Annual Day - Presidium - Aashini

In December Aashini had her school Annual Day! (yes, I'm way behind in posting!) Her grade was doing the "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme.  They did a fun pirate dance :)  Here's Aashini in her Pirate costume :) 

 The program started off with a famous political leader (who was really late) that came and did a speech to kick it off... See all the Secret Service guys?  There were a ton of them!!

 The older kids band performed the school song :)  (Click HERE to hear the song... it's not your average school song!)... 

 One of the Pre-K groups did a performance called "The Great Punjabi Wedding"... it was super cute. 

Later was Aashini's performance!  They did a Pirates of the Caribbean Dance.  Sadly we sat on the wrong side of the stage, so the pics aren't great!  We'll get the "professional video" soon, maybe it will be better :)

 She LOVED this dance and practicing it!!!  She was a HUGE fan! 

 She was smiling the whole time!  She LOVED it!

 I think this one is cute :)

 I had to post the jumping picture :) haha!

 This was the "Madagascar" performance.  The girl on the left is a sweet little girl at Aashini's school.  Her grandfather gives me rides home (from dropping Aashini off at school) on his scooter some days :)  She was having so much doing her performance :)

My favorite is always the roller skating performances :)  Pretty impressive hunh?  (doesn't look very good on the ankles though :)).

 That doesn't look comfortable hunh?

 ... this looks even less comfortable! haha!!! :)

Anyway, here's a video of Aashini's part :)  It's a horrible video... Aashini is on the far right... you might be able to see her :)

First Day of First Grade! - Aashini

This week was Aashini's first week of FIRST GRADE!  Whoa!  The school year here begins in April.  Aashini was very excited to start First Grade :)    Here is Aashini's weekly schedule:

Aashini is 5 now years old and loves to color and draw!  She is very creative and curious about everything :)

Aashini gets to wear the "big kid" uniform now :)  We got the uniform without her being there... so it's way too big, but she doesn't care :)

Here's a little bit about Aashini :)

First Day of Nursery - Diya!

  Yesterday was Diya's first day of Nursery (Pre-K).  Here's her pic on her first day!  I also interviewed her and asked her what some of her favorite things were and here they are!

Diya hasn't learned to write yet, but I asked her to write her name:

Diya posing :)  You can sort-of see her busted lip in this picture :)  

It was the day before Choti Holi, so they played Holi at school on her first day.  Here is Diya showing Adam her Star for being good on her hand... but I think it looks like she's threatening to punch him :) haha!

Diya after her first day of school!  She had a great time.  She has 2 really awesome teachers this year :)  I'm excited :)

And just for comparison ... :)  Here are Aashini and Diya at the same age (Aashini was 2 weeks older) and on the first day of Nursery :)  I think Aashini was a little taller and her feet were definitely bigger (Diya is wearing Aashini's old shoes and they are HUGE on her!!) :) haha!

Diya is going to learn to write her ABCs this year (as well as many other things).  She's really excited :)

Aashini's First Piano Recital

Aashini has been taking piano lessons for about a year now.  In December she had her first piano recital :)  She is in a group class and they are going through a cute book (Music for Little Mozarts) that is great for kids their age!

We had a party after the recital and Anoop's mom made this awesome cake!!  Awesome hunh?  (That's Mozart Mouse and Beethoven Bear on the cake).

 Here is everyone ready for the recital!

Here is Aashini performing her first piece :)

 After they performed each kid bowed or curtsied.   Aashini did a "bow and bolt" - haha! :)

 The book they are using has lots of different songs that they sing and dance to that teach all sorts of things about music.  Here they are acting out one of the songs, "Hey Mr. Elephant" :)

 Here they are singing the "Do Re Me" song :)

 Here is Aashini doing her 2nd piece.  This one she played with her teacher Mrs. Aimee :)

 Aashini getting her certificate :) 

 Aashini selected her outfit and her accessories all on her own for this event :) haha!

 Here is their class :)

And here's a short video of the performance :)

Taekwondo Competition - Aashini!

Aashini had her first Taekwondo Competition a couple of months ago.  Parents weren't invited, but we knew the venue so we went anyway :) haha!  They didn't have it set up for people watching, so we didn't get the best view... but it was fun :)   Here's the venue :)  (you can see the other parents that broke the rules and came :) haha!)

We weren't sure if they would let us in or not, so we told Aashini we weren't sure if we would be able to come... she was sad we might not get to see her... When she walked into the stadium, she looked all around for us... this is her face when she saw us :) haha!  She was happy!

A few kids from her class were selected to be in the competition... here she is with the kids from her class.

Taking a bow before beginning :)

We didn't have a great view... but here is Aashini in action!

... a nice kick! :)

And more... :)

... and another rockin' kick :)

She was really excited when she was finished :)

Here she is receiving her medal :)

She was so proud :)

Here is the video (not so great, but better than nothing) :)

Good Job Aashini!

Comic Con - Day 2 - The Kiddos

The kiddos love Comic Con!  They love getting dressed up the most :) haha!  On this day, the girls got a little more creative with their costumes... Diya wanted to be Mayday (Spidergirl)... her outfit cracked me up!  She said:  "I want to be Spidergirl... but I don't want to wear those pants!!"... so she improvised :) haha!

Aashini wanted to be Princess Leia (even though she has no idea who that is! haha!)... she wore her Star Wars shirt over her dress-up dress and wanted her hair up like Princess Leia :) haha!

 They had a few events for the kiddos... this was one where they showed kids how to draw a superhero :)

 Here is Aashini drawing her superheros :)  If you look closely you can see it (and the awesome capes the people she drew had!) :)

 Diya wasn't into drawing... here she is enjoying herself :)

 They had Comic Cupcakes.... The girls picked Betty & Veronica Cupcakes :)

 Silly Girls :)

 Leaving Comic Con :)

 Diya asked me if I could take a jumping picture of her :)  haha!  Awesome!!!

We didn't make it to the last day... The kiddos were to exhausted :) haha!  It was a fun Comic Con :)