Garbage Sonata

About ten mins ago tonight, I just stepped out to put the trash out. After cooking and being marinated in various aromas, I stepped out and it was like a force moved my face upwards. A gentle cool breeze, trees and leaves having a nightly rendezvous. I heard whispering leaves and a practically ghungroo clad wind gossiping among the trees. The clean, smooth, just right temperatured outside flirted with me and then this beautiful moon said Hi. Just had to click her. Wish my camera had telescopic zooming capabilities. Had put the kids to bed after working on them for an hour and still I called them out, just to enjoy this spontaneous moment. To say it was beautiful is putting it simply.

Spring Break - Part 2

Of bicycling and watermelons and swinging and babies in strollers...


pic courtesy - nosh (lol - no really!)


yaay!

swing swinga swing a-long and u gotta swing along, it's spring!

i'm so happy, i could cry - pic courtesy - nosh

enuf of watermelon, gotta get back on my trusty steed

was that a bird? or a plane? no, its...mumma's laundry!

mm mm mmmm

he didnt have his watermelon ma! can i go too?

joosy joosy oh so yummy.

Toy Story

Wow. I just had a first-hand experience of how easy it is to explain a situation, a feeling to my kids with the help of toys. I mean yes, there were always puppets, other toys and the odd sock but yesterday, I went to do some toy-shopping and bought Nosh a toy crib and changing table set. She'd been asking me for one for a while and I'm the kind who prefers that she uses things around the house to make cribs for the dolls and just basically imagine and re-use things to suit her fancy. So I watched her diligently place her dolls in shoe boxes lined with tissues and make bottles and powder tins out of lego blocks. I've heard bemusedly many conversations she's had with her 'kids' and been an audience to many imaginative goings-on.
So when I gave her the toys to play with and she brought her brother into the picture (Reh mama? lol!) there was a lot of excitement and an incident where Reh complained that the baby scratched him. Nosh immediately reprimanded her baby and I heard a lot of "bad girl" "no"! and all that. I just stepped in with the referee role lol saying she's a baby and she doesnt know what she's doing and all that. Reh felt very bad and started kissing the doll saying its ok its ok etc etc. Nosh covered the baby in a giant hug and all was well. I'd tried explaining that so many times with real people before, littler cousins but it didnt go down as easily as this did and it just showed me a new and maybe easier way of making them understand things. All it took was for them to be proactive in choosing someone to be theirs and forming a relationship with them. The ease with which it went down and was understood was an eye-opener to me, a relief. Exciting too because I see endless possibilities in explaining lots of things to them, maybe learning more. Oh I can't wait to play.
I used to hate that game - 'mummy mummy', or 'house', whatever you call it as a kid. Now it seems extremely helpful!



Nosh with her brother's baby Sophie (hyuk hyuk!)


She was saying it's time to cut her nails....


Proud mom/aunt?

All's well when the baby's so happily asleep!

Raindrops fallin on our heads...

It's a gorgeous night here in NY. Hint of spring with all the beautiful, melting, rejuvenating rain. One where you can be thrilled to bits sharing your umbrella with the love of your life, skipping thru puddles. Since the love of my life is filling tax forms, the other two loves of my life and I opened the windows and smelled, felt, heard and saw the rain. If there was no roof, we could have tasted it too but another time. Nosh and Reh got all excited at hearing their voices echo and mumma hushing them up while they marvelled loudly at the beautiful lights and the rain drops outlined in the street light. Anyone passing by (actually there were a smattering of cars whooshing by) would have heard cold-gusts-of-air-induced giggly belly laughs. (Wish I could bottle up those laughs forever.) They were even more excited that I opened the windows AND let them poke their heads out.

Soon those trees are gonna be lush and we wont be able to see the windows on the other side.

After Picture Day

Heyy'all.....nosh n reh here. Mum was busy clicking us in our best threads we wore to Picture Day at school. Forgive her for being such a show-off! Ermm...since this is our first time, the snaps kind of loaded in the opposite direction. So start at da bottom and work yer way up!


okdoke - bye evvybody - noshs's babies are asleep in their cardboard boxes behind me...quietly now...


hey! don't traumatise my baby photographing him doing his poopy in the potty (am potty training elmo behind me)

ok mom - can we have our snacks now?

da's better

boy am I glad I won't be wearing this khadoos gear in a while...

ok.....can I go now?

make sure you get my ashy legs...thank God I threw those darned stockings and shoes off

mom I gotta tell you about Neha today - she was lookin' goooood.....