Wow I’m really becoming a slacker, sorry again for the late email.
The weekend before last was nice and low key. It was kicked off with a birthday party at the KFC in Secunderabad. Lots of fun, Claire only got trampled once by some older girls, but got right back up not missing a beat. The rest of the weekend was relaxing, we got together with some friends and had a nice brunch at the Taj Krishna for Mother’s Day. The best Mother’s Day present was Clay changing Claire’s poop pants while I enjoyed my mealJ I also got several Hindi CD’s that I had wanted…and I just found my favorite Telugu song—Cheliya Cheliya! I love the tune, but didn’t know the name so I’ve been humming it to different people so that they could tell me what the name of it was. No one could comprehend my humming to tell me what song it was (those of you who have heard me hum can understand why). Anyway, I finally made it through to someone. I keep listening to it over and over even though I have no idea what it says.
Mom had a great trip to Ahmedabad, she returned last Sunday night. Lots of good interview footage on the politics in
We returned to work last Monday with a nice welcome back present of no A/C in the office (only 107 degrees that day)…just another manic Monday. No a/c in the office again on Tuesday, 89 degrees in the office, I broke down and brought our big floor standing fan from our house to the office. I was melting, couldn't take it anymore. Still no a/c Wednesday and Thursday. Friday…
Wednesday night we went to a restaurant in town called Fusion 9, one of only couple of restaurants here where we can get decent beef. Claire sang the ABC’s song in the microphone over the loud speaker 3 times so the whole restaurant could hear it. She received a room full of applause.
Friday night we went to a surprise 50th birthday party for a friend’s husband at the Taj Krishna, it was really nice. Saturday morning we went out to ICRISAT for a BBQ that Fosters (the beer company) was sponsoring. Saturday night we went to Little Italy for my family birthday dinner. It was great food, and the best present was that Claire was extremely well behaved and ate like a little piggy, which never happens when we go out for dinner. She is usually more interested in running around causing havoc, is it possible that she’s moving out of the “terrible two’s” stage already? I think not.
Saturday night I took my employees out for my birthday. This is an Indian tradition, when you have a birthday you give presents to your friends, unlike in the
Sunday we had some friends over to swim, then had lunch at ChicKing, the kids had a blast in the ball pit. Clay and Claire went for a short scooter ride in the afternoon.
Meanwhile we are just trying to plan our packing to figure out how to get everything home. A few weeks ago mom and I visited a village school that is looking for books and toys for the children, so we will be donating a lot of Claire’s things to them. Then we just need to find homes for some of our bigger things that we aren’t taking home. Thankfully we’ve had several volunteers from work who are coming to India over the next month who are willing to bring empty suitcases this way and take full suitcases back for us.
Conversations with Claire:
Claire-"I want some candy"
Mom-"Mommy doesn't have any candy"
Claire-"Grandma have candy"
Claire-“Grandma I needing tic tac ‘pease’.”
Grandma-“Ok, here you go”
Claire-“Oh, ‘tank’ you grandma! I ‘lub’ the tic tacs!”
When mom told Claire that it was my birthday on Friday, she said, “Oh…Claire birthday party!” I think she’s got the birthday thing figured out.
Sincerely,
Julianna Ehlers
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