Animal Charkie August 28, 2008
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Dont know what this means but rohan is always going to animal charkie. he says its in san jose and he needs to take the train. “Oh oh i missed the train, how will we go?” Maybe the bus i say. “Yes we need to take the bus to san jose!”
Driving around… August 28, 2008
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this week we are getting the floors done at home. with all the dust around we have been heading out every evening, either to some friends place or the mall or park. As we drive around we put in some music, these days “appa’s haddu” is a favorite request. Appa’s current favorite is teri dewarein. Arjun yesterday – amma put “maula mere maula”. it was so funny to hear him say that! And rohan says ” you should not keep putting maula mere maula”. obviously not his favorite 
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the kids seem to just love life on the go. we are going to have a hard time keeping up!
Timeouts or not….. February 1, 2008
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Time outs or not….. we face this question a lot these days.
Jayesh and I cannot get around to doing the timeout thing. we come from 2 completely different backgrounds and still have the same opinion. I had really strict parents and we were punished for doing or not doing something we were told. No questions asked. Jayesh had the exact opposite experience where he would be reprimanded but almost never had a time out.
Of late we hear a lot about not making time out to be a punishment but giving them the down time to understand the outcome of their actions. This sounds good but we are still not sure how to do this.
For eg: Last week Rohan/Arjun broke a dvd….
Our first reaction was - what did you do ronu and he looks at us like ‘oh i am not supposed to do this?’
So then we realize that first its our mistake – it cannot be within reach and now what do we do next?
You cant give them a timeout for something they dont know and then we tell them – if you do this then you can’t see Curious George because thats where it comes from . They seem to understand it but i dont think it means it wont happen again.
so now if they break a dvd again, they dont get to see curious george for a couple of days and that seems a good way to get the point across but we will most probably have to find something equally interesting for them to do in the meantime. so we are really paying for their mistake because now instead of letting them watch the episode and get some time to have dinner, we get to find a way to entertain them (most likely read a couple of books) .
will be interesting to see what others do in this situation, what is the option to a time out?
Arjun Rohan April 27, 2006
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Arjun and Rohan were born on the 17th of Feb 2006. Life with children is a real roller coaster. You always end up having a good even if you are really freaked out as you take off. I will attempt to keep this blog active with tracking their growth and ours as parents.
Hello World…. April 22, 2006
Posted by Mridula in The first year, kids.Tags: life with newborn twins, new born, twin boys
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Arjun and Rohan were born on the 17th of Feb 2006, at 9.30 minutes apart each 
other. Rohan weighed 5 lbs and 14 oz and Arjun was 5 lbs 10 oz.
Just seeing our little babies after the long 9 month wait was an overwhelmingly emotional moment…. how different they looked from each other and yet they were each so perfect in their own way. The memories of this day will stay with us for ever. 
