Merry Christmas our little “kuger chinger wampe” (imagine mommy saying that in a very high pitched voice) and 2nd happy new year to you! Another year has drawn to a close and what an incredible year for you and for our family. Let’s dive into it then. Aeowyn, you’re really quickly moving out of the baby phase. You’re now wearing 2T clothes and size six shoes. You’re so communicative now Aeowyn. If we ask you a question – you will say yea or shake your head and say unh unh…. You ask for guk (milk), you can ask to be fed, and even are now telling us when you need to go potty. Yes, at 18 months, you are starting to use the potty. You love to try to talk and are very focused. You look so cute with your long curly brown hair that hangs over your bangs – so you always are having to look up at us! You definitely are very independent and want to feed yourself - you get very frustrated about this. We do think that you will be potty trained very soon Aeowyn! So this point is really important BTW – you love, no – ADORE Sesame street. We have this grover doll and elmo doll that you call your babies. You love reading books about the characters and point at them and say “baby” or “look”. You love to play with your brothers and one of the latest games you all like is when you turn off the lights and use your flashlights to find each other. Like the boys, you also love to throw all the pillow off the sofa and jump off into them.
As for Christmas, Santa Clause really took care of you kids this year! For starters, I have to say we picked a really small tree this year for you guys, which worked out great. All of you worked together to decorate the tree standing on your step stools. This seemed to have taken off the fascination with Christmas ornaments – we can all thank mommy for this brilliant idea! This year, leading up to Christmas, we also read our advent calendars and you boys opened the windows in the calendar. You can now even blow out the candle when we pray Aeowyn. For Christmas eve, we had over Ammuma, Thatha, Savitha and Sadhana and Das uncle and Provanti. We had a big indian meal for Christmas eve and had so much fun together! Then late on Chirstmas eve, Grandma and Papa came over and spent the night. When you all woke up the next morning, there was a huge pile of toys. Toys from Santa, mommy & daddy, from each other, from your grandparents and aunts and uncles – it was pretty amazing. We opened presents from 7:30am to about 3:30pm in the afternoon. Your favorite present Aeowyn was a sesame street dollhouse. You could play with that thing for hours – it’s really amazing how much you love Sesame Street. On Christmas day, we spent the time outside riding around on cars after we finished presents and topped off the evening with a great dinner. You love driving with Rohin and Talin in the passenger seat and also love riding with daddy on th lawnmower. On Christmas night, we had ham and filet mignon, seafood casserole, crab dip, etc… We watched Christmas movies (the barney Christmas special was a bit hit btw). Over the holiday we also went over to the National Harbor and looked at an indoor ice sculpture show – which was really neat, but super cold (the temperature was 19 degrees inside). You wanted nothing to do with that at all – so we had to rush out of there…
We rang in the New year very calmly this year. We were home with ammuma and thatha and Sadhana with us and just had a really nice dinner. On New Year’s day, mommy and daddy hosted a big party of all of your friends – Jovin, Bella, Raquel, Sophia, Adam, -- it was so much fun! 2012 looks like it is going to be so much fun! This past weekend, we spent two days outside as the weather was simply gorgeous. You and Talin and Rohin played outside in your cars and helping to build the bonfire. Daddy got out the chainsaw and cleared part of the property line – which you all loved seed the chainsaw. All three of you drove on daddy’s lap – which probably isn’t going to last much longer as you all are getting so big! It was so much fun being outside. We also had Ms. Salini and Sandeep come over with their children – and we all warmed ourselves by the fire and you all played in your cars until night time. Even then you had your flashlights out.
In other news, while you’re so adorable, you also have little cat like claws and aren’t afraid to use them! But you are a truly gentle and sweet little girl. You’r e growing up so fast honey. We hope that you are finding tremendous love, happiness, and satisfaction Aeowyn in your life that you are leading. It’s a pleasure and an honor for momy and daddy to watch you become the little girl and eventually, the woman that you will become. We love you and look forward to a wonderful 2012!
