Diya's Fancy Dress Competition!

Diya had her first "Fancy Dress Competition" a month back.  She chose to be a "Fashion Designer" :) haha!    Diya is all into fashion.  She knew when colors matched before she knew the names of colors! haha!  We always ask her for fashion advice :) haha!

 The other kids dressed up like all sorts of things... Religi0us leaders, political positions, different food items, job/occupations, etc...

This is Diya's best friend. She dressed up as Healthy Food vs. Junk Food... I think they forgot arm holes in her costume :)

Her other good friend had an interesting topic too... It was against b0mbs.  It was pretty graphic for a Pre-K speaking competition (notice the picture with the leg blown off... you should have seen the back!)

 This is the bully in Diya's class.... he looks like a bully hunh?

 I love this kid :)  He made the best faces :)   He talked against Dowry.

 Here's Diya speaking!!!

 Here she is running off when she was done! haha!

 They made her come back up and pose for pics (which she had NO trouble doing :) haha!) :)

 This is the kid that won the speaking competition :)  he was so cute!

 They turned on some music and let the kids dance while the tallied the scores.  

 The music got loud at one point and the kids thought it was funny :)  (This girl is one year older than all the other kids in their class... that's why she's so tall!)

 Diya dancing!

 She had a good time! haha!  

Here's the video of the competition :)

Funny Diya!

Diya "Speaking Hindi".  I'm not sure if she's really speaking Hindi or just saying some real Hindi with some "made-up words" mixed in, but she says it with such inflection (or drama) haha!  She cracks me up :) (oh, and we had just taken her hair down, that's why it looks crazy)...

 

Christmas Activities :)

For Christmas, the Children's Min at our Chuch took the kids to a Girl's Home to do a program for the girls that live there.  

 Aashini LOVED singing for them :)

 Diya was super shy at first, but then warmed up later :)  Here she is singing :) I think she looks cute in this picture :)

 Here's Aashini singing :)

 Next they did crafts :)

 Aashini made friends with one little girl... she patiently stood there while the girl examined her skin ;) haha!

 The kids gave gifts to all of the girls.  Aashini gave a gift to her little friend first :)

 Diya loved giving gifts too!

 After that, we all ate!  It was a lot of fun :)  The kiddos had fun :)

Thanksgiving 2012 - Kiddos!

 There were lots of kids in town this Thanksgiving :)  They had so much fun!!!

We spent some time at the park... the guys played American Football and the kiddos played at the park :)

 I thought this picture was cute :)

 They had so much fun!

 I love Aashini's face in this picture :)

Diya had a lot of fun too :)

HaPpY ThAnKsgiVinG!!!

Retro Post - Princess Party! (Diya 2, Aashini 4)

This post is over a year late....Last year we had a joint Birthday Party with our girls and our friend's girls.  The day we had the party was the day that my Meniere's Disease began.... Many things got pushed aside with my lack of "non-dizzy time"... and this blog post was one of them!  

So... better late than never!  here it is!

Our girls have November birthdays and our friend's girls have October and December birthdays... They were turning 1, 2, 3 & 4!!!  So... we thought we'd have a joint Birthday Party :)   Our girls all love anything Princess... so we had a princess party!  

Starting with a little tea party time...

Aashini was loving it!

Diya was loving it as well!!

We did a little "Pin the kiss on the frog" :)

We played some fun games :)

...Lots of fun games!   

Diya had a few "It's my Party and I'll Cry if I want to - moments"

...Playing the Princess and the Pea game...

You had to lay on the pillows and guess which pillow had the pea (green tennis ball) under it :)

Aashini was loving it!

Diya was super excited about "food time" :)

Here are the kiddos eating their food :)

Here's the awesome Birthday Cake!  (Made by Karen) :)

Diya was a little emotional on this birthday :)  Poor thing!

I think Aashini looks cute in this picture :)

Here are the Birthday girls!!

Chowin' down on Birthday Cake!

They had a super fun birthday party!

Diya's 3rd Birthday!!!

 On November 26th, Diya turned THREE!!!  I can't believe she's three! :)   On Thanksgiving we had a get together with our friends, so we did a Birthday celebration while we were there :)   Here's Diya's Cake  :)  (Diya loves Chocolate and GEMS - our version of M&Ms :))

 I never got a great picture... but here's Diya waiting for her cake!

 Everyone singing for her :)

 .... blowing out her candles :)

 As per "South Asian Style", she cut the first piece of cake :)

 Diya LOVES chocolate!!!

 Another South Asian tradition that we love is giving gifts to your friends on your birthday.  Diya loved giving gifts to her friends :) It makes your birthday a lot more fun to celebrate your friends on your birthday :)  Fun idea!

 That Saturday they had a birthday party at her school for the kids with November birthdays.  

 She LOVED it :) 

 Here's Diya with her teacher :)

 Here's Diya with one of her fellow November Birthday buddies.  This girl is in her class but I think is a year older than her (and everyone else in the class!) :)  They are good buddies though :)

 Diya had a good birthday! :)

If you want to go back at look at previous birthday posts... here ya go!

Diya's 1st Birthday

Diya's 2nd Birthday 

Diya's 2nd Birthday Party - Joint party - Princess party  (will post this one later... it was on the day my Meniere's Disease started, so I never ended up posting on it...I'll go back and do it soon!)