Tot time

I am having the mother of all headaches..I guess it is the weather mixed with a bit of residual cold that I already have courtesy munchkin.We have signed up for a Mommy & Me class at our local library and it starts at 10:30 am today.I don’t want to miss it cos munchkin is pretty excited about it.He misses going to the daycare and being with friends.I had some sukku kaapi(paati’s vaidyam rules!!) and feel a little better already.I am sure I will feel a whole lot better once I go to the library.Being amidst kids is a therapy by itself.Their joy is infectious!!

Trick or Treat

If a picture speaks a thousand words here are 5000 words to describe the fun munchkin had on Halloween.We spent Halloween day in Linux’s cousin d’s home in Virginia.It was fun.We had been to the Shenandoah mountains during the day.Munchkin had been having fever on and off so he was kinda dull the whole trip.Thanks to Tylenol, he was his usual self for Halloween night.D and me took the dinosaur Trick or treating(he was dressed up as a dinosaur, a very cute one…).

Listings

# Munchkin has learnt saying tamil months(chithirai, vaigasi..), tamil weekdays( thingal, sevvai..)and tamil numbers(onnu, rendu..)from his thatha.Its just too cute, especially when he says budham, vyaayam for bhudhan , vyazhan.Mazhalai….:-)
# My cousin C is getting engaged the next weekend.A big occasion in our family.I wish I was there with them..but I am happy that I will be there for her wedding.Now that’s something to look forward to.
# Tomorrow is the annual book sale in our library.I am going to look out for McMaster Bujold’s books and Terry Goodkind’s.And ofcourse books for munchkin.
# I am getting busy with my NGO activities.I am happy that I am involved in something worthy.We are halfway through in developing the website.Once it is done I need to do some serious fund raising.
# I am planning on conducting some workshops in our NFE centres while I am in India.I have some ideas in my head and I need to work on it.
# Our Halloween décor is up.Its not much this year- just a scarecrow and a jack-o-lantern.Munchkin is pretty excited about Halloween day.We haven’t decided on the costume yet..vacillating between Thomas and a dinosaur.
# I have been feeling low for the past two days.No reason…atleast I like to think so!!

Daily fortune

When I opened my orkut home page today, my fortune was listed as
“Today might be a great and wonderful day. It depends on you”.
I laughed a lot on first but when I gave it some thought it made me realize that it was so true.We determine our destiny.We are shaped by our thoughts.We become what we think.
As the saying goes “When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves”.So true!!

diwali this year

Diwali this year was a quite one....and a rainy one(much to the fury of chennai makkall!).
I have a lot to write but i think i am going through a bloggers block!I have a lot of drafts which never made it after 2 lines.I might probably combine everything and post it as a single post.
For now, some of the pics i took today...

Apple picking

We had been to Johnsons farm the last weekend for apple picking.Its become kind of a tradition now for the past 3 years.I love this season(Fall/Autumn).Fall to me is colorful and vibrant.There is something to be said about the colors all around us.It seems like God has created all these vibrant colors just for this particular occasion.Munchkin loved walking through the apple orchards and picking apples.He found one just his size and was happily munching it all the way back in the hay wagon.
We crossed a pumpkin patch on the way back but didnt get down to pick any.In the play yard there was this toy farm store filled with plastic veggies and fruits for the kids to play with.The store came with its own mini shopping baskets, a weigh, a cash register and the works.Munchkin went about shopping to his hearts content.It was too cute, him trudging along a basket filled with loads of stuff and heaving it up onto the cash register.Grocery shopping never held any appeal for me but I could have sat all day looking at munchkin play shop.

Trip to the museum

Munchkins new favorite tv show is Cailou.He has been seeing Cailou for the past some days.There is an episode in which Cailou goes to the museum and when munchkin saw that he started asking to go to the museum to see dinosaurs.So museum it was!We visited the American Museum of Natural History in NewYork City today and had a great time.Munchkin was all wide eyes and a 100 questions.We caught a show in the Imax theatre which was about Ocean Life conservation.It was an awesome show.
City traffic was a sore point in the otherwise awesome day trip.
Now if only Cailou would go on an Europe trip…???!!!