Aug 29 2007
Off Friday Fun
D’s day care was off this past Friday. Grand plans for the day was to have fun coloring (Inspired by Tharini), make pasta necklace(Thanks to Barney), get a makeover(ok, hair cut) and finish it with dinner at Fresh choice.
We started off with the coloring project. My ultimate goal was to get her to sit at one place for 10 minutes with the crayons and chart paper. To get her into action, I outlined a butterfly, asking her to color it. I was vigilantly observing from a distance. She showed no interest in coloring, neither did she sit at one place. She was more interested in taking out the cap of the crayons(these are the pen type crayons), boxing them into plastic containers, transferring them from one box to another. She then mix and match the cap and the crayon of different colors. Boxes them again. Un-boxes, this time, caps it with the right colors. I intervened about coloring the butterfly. She said ok. Just then I took a break to check om Dlittle. I come back to see D has drawn spots on the butterfly. Wow, you think? No, she hasn’t drawn the spots, she has made holes in the chart and claims she drew spots! Maybe she is not ready for this yet 
We decided to hop on to the next activity.
It came to my realisation it was not a good time to make the pasta necklace as D would then demand pasta for lunch. We had plans to eat out that night(pasta and soup). So, we ended up with singing and dancing. Dancing to all sorts of tunes, from wheels on the bus to Jhoom Barrrabar Jhoom.
It was a beautiful Sunny day. H who was supposed to be working from home, could not resist all the fun we were having 
Joining the fun, papa and D went out to play hop splash.
Tired from dancing and hop slash, D crashed to sleep.
Later that evening, we went to Fresh choice for dinner, D’s favorite restaurant. Actually, a family favorite. She loves the soup, pasta, jello AND ice cream. We had a blast. In the midst of eating, H hands over the iphone to me asking me to listen to it. I thought he was listening to a podcast and probably some interesting twist he wanted me to listen to. I took it from his hands and it was playing ‘bahoon mein chali aa..’. Both of us kept smiling at each other . It reminded me of Pop-Moms this post when we driving back home.(I know, I need to get a life outside work and blogging!). But, I guess these small gestures is what keeps us going..
The day did not go as planned, it was better than we planned [D did surprise me on Saturday, will write another post].
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Wow..what fun
Where is this Restrau ???
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Wow – what a lovely day! And how sweet…the song for you…
I love that song too…
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what fun! the splashing pic looks so cool -the light/shadow contrast is very well done.
abt coloring – agree with D – spots are spots – whether you color them in or poke them in…lol!! have you tried sitting down to color with her? you color one wing, she colors the other – that sort of thing. as you said she might be too young to do it on her own.
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‘bahoon mein chali aa..’.
What? what? what am i missing
Come on RBDANS esplain it for the Hindi impaired.
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What a lovely day! That sure is one romantic number.
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D seems to have so much fun splashing! You guys sure had fun!Don’t worry about her not sitting in one place and coloring.My daughters were like that too and would end up crumpling the paper or poking holes in it. And I need enlightenment on the link between ‘bahoon mein chali aa’ and Poppin’s post too
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My best friend sings that song beautifully, it brought good memories back. I’m glad you had fun. Love the pic by the way.
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Thats a nice account of a wonderful day…
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A*(*&(& This is my nth attempt to post a comment, looks like the blog gods are conspiring against us commenting on each others blogs.
Am I so glad that my poppin is not the only one to desist craft activities ! He he. And I love love Fresh Choice, one thing I miss terribly after moving back to India.
Thanks for the mention, that was such a romantic gesture. That’s like almost up there with holding hands in public
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@swati: Yup. It was fun. The restaurant is in US. http://www.freshchoice.com/locations_main.html
@noon: Thanks, this was the first attempt on taking Dlittle to the restaurant. Wasn’t baad. She slept through the whole hour.
@kodi’s mom: We have tried coloring together. But, it would end up as ME coloring and SHE commenting. I do think it is early for her to do it on her own. The desperation is to stop her from coloring the rest of the house!
@mystic margarita: A lovely song on a lovely day
@mnamma: Good to know that she will get there soon
@squiggles mom: Thanks!
@timepass: Thanks!
@Pop-mom: Misery does love company
@utbtkids, mnamma: Wicked, wicked. Its just a romantic old hindi song.
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OK!
Fun Friday indeed.
Wish you many more such days
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How sweet, how sweet… we must do a chain tag now on ‘our songs’…
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whatsinaname: Thanks
Kiran: You go girl, start the chain tag ..
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