will Aarav... Go wear shoes ..

" but I can't go beach... You feeding sharvi , dad making coffee and nani making mess.... " 😝

Empathy

Nani : nanu crying , talk to him. He is alone .

Aarav on Skype : don't cry nanu . I'll come to Kuwait.

Superheroes

Aarav - " Dad you are batman ! I'm superman .. Come ... Let's save the day !! "

Sleeping Time

Lying in bed, Aarav talks non stop not letting us get a word in .... Usually.

Yesterday,

" Dad, you want to talk to mama ?"
" yes "
" okayyy, talk . Uou talk to mama. "
" Thankyou "
"But be quiet. I'm sleeping "
" ok Aarav "
" and don't steal my blanket. " 😁

... ( and as mama browsing kindle )
" Mama go to sleep. Don't be angry. I give time out. "
" okay Aarav. I close kindle .this better ?"
" YeAh. Aarav not give timeout. Be good boy mama. not angry. "


And so ... Ends another night of trying to out Aarav to bed on time .

Horse ate grass n went away

Aarav made me draw red robot. Then told his dad , you draw mama n baby robot. But dad said no you draw. Aarav in his managerial ways says no you paint ... Dad makes another robot and says now you try to make baby robot to which Aarav responds , " but baby robot gone !! " dad grins and says if you draw will come back but Aarav is adamant, " but it disappeared !!! 😁

12 I click

On being told it's 12 o clock, Aarav screams, " It's party time !!!! " 

Nani putting sharvi to sleep in bouncer, " Aarav says don't do fast. She will get dizzy " 

On seeing me, as he watched iPad , " don't take me ... "

Sent from my iPhone

Play dough talk

Yesterday while playing with play dough I told Aarav make big snow man .. He said but mama I'm too big. I said, you mean small ?? He said, yeah ... ( caught his head ) I forgot !!!!

3.35 pm

" I can't sleep mama. I'm too tired " :p

During breakfast , after having half muffin hands it to me while I'm feeding sharvi n says " Feed me mama. you have to hands " :)))

Pants First Time

So Sharvi has been born two months now and it's been crazy to say the least. There are pics defining each day, thanks to the iphone and most things happened can be recalled seeing the 100s of pics we have been taking.

But now slowly but surely life is slowing down and we ie Sharvi, Aarav and me are getting to know each otehr better. Aarav wants to be fed by hand most of the time, I think coz Sharvi is fed by mama. But as always he's MOSTLY a good boy, temporary tantrums and demands not withstanding. He's been a blessing through the past days, for as I always say he's very understanding and loving for his age.

Sharvi is a demanding, angry, smiling little creature as bad as her brother was in sleeping but doesn't cry so far for feeding, only diaper and dakkars. :)) She's been a sport most times when we were roaming around outside with nani nanu, the little that we could do during their stay. Mom dad have been a big help, Their tantrums not withstanding. :)

Finally last week coz pics of Shubham with both kids which was awesome. :) May God bless us all.

Aarav wore his pants by himself for the first time yesterday. Yaaay . And used his first bad word " stupid " Naayyy ... But he's after all a baby and I pray to God in time we can steer him in the right direction in life as he learns what the world has in store.

Today we went to StoryTime at the library and it was awesome. There was porcupine puppet, poems, dancing, wiggling, making face with shapes and letters and then we selected some books and then we went to dollar store to get him scissors for his tiny little hands. He desperately wanted chocolates but cried only little.

He's getting good with his poems, ABCD, Baa Baa, Johnny Johnny, Wheels on the bus etc ... He knows his capital letters, shpaes, colors, numbers well and counts to 20 . All the night studying that we do before sleep and more importantly, his preschool has been a good help. If only he would sit down and listen he would probably be spelling by now. :))) Something my mom would say.

Last week he cute up a paper in weird shapes after I spent all day teaching him how to cut paper properly using mommy's scissors and said, " Where's Daddy ? I have surprise for him . Dadddddy .... Daddddyyyy .... Oh , no , Daddy working . He doesn't want his suprrise ... "  :)) Shubham was suitably impressed with his son's crafting skills. Im sorry I threw it away without a pic but it was yello and cut rougly like a sun or flowers...

When Dad was here, one day he's rambling on during dinner about hand hand etc etc .... Finally we figured he wanted to say " Daddy, Wash ur hands.  " ie play with me ... :))

We went to the zoo over the weekend. and I asked him, aarav u want to go to zoo again... He's like " No , mama. I can't go zoo. I too tired. " :)))

Today, it was too HOT to go to library but NOT too hot to go to playground .... Sharvi in comparison loves the sun and can lay there till she gets sleepy .... Winter baby summer baby ... I guess... Aarav has always had a hard time with hot days ...

Sharvi turned half over last week and looked shocked by her own body's capabilitites... Adorable !! She's started cooing since last weekend.

Shubham is out of town in New York this week so it's just mom and us kids ;) Missing him terribly but part of life I guess. Last week was Cedrick's bbq and was too much fun chilling around the table. Managed the kids, cooked all morning, tidied all afternoon then got dressed and  went to party. Tall order !! zoo next day ... Not capable of moving a muscle the day after that :))) Life ... More to come I guess. ..