Betu had got this model making activity book (Navneet Publications) long ago. He was around 4 then so I had kept it away as I felt he needed to be little older to actually do it himself even with help. Recently I found it again and Betu was quite excited about making the fire truck. So today we both finally sat down and made it. Looks pretty neat to me. What I loved best was that the book had perforated parts just to be snapped out from the pages. We didn't need any glue or scissors as the

Betu wanted me to do some craft work with him over the weekend. Basically he likes to work with scissors and glue :) He brought out the craft book that Swati had given to him and selected this activity of making paper flowers in a paper flower pot. Betu chose the sheets to be used for making petals and also as to what shape would each petal be like. And I think it came out pretty good. He wants to add more flower sticks which we will do in the coming days. ~~ Keep Smiling! ~~ Sent on my Black

Yesterday I was cleaning one utensil which I needed and Betu came in to the kitchen...looking at me he asked "Aaapko to bartan dhone mein bada mazaa aata hoga?" (Washing utensils must be so much fun for you).Me: "Why?"Betu: "Kyunki aapko paani se khelne ko mitla hai!" (Coz you get to play with water)Me:  ...zapped and laughing...

These days most of his statements end with "you know that?" and "that" sounds more like "dat". And this statement is said with an arched eyebrow and a interogative look on his face. Some of these examples are: 1. Jo mere paas Ben 10 wala toy hai woh Prithvi ke pass bhi hai. You know dat? 2. Aaj "Dance India Dance - Lil Masters" mein Remo sir aayenge. You know dat? 3. Maine poora doodh 1 min mein khatam kar diya. You know dat? 4. Maine aaj 10 sixes maar

Till date whenever Anirudh goes to any birthday party, when the khoi bag is broken, he would still collect more of the confetti than the goodies. And so it happened too when we went for a birthday party this Sunday. He had collected plenty of colored thermocol balls this time and was asking me to do some craft with them. When I asked him for examples, he told me lets make a tree. But then we didn't have many green colored ones so then he suggested to make some flowers. And this is what we made u

We made this brown paper bag pillow yesterday.First we decorated the paper bag with cutouts of flowers and butterflies which were colored by Anirudh and then cut to shape by me. Anirudh wanted some star shapes also so I took the easy way out and asked him to use his star shaped stickers. Lazy mumma ehh? :)Then Anirudh made some crushed newspaper balls and we stuffed them inside the paper bag. Lastly we sealed the paper bag from the open end as well and voila..a beautiful paper pillow was ready!

One part of the craft work that we did from his holiday homework crafts last weekend:We still have to make a Hippo (or was it a Rhino?) and a duck pond. Hopefully this weekend we should be done with it.Looking at the output, Betu is now excited to do rest of the one quickly too! What else do I want :D

These days whenever I'm stuck and wonder how to go ahead in doing a certain task, Anirudh suggests what we can do and ends it with "There's no problem!" :)For example, yesterday night I was telling hubby that we don't have any milk at home even for tea in the morning. So Betu said "Koi baat nahi Mumma. Main aur papa subah ja kar doodh le aayenge. There's no problem!" (Me and papa will go in the morning and buy the milk.)Other day, he was asking me to bake his favourite chocolate cake for him and

Betu is really excited today because its his papa's birthday. He is planning a lot of things. We will do this...and that. We will go and buy this...etc etc. So basically he is in a vary happy mood.So on our way to work and his daycare, he says to me and hubby both, "Achha hua aapne apni fight kal hi kar li (me and hubby had a big tiff yesterday). Aaj sab khush khush rahenge aur masti karenge". Me and hubby looked at each other and just smiled.

Since the past three days I've been down with very high fever and thus have not been able to help Betu in packing his school bag. And all these days he has been doing it himself deligently without me ur Hubby asking him to do it. And today when I asked him to bring his daycare bag so that I can pack it, he tells me to take rest and he will do it himself. And he did proceed to put in everything one by one and the zipped up the bag and said "Ho gaya!" (All done!) Betu, you are my j