Sharma Family Journal

I kinda like ರಾಮಾಚಾರಿ.

–Chirag after watching ನಾಗರಹಾವು

I liked the part where he breaks the pots and messes up the garden of the girl who teased him!

Chirag wanted me to make this cute little creature called Rudy. Pattern is from Michaels . It took about 5-6 hours to make it but is worth it. He watched his baby brother while I crocheted Rudy. Now they are inseparable.

From Nov09

From Nov09

I made this cute little pumpkin hat for my li’l pumpkin. I got the crochet pattern from Bev. The pattern is for premie. So I added 30 rows to fit. It took about a 4-5 hours spanning a few days.

He is saying, “don’t I look cute in this hat?”

From Crochet

From Crochet

From Crochet

I organized a Diwali activity in my son’s first grade class. Kids drew and colored Rangoli on a paper plate. I asked the kids to clean up their room and hang Rangoli plate on the door knob. Kids had lot of fun!

What you need:
A paper plate
Pencil
Crayons
Hole puncher
A small piece of Yarn to tie a loop

I put the dots on the plate and numbered them according to design. Here is my design. I kept it simple.

From DiwaliCraft

Kids connected dots from 1 – 16. Then they connected all even numbers to the center. This was the only tricky part for first graders! Tell them not to leave any gaps on rangoli or else evil spirits will enter! You can now see the pattern. Next step is to color.

From DiwaliCraft

I asked kids to pick 5 colors and color with pattern in mind. Here is how it looked after coloring.

From DiwaliCraft

You can punch a hole and tie a yarn. Here is Chirag’s rangoli hung on the door.

From DiwaliCraft

I need to pull Chirag out of his Ben10 and super hero obsession. I thought I will get him to do this simple Halloween craft which I saw on AlphaMom blog. It took about 10 min.

STEP 1 : Take a long piece of paper (I chose green which I had got with a mail order). Make several folds.

From Oct 2009

STEP 2: Draw Template. Then cut it out.

From Oct 2009

STEP 3: The fun step for Chirag, making ghost faces

From Oct 2009

Here is how it looked

From Oct 2009

Six months and 1 week old…busy trying to stand up.

From Oct 2009

P.S: I wanted to crop off my ugly slippers seen at the corner but ah…forget it, no one is going to notice.

“I don’t want to eat leaves, only worms eat leaves” – when asked to eat spinach.

“Be happy, amma” – when his mommy disciplines him

“I will become Surasa and poke your eyes” – to his dad. (Surasa is demon in Ramayana)

“Om Namah Shivaya” – says before lifting any heavy object (after Rama who lifts the bow)

“he got a tummy” – giggling and pointing to a ganesha idol in temple.

I al’dy (sic) did बुच्चु. If I do बुच्चु everyday so much, my tummy will hurt!

–Chirag Sharma 03/25/2007

It’s that time of the year. My birthday coming soon. I’m really excited. I am turning 4. I am having a spidey party on sunday April 1st 2007…I’m not kidding guys. We will have jumper, will do some fun crafts and play games. Party will start at 11am. Do come on time we will have big sunday brunch.

Are you wondering what I would like my birthday?
Nothing…..just come to my party and make it a fun day for me.

I don’t want to go to any school. I want to go to a dance class instead.

– Chirag Sharma Jan 2007