A fun weekend with Dadaji and Dadi!

Hanging out on Kirkwood.

Fun at an old train station...he ran back and forth, back and forth re-enacting the "Master of Disguise" episode of the Backyardigans. Sometimes he was the Master of Disguise and other times he was "Inspectio (that should be inspector) Austin of the Paris Police" chasing his papa/dada, the Master of Disguise. So funny!

Walking around campus.

Yum...Pizza!!

Testing out his new computer...and snacking on some mini-m&m's.

Just being silly...notice all of his "friend" on the stairs behind him. We built lots of K'nex robots that found homes on the stairs.

More of our stroll through campus.

Playing Memory with Dadaji and Dadi. Kiran is already exhibiting his papa's tendency to cheat. Uh oh!

Nishu and his dad having fun playing Wii Sports.

Nishu's fun weekend

I just couldn't resist posting these!

For those of you who know Nishu, you may have heard him say, "I don't believe in fruits and vegetables." So, I had to get documentation of him eating Mango!

I tried really hard to get a picture of him actually putting it in his mouth...here he is looking annoyed with me for pointing the camera at him for about 5 minutes straight. Of course, as soon as I put the camera down he ate the fruit!

Playing with Kiran's new yoyo.

And finally, Nishu and his mom engaged in a very competitive game of Memory. Seriously, Kiran was upstairs playing with his Dada, I was cooking, and Nishu and his mom were playing Memory. LOL!

Easter Fun

Goodies from the Easter bunny! He was so concerned about making sure that Dadi had a toothbrush at his house, that Kiran gave her the toothbrush the Easter Bunny left in his basket.

GIANT stuffed bunny from Dada & Dadi...and they wonder why there are toys everywhere?

Super fun basket from Dadi!

He got right to work playing with his goodies...cutting up playdoh.

The breakfast of champions...Barfi (I know it doesn't sound appetizing...but trust me - YUM!)

Very proud of his indulgent breakfast.

Playing with his new drumsticks.

The aftermath...

Three Generations of Singh Men

More Birthday celebrations!

Dadaji and Dadi (Nishu's parents) came to visit for the weekend...so, Nishu's birthday celebration continued! We had such a fun day!

Building a fort.

Kiran wanted to build a fort after school on Monday and we never got around to it. Well, he woke up at 4:30 am hysterical about not having built a fort. I tried calming him down and promised that we'd build a fort tomorrow. He just cried harder and said, "No, right now!" I didn't get up at 4:30 to make a fort! I did manage to calm him down and we did built that fort the next day...here's some of our fort fun!

Funny conversations today!

It was a somewhat racially charged day for the Singh's today! First, as Nishu was walking into daycare (I was already there) the only African American child in the class got all excited because she thought it was her dad. Everyone quickly realized it wasn't her dad and was, in fact, Kiran's papa. But his other friend pointed out, "She (the African American girl) is black...black just like Kiran's papa!" Of course, Kiran corrected her...his papa is brown not black. I guess they're all trying to figure this whole race thing out!

Later, at dinner, the restaurant had a poster for the IU basketball team right next to our table. It had a picture of a scene from a game, the schedule, and at the bottom of the poster were pictures of each player. Here's how that conversation went:

Kiran: Who are those people?
Nishu: They're basketball players.
Kiran: No, those people (pointing to the pictures at the bottom).
Nishu: They are basketball players, too.
Kiran: But they're white.
Nishu: (stifling his laughter!) Well, white people can play basketball.

We were trying so hard to hide our laughter. I'm not sure how these stereotypes develop so early. We certainly haven't talked to him about race and sports...maybe we should, though, as he seems to be formulating some false stereotypes!!! Funny, nonetheless!