Cool girls

Went to WalMart earlier today. As usual, the little one enforced her new policy.

Cannot leave shop without buying her something, anything.

Today it was glasses. So the kids picked up glasses. Five dollars a piece. Considering all the long car rides that await us over summer, decided to buy them the glasses..

They did pose for pictures as soon as we came home

Indoors...

and outdoors..

Cool, no?

ps. Tonight at bed time, little one said "I was mad at you yesterday so did not say sorry. Can say sorry now and give you a kiss!" . Like WA said, this too shall pass..

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Weekend Photos

The weekend was spent in San doing a traditional folk dance performance as part of a group of eight, a lot of quiet gardening and Jr. doing a coconut shell decoration.

The dance performance was impressive and so is the organization for which they did the dance. A separate post on India TEAM later.

As for gardening...

and for the artwork..

The week that started with a scare has ended nicely..

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Bharatanatyam

Jr. went on stage for the first time today. She did a great job and did not show stagefright. We were all very happy with her performance.

Another summer day spent driving around in the hot sun and the adults health is going for a six. After watching the performance, the little one is trying out some freelance moves which reminded me of the old days where my brother and me would try karate moves after coming out of a Jackie Chan movie. Some of the little one's self concocted moves are really amazing. Hope to sneak up and catch it on video one of these days. She cannot wait to be six so she can also learn dancing..

On another note, the kids have picked up some slokams from daddy over the recent weeks. Finally managed to slip in a Sri Rudram CD into the van and displace Slumdog Millionaire from the top slot. At first there was the usual stubborn refusal to change the CD.

Now that they hear daddy sing along with the CD and they find it so amazing that daddy can recite minute after minute of what seems to be an endless tongue twister, they asked me "how do you remember all that? Can you teach me how to sing it?" Have patiently broken down the first Ganesha slokam and they so excited that they can sing along too!

Do not know if they will continue on, or this will be it. If anything learning slokams will improve their ability to memorize things, which always comes in handy in any education system. So far so good....

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Henna Ho!

Something to distract the little devils when they are at their worst behavior.

Pity it lasts only a few days. Then again, you get a fresh smile every now and then.

Talking about bad behavior, there has been allegations that it is correlated to this blog itself!

Using approximate numbers provided by two random sampling instances by wife and MIL for Jr. and the Little one respectively and averaging them out over a period of 24 hours starting at 7:30AM the data suggests ...

You know what they say? There are lies, damn lies and then there is Karl Pearson....

Their tantrums and health are correlated more to the average color of the family underwear when expressed on a scale of 0-255 than it is to the blog posts, but I cannot prove it with numbers as convincingly.

How could any lying mathematician?

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Orangeutans

The last of the new matching Salwars...

complemented by some bead garlands..

They sure are getting naughtier by the day!

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