Let's get busy

As we grow, we continue to experiment with our vocabulary, sometimes, to the point of sending momma rolling off to the floor.

The allergies and moustaches

Like sugar who mysteriously grows a moustache anywhere. I got a moustache on my arm. The next day it woud be on her tummy. On asking what is a mustache, she avidly changes the topic.

Recently, she switched to energies(for allergies). She would often be found complaining I got peanut energy to even the minutest dry skin rash/ heat rash  on her and sometimes on momma, too.


Sesame Outing

Ever since chinipie's birthday outing at the sesame place, we have fallen in love with the place and as the summer heat rises up, sugarbun is ready to put on her babing suit and go on to enjoy the rides there. Her favourite one is the roller poster.


The Silence

Is usually threatening as it's guaranteed to mean that they are upto something, which would result in more task for the poor momma. During these times,
Barbies gets a hair cut la-snip-its-style. With hair locks being fed into the toy-machine(the picnic bench with a hole in it) and a toy being thrown out as a reward.

Dental Floss is pulled out to the last string and is used either to decorate the whole house from top to bottom or as a collar and chain for the plush puppies or just to tie up anything and everything. On being questioned, comes the smart reply, "I didn't do it. The other one did it. I just found it and used it". Where else would you see the mantra of  'Reduce, Reuse and Recycle' more aptly followed?


Toilet rolls are used to make waterfalls and the lakes beneath. If momma objects, we try to roll it back. If she doesn't, we remind her to say, "Do not make the waterfall." Really? So all this is done just to get her attention/reaction??

If that's so true, then what about that one time when the entire brand new roll was flushed in the toilet, resulting in an overflow of the past three days of , uhm let's just say, oranic manure.? Was that to get momma busy or to contribute to the environment?

How we keep busy

This is how we kept ourselves busy when trapped inside the house(read when momma couldn't take us out). Creativity and Nature at it's best!

Duck

Finger puppet

In action!

Home-made play dough

Rocks with trees (i guess)

Rainbow Rock with a turtle

Stegasaurus

Dora as clicked by chinipie

Shadow photography (momma experimenting)

Another one

Bark of some tree in our frontyard

Happy Holi

The weather was perfect, the girls were active, and this is how we celebrated holi(the festival of colors welcoming the spring).

Twig 1 - decorated with flowers made out of tissues dipped in food color.

Twig 2

Twig 3

The end result :)

The left over tissues used for the special holi greeting cards along with blossoms/leaves(chini's idea)

Peacock Rangoli at the doorstep

The message

And the busy hands ;)

Though, at the end of the day, momma was seen dragging her feet, holding her back with one hand and her neck with the other :)

A Seussian Birthday

So, March 2nd was Dr. Seuss's Birthday. Whole week, momma was being reminded of it, who lazily doped all day long and grunted her yes and no. It had been two weeks that she had stuck herself to the bed, and the kids were now getting restless. In an attempt to keep them busy, books were ordered from the library, and a couple of activity sheets from Dr. Seuss's website were printed out and presented to them. She had to be reminded by the pint-sized people though that they need some instructions on how to proceed with them. That's when it dawned on her that, may be, she is required to be involved with them. Her eyes, heavy with the effect of the relaxants and pain-killers, could hardly keep themselves open. Dopily, she gave them the minimal of instructions and lay down on the couch, next to them, for the sole purpose of morale boosting.

The rhyming exercise was fun for both, whereas the hat matching proved to be a little tricky. Sugarbun chose to help her elder sis by providing her the hats to match, who did fairly well till she could concentrate i.e. 60% Afterwards, chinipie found herself getting distracted by the singing and dancing of sugarbun and hurried to finish the activity. That's when she got them wrong. She did fairly well, for her age, I would say. I would attempt to have her do this particular activity again - when I am better and am able to assist her with it.

A Hearty Valentine's Day!!

With two very pinkalicious daughters, love is certainly in the air in our house. Here's what we did the whole of the valentine's week and the last..


Heart Jell-o's for chini's class treat

Hearty Water melons for sugar's class treat

Heart Butterfly Valentines(with bubble sticks) for sugar's friends

Sugar showing her creativity

Chini displaying her creativity

The whole lot of butterflies

Valentine boxes for Chini's friends

with playdough inside

A special Valentine box by Chini - no hearts on this one - any guesses what is drawn?

Valentine's Cake any one? We didn't have the heart pan; we iced with pink heart frosting and lots of sprinkles on each piece and gobbled it up ;)