Thank You!

Arya had a Fairy Party for her 6th birthday and we had such a great time. I still need to post photos from that, but in the mean time I wanted to post this sweet thank you note that she gave me after the party. :) She was writing them for her friends, and after she was done she brought this one to me.

In the note, she says thank you for the Do and Discover, which is the science kit that we gave her for her birthday. She also says thank you for the cake and the pixie juice, which I made for her Fairy Party. I just took lemonade and put a little green food coloring in it to make it bright and colorful to match the decorations. I put a sign on it that said "pixie juice" (Thanks for the idea, Pinterest!!) and the girls loved it!!

Here's the back of card. If it is hard to see, Arya is on the left (labeled "me") and I am on the right (labeled "Mommy"). Arya's background is pink because that is her favorite color and my background is green because that is my favorite color. :)

She was absolutely thrilled with the science kit, which lets you do all sorts of science experiments. She had seen a similar one in a catalog some time ago, and mentioned periodically how fun it would be to have a science kit, but she was really surprised when she opened it. I wish I had her reaction on video...she just kept saying, "I can't believe it! I can't believe I got a science kit!!!" By the way, this week she told me that she decided she wants to be a chemist because she loves chemistry! (The kindergarteners periodically go participate with the high schoolers in chemistry class and get to do all kinds of fun experiments. Arya LOVES it!)

Arya Loses Her First Tooth!!

Tonight Arya lost her first tooth!! The day after her 6th birthday (1 week and 1 day ago), she noticed that her front bottom tooth (on her right) was starting to get loose. She's been wiggling it all week, and a couple of times throughout the week she has bitten into something and forgotten about her loose tooth - making it more and more loose. Tonight I could tell that it was about to come out. Arya was so excited!! (Meanwhile, I have felt a little sad that my baby girl is old enough to be losing her baby teeth!!)

Tonight we had to make a trip to the Indian grocery store in Indianapolis to pick up supplies for the restaurant, so we decided it would be fun to go for a walk along the canal. We were hoping to get to go for a pedal boat ride, but ended up arriving 14 minutes after their cutoff time of 6:00p.m. (Unfortunately, they wouldn't let us take a boat out even though they were still open until 7:00p.m.!) Arya was so disappointed. She couldn't understand why all of the other people were still out boating but we were not able to boat! :(

We still had fun at the canal. The kids loved seeing the fountains and the big goldfish, and blowing the fluffy dandelion seeds that they found. They also loved yelling "ECHO!!" and listening to the echoing sounds whenever we went under a bridge.

After our visit to the canal we headed to the Indian grocery store and Arya and Alex found some guava candy (like the kind Hama had brought them from Toronto). We bought it and went to the car to wait for Rajeev to finish picking up supplies. The kids both had a piece of the hard candy and before they had finished it, Arya's tooth just popped right out! She couldn't believe that it was so easy. It didn't hurt, didn't bleed and was not traumatic at all! She was so thrilled that she even begged us to tell the guy working the drive-thru at Wendy's (where we picked up dinner) that she had just lost her first tooth! So cute! :)

It was a busy evening and Arya and Alex were both asleep in the car by the time we got home around 9:30p.m. I guess we'll have to wait until tomorrow night to leave the tooth for the tooth fairy since Arya didn't get to put it under her pillow. I am sure that the tooth fairy will understand!! :)

Alex Feeds the Ducks

Weatherwise, we have had a very strange end to Winter and beginning of Spring so far. We have had extremely warm weather very early (at least a week of temperatures in the upper 70s and into the 80s in mid-March!) We have been able to spend a lot of time outside and (aside from really bad allergies!) this has been GREAT! Rajeev and I are trying to get ready for the Mini Marathon and we've loved being able to run outside.

This afternoon, Alex and I went for an outdoor run, and decided to stop at the duck pond to see the ducks. We brought some crackers and Alex had so much fun feeding the ducks...especially since there were 3 little ducklings that followed him all around and were very curious! He was so excited that he was actually jumping and dancing around with the little ducks. It was so sweet. The ducklings kept following us as we got ready to leave, but eventually we got them to go back toward the pond with the other ducks. I was afraid we might end up with 3 new pets!!

I had my phone with me and snapped these photos that I had to share. :)

"I like her."

Yesterday, Arya went back to school after 2 weeks of Christmas vacation. Alex and I were out doing a couple of errands in the morning and when we finished around 10:30a.m., he asked if we were going to go pick up Arya. Our conversation went something like this:

Alex: Are we going to go pick up Sissy now?
Me: Are you ready to go pick her up?
Alex: Yes.
Me: Well, she is not finished with school so we can't pick her up yet.
Alex: Well, I want to pick her up. I like her. :)
Me: Do you miss Arya?
Alex: Yes. I miss her.

It was just so sweet, and I wanted to jot it down so that I could remember it. :)