Googleween

With mom...

Playing peekaboo with Mom & Dad...

Not only the costume but the attitude too.....

Spider man rescuing the cowboy......

A little horseshoe for a baby cowboy..face painting.....

Pumpkin decorating......

It was once again time for googleween. This year kids had their party on a separate day. There were clowns, balloon artists, face painting, live music and various activities for kids. There were scarecrows and a pumpkin patch for the kids to select their pumpkin for decorating. There were bins full of very ugly looking candies all around the park. There were snake -rats-eyeball-worm candies.

Linguistic sojourn

Linguistic sojourn



I can speak French now well thats what my mom says how I sound like when I read a book.
Btw, here is a cheatsheet

don-no-naa = I don't know
Kaa= Car
Boa= Ball
boon= balloon
joosh= Shoes
Staa= Star
mun= moon
oown = phone
Bi= bike
ten= pen
boo= boat
coou=clock
tite=kite
choo= train
tor tor= helicopter
bum= broom
aajon= Arjun
phis= fish
momo=nemo
Band= done/close

Visit to the neighbourhood pumpkin patch

At the neighbourhood pumpkin patch.....

Pumpkin patch

Having fun in a wheel barrow....

Nightcrawlers

Mini house for chota baby......

We went to the neighbourhood pumpkin patch. The best thing about the trip was I got to go there in the night. There were lots of jumphouses. One of the dinosaurs jumphouse collapsed on us. We don;t have a picture of it as my mom froze for a second and cldn;t take a picture. I had fun running around the patch. My mom gave me a ride in a wheelbarrow. The outing came to an end with my dad scaring me with a really yucky looking scary mask.

Kanjak..

Mom with all the girls...

Anoshka with Shetal aunty......

Babies enjoying eating halwa puri.....

Tikka time.....

Mom had a small ceremony at home called kanjak and she invited few of my friends. Kanjak is done on the 8th day of the navratri festival. Little girls are invited over and given traditional halwa puri and chana along with some gifts. Back in India as a kid my mom too along with her sisters used to go for kanjaks. This was the first time she had kanjaks and it made her all nostalgic....

Aayush..

Thats the only name I can say very clearly. I even call caillou 'aayush'. Actually Aayush is my nanny's son. At times he comes home with his mom to play with me. We fight over the same toys. He is very good at riding a scooter and I really want him to teach me that.

Pumpkin in the park...

Getting my very own chota pumpkin....

With Dad...

With mama.....

Fun in the park....

We went to the Guadalupe River Park & Gardens 12th annual Pumpkins in the Park. There was live music for kids and a small pumpkin patch. There were events for little older kids like pumpkin deocration, scarecrow making etc..We didn't stay there for long as it was a very warm day.

Dandiya

Heading out to vedika's place for dandiya playdate...

Getting ready to play dandiya....

Dandiya with friends...

The festival season starts with Dandiya. Dandiya is the dance you do during the navratris in the honor of goddess Durga. You dance in circles on beaty music and at times you use colorful sticks. Vedika's mom Tina aunty had arranged a dandiya playdate for the babies. Since I love music I had a great time doing the Garba. I went out with my mom, dad and their and my friends to downtown to play dandiya. This time it was in a very big hall which was filled with so manyyyyy people. Even Sanika had come there with her parents.I enjoyed my first dandiya experience. These days I go around the house banging pencils instead of dandiya sticks and singing ting ting ting.....

A day at children's discovery museum

With clifford the big red dog....

Oh I love to drive....

The Sand Laboratory ..exploring sand with unusual sand toys: authentic science tools including scales, beakers and tubes.

The Forest..... is a place to explore stories and is filled with books.

The waterways....playing with water and lots of colorful plastic balls....

My parents took me to CDM - children's discovery museum. We spent a lot of time playing in the 'wonder cabinet'. It had a Woodland Puppet Forest, Giant Dragon, Sand Science Laboratory, Crawl-Through Tunnel, Child-Sized Kaleidoscope, art studio. We had fun time making bubbles of every size and kind in the bubbalogna. There was an area dedicated to world of circles but I had most fun in the waterways area where there were many colorful plastic balls and Bell Fountain, Vortex Tank, Laminar Jet, Current Channel, and Ballcano to play with.

Disco playdate

My friends....

Babies & mommies......

Giving Rimaan a ride....

Is the party over mama?..yeah and you can take your bling necklace off now baby ..

I had a disco playdate at my place. I invited all my buddies. My mom and I had arranged for some cool dance music but it turned out that my friends were more interested in my toys rather than in dancing. We had bling bling necklaces , macaras and some funky glasses for the playdate. I had fun dancing and playing with my friends.

Happy Hollow

At the zoo....

Inside the goat pen..I don't think its a good idea...

Daddy save me..he is going to eat me up....

Rides

Puppet show

Not a big zoo, but still it has a small and interesting collection of animals, birds, and a snake or two. In the zoo there was a the Pygmy Goat pen where you can enter and feed the hungry goats. There were lemurs, Dwarf Zebu, the Miniature Horse, Sicilian Dwarf Donkey, Alpaca, Meerkats and the acrobatic Black-Capped Capuchin Monkey. Happy Hollow Zoo is also home to a couple of tropical birds. The zoo has an attach park area where it has many rides and picnic tables. The best feature of the park is a small puppet theater. I enjoyed watching a jungle puppet show. It was a wonderful day well spent.

Playdate with Rohan

On the swing....
With Rohan and his mom Priti aunty.....

Loved playing with gears........

Priti aunty helping Rohan on the slide......

Interrupting ppl on the basketball court........

I had a playdate with Rohan at Thamien park. Parth too joined us later. We had fun on the swings & slides, played in the sand and fought over a ball.

Ganesh Chaturthi

Ganesha......
Me ransacking Usha aunty's backyard....

Puja time....

Aarti time.......

We celebrated Ganesh chaturthi at Usha aunty's place. She had invited all the kids at her place for a special playdate. Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the most popular of Hindu festivals. This is the birthday of Lord Ganesha. All us did a little puja and then Usha aunty gave everyone some prasad. Mom had got special tiny besan laddos for all the kids.

Josh

Josh aka Joshua...
Josh giving me a ride on his scooter....don't miss the meaningful smile on face

Ride is over and I still won't get off his scooter...

Shurbhi bua visited us once she was back from India. I really wanted to play with Josh but he didn't :(..He had got his scooter along and this was the first time I was seeing one. He was nice enough to give me a ride and I enjoyed it so much that I decided not to get off it. It took my parents some time to convince me that they will buy me one the next day...its been months and I still don't have a scooter and its still me fav. thing.....so those who are reading remember that its on my wish list for christmas :)

Playdate at Akhil's

What are we suppose to do with these stickers..eat them!!??

They taste so good..yummy...

Akhil with his mom Aruna Aunty...

Aruna aunty, Akhil's mom had arranged a playdate. She gave us some colored paper and lots of alphabets and shapes to stick onto the paper to make our own little craft. I don't know anything about sticking but I made better use of them by chewing them....I had fun chewing them and I kept my mom on her toes as she spent her entire evening taking them out of my mouth. Btw, I had fun time sliding on them too. I enjoyed ransacking Akhil's room for toys and had good time riding his motorbike :).Aruna aunty had made some delicious snacks too for all of us.