Arya with great concentration drew this today! You can tell what proud parents we must be to go on and publish this masterpiece… but seriously… even objectively… no?
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Con grande concentrazione e determinazione oggi Arya ha disegnato questo! Si vede che dobbiamo essere genitori molto fieri per pubblicare questo capolavoro… ma seriamente… anche obiettivamente… no?
We all knew that sooner or later we would have started writing about her potty adventures… Finally the other day we started some potty training and it went quite well… she was in the kitchen when she yelled “pipi” and ran to the bathroom to do it on the potty. She was so proud of herself, that when Radhika came back, Arya took her to see how good she had been.
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Lo sapevamo tutti che prima o poi avremmo iniziato a scrivere delle sue avventure sul vasino… Finalmente l’altro giorno abbiamo iniziato a fare un po’ di allenamento senza pannolino ed e’ andato molto bene… era in cucina quando ha urlato ” pipi’ ” ed e’ corsa in bagno a farla sul vasino. Era cosi’ fiera che quando e’ tornata Radhika a casa l’ha portata a vedere quanto era stata brava
E’ da ieri che voleva andare a fare shopping, pero’ l’abbiamo convinta ieri che i negozi erano chiusi. Oggi invece siamo andati ma non era molto soddisfatta visto che siamo entrati e usciti.
Oggi invece, visto che era una giornata stupenda, siamo andati al parco, dove ha fatto tanta altalena e su e giu’ sullo scivolo. Dovendo scegliere tra due scivoli uno affianco all’altro ha scelto uno perche’ l’altro era sporco (secondo lei). Poveri noi… maniaca della pulizia. Gli e’ capitato il papa’ sbagliato…
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Since yesterday she wanted to go shopping, but we convinced her that the shops were closed. Today instead, we went but she wasn’t very satisfied, since we got in and out.
Today instead, since it was a wonderful day out, we went to the park, where we did a lot of “wee” on the swing and up and down on the slide. Having to choose between two adjacent slides, she picked one because the other was dirty (according to her). Poor us… maniac for cleanliness… She definitely ended up with the wrong dad..
suuuuu….. giuuuu….. suuuuu…. giuuuu…. cosi’ abbiamo passato una bella mezz’oretta all’aereoporto sabato mattina per cambiarci i biglietti. Arya ha scoperto le scale mobili e mentre Radhika cambiava i biglietti (c’hanno messo un’eternita’… che sorpresa) io e Arya abbiamo fatto su e giu’ sulle scale mobili del terminale. Le abbiamo provate tutte. Anche i tapis-roulant! E quando andavamo in salita non si accontentava di lasciarsi portare dalle scale mobili… voleva farle a piedi lo stesso!
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uuuuup….. dooown… uuuup … doooown… that’s how we spent a good half hour at the airport on saturday morning to change some tickers. Arya discovered the escalators and while Radhika was changing the tickers (it took them forever, what a surprise) Ayra and I went up and down the escalators of the terminal.We tried them all. Even the moving walkways! And when we were going up she wasn’t just letting the escalators take her up… she wanted to climb the stairs nonetheless!
She had a lot of fun this weekend putting stickers on a new album which her granparents bought her. Incredible how well she lays them out, so carefully, and upright! Obviously after each sticker everybody has to clap….
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Si e’ divertita tanto questo fine settimana a mettere le figurine su un nuovo album che le hanno comprato i nonni. Incredibile come le mette bene, con attenzione e nel verso giusto! Ovviamente dopo ogni figurina tutti devo fare un applauso… 🙂
Yesterday we were walking downtown in Lexington and we passed in front of the bookstore. Arya glanced at us with her usual sly look of when she’s about to so something she shouldn’t, and ran straight into the bookstore gurgling with joy. We were so happy that the height of her fun was to dive into a bookstore!
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Ieri sera stavamo passeggiando in centro a Lexington, quando siamo passati davanti alla libreria. Arya ci ha guardato con il suo solito sguardo di quando sta per fare qualcosa che non deve fare e poi e’ corsa dentro la libreria ululando di gioia felice. Come eravamo felici che il massimo del suo divertimento e’ tuffarsi in libreria!
Today I finally managed to go pick her up at daycare by bike! I attached the little baby trailer to my bike and biked on the bike path all the way to daycare. Coming back was fine until the terrifying uphill to the house. There’s where I found how unfit I am…
Arya had lot of fun coming home in a rickshaw. After that, since I had energy to waste, we started again ripping off dandelions from the lawn, we planted some parsley, cut the grass, rolled in the grass….
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Oggi sono finalmente riuscito ad andarla a prendere al nido in bicicletta! Ho attaccato il suo carrettino alla mia bici e mi sono fatto la pista ciclabile fino al nido. Il ritorno e’ andato tutto bene fino alla salita “da paura” per arrivare a casa. Li’ ho scoperto quanto non sono in forma…
Arya si e’ divertita molto a tornare a casa in riscio’. Poi visto che avevo energia da sprecare ci siamo rimessi a strappare i denti di leone dal prato, abbiamo piantato un po’ di prezzemolo, tagliato il prato, rotolato nell’erba…
Today as I was sneezing in the kitchen Arya so cutely said to me “Bless you, mamma” – it just caught me off guard and I gave her lots of pappi’s! She clearly saw that this pleases mum and said bless you so many more times to mamma & pappa just to milk it!
I also bathed her tonight – and it’s so cute when I say to her “Nangu pungu” she repeats after me saying “nangu nangu” but it’s sooo cute when she says it!
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Oggi, mentre starnutivo in cucina, Arya mi ha detto “bless you, mamma”. Mi ha sorpreso cosi’ tanto e le ho dato tanti bacini! Si e’ cosi’ accorta di quanto mi faceva felice e ha continuato a dirlo un sacco di volte sia a mamma e papa’ per approfittare del momento!
Le ho anche fatto un bagnetto – ed era cosi’ carino che quando le dico “nangu pungu” lei ripete dicendo “nangu nangu”, ma e’ cosi’ piu’ carino quando lo dice lei!
Ieri Arya ha compiuto 19 mesi… pensavo tra me e me.. sono mesi, non anni… ma basta moltiplicare per 12 e avra’ 19 anni. Solo 12 volte il tempo che e’ passato, e avra’ gia’ 19 anni… Sono sconvolto 🙂
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Yesterday Arya turned 19 months… I was thinking to myself… they are months, not years… but you just multiply by 12 and she’ll be 19 years old. Only 12 times the time that has elapsed so far, and she’ll already be 19! I am shocked… 🙂
Yesterday morning I brought up summer clothes that Arya hadn’t seen from the basement and Arya really liked some of them saying “have” (‘want’ in Marathi).. But I explained that she’s still too small and she can wear them once she’s bigger and she was OK with it… Then as I was trying them on Arya says to Papa, “Mamma e bella” which was the nicest complement! And then she gives me a black jacket to wear and says “ghal” and so I was wearing it and saying to Arya “OK so tell me how it looks” and she replies “Mamma wow”… Arg!! she already knows how to please!!!
Then we went shopping – she was so excited at the shoe store! Had to try on shoes just like I was! wore each one and then said ‘No’ and then Papa had to put it away and offer a different one to try.. then she had to take her socks off ’cause Mummy did… and the excitement on her face as she ran over to me showing her “shooesss”! Later when we went to the Anne Klein store, she was flipping through hangers and saying “no, no, no” to each. But there was a red top she particularly liked to which she exclaimed “wow” and was trying to grab it off the hanger saying “mamma ghal”. Many hugs & kisses later, I went off to the changing room and Arya followed. But she didn’t see which curtain I went behind. So she went to a random one & opened it and I heard this surprised “Well, hello” from a changing room!:-) so then I called Arya over and she peers her head under my curtain saying “cu cu”!
She was so excited with the shopping, she didn’t sleep all afternoon until 5pm and yet was in a good mood all along! We had such a wonderful day together.
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Ieri mattina ho portato su dalla cantina alcuni vestiti estivi che Arya non aveva ancora visto e alcuni le sono piaciuti molto visto che diceva “ha-ve” (‘voglio’ in Marathi)… Le ho spiegato che e’ ancora troppo piccola e che le puo’ indossare quando e’ piu’ grande… e cio’ non le dava problemi… Poi mentre me li mettevo Arya ha detto a Papa’, “Mamma e’ bella”, che era un complimento bellissimo! E poi mi ha dato una giacca nera da indossare, dicendo “ghal” (metti), me la sono messa e le ho chiesto di dirmi come mi stava… (poi finisco di tradurre)