Arya rides her bike

After trying for 3+ years, Arya is finally riding her bike. There is still some whining going on but she is able to balance and pedal and have fun. Today we went to a cul-de-sac so she could practice her turns. She did very well and managed some figure 8s. She did run into a mail box though - she was so scared of hitting the mail box that she turned into it. 

We are very proud of her... 

Encounter with poison ivy

24th May 2016

All the stories about poison ivy rash - showed Arya the plant and told her to not touch it. Well, she touched it anyway and came home with not just bug bites but a big patch of rash on her chest. Took her to the doc and she confirmed that it was poison ivy rash . How do we convince a 7 year old to not scratch??? Well she listened and did quite ok with the not scratching part .

May 25th 2016

But in the middle of the night half asleep - urge to scratch so strong but fighting it with all the will power she could muster - she woke up crying and screaming that it was itchy. A lot of calamine lotion later she was able to fall asleep.

May 26th 2016

It looks better, let's hope it will be gone Ina few days..

Arya story

The lucky dad

The lucky Dad had a very nice daughter so he decided to take to her to the museum to see the 

Octonauts. At the museum  I saw what I really wanted to see it was the best thing it was the Octonauts. In the museum I saw the gup a, the gup e, and the gup b!. The grip b belonged to kwazi, the gup a belonged to captain, and the gup e belonged to peso.  I cuddled peso for my picture.  I made a gup and took one each thing that was there.  I saw penguins, um...I saw an octopus. I saw sea horses.   The octopus was stuck to the glass!. There was glasses inside the octopus home!. Peso gave me high fives.  I touched sea shells. And then went underwater to see the rays and the sharks and the spotted wobegong sharks. And we had some over there.  After lunch we did the whole thing all over again.  Half way through I lost my octonaut hat!. When the rays open and close their mouth :-) saw so many teeth.  One of the sharks name was Mary Lou.  She had a very nice silver coat, but we couldn't find her because ask of the shark had curves in their noses.  When the sharks opened their mouth I saw all of their teeth but couldn't count them all.  After that we had our actual lunch.  Half way there to the star fish iSaw kwazis pod. I saw dashey's place was were I had a picture with peso. Then we went to the toilets and then went back home.i was tired out, my legs are hurting, we got to the train fast so I can write my story down.

The end.

The holidays

In Arya own words...

Yesterday I went with ghia and Nouri and smaera to Sydney Olympic park.  We played on the spider web. I climbed to the top. I was a little bit scared, but I made it and as soon as I got to the top I knew it wasn't scary anymore.

We had lunch there and for lunch I was very hungry and I was so hungry that I had lots of upma until I was full.

Then we played some more on the spider web and I climbed to the top twice.  Then we played contests with Nouri and then it was time to go home.

The end.

She made it to the top

11th of July 2015

Today we had gone for a picnic at the Bicentennial park with some friends. The playground had a big spider climbing web. Usually Arya climbs up 2-3 levels and then decides to climb down. She has always been scared of going up since she will have to climb back down. Today, she climbed all the way to the top with her friend Noori. She also made it back down all on her own.

When daddy offered to guide her on how to climb down, Arya said "I am going  to listen to myself."

We are very proud of her.

Arya's oriya

Is daddy aasuchi? Daddy aasuchi?

Arya is trying to learn oriya. It is very funny listening to her. ..

5 year old's English

Arya: "No one is intelligenter than me.  I am the intelligentest"