A Quickie Cookie

Hmm..I'm here after a long time. I got bored of cribbing, cribbing and so on...Okay...I'm busy. So, what??? I can still write on blog...So here it goes...:)

I'm in awe and will remain in awe at Sanju's thoughtfulness as ever. Many a times i try to clarify myself whether she is really 5yrs old or more.


A little of background

Now that its holidays for Sanju we thought we will spend this weekend over mom's place and leave Sanju there for a week to 10 days. My sis-in-law Usha is now 8 mths pregnant and they both share a very good relationship all to the credit of Usha.

Here is our conversation
Sanju: Mom, is it good for health to eat sweets when you have a baby in tummy?

Me: Hmm...not really. Nothing like that!

Sanju: OK, how about apples? Are they good to have when you a baby in tummy?

Me: YESSSSS....they are good. But, why are you asking that?

Sanju: Fine mom...we will take apples to eat for Usha then...

Awe...Awe...Awe...Awe..Awe...........

First, she has that thought to carry something when going to a place

second, she knows that Usha is special

Third, she knows that there is something good and something bad for the people who are carrying.

Fourth, she wants to know which is good for usha before buying...

Fifth, how caring she is of people!!!

Mom...Mom...Mom....Why is she like that?? and Why the hell i was never like her????....And how the heaven she is learning all these even though there are no inputs from me????

Muahhhh...Luv u Sanjs...

Heights??? all in a lighter vein

Disclaimer:
 I do not mean to offend any star fan's opinions or emotions. everyone should/will develop favourism towards someone and ofcourse they be partial to them & support them..i very well understand that point. No offense there, ...i'm only touching the extremes here...

Introduction:
ma cousin srikanth, BH (Better half, in all ways) were ardent fans of nandamuri clan & ofcourse its implied they hate chiru &co. maree DH ki entha pichi ante eppudoo nenu lekunda movie ki vellaru, alantidi sanju puttina kotha lo nenu velle situation lekapothe frnds tho velli maree Maharadhi choosaru, monna roshu puttaka kooda "Simha" nannu vadilesi velli maree choosaru..ee rendu movies ye nenu lekunda tanu choosina movies intha varakoo...ardham chesukondi :)

Me & bro, we both do not claim ourselves as so broad-minded, but definetely not within the ring.

Mommy's guilt...Infact Working Mom's guilt

Mommy’s guilt….Strange term with strong meaning in depth. Did see it on Keerthi &Sree’s blogs….gave a casual thought about it…but really not into writing one. I must agree the actual reason, its not that I never had guilt, but didn’t want to recollect to make me feel worse. But that’s all before my chat with Sree…she did assure me that it makes us more relaxed, cautious and relieved. She suggested me that a lot of moms out in the contest - Fight the mommy's guilt would identify with me....Yes, that’s a right point. May be if I write down, I might realize that all the guilt I was carrying till now was not as worse as I was imagining and its there with every momm but in the variant magnitudes.

Speaking frankly, I had it more with Sanju rather with Roshu. And yess…I realized what went wrong with and making myself cautious not to be caught with guilt again.

Here it goes:

My 3 day trip

Trip anagane meeru evvaroo conclusions ki rakandi nenu edo full enjoy chesesthunnanu ani.  4yrs rowdy tho, 5mths infant tho pleasure trips vese antha ethu ki inka edagaledu nenu ;(, ivanne commitment trips.

eluru lo ma atha edo mokku teerchukuntundi, so daniki chuttalu andarinee pilichindi. elanoo eluru daka vasthunnaru, andaroo unnaru kada, dwaraka tirumala kooda velthe baguntundi ani inko program pettaru. roshu gadiki ippudu 5th month kada, so ma atha gari ooru(kollur) vellali. 5th month ragane veldam ani plan chesukunnam kanee ee lopu annayya mrg settle ayyindi. aa hadavidi antha 27 tho ayipothe, roshu ki 9th ki 5mths complete ayipothayi. so elanoo 27th may - 9th june lopu kollur vellali.

Disaster at home

There was a disaster at home yesterday. Obviously the reason is Sanju.

Ninna annayya birthday. So, tanu intiki vachaka dinner plans gurinchi full josh tho matladukuntunnam. bayata order cheddama, lekapothe velli tindama ani. ee lopu asusual ga sanju meeru pakka pic lo choosthunna TV cabinet ekkesindi. tanu ekkadam idi first time kadu, day lo 10-15times ekkuthundi..TV paina unna shelf lovi bommalu annee kelukuthundi. daniki adem anandamo naku ardam kadu :( ninna kooda alane ekkindi...appatikee nenu arusthunna, padipothavu digu ani. vinaledu....nenu asusual ga vadilesi, annayya tho kaburlu chepthunna...

idemi anyayam

hey...wait wait wait. Don't jump into the conclusions that i'm going to write about some really serious issues. This is very silly. munde cheppesa, silly ani. so just relax & read...

ma sanju gadiki ee madya kalam lo tours taggipoyayi. anthaku mundu ayithe sanju ni valla ammamma ni pilavani vallu papathmulu. ippudu madam school ki velthundi kada, so tours kudaradam ledu. monna oka bulli muni manavadini gadapalu datinche program ayyindi, papam school kada..vellalekapoyindi. sarle..oka function yega miss avuthundi anukuni oorkunnam. monnam inko buddodi birthday vachindi, vijayawada lo. appudu papam deeniki quarterly exams:) em chestham, adi kooda miss ayipoyindi. appude chuttallo sanubhoothi pavanalu start ayyayi, sanju ki dishti tagilesindi, anduke anni functions miss ayipothundi ani.

so, ivannee cover cheyyali kada. monna dussera holidays ivvagane, maku oka engagement function tagilindi VSKP lo. valla daddy ki, deeniki edayina function tagilindi ante chalu, annee perfect ga undali. cheppula nunchi, battala daka. valla ammayi ki manchi sandals yee levu anta ( ma intiki randi, oka 6-7 jathalu choopistha), okati konalsinde ani pattu patti danni, nannu teesukelli iddarikee chero jatha koni padesaru. naku 27yrs, daniki 3yrs. sandals cost mathram iddaridee equal ye. kanee ee sandals mathram bhale muddu ga unnayi. pattukellipoyam, all happies :) ninna ma nayanamma valla oorlo(yanamalakuduru-VJA) amma vari prathishta undi temple lo. aa oori adapillalu vellali anta. nenu aa oori adapillane, kanee nannu vadilesi ammamma, manavarallu chekkeyyadaniki ready ayipoyaru.

ippudu assalu twist :) amma ki na meeda super confidence, sanju battalu & accessories nenu super sardesthanu ani. nenu ofc nundi intiki vellgane nannu anne oka sari check cheyyamandi. tanu appatike annee sardesukundi, kanee nenu oka sari check chesi green signal isthe ado thutti. nenu check chesthoo chesthoo sanju vi monna konna kotha sandals cover choosa. appudu ma madhya jarigina conversation.

nenu: enduku amma extra luggage..ivi kavali anukunte velletappude ivi vesukuni vellochu kada??

amma: anthe antava, ive veesukuni vellipona, nenu ayithe mamoolu vi journey lo vesi, ivi oorlo veddam anukunna?

n: hmm, alana??...manchi sandals kada...assale gudi lo chala ekkuva rush untundi, evarayina kottestharu antava??

a: ala emee undadu anukunta le..

n: hmmm..anthe anthe. ala emee undadu. ive vesukuni vellipo. anavasaram ga malle extra pair enduku..motha baruvu kakapothe..

a: sare ayithe..aa cover teseyyi. vellemundu ave veddam.

ooru vellipoyaru. ninna poddunne gudiki kooda vellaru. andaroo konda kinda chuttalu unte, valla intlo cheppulu vadili vellaru anta. ma amma emo manvarali kallu kandipothayi aa konchem dooram cheppulu lekapothe ani..vesukuni velli konda 3/4 ekkaka vinayakudi gudi untundi. akkada vadilinchindi. full rush anta, prathishta motham choosi trupthi ga kindaki vachi choosthe, ma buddigadi cheppulu jump jilani. evaro ettesaru :( konda metlu choosthe full kalipothunnayi. sanju gadu jumpings meeda jumpings. amma choosthe mamoolu gane danni ettukoledu. inka metla meeda ante, no chance. inka appudu amma cheppulu daniki ichi, nana kashtalu padi intiki vacharu.
pothe poyayi cheppulu, mallee konukkovachu. kanee ippudu daniki vesukovadaniki cheppulu levu, aa oorlo cheppula shops levu (cheppula shops ante patamata/auto nagar daka vellalsinde, oka 15-20 mins walk untundi). amma nannu appudu enni titlu tittukuni untundo...idi emo intiki vellina daggara nunchi Kurkure kavali ani okate gola anta. ela teesukuni vellali shop ki?? ponee danni intlo vadili amma velli teesukoddam ante, akkada daniki alavatu ayinavallu amma tappa evaroo leru. top lepesthundi danni okadanne vadilesthe. mallee evo kashtalu padee padee, evarino bathimali vallatho teppincharu. ooriki vellina daggari nunchee boldu committments kada..andaru chuttala intiki vellali ani. evening nunchi aa program start. papam, sanju cheppulu lekundane anni illu tirigindi anta :( naku ayithe chala badha vesindi.

next day poddunne veellu Noojiveedu program pettukunnaru. ma atha koothuru untundi akkada. so, ee roju poddunne auto intiki teesukochi, bus stand daka velli, akkada konnaru mothaniki cheppulu. avee ma sanju gadi cheppula kashtalu.

ayina, devudu konni vishayallo enni appeals pettina respond avvadu. edo mata varasaki evarayina kottestharemo anagane, evarino puramayinchi marre kotteyinchade. idi anyayam kadoo mari????

ninna emi ayyindi ante....

ippudu i have to start telling you what happenned yesterday.

maku ippati nundee inko 2 months daka regular ga functions unnayi. mari functions ante hadavidi antha mana daggare kada...so Sanju ki manchi paatu langalu, dresses, gangras ippati nunchee konadam start cheyyali. alane, konni work kooda cheyyinchali anukuntunna. ma atha ki telisina oka avida works chala baga chesthundi. so nenu ninna ma atha ki cheppa, nenu vasthanu mee intiki. iddaram kalisi avida daggaraku veldam ani. sare mari, ippudu vellali kada?? ippudu na daggara scooty kooda ledu, assalu nannu drive cheyyanivvatledu intlo janalu. so, chitti shop ki velletappudu tanatho pate vellali. sare ani chitti ready ayyelopu nenu kooda ready ayipoya. idantha choosi sanju start. nenu kooda vasthanu nayanamma valla intiki ani. assale memu iddaram akkadi nunchee naduchukuntoo vellali aa work aunty daggaraki, inka sanju ni teesukuni velthe inka chachinatte. nenu tanani vaddu ani convince chesthoo undaga chitti manchi ga ready ayipoyi vacharu. valla daddy ni choodagane idi plate marchesindi. daddy, nannu kooda teesukuni vellava padma nayanamma daggaraki antooo. adi antha muddu ga adigesariki chitti na vaipu oka serious look ichi, ippudu danni edipinchoddu. manesthe nuvvu kooda maneyyi, ledante sanju ni kooda teesukuni vellu ani oka ultimatum issue chesaru. hmmm, em chestham. peddavallaki cheppetattu ledu, chinna vallaki cheppetattu ledu paristhithi. sare ani danni kooda gaba gaba aapasopalu paduthoo ready chesam nenu, amma kalisi.

chitti ki emo shop nundeee okate calls, inka tanaki full BP raise ayipoyindi. fasttttt, fastttt ani arupulu. mothaniki bayataki vacham. Sanju mundu tank meeda koorchovali kada, andukani rojooo chitti shop ki teesukuni velle intha pedda bag ni na mohana padesaru pattukomani. danti tho patu, na wallet okati. rendooo rendu chethulatho koorchuni bandi ekkano ledo.....eeyana sarrrr mantooo dookinchesaru. aa kangaru ki naku aa rendu luggagelani manage cheyyadam kashtam ayipoyindi. maha ayithe oka 10mtrs velli untam anthe. bag DAMALLL mani kinda padipothundi chethi nundi jaripoyyi. adi ekkada padipothundo ani pattukunelopala, inko chethi lo na wallet jaripothundi. ee rendintini balance chesthooo chesthooo, nenu jaripoya :( DING mani jaripoyyi CHITTTIIIIIII antoo oka gavu keka petta. a debba ki chitti sudden break vesi, venakki tirgi choosthe nenu kinda padi edupu moham tho kanipincha. okka nimisham emee ardham kaledu tanaki. emayyindi ante, bag jaripothundi ane kangaru lo bandi meeda nunchi padipoyya anna jali moham vesukuni. bag padithe, aapi teesukovachu..nuvvu kinda padipoyentha kangaru deniki antoo oka sympathy look icharu. nenu manasu lo anukunna....ippudu ante edo kinda paddanu, mokallu, mochethulu geerukupoyayi. kadilisthe edchesela unnanani bag padithe emayyindi annaru kanee, ade nijamga bag padipoyi nenu gundrayi la bandi meeda koorchuni bandi apamani ani unte, inka emanna unda????? naku oka range lo class peeki, aggi meeda guggilam ayipoyevallu kadooo, bag pattukodam kooda chetha kada ani, asale shop ki late ayipothunte nuvvu inka late chesthunnav antoo???

sare, na prayanam agipoyindi aa rojuki. buddi ga inti daggara dimpesaru iddarineee, ee roju kadu repu vellandi antoo. sare ani memu lopaliki vachesam. naku inko mogudu unnadu ga....ade ma sanju. start chesindi gola, sava laksha deergalu teesthooo. ayyo, baga debba tagilindi kada mummy, bag mundu pettukunna saripoyedi nuvvu padedanivi kadu....assalu manam vellakunda unte poyedi kada, neeku debbalu tagilevi kadu anukuntoo. nenu mallee swagatham lo anukunna...hmm assalu nuvvu vasthanu anakunda undi unte memu yee kangaru lekunda prasantham ga velli undevallam kada ani. papam, dani tappu mathram emundi lendi. eppudoo tesukuni veltham kabatti, ippudooo vasthanu andi.

idantha jarigithe jarigindi kanee, oka vishayam lo nenu full happies. papam, ma amma dettol lo tadipi cotton tho na debba meeda tudusthoo unte naku full manta. arusthunna...ammo manta ammo manta antoo. inka choodali sanju ni....adi kooda edupu moham vesukuni amma cheyyi gattiga pattesukundi. mummy ki manduthunte enduku ala chesthunnav antooo. ala kadu amma, ila tudavali, mandina kanee taggipothundi antunna vinade. okate godava godava. adi antha ayipoyaka, amma... melliga le, na cheyyi pattukuni naduvu, konchem sepu padukuntava antoo entha concern choopinchesindo...papam amma kooda antha kanna ekkuve concern choopinchindi anukondi... kanee manam amma aa concern choopisthe natural anukuntam...peddaga touch kadu. kanee chinna pilla, that too the one who got life through us, antha concern choopisthunte heart ala ala melt ayipoyindi.

adee ninna jarigindi.

My Sweet Sanju

Here i'm back again talking about Sanju....infact, i do not remember all of her naughty, wicked comments..otherwise this space wouldn't have been sufficient to quote all. She is so spontaneous.

Today morning i was feeling so...energy less. I was just lying on the bed, and here comes this girl patting me on my shoulder. My mom saw that and said, "lepoddu nanna...padukundi kada..", you know sanju's response --"nuvvu matladoddu, nenu na bangaru thalli ni kodathanu, nene kodathanu, nuvvu kottoddu".....Godd..do you see any relation here???

Sanju's Birthday - Contradictions

Sanju's 3rd Birthday.. - 24th April
This is something that we have been planning since not less than 2 months :)

Its the tradition that we follow to celebrate her birthday with a mid night cake, telugu year cake and evening party cake that follows with dinner. This time one more cake got added that is "School cake" :) In all the occasions we were happy because we could make her & see her happy.

People laughed at us for doing so much of hungama for this...few people have asked me in a sarcastic way on the face that how many years are you going to celebrate it....hmm...its our life...and we want to fill our life with as much possible fun as we could....whats harm for them???

It looked like a pain for them to attend the party..:( I think i'm flaring up. I know that they were thinking that we are doing hungama for silly things and spending money for worthless things...but why don't they try to understand the emotions of others....after all, if its worthless, we could'nt have spent it right?? And every one knows very well how my husband thinks before spending each rupee (I dont mean the otherway)

Anyway, it's evening time and we all are ready for the party. House is full with kiddies (nice to see so many kids at a time, though hard to manage) and the party went very well. One good thing is that the least expected guests have also made it to the party to make it graceful and the dinner we planned for 80 ended up with 140 people attending to it. We were so worried that the food items wouldn't be sufficient, but everything was OK. We had some surplus in fact (chicken curry is an exception)

One bad thing is that i had to attend office the next day in very early hours (read it in my context) The very thought of going early to office itself is squeezing all my zest to move along in the party. I wish i was given with leave next day seriously :) But no choice, we slept off around 1:30AM in the night, and i had to be up by 7AM :)

All in all, Sanju was happy with her birthday celebrations, cakes and gifts, so as we. She already started counting down the days for the next birthday...jaise ma aur dad, vaise hee voh bhee....

Sanju's tactics

Normally once the DH is back from shop around 10:30, he makes sure to take her out for a ride. Sanju always insists me to join. There was never a day she went alone with my hubby when i am home.
Yesterday was little different, soon she saw her dad coming in, she ran out and they both went out. I just got slipped out of her mind. After the return, i told her that i am not going to speak to her as she didnt call me for the ride. She kept a sorry face and told this dialogue -
"Its dark outside, i was worried that you get scared". Huh!!! I have no option except to feel good as she is SSSSOOO..... CARING :(

Diwali

This Diwali was special as my brother-in-law's 2 boys were also here with us. Those two were so naughty, that we cant manage. And Sanju is a bonus to them.

I designed a dress (chudi dar) for sanju for this occassion. So, in afternoon we went to all our relatives places with a small sweet box. Enough of publicity for her dress [:)]

Evening, we started burning crackers. Initially sanju was little taken a back. But its just for 2 mins. Once she saw her brothers doing it, she could'nt stop herself. We thought she will just do it with sparkles, pencils and all other simple girly things. Soon after she saw her dad lightening flower pots & chakras, she too started doing it. Ofcourse, with her dad's supervision anyway. She want to have all the crackers, not even a single one to go for her brothers. After all, she is 2.6 and they are 8 & 10. Female domination :) Sthree sadhikaratha.

Sanju for fancy dress competetion

In Sanju's school, every satday is a fun day. On satday, they conduct different kind of activities, so kids love to come back on monday. So last satday, it was a fancy dress competetion. All kids were asked to dress up like Doctor, teacher, driver, post man.....whom so ever gives their service to us in daily routine.
Initial thought was to dress up like a teacher in a saree, later we thought we can best utilize her fun medical kit by letting her go in doctor dress. So, we dressed her up in a saree with a doctor over coat and a stethoscope around the neck. She was perfectly looking like a jr doctor. She was to go school at 8:30 and parents to go at 10:30. You know what, she won the second prize from her class.

Worth mention, her class strength is 6 and only two participated for the competetion. Both of them as doctors..[:)]. Hmm...not badd

Sanju started going to school!

Hi,

atlast......after much discussion and analysis, we finally made Sanju (My 2.5yrs old daughter) to join Nursery (he he he) in the school which is just a few steps away from home.

First day in school:
We went to temple, from there after we took Sanju to the school to admit her. Sanju was all excited to join as we prepared her so much by telling that she will have a lot of friends out there...While sanju is excited, i was tensed. Atlast, we finished the formalities and joined her to the nursery class.. there was a group of kids with innocent smiles and looks. When i told Sanju that i am leaving, she was not ready to accept..she wanted me to accompany her there. Teacher told me not to worry about her and leave, after some time she will be able to adjust.. as soon as she heard those words, she started crying. I was like all puzzled and somehow felt very bad that she had to live for 4hrs in the world of dislike everyday. I thought for a moment to pick her up, but there my husband standing and told me not to. Teacher was again to her job reassuring me that she will stop crying and can easily mingle with other kids soon. She was showing me an example of one boy who joined the school in june and till today cries when dropped at school. This made me real worried. Huh!, i had to leave. I made myself strong and walked out of their room overhearing her cry. The time was 10:45AM. We went to principal room to complete few more formalities, but still could make out that she's crying. By the time we finish everything and ready to leave, huh! she is still crying. It was 11:15AM by then. She had to be in school till 12PM.

By 11:30, my mother...NO NO.... now Sanju's grand mother (She's popular that way in our near n dear) was all hurry to go to school to pick her up. Tell you what, it just takes 2 mins to reach that school. Okay..she went to the school and as Sanju heard the voice of her grand mother bursted out into tears with loud voice. She was crying all that time...Its first time in history for Sanju to cry for such a long time. She came home and complained that she didnt like the school at all. Another complaint made to my grandparents (you read it right, they are my grand parents, not hers) is that we left her in school all alone.

Hmm..second day in school. I knew that i am not strong enough to drop her in school when she was crying. So, its her father and herself headed to school. She is like half minded to start, but was not crying. I thought today she will be okay. But NO, as my hubby dropped her there...she started crying and asking to take her back. But this guy is real persistent. He came home. We called up school after about 20 mins and happy to hear that she stopped crying...good sign, isn't it? Routine follows, her grandma to pick her up and Sanju to follow.

Third day in school. She was not ready to dress her up. Quite reluctant to go school. But we forcefully let her start, as we gave the school bag to her, she started crying. I thought this day would be hard. Husband dropped her at school and came home. I asked how is she?, with helpless facial expressions he said she is crying like anything. As usual, mom went to pick her up....here comes the big SURPRISE...Sanju was reluctant to come with her...she wants to be in school. Ohhhhh, what caused this big difference.....Yeah! they took those kids to near by park in school bus and engaged them in play. She came home with bright face and sparkling eyes, when i asked her how the school is.., she said Oh! its nice. Hmm...I'm releived. And she was telling that she would go to school even tomorrow. Ahhhhhhh..tomorrow? Tomorrow is SUNDAY..what to doooooooooooo?