Li'l Stinker !

Daddy and I take turns at dropping Sudha Parimala off at school. She prefers going with Daddy. On the days that Daddy has to leave early and so I drop her off, she gets upset when he is about to leave. Since that is the same time as Curious George/Sesame Street on PBS, I turn on the TV for 5-10 minutes so I can get my things together and leave.

Today, she wasn't fussing when Daddy had to leave and cheerfully said bye-bye. So I skipped the TV. But she comes up to me and says "Daddy office gone. TV haaku" (haaku = kannada for turn on)!! Li'l Stinker!

A new favourite play - throwing stones in the creek

Throwing stones as far as I can ...
... to see them make a "plop"...

... and getting my shoes all wet.

Swinging low ...
... and swinging high, ...

... ain't I the happiest baby ever?.

Why I've been feeling under the radar

I've been feeling slightly under the radar for the past few days.
Guess this is one of the reasons :)

Happy Ugadi !

"No Badami. I want Strawberries"

Was what she said this morning when I gave her more Badami(almonds) instead of the strawberries she had eaten earlier !!

A new place to dump mud

It was a glorious evening when we got back home, and I had dinner cooked, and a vegetable patch overgrown with weeds. So I decided to weed it. We were "playing" for a while, and I gave her a little stick to dig the cleared patch with. She was digging up dirt and trying to put it in the trash bags, so not wanting to lose all the fertile mud, I told her to give it to me. So she would dig up some and fill her little hands full of dirt and bring it to me.

For a while, I was entertaining her - taking the dirt from her hands and praising her. Then the weeding got a little tiring for out-of-shape me and instead of taking the dirt, just concentrated on pulling out the weeds. She still brought dirt over to me saying "here mama". When I just grunted in reply, she looked around for a new place to dump the dirt and found one ...

my pants !!!!!!!!

I was squatting and pulling the weeds up. She hitched up my T-Shirt, pulled on my pants and dumped all the dirt!

Loving her dolls

Putting one of them to sleep

"changing diapers"