Now Summer Can be Over

With school starting for both kids, we can finally say that summer was here, and now its gone. Now that the kids are a little older, they have a lot more fun playing together. So far there hasn't been any obvious signs of sibling rivalry. Though Armaan has a far greater tendency to needle Priya. We have to watch out for this guy!

Armaan's favorite pastime at the pool - holding his breath and dunking his head under water

My office summer picnic

Priya got her face painted and her hair colored

The kids got their fishing poles. Armaan was more interested in playing with the worms.

Priya cast her line, and caught this little guy all by herself. Armaan's job was to let it go.

We had to go to the mall over the weekend to get some luggage for our trip to India. As we were just about to leave, Priya announces that she would like to get her ears pierced. That's pretty typical of her. She will think about something for a long time, but when she makes up her mind, its pretty much a done deal. She had earlier said that she would wait till she was 7 to get it done, but from our side, it was whenever she wanted it. I think she thought she would be braver at 7. As we were waiting, Priya was messing about on the chair, and ended up banging her shin. That's the part you see in the video. She's crying not from fear, but because there's a bruise on her leg from hitting it pretty hard. Earlier, as I was explaining what was going to happen, I said the pinch is only going to hurt for 10 seconds. So Priya said, "I can count to ten and the pain will stop?" Yep.