Nanay back with cousins

On 15th Nov after celebrating diwali with us, Nanay has finally ended her Dubai stay and left us here. Just Daddy and Mommy and both of you! It is going to be fun.

Mommy, why you cwying?

Selling Daddy's old house

Hello from the airport - see you in a few hours!

Hope the flight is not as eventful as the last few days. Just had my name announced on the PA system in the airport - they found out the bunch of fire crackers in my check-in bags. Knew those didn't have a chance - but what fun would it have been to play with those in Dubai on Diwali!

Jaipur was fun - me and tinkoo chachoo played video games till late in the night and then went out shopping the next day. What not I bought! Crackers, shoes, books, jeans and stuff. Didn't need to go shopping in Gurgaon - it seems to me a strange town now even though I lived there through yr 2000-2004.

Thus it was good to have gotten rid of the old house. The money would surely help us get through these tough time, and help us further invest in future.

See a picture from India (Jaipur) showing effigies of Ravana selling for the Dussera festival. 

The trip begins

Hello from Jaipur, dear girls!

Every time I have to travel I get a bad case of nervous anxiety. This time coupled with my feeling low about leaving you all alone. As I said in the previous post, the plan was to bring along the whole family. Will have to do that after a few months.

Well now that I have landed here, the anxiety is gone but the sadness remains. Guru Bhai has gone to Ajmer with his mother - your Chachi. So much for planning the trip with the extra days kept for Jaipur!
However, the silver lining is that it leaves me and Tinkoo Chachoo to do the boys things. And he has taken a chutti from the office to spend this time with me.

The travel itself was not eventful, but long. All to save a few bucks - we have got plenty of time! Was great to see the new Jaipur airport terminal, as well as the Mumbai domestic terminal.

Will be off to Gurgaon tomorrow to do the Malibu sale. 

India alone..

Ladies, Daddy has to go to India to finish the deal on the Gurgaon house. The original plan was to bring everybody there, meet the chacha & the buas, cousin Guru and all the Grand Uncles & Aunts. However, due to Mommy's visa and our current cash crunch, I have to do it alone.

Leaving Monday morning - 22nd Oct and be back as the Eid holiday ends. Hope all works out well, and when Daddy comes back our sources of income are put to action. 

Daddy's new job

Well news came from totally unexpected quarters. After weeks of waiting for an advertising or marketing job to work out, daddy had to accept an offer from the agent who sold us our house!
The deal may not be so bad after all, considering that the real estate market in Dubai is picking up steam now. For us it is good news, because not only it is an opportunity to continue staying in the country but also a way to make much more money than was possible in the ad job.
Such good news means daddy goes spending. So mommy and daddy have new Samsung s3's. For the first time in our lives have we spent big on mobile phones. (This being the first post from the blogger app downloaded on the android platform...)

Appy Budday t'you

Today is Tinkoo chacha's birthday. Also Nitin Uncle's. So we called Tinkoo Chacha, and when we gave the phone to miss Cookie, she actually sang a bit - "Appy Budday t'you". Wasn't chachoo delighted!

Baby talks

"Oggurt, oggurt, oggurt..."

Cookie screams at the top of her lungs while pointing at the small kitchen ref. She knows that is where we keep all the sweety goody things, except for cheese cubes on the opposite side in the big ref. The small ref has her favorites - juice, strawberry milk and yoghurt. The cookies and biscuits are all in various colored and shiny packets in the big cabinet under the kitchen counter, along with so many other shiny and colorful packets. Some of them taste piy-sheee - make her tongue burn and make her run crying for "Water, Water, Water". The water from the pink & pretty sippy bottles makes the hurtee less. Daddy doesn't care about the hurtee, he likes to eat piy-shee.

"Aaa ooggurt", she says to mommy who is busy heating the lunch she had cooked while the girls and the daddy slept into the morning. Mommy tells her it is now time for lunch, and she cannot have yoghurt before she finishes her plate of rice & chicken sinigang. She doesn't seem to understand - "Daddy... shill like you weddy!" - she says with folded hands like she is begging. Mommy's expressions don't melt with the pleading!

"A juss! juss! jussa!" - she asks for juice, when she realizes that the yoghurt deal will not work out. Later she will open the big ref and grab a couple cubes of "chiss" in each hand. Food can wait. But hello? What mommy has ready hot & steaming in the plate is "Shikkanna" which she loves to eat. 

Pointing at the cabinet drawer of spoons, she yells, "poon, poon". Mommy takes out a couple while Cookie goes on - "I gib you...!". She means to say give to me. 

They sit at the dining table eating lunch together, mommy trying to feed her with one spoon as she plays & tries to feed herself with the other spoon. Just then she hears a baby in the corridor. Alarmed at the sound of the cry, she says "Titther!" and pointed at the door. Impatient that mommy wasn't moving fast enough, she squeezes out of the bench and runs to the door. "Tittherrr, whey aaa youu?"

Sister comes inside, carried by Grannanay. She has been out for a walk to help her sleep. But here she comes, all awake and playful.

"Look at me!!" - Cookie points at sister Mikie and yells. "Wow, Pinshessh!", she points at Mikie's pink hair-band with the disney characters on it. Mikie looks amusedly at her elder sister's jumping and dancing as Cookie runs inside to find her own princess hair band from the bedroom. 

Mommy isn't happy about all this commotion - "Eat your food!" - she yells angrily to Cookie. She wants Cookie to finish her food, so that she can attend to Mikie whose sleep is overdue. Cookie yells back, "NO NO NO, No eat!! She don't want!!"

I better stop typing this live commentary and attend to the situation!