Videos of the Girls ;)

I've been bad at posting lately, but I'm finally starting to feel good and have energy again! :)  Anyway, here are videos of the girls...

This is a video of Diya learning to click her tongue (in the bath) :) haha!  She makes some funny faces :)

 Here's a video of Aashini playing with a friend at the play place near our house :) You can hear her speaking a little bit of Hindi with her friend in this video :)

CDC Family Picnic :)

Just before the weather started getting hot (I know! I waited too long to post it!), the kid's group at CDC (the chuch we go to) had a family picnic :)  Our girls LOVE picnics!  

 Aashini LOVES playing in the dirt and getting to eat lots of chips  and Diya loves getting a juice box :) haha!

 We had a lot of fun!  The kiddos had a lot of fun playing games.  Here they are playing Sharks and Minnows.

 Aashini LOVED it!  She really got into it :)

 cute :)

 Aashini's face here is cracking me up :)

 Hearing the instructions for the next game :)

 Diya being goofy!

 Doing a relay race :)

 They were supposed to run sideways, but Aashini ended up dragging her friend :) haha! :)

First Week of School - Diya - Pre-Nursery

 Diya has had one full week of Pre-Nursery now!  She loves her teachers and is having a lot of fun :)

 I love jumping pictures :)  (this one is kind-of a "pre-jump") :)

 All ready for school!! :)

 Going to school!

 Walking with Dad to school :)

 Here's Diya in her Taekwondo uniform :)  She does it one day a week also :)

First Week of School! - Aashini - Prep

 Last week was Aashini's first week of Prep (Kindergarten).  She has quite the year ahead of her.  They are learning tons of new things this year.  It should be fun :)

 On the first day her backpack was SUPER full... she couldn't even stand up straight! haha! :)

 Adam taking her to school on the first day :)

 This is the sign Aashini was holding in the first picture... it was really hard to see, so here's a close-up.  You can see how she writes her name on the first day of Prep :)

 Talking to their teacher after class :) 

 This is their weekly schedule.  It looks like so much fun!  (For those that don't understand some of this... TBL is "Theme Based Learning" and Galaxy is time in the computer lab).

 She has 2 other uniforms... on Wednesdays she has Taekwondo and wears this uniform to school :)

 Fridays are "Club Days"... there are different clubs within the school.  Aashini is in the "Maestros Club".  She wears this uniform every Friday.  She'll be in the Maestros Club until she graduates.  

HaPpY First Week of School Aashini!!!!!

New Year - New School!

On Monday Aashini is going to start a new school year at a new school!   This past weekend we had her orientation.  This year she's starting "Prep" (Kindergarten) at her new school - Presidium.  For this year she'll get to stay in the same school building before going to the "big school" next year.  

Here is Aashini in her new classroom.  (I didn't get a good pic of it so I posted this one anyway) :)

 This is Aashini's new teacher.  She's super nice!

 The school's playground got a new climbing wall!  Here's Aashini trying it out :)

 Aashini playing on the climbing wall :)

All of Aashini's new school uniforms!  The green and denim is her regular daily uniform, top left is her taekwondo uniform (that she wears one day a week) and the middle is her "Club" uniform.  She'll be in this club her entire primary/secondary school career.  She wears that on Fridays.  I'll post pictures in her new uniforms this week :) 

 Here are all of her new school books and folders (along with 3 parenting books :)).  This year she starts Hindi writing!  Yikes!  Can't wait :)

Aura's Birthday Party :)

This weekend Aashini's good friend Aura had her birthday party :)   Aura was in Aashini's class at school and Aashini was so excited to go!  Here is Aashini (and Diya) with Aura.   

 Here they are waiting for the other guests to arrive (of course, we were the first guest to arrive... and we were 15 minutes late! haha!)

 Kritika came too :)  I couldn't get them to take a real picture - haha!  This is the best I could do :)

 They ate and played some fun games at the party :)  They played Hot Potato.  Aashini had never played it before and LOVED it!  She thought it was AWESOME! haha!

 Then we played a game where the mom put as many straws as she could in her kid's hair - haha!!!  This is the girl that won :)

 Here's Aashini :)

 They also played a game where you got a partner and tried to put as many Bindis as possible on the other kid's head - haha!  I thought that was a fun idea for a game :)  They had fun :)

 Cake Time!  Diya's favorite part about birthdays is the cake :) haha!  You can see how excited she is :)

Happy Birthday Aura!!!

End of the Year Fun!

The school year has ended here and now it's time for a new year!  (The School year here is April to March).    They had a day last weekend where the kids all came and had a Parent-Teacher Meeting where they got their end-of-the-year report cards and classwork and things like that.   

Here is Aashini (and Diya) with two of her classmates.  Ashmit (that we think Aashni has a crush on... she blushes when she sees him - haha!) and Kritika (one of her best friends).  

 A few of the other kids :)  The taller boy on the right is in Aashini's class this year too.

 This is one of Aashini's teachers - Sarika Ma'am :)

 This is her other teacher - Nisha Ma'am :)

 After meeting with her teachers, they got to go to the basement where they had a big party! They party included all the cotton candy they want! haha!

 Aashini was a fan!

 Diya too! :)

 They also had a fun game where they threw balls to knock down cups :)  

 Aashini and Kritika had a fun time :)

 Diya had fun too :)