Vijay's Wedding - The Kiddos

 The kids had a great time at Vijay's reception.   They got to run around, dance and eat Ice Cream - what kid doesn't like that? haha!  (Oh, and if you're wondering what is on Diya's face, it's a heart.  It was Valentine's Day and one of her teachers drew hearts on her cheeks with markers and we couldn't get it off :) haha!)

 Diya with "Uncle Vijay".  She was so cute with him :)  Diya doesn't go to just anyone, but she always goes to Uncle Vijay :)

 Here's Aashini on the dance floor :)  She was doing some funny moves :)

 Diya was cracking me up too :)

 Daddy-Daughter Bollywood dance :)

 Sister dance :)

 The kiddos had a lot of fun!

Aashini's School Annual Day!

Aashini's school's Annual Day was just a few weeks ago.  It's quite a big deal.  Here are a few pictures from the 4+ hours of fun :) haha!

 Aashini's performance was with the "hoopla".   

 They moved it up, down and around to the beat. 

 It was a little boring, but Aashini did great :)  She had fun doing it!

 This picture cracks me up :)  Aashini looks funny and the kid in the middle is making a funny face! haha!

 At the end of the Annual day they did awards for the different classes for the children's performances from the year.   Aashini came in "first position" in her entire class!  Go Aashini!!!   

 She was so proud of her award!  Here she is with her teachers :)

And, for your viewing enjoyment.... Here is a video of Aashini's performance from Annual day.   The performance is very long, so feel free to fast forward a little and you can see her get her award and talk a little at the end of the video :)

Holi Hai!

 Yesterday was Holi!  This year we spent Holi with some American friends of ours with young kids.  Holi can get pretty rough with older kids, so it was fun for them to play with kids their age.   

Here are the kiddos before Holi :)

 We went to our friend's house and had waffles and then got ready for Holi.

 Diya HATED Holi last year and screamed the whole time (even before Adam passed out!), so we had a feeling we'd be holding her the whole time while she freaked out.  She hates being dirty too, so we didn't think she'd like it....

 Here's Aashini at the beginning of the morning.  Our girls have light hair, so we didn't want it to turn permanently pink or purple, so we coconut oiled up their hair and put bandannas on their heads :)

 Diya LOVED it!  Her favorite part was throwing powder on people!  She thought that was AWESOME! 

 This picture makes me laugh :)

 She LOVED throwing powder.  

 For some reason, Diya didn't mind being dirty :) haha!

 Filling up the water guns :)

 Aashini had the most fun with the water guns :)  She LOVED to spray people!  

 Adam enjoyed it too :)

 This picture makes me laugh :)

 Happy Holi!

 After a couple of hours the kids were bored with it (and the water ran out), so they played for a little while :)

 It was a fun day :)

Holi is Coming!

 Tomorrow is Holi.  yesterday they celebrated Holi at the girls' School :)

 The markets are full of people selling water guns, colored powder, water balloons and anything else you'd need for Holi :)

 Aashini is excited and ready!

Aashini's Speaking Competition

Aashini had a speaking competition at school in November.  With all my vertigo, I'm quite behind on some things (like blog posts) but I really wanted to post about this :)

For this speaking competition, the kids were supposed to tell a story.

 I think this little boy is so cute :)  His name is Ranveer and he has a twin brother in another class :)   He told the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  Every kid had to have a visual aid to go with their story.  I thought his was funny with The Little Mermaid as Goldilocks and Whinnie the Pooh as the three bears :)

 This is Aashini's little friend Kritika.

 This is Aashini's "best friend" Aura.  She's super cute :)  Look at her "visual aid" :)  The bear is eating a man! haha!

 Aashini told "The Boy who Cried Wolf".  Most kids told Aesop Fable stories.  We thought this one was a good one for her to know :)  That's her teacher in the purple adjusting her mic.

 Aashini telling her story!  (oh, and in case you're wondering... I'm not sure what happened to her hair this day... it's rough! haha!)

 After they all told their "introduction" and their stories, the teachers tallied the results.  There were 3 judges that wrote up scores for the kids.  While we were waiting for the results, they turned on the music and had the kids all go on stage and dance :)  It was hilarious!   You can see Aashini doing some of her "white girl dance moves here" :)

 Aashini and Aura dancing together :)

 These are the first place winners!  Aashini, Myra and Ranveer!  Diya ran up on stage with Aashini but once she saw the large audience looking at her, she freaked out and cried - haha!  poor thing!

And.... for your viewing enjoyment.... here is a video of her speaking competition (and some of the funny dancing and the award part) :)

Comic Con - the Kiddos :)

 The kids had fun at Comic Con :) (to see the other post on Comic Con, Click HERE).  We ran into a friend there, and their daughter was dressed up like Spiderman too! :)

 They had a guy there painting faces.  He only painted one thing... this weird dog from their comic book.... the girls thought it was cool... so guess that's all that matters :) haha!

 Diya with the dog on her face :)

 The girls coloring their Comic Book coloring books :)

 Diya made herself at home and the stage and colored too :)

 Aashini got to hold Thor's hammer at the Avengers booth :)

 The Avengers booth had a good face painting guy! He  painted Spiderman on Aashini's hand....

 He asked Diya if she wanted a flower or a heart... but she wanted Spiderman too :) haha!