This is a short one, not a whole lot to share. Hopefully we’ll have more for you next week.

Grandma Joyce arrived Tuesday night, yeah! Claire is having a great time with her and loves her new Dora drinking glass (thanks grandma!)
I’m already feeling my pants tightening as grandma cooked 2 home cooked meals for us on her first day here. Mmm…yummy.

Things are moving right along here, we are finally going to be back to normal schedules with grandma being around. Work is going well, we both still feel like we are making headway with our projects (although, we better kick it up a notch, only 4 months left) and continue to hire new employees. We don’t have a return date yet; we are still working on plane tickets. We’ll keep you posted.

Spelling clarification: In last week’s email I referred to a game we played at the New Year’s party called Cavardi, it is actually Kabbadi (thanks Sudha!) I learned this week, that you could use any word for this game, the point is that you tag someone and return to your side without taking a breath. (I interviewed someone this week that has won awards for playing Kabbadi!)

Do any of you remember us mentioning a girl named Neela when we were searching for a nanny? If you remember, Claire hated her with a passion. We’ll she turned out to be our maid’s sister, so Claire sees her quite a bit when she is playing at the park with Bindu (Bhagya). She absolutely adores her now! She chases her around, and just last night she came to the house to get something from Bindu, Claire saw her and dragged her into the house to play with her. It’s pretty funny how quickly Claire’s attitude can change about a person. Clay was just mentioning to me the other day that when both Bindu and Neela are around, he is in 3rd place when it comes to Claire’s pecking order of favorites.

Clay had quite the bus ride adventure trying to get to work the other day, check out our blog for more detail. The date to look for is Monday January 30th. http://ehlersindia.blogspot.com/

Conversations with Claire:
Mom-“Claire, do you want to eat lunch?”
Claire-“Ney, ney” (No in Hindi)