A Fun Filled Week With Dad

My husband has been home for a while, but ended up leaving today. We tried to pack the week full of some fun adventures before he left and a little bit of procrastinating the practical. Our new home has definitely been keeping us busy. We're still unpacking and trying to make the house feel like home. I wake up every morning, make my iced coffee, and I attempt to unpack the rest of the boxes. Then, it happens. It's different every day, but the end game is the same. The boys start arguing, someone gets hurt after wrestling, someone is starving... I'm starting to think I should give up and stop trying to unpack the last few boxes. Maybe they can be some sort of decoration... That seems logical..Look at those faces. You can't even be mad at them. Even after the two on the left take advantage of the one on the right... putting tattoos on his forehead. All I could do was laugh hysterically. Even Lucas thought it was pretty funny. Liam has also been getting ready for his birthday party. He even decided to write a list of things he wants.. Then he got distracted and ended up drawing Toothless instead. We have a few birthday parties under our belts and the same thing always happens. We bounce around themes at least three or four times. The first theme for Liam's party was The Avengers and now it's Angry Birds. Angry Birds seems like a lot more fun to me. We even decided to make a life size Angry Bird's Game out of moving boxes. Seeing as we just moved, there won't be a lot of kids, but what adult doesn't want to play a life sized version of Angry Birds. The boys decided to go swimming when Liam was done. The weather here is... wow... so stinking hot and humid. I don't know if we will ever get used to it. Then we ended our week by letting the kids drive to the park. I'm pretty sure everyone that drove by stopped to smile at these little guys! I also realized we're in big trouble when Liam gets his license! If you liked this post and want to hear more about our family, sign up to join my email list :)

Half Indian Toddler Problems

A toddler's life comes with many difficulties. People don't let you do whatever you want, discipline your younger siblings, eat cookies all day, and the worst of it all... they don't always understand what you're saying so clearly. Now, try being half Indian and half White on top of it!

We've been slowly teaching Liam and Levi little Telugu words. I only know the ones Joel and his dad have taught me. I've tried to look a few up online, but I was only met with hysterical laughter after I used one of my internet taught words. They were either completely wrong or I was using them in the wrong context. Joel sure got a kick out of it. 

As we started to teach Liam some of the Telugu words, we ran into a problem. So many of them sounded like something else in his toddler vocabulary. 

Annum

Rice is served with just about every Indian dish so we have a lot of it around here. When we told Liam what the Telugu word for rice was he just looked at us and laughed. 

"Mom, this isn't annum, it's rice!"

He thinks it's hilarious because he calls our cousin Autumn, annum. When we tell him he's eating annum, he thinks we're teasing him. 

Thatha

Obviously, the "th" is always hard for a kiddo to say. Liam calls Joel's dad Sasa instead of Thatha. It's never been a problem until this weekend. I gave him chips and salsa for lunch. He asked me what the salsa was. No this is not the first time he's ever had salsa, but it's the first time he's actually paid attention to it. I told him it was salsa. He just stared at me. 

"If you say I'm eating my Sasa one more time, I'll tell daddy."

I tried to explain the difference between Thatha and salsa, but he told me to go into time out for not listening instead....

Naan

Naan is the delicious Indian flat bread that we always find an excuse to make around here. It. is. delicious. We didn't make it with an Indian dish one time for my family and they all looked at us like we were insane. Naan is definitely not a hard word to say. However when you're family is always making naan jokes, it gets distorted quickly. What are naan jokes you ask? Oh, let me tell you. 

As a response to someone asking you if you had any naan. "Nope, I've had naan." 

"I'll have naan of that." 

You can see where it goes. It's one of those jokes that happens at least a few times during all of our Indian dinners. Even Liam is doing it! He has no idea why it's so funny, but he loves saying naan while running around the house laughing. 

I wonder if Indian families sit around the dinner table making naan jokes during dinner. Oh yeah, that's probably only something us whiteys do...