Arya bargains her snack

After getting home from school I asked her what she wants to eat. Arya says she wants to eat a few packets of gummy fruits. I tell her that I would like foot her to drink milk. Arya replies " how about I hand 4 gummy fruits and 1 milk."

What's next???

Arya dancing

Arya has been dancing with some interesting moves. She has been in ballet class for a few weeks now. Every Thursday is a fight because she does not want to do ballet any more. So this coming Thursday (08/02/2012) is her last ballet class. She is already enrolled in gymnastics and she does fight it every saturday, but this is something that she will not get a say in. Arya definitely needs to get some energy out and work on her flexibility. I am a little surprised that for a 3 year old she is not as flexible as I would have expected her to be..

On the dancing note - Arya loves listening to the hindi son on Raj's wedding site and started dancing to it when it plays.. She also loves dancing to most music - the most recent one was to Happy Feet 2
Link to you tube video for the Happy Feet 2 Dance -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t18yXE7BI4&feature=g-upl
Link to you tube video for hindi song -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btV2npllAyI&feature=g-upl

Arya telling mommy the importance of journaling

07/27/2012

Arya came back from school and was coloring at her table. I was finishing up some work before getting ready to take the doggies out. Arya sits at her table and starts talking and making up stories as she colors. After a few mins, I started paying attention to what she was saying since it seemed like she was having a conversation with me.

Arya was telling me how important it was to journal. She tells me: " Mommy you work on your journal while I do my work.."

She was explaining it very well and said " if you get stuck while working on the journal and need help, then ask your parents." I ask Arya who her parents are and the conversation was as follows"
Arya - my parents are in my school
Mommy - Arya your parents are your mommy and daddy, so that means I am one of your parents.
Aray - mommy you are a girl and you are my mommy. You cannot be a parent.

Link to the youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFOFRBrvig&feature=g-upl

You are a bad boy daddy!!!

07/29/2012

Arya was walking around in the kitchen telling stories. she comes up to daddy and the conversations goes:
Arya - You are a bad boy, you are the baddest boy daddy
Daddy - why?
Arya - Because you are a bad body and you are mean
Daddy - Are all boys bad??

After saying a bunch more things..
Arya - No, all boys are not bad.
Mommy - Who is a good boy then.??
Arya - Aja (Maternal grandfather), Dada (Paternal grandfather) are good boys..

Daddy was perfectly happy being the baddest boy :)

Gymnastics

Second  gymnastics class today (once a week), same problem as ballet...  Doesn't want to go at first and fights it all morning long. Once she gets there though, she has fun and doesn't want to leave. At least today she didn't run out of class like she did last week.

Arya can count

07/18/2012
Daddy has been trying to get Arya to understand math and start doing additions. Today while Arya was showing daddy the zucchini from our vegetable garden, she very clearly says " 2 here + 1 there = 3 zucchinis" Daddy was thrilled but to make sure that it was not a fluke, he asked her to add 1 + 1 and Arya said 2..

Yeah... she is learning to count.

Is is the terrible twos or the terrible threes???

The last few months have been very hard - Arya's motto has been to do the exact opposite of what we ask her to or not to do... :( We had thought this was a phase that would pass, but I cannot wait for it to pass sooner than later. She very clearly comprehends what we do not want her to do and she will do it anyway..

But one of the funny things is how she repeats back what we tell her.. For ex. we tell her to not get frustrated and calm down when she is having a hard time with something - like putting on her socks or her shoes or shirt... One morning a few weeks back, I was having a bad morning and was clearly frustrated... So Arya walks up to me, looks at me with a very innocent eyes and says " Mommy dont get frustrated,.. calm down." At that moment I didnt know if I should laugh or get annoyed... It is just amazing how quickly she absorbs everything we tell her..

Last weekend we went to the mall to pick up a few things and Arya's rule in the store was "Look but do not touch and do not remove anything from the shelf." In one of the stores when she walked in with daddy she says very clearly, "I will look at things, I will touch things, and I will remove things from the shelf" in a very matter of fact tone...

So as much as I am ready to pull my hair out because Arya is not listening - she continues to amaze me by all the things she does...

Arya starts Ballet!!

It is true- on June 10, 2012 Arya started ballet class at her school. She had been asking about it for a little while after she moved to primary and saw a few of the girls in her class get ready for ballet.

So ofcourse, we rush to enroll her for summer, buy her outfit, ballet shoes, tap shoes.... The first week of class was great. She loved it, couldnt wait for the next class.. But for some reason, the 2nd and 3rd class have been difficult - she would cry in the morning while getting ready for school saying that she did not want to do ballet. Deepoo would have a hard time getting her out of the car and into her class because she did not want to do ballet.... So 3 out of 8 classes done and she is not sure that ballet is that much fun.

So I have enrolled her for a short session of gymnastics, which I feel she is going to enjoy more because it is more active.
I guess we will find out....