I'm not a squirrel!

San was enjoying the Tres Leches cake slice that we bought for her yesterday. There was a little sprinkle of nuts (or whatever it was) on the icing.

San (while driving her spoon around the 'nutty' portion): San won't eat this Jeera (Cumin seeds), Mommy!
Me: Those are nuts, San, not Jeera.
San: I can't eat the nuts, Mommy! I'm not a squirrel. I'm just a girl!

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And these days, to get me off the laptop, she breaks into this (with very innocent eyes and hands on her tummy) - "I'm hungry, Mommy. Please give me some food.  Really hungry, Mommy! Please, Mommy, please!" And this, almost all the time, melts my little heart! Sigh!

Another first day at the school, Another favorite

New session began this week at San's preschool. Today is her first day in the new session. After a week's break, she wasn't so keen on going back to school, but we'd convinced her well! She was all happy in the morning until she reached her class. New teacher, new kids, some crying, and some screaming... she couldn't take it and started crying. I kept telling myself and Papa dear and the teacher that she'll be fine. Yes, she definitely was fine later, but for a moment, I was reminded of her very first day in school, and everything felt new and alien! Phew! What a feeling!

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Oh and this is her birthday month, yippee! God knows what has made her Minnie-Mouse-Crazy, suddenly, and we obviously didn't have to go through the trouble of choosing a theme for her b'day party. :) She's even bought herself a new Minnie Mouse night suit!

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Here's some more of 'San says':

San (on the way to home, in the car): Papa, go faster!
Papa: Okay! (pretends to go fast)
San: Wow! Papa, you're fastering!

San (in the restroom): The flush is gonna go by itself, Mommy?
Me: Yes, San. It's automatic.
San (after the flush thing happened): Wow Mommy, it's aumotatic!

San (today morning while brushing her teeth): I'm really tired, Mommy!
Me: Take a shower and you'll be fine.
San: But I'm feeling tired in my bum!

Being Mommy, Being San

Puzzles, puzzles, and more puzzles. Sketches, sketches, and more sketches. That is what San is up to these days. Oh and a bit of paper-cutting too, now that she has a shiny pink pair of scissors and an orange glue to do the job!

Recently, on one of her 'raid the closet' adventures, San found her pretty little infant pillow, and loved it. Why? Cuz' it was the 'moon'. But then, she soon realized that the moon is not so colorful, so the pillow is a rainbow now. She puts it on the top of her head and calls herself a rainbow! Okay, just one of the silly things that she likes to do, but it's cute! :)

Lemme also tell you about San's latest pretend play. She pretends she's the Mommy and wants me to play San. She, then, takes me to Walmart for shopping (she buys me really cool stuff, like ice-creams, chocolates, strawberries, and cherries). She makes sure that she carries a change of clothes for me in her little bag, and that I always am secure in my car-seat with the seat-belt on. She takes me to the swimming pool too! Yay! Phew! And lemme tell you, playing San is tough! Especially when you go on a restroom trip with Mommy and when you've to sit in the cart while Mommy shops! :D

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Here's a little story that she told me today:
"When San was a baby, she slept on the rainbow pillow... and had milk from her bottle, and did goo-goo gaa-gaa, and pooped in her diapers... and Mommy said, "Yucky!"

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This post is a part of the Thursday Mommy Brain Mixer.

San's first dentist visit, haircut

Finally, after a lot of delay, we took San for her first appointment with the dentist. I had reached the heights of my anxiety (thanks to my dentist phobia) cuz' it was a family appointment. San did great for a first-timer, especially when she had to hold those weird films between her teeth to get the x-rays done! Thanks to the load of stickers that they gave her! :) Okay, why do I call those films weird? Cuz' I couldn't hold them even for a second, and thereby gave the worst performance of my life! *embarrassed*

So all went well (I'm not including myself here), until the doc started brushing her teeth. Yes, they do their job well, but the flossing part was scary! I was worried that San might get hurt. :-s It went fine though. And San happily came back home with her goody bag and two balloons. Phew!

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The first haircut, hmm, needed a lot of thought. How short? What style? We finally decided for a little trim, not more than an inch long. Papa dear likes long hair, and so does San. We took her to Snipits that specializes in kids' haircuts and is colorful enough to woo the kids! She happily sat through her haircut, enjoying the animal crackers and the bubbles.

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San's into paper-cutting these days, and keeps trying to cut sheets of paper into various shapes with her very blunt toy scissors! :D Her dedication makes us wanna buy paper scissors for her... but our only fear is that she might use it as a weapon in one of her bad moods! :P

Give her crayons and the first thing that she'd draw is a smiley face (and Papa, and Mummy, and a baby). :-)

Mommy and Baby

Daddy :D

A complete smiley