First Day of Kindergarten, In her own words..

Today was the first day of Kinder garten and below is how Sahithi described her day and I quote her verbatim, not one word changed.


First we played outside. Then we stood for pledge, a song came and then first bell for us to go to the bathroom and drink water, second bell for us to freeze, third bell for us to lineup to go inside. And then when we went inside, we hanged our backpacks on the hook outside. There was story about Bono, the monkey. And then we went out side and ate snack on the benches with first graders. For a little while Mrs.Burt told a story, read a book about a story and then I forgot the other one. Then Mrs.Burt called the names to go the desks and then we colored a bee and we wrote ourselves on a piece of paper about our feelings "I feel fun", "what's your friend's name?". I draw on the paper and then we went out to eat lunch. If you are done, you raise your hand and sit next to the wall for a little while. Then you go out and play.I forgot something. First bell is for lining up, second bell to freeze and third to go to the bathroom. We lay down on the table for a little while. We sat on the carpet and Mrs.Burt told another story. She took us outside and then I saw Archana Aunty. Mrs.Burt said everyone was doing very good work. She said I read well. And then I saw momy. I Archana aunty's house we played with Tia and then we colored. And we read books and even Tia read books and then we wrote our sentences and then Shriya went home. We ate apples, sandwiches, garlic bread and drank juice. And then momy came and picked me up. We saw kids outside playing and we went to the pool and I played. At school, there was friend named Ellie and I played with her. I took a bath myself and dressed all by myself. I went to S aunty's house and ate dinner there. That's all. And write the end and a happy face with a heart. :).

Sahithi's Latest

Well, long time since I posted anything about Sahithi.
This happened a few weeks ago.

After me telling her repeatedly not to do something, she kept doing it.
I snapped and yelled at her saying something about how she is doing it even though she is not supposed to.
She was startled because I had not yelled her in quite a while. Her face crumpled and she went and sat a corner quietly.
I heard her cry after a few minutes and deliberately did not pay attention to her.
Few more minutes later I heard her say

" I have never seen a Momy yell like this. I don't think mommies should be yelling at little girls. All mommies should always be friendly"

And before I could take in those words she dissolved into tears and said

" My whole family made me sad. My whole family is my momy and dada and they made me sad".

I was quite startled. Gave her a few minutes, gave her a hug and told her I love you kannamma. And she replies back

" I know you love me but you made me sad".

My little baby is growing up *sigh*

Fat tummies and Babies.......

Last week I could not go to see Sahithi's Soccer game. Her dad took her. They came back from the game and hubby dear told me that she was a little tired and the coach said that her energy level seems to be a little on lower side that day. Following conversation happened

Me : Bangaru, you did not have energy because you did not eat well. So you need to eat well.
Sahithi : Amma, I can't eat too much because I will get fat.

Me: *Absolutely shocked, telling myself I need to keep my cool* You will look very cute with chubby cheeks sweetheart.
Sahithi: But if I get fat my tummy will grow big. If my tummy grows big, I will have a baby and I am too small to have a baby. So, I have to stay thin. I can't get Fat amma.

Me:*Mouth hanging open, thinking of what to say*
Sahithi: *Continues her coloring*
Hubby Dear: * Laughing uncontrollably for the next few minutes*

On the hind sight, she figured out how babies happen. I am hoping that the birds and bees story can be put away for a long long loooong time.

Dada's Discipline

Sahithi and I went to see a telugu movie along with my brother. Hubby Dear could not make it because he had to work. A lot of Sahithi's friends were there at the movies and so all these made a racket, running around and in general having fun. And she gave a lot of trouble to come home after that. We come home and I told Hubby Dear what she did. He thought of taking matters into his own hands to discipline her. This is the conversation that followed.

Dada: You have been very naughty today. You will be grounded now.

Sahithi : *Smiling her most charming smile*

Dada : You gave momy a lot of trouble. You will be grounded

Sahithi : You have been saying grounded grounded all day and you are not getting ready to take me to the ground. How can I be grounded if we don't go the ground?

Dada: *Laughing so hard that any no thoughts of discipline were left*

Momy : *muttering to herself *"Why do I get to be the bad guy all the time??"

ipod or eye-pod or something else..

Scene in the car on our way from home

I am fiddling with the ipod.

Sahithi : Mama what is that?
Me: It is an ipod bangaru.

Sahithi: No it is not an ipod.........it is an ear-pod.
Me:*Completely baffled* what did u say??.

Sahithi:*Very Patiently* Amma, it does not go on the eyes. So it can not be an ipod. It goes on the ears so it is an ear-pod.
Me: *Laughing so hard I had tears rolling down my eyes..*

Go figure that logic now.
And this was the response I got from a friend when I told her.
"So smart and these dumb marketing campaigners couldn't’t figure that out".

Well after a particularly tiring day, only she could make me forget the day and put a smile on my face.

Sahithi's Demands

Last week on our way home this is the conversation I had with Sahithi..

Sahithi : Mama.....
Me : hmmmmmm....

Sahithi: I want to change my name
*This gets my full and complete attention*
Me: What do you want to change it to sweetheart..

Sahithi: I want to change my name to Jack.
Me: But Jack is a boy's name.

Sahithi: That's OK. I still want to change it to Jack.
Me: We will think about it when you are bigger.

Few minutes of silence and then

Sahithi: Mama...
Me: hmmm I am listening..

Sahithi: Can you please wipe this away * Showing the mole, which is on upper right corner of her lip*
Me: I can not wipe it away... It is a mole.

Sahithi: I don't like it. Let us try to erase it with an eraser.

I am hoping that she will like her own name much better than Jack and pray that day would come soon. And that there are people who would give an arm and a leg for that kind of mole .:):)

Sahithi-1 Momy-0

Scene @ our household 8 30 AM today morning

Dada already left for work.
Momy struggling to finish last minute chores before leaving.
Sahithi sitting at the table drinking her milk...

Out of the blue the following conversation occurred.

Sahithi : Momy..
Momy: Yes sweetheart.....
Sahithi: You have brother???
Momy : hmmmmmmm
Sahithi : Is mama your brother??
Momy : hmmmmmmm
Sahithi: You have husband???
Momy : hmmmmmmm
Sahithi : Is Dada your husband??
Momy : hmmmmmmm
Sahithi: You have daughter???
Momy : hmmmmmmm
Sahithi: *The biggest grin on her face* I am your daughter
Momy : *Laughing loudly* yes kannama you are my daughter...
Sahithi " * a little forlornly* you have a brother, husband and a daughter.. I only have mom and dada
Momy: * Totally, absolutely and completely dumbfounded*....

Mr & Miss.

Today is Sunday but HD had to go to work pretty early in the morning. By early afternoon we were missing him and wanted to talk to him. So i called him at work spoke to him and then gave the phone to Sahithi. This is how conversation went.

Sahithi: Hello Mr.Dada, why did u leave with out talking to me in the morning?

HD: Shocked silence. Bewildered as to where Mr.Dada came from.

Sahithi: Miss. Momy told me you went to office. When are you coming back.

HD: (Still recovering form the shock).. Soon sweet heart

And this is how we became Mr.Dada and Miss. Momy.