A letter to Santa

Dear Santa.

This is from Agastya. I promise I did not help even a bit. Just provided the pencil and paper. Thank you for taking your time off to read this letter, I know you're awfully busy with the gift-giving season and snow-induced chaos in traffic. I pray that your reindeers don't get affected by it.

Monica. (Agastya's Mom - in case you're confused)
PS: Please remember that I've been a very good girl too.
PPS: Please tell your impostor from Spain that his Swarte Piet used to scare the crap (excuse my language) out of me.




For those who are confused about the PPS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas - this is the version of Santa I grew up with. He's from Spain, not from North Pole. He's always flanked by these terrifying bodyguards called Swarte Piet.

Read the Swarte Piet part. It's scary I kid you not.

Sinterklaas and his Black Petes usually carry a bag, which contains candy for nice children and a "roe," a bunch of willow branches used to spank naughty children; in actuality a chimneysweep's broom. Some of the older Sinterklaas songs make mention of naughty children being put in the bag and being taken back to Spain.

Trust me. Spain was never in my list of holiday destinations until recently. Going to Spain means a punishment from Santa. Come to think of it now, ugh why was I never a naughty girl??? I'd love to go to Spain!

Cat dump's heaven

My back garden is like the neighbour cats' place to relieve themselves. It's the cat dump's heaven. I bet it came with a flashing neon sign viewable only by cat eyes saying 'Toilet' with arrow pointing down at my grass. Maybe it also comes with a voucher to introduce a friend and get your poo session free. Poo lover card holder gets free dump after stamping 5 paws.

This morning it's like there was a line. One after another in a span of 3 hours. One even looked like it has constipation. Poor cat. So long as it's not diarrhoea. Eew.

I want to be a cat! Oh but cats don't get presents from Santa!...

Lila's 2.5 year review today. Weight 12 kgs (I'm very happy with this!), height 92 cms (tall!).

Ribbit! Ribbit!

Today they're frogs.

Ribbit! Ribbit!

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4jwmlJtx1U

Oh, I also have a video of Agastya singing Five Little Speckled Frogs.

There.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RaB6IU_6lE

Things they like lately:
Watching Phineas and Ferb (both). Nagi encourages this because he loves the show.
Playing Lego (Agastya - will upload more pics of Lego creations in separate post)
Scribbling on papers (Lila). When she's done with one she'd say 'I did it!', then twirl the paper around the house saying 'Up up and away!'.

High school musical

I just watched a little bit of HSM 2 with the kids (we only survived the first song). Here's a few things Agastya noticed:

1. He immediately says he likes the main girl in it. I'm too lazy to google her name.
2. He also likes the blonde in it.
3. He thinks the piano girl looks like Rhianna. And he likes her too. My boy is not picky.
4. And the guy who wears pink all the time looks like Joshua.
5. When I told him I like Zac Efron (obviously, mom), he said Zac looks like his cousin Dylan!

6. He said pink is a girl's colour but he likes pink for no particular reason. Doh.
Cousin Dylan is of course 100% Indian, but he's sure about the similarity because I asked him many times and he's still saying it.