A weekend to remember!

This past weekend was such a busy one. The kids seemed to have a lot of fun though so it made for a happy and fun filled action packed 2 days that will be remembered fondly for all the sweet memories.

Saturday, Aji woke up around 5 and went for his workout. He got back by 7 so I can get going. Gloria was scheduled to come in the morning too and aji had to go to work for a couple of hours. So i hustled out to the fitness center around 7:45 and got back by 10:00. Gloria was already here.Aji had fed the kids breakfast and he left for work by 10:30. After making calls home and doing some cooking for the potluck party that evening, I put Rhea down for a nap. I chatted with priest for some time and by then it was close to 2:00pm. Aji got back shortly and Sean hadn't taken a nap. Both Dad and son got ready and left for the Redskins game around 4:00pm. Aji had got accenture sky box tickets.I's havce loved to join him but rhea is juat way too young to be left with a baby sitter late in the night. So Sean and dad went for their first game together and Rhea and me decided to go to church and then to the get together at Manish's place. I had to wake Rhea up around 4:30 from her nap so we could get to church on time. she woke up well rested and after church we headed back home to pick up the 'Black eyed peas curry' and left for the potluck. My plan was to stay there for couple of hours and head home before it got too late. Well one thing led to another and Rhea was having a great time playing with all the other kids - 4 girls. They were playing hindi movie songs on TV and Rhea was dancing.She didnt have any qualms and had a fantastic time. It was 10:45pm before we got home. I put her to bed immdiately and then settled down to watch the movie 'LION'. Halfway through the movie, dad and son got back.Sean was fast asleep. Aji mentioned that he had such a great time.He was very excited about it all and had a few of Sean's quotable quotes from the evening,

As soon as the teams got into the field, everyone started clapping, so Sean said - Dad, so who won the trophy? He thought that it was all over esp since they were there a few hours before the game started.

The cheer leaders did their dance moves during the breaks and Sean seeing them said,

Sean: Dad, why are they not wearing clothes?
Aji: They are wearing clothes Sean.
Sean: No they're not. They're wearing underwear!

Aji was also mentioneing how he well he behaved. Just after they got there, sean wanted pop corn and coke and in the excitement of it all managed to spill both on 2 separate occassions. After the second incident, he told aji,

Dad, I'm not doing this right. I need to be careful. Can you hold this (the pop corn and drink) for me and I'll take it from you!

Aji mentioned that Sean did miss me & Rhea during the game and said 'Dad, next time we should get Mom and baby too'.

Sunday morning Sean woke up and when I asked him about the game he was grinning from ear to ear when he said 'It was fantastic, I had a great time Mom!'
We didnt have too much time to talk as we had to get to the zoo for Alex's birthday. On our way Sean would tid bits about his adventures from the previous night at the game.

Our first trip to the Zoo...

This was our first trip to the zoo so we were as excited as the kids. The party was to begin at 10:00am and had a 1 hour tour so we wanted to be on time so as to not miss it. We got there just in time. All the kids got safari hats and they did a quick 10 minute quiz on mammals before we started the tour while they snacked on goldfish and OJ. Rhea was sooo excited when we stepped out for the tour. We saw Sea lions, Lemurs, Alligators, Turtles, Lions, Tigers, Oranguttan and Gorillas. The most interesting of all were the Oranguttans. They were all in their glass enclosed homes doing their tricks to get all the kids amused. Rhea was very excited at first but seeing them a little too close got her a little upset but she quickly got over it. The most interesting part was we saw this oranguttan who was doing some game on a touch screen monitor. It was unbeleivable how easily it was playing the game. We were told that its a game to match identical objects and everytime it got it right, it would get a treat. This was one smart cookie because it seemed to be getting almost an entire meal worth of treats :) We saw a baby Gorilla and I told Rhea it was a 'baby gorilla'. next thing you know, every animal in the zoo is 'Bae beeee'. She was shouting 'bae bee' at all the exhibits..we would say Rhea did you see the Tiger and she would point at the Tiger and shriek in excitement 'Bae beee'. It was soo funny. In think she did recognize a few of them from her animal book.

After the tour and the rest of the birthday festivities, the kids wanted to still see more and so we went to the Amazonia exhibits.It was really cool..there were some really giant fish - I forget all the names and also some water snakes, toads and other small creatures. Sean asked a lot of questions and Rhea was wide eyed absorbing all of it. She did not want to come back and had a huge meltdown. Finally she dozed off on our way back. We will defnitely want to go back since Sean wants to see the Pandas, Elephants, Penguins and Sharks. For the latter we'll make a trip to the Acquarium at baltimore...but our short trip to the animal kingdom was fun fun fun all the way...