Halloween

Finally it was friday and Tanay could wear his spider-man costume he was eagerly waiting for.
When we reached the school, the kids had already lined up for parade and they were circling the school campus. It was amazing to find so many spider-man's and a spider-woman in that age group. That did'nt let any of Tanay's excitement go down.

Later they had the usual Halloween party in the afternoon. Tanay was happy on sugar the entire friday evening.

Then same day Tanay's Chikamma: Deepti called and let us know that there is an event scheduled in the Borders book store for kids where they would have the Halloween story telling. So, all of us got ready as fast as we could for a Saturday morning and headed for the Halloween activity.
It was a hurry for a weekend but worth it, since it was a lot of fun for Tanay: The picture coloring, pumpkin throw, story telling and finally the parade. During the parade Tanay was more interested in Toys rather than in the parade itself. Tanay and his cousin Vedant hardly played together that day, may be each one was not able to recognize other. Vedant was 'little red devil' very cute with wings! I wish I could capture them together. Some other day... Any day the kids get dressed up, its Halloween for parents :)


Then, today Tanay and I went out for trick or treat door to door in the community. At every house after he got a candy,  I asked him what do you say now, He would blurt out 'Trick or Treat' and I would remind him, what to say after the treat is already in the bag...

Thank you!


Signing off,
Mother to Tanay!

Scary Vs Pretty

Almost every morning Tanay has been waking up to ask "Is it Halloween yet?" And Every time that question when answered there is a disappointment that shows up on his face. I have been managing to keep him cheered up for the rest of the day and make him wait for Halloween.
The conversations on Halloween have become inevitable every day, with so much media focus on celebrations, decorations in every alternate house; especially ever since he has his new possession of Spider-man costume.

So it was last night:
He asked "Can I become a ghost for Halloween?"
I said "No" and reminded him that he already has his spider-man super-hero costume.
He said "Ghosts are not scary right? Its just a thing in Halloween time."
I wondered, may be its the school and his friends talking about Halloween and so the question.
Well, the next question was: "What are you gonna be Mommy?"
I said "mmmm May be a witch!".
He made an angry face and weird expression of bad face and said "No, you cant be a witch, it's a bad one" He commanded "You should be a princess!"
I asked "why, why cant I be a witch?"
He said "Because you are a girl and girls become princess for Halloween"

I smiled and I thought, I wish I was a 'little girl' who could dress pretty princess and flaunt cute for tick or treat!

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Getting geared!

The full moon night after Dussera is the night that marks a beginning of other half of the year with cooler temperatures. Kojagiri, is the name of the festival. Saturday being a very relaxed day, we decided to celebrate it on that night. Then, today of course  was the day for my preparedness in the house for winter and clean up for Diwali. All the hangers in the closet were disrobed of the summer bright colors and eventually donned a cozier attire. Those wools were out from the darkness and into the sunshine, and they lay happily basking in the sun.

My Pumpkin turned 4!

Happy birthday Tanay!

Come October and holiday season is here.

Most importantly in our family it is October and it is the month when my Dear son decided to make a grand entrance to arena - life!
This year Esh and I both decided to embrace the season and bring in the fall season theme into the bday celebrations. So we all went apple picking!

I cant believe that its been 4 years already into motherhood. However old the baby grows up, but he is always a baby to his mother.
Tanay?
He enjoys being a big boy. He loves to declare that he is not a baby anymore. He understands his independence and wants to do things in his own way, which is good but definitely we parents would be guiding him wade through his ways.


Happy birthday to you dear son!

There were few games that were themed around apple.

All the kids loved the pumpkin painting we had organized.

The color of the theme was red and green.