Eating out!

How to survive eating out at a restaurant with an active toddler?
( Don't you think I am writing more of "How -to's" these days?Motherhood surely makes you wise!!!)

1.Order the food in advance and tell them it is not a "to-go" order but you don't want to keep his highness waiting.
2.As his highness gets busy checking out his high chair, the appetizer, waiters and other random people at the restaurant, this is the time you eat! -eat as fast as people who starved for the past 1 month eat.
3.Now, don't even bother to talk in between, concentrate on finishing the food.
4.Look for warning signs for time-up's.
5. Warning 1. His highness takes the stainless steel spoon and bangs the delicate porcelain plates.
    Warning 2. Now takes the fork and knife and repeats #1.
    Warning 3. You get stares from other people at the restaurant.
    Warning 4. He decides to stand on the highchair.
    Warning 5. Enough of warnings, stop eating and take his highness for a restaurant tour.
While one of us pays the bill, the other keeps him involved/entertained. Now, how long do you think it took us to eat and get out of the restaurant? A total of just 20 minutes!!! Thanks to Aarush for not letting us waste time on useless things like eating high calorie restaurant food :d    

P.S: Next time Kiran and I are eating out during lunch time while Aarush is in the loving care of his daycare lady;)

Crack that puzzle!

Monkey on loose-Halloween 2010

Motherhood

Signs that motherhood overtakes everything else in life!!!

• You can't stop from singing "pat-a-cake pat-a cake  or  a Chandamama raave...." even while you are driving A-L-O-N-E.
• You can tell the diaper is dirty from a 2 mile distance;)
• You smile/laugh/cry to yourself, thinking about the 'oh-sooo-cute!' stuff your kid is into.
• You look at your kid's pic at least once, while at work.
• You can't stop from buying stuff for your kid though you went to shop- just for YOURSELF.
• You take pics- a lot of pics-- a hell lot of pics of not yourself but his highness's.
• Your conversation to any other living human-being involves "Kids", yup! even in a high level management meeting.( Now, Imagine if the other human-being is also a mom).
• You fight sleep to update the baby blog :d
• You start 'anti-jinxing' everything.

Trip to NJ!!!

The much awaited trip to 'India in US'- NJ, happened a couple of weeks ago. I lost count on how many times
Aarush flew but this time he actually knows what a plane is but couldn't figure out he was actually
sitting in one. He was so excited when he spotted one parked beside ours at the airport.
Our flight was at 7:00 PM in the eve which was Aarush's awake( read v v active)time. After much whispering, convincing, distracting, screaming and feeding he finally fell asleep and didn't wake up until we got off the plane.
Cutest cutie Megha was asleep by the time we reached home. Come next morning Megha checks out the new guests in her home.We all Awwwww-ed, Oooo-ed over the cute ways of two littles playing with each other. It was more of each other copying, fighting and sometimes actually playing with each other.

Then joins one more member to the gang- littlest beauty Anjali.

I wished for all sets of grandparents to be there to witness the three having fun.
What is with so much difference between girls and boys?Megha is all into dressing, wow-ing over her new dress and strategically hiding toys from Aaarush while our man is all into jumping , running and doesn't care if you take him out in a diaper and  very obediently agreed to his peddamma's request of spanking Megha with a steel spatula. We also managed to go to a movie with the three. The two girls fell asleep after dancing to the songs and music between dialogues and Aarush would only let Kiran inside after half time, the phrase 'History repeats' is soo true and Kiran couldn't agree more;)
Both did equal mischief and Anjali promptly followed them.

Aarush and Megha actually had conversation about god only knows what. Both would never want to drink from their respective sippy cups so they exchanged and drank as if it was not the same old boring milk or water but a different high spirited liquid....huh?

NJ trip is always a package- family, fun and some great food. We had an extended vacation when our flight canceled and had one full day to ourselves. And now it's time for Megha and Anjali to make a trip to their superhero bro 'Aarush ' ;)

Not enough!!!

Whats with all the cuteness of toddlers I feel I can't get enough of it!
The way Aarush imitates our every sound and action, the cutest way he puts his hands to his chin and shows us how a character in his fav rhyme does

the way he makes a conversation as soon as he wakes up as if he's sharing his dream with us, the dramatic way he says when things are hot,

 

  the pretend tears Vs the real ones, the more tighter way he holds us when we try to put him down in his crib, the puppy way of his sleep position,the new skills he's learning, the toothy grin when asked for a smile and I can go on and on and on.....
 

All this being said there are also times when I said " I have had enough" with all the mess just after vacuuming, the screams, requiring constant entertainment and on and on.....
Life it is I think, as there is lightness-darkness, good-bad and so will have cuteness and monsterness;)....
Anyways, I Love My Baby Boy.