We went to IKEA the other day and both AS and I were busy looking at furniture. After a few minutes when we turned around ,we found Chhori was making herself comfortable in a chair and reading their catalogue. Look at the photo. We know for sure that she is a princess 🙂 . My cheeky monkey!
Have a great day everyone.
M from nepaliaustralian
XOXO
Posted in Our daughter
Tagged australian, australian nepali, chhori, dalnepali food, IKEA, kids, M from nepaliaustralian, Nepal, Nepalese, Nepali, nepali australian, Nepali blog, Nepaliaustralian, Our daughter, princess
Sometimes we learn so much from kids. As an adult we sometimes forget that kids are so smart and learn so much from their environment.
I mostly feel that Chhori is very small and forget that she already knows so much. She surprised us when she stared to join our conversations. Whenever AS or I ask a question to each other, if she knows the answer, she will say it. Sometimes it has caught us off guard but we love it as it beings a smile to both of our faces.
Lately we are giving her a lot less screen time so she can play with her toys and be active more. It is working well except that sometimes she will say “TV please mama”. I see her pretend play with her cars, teddies and dolls. It is so interesting and surprising at the same time as she repeats things that we say to her like ” No baby ” or ” Eat more please” etc.
Yesterday, both AS and I were on our phones updating our grocery list and Chhori was dancing to one of her rhymes and suddenly she came to us and said “No phone mama”. I didn’t quite get it at first but when she said it again, I did and put my phone down. Then she went to AS and said, “No phone papa.” He obliged and she instructed both of us to stand up and start dancing with her.
Both of us could not help but laugh as that is what we usually tell her and now she was reminding us of that.
I am loving being a parent to this smart little cutie pie.
Do share any unexpected conversation by your kids. I am sure there are some fun and embarrassing ones too.
Have a great day everyone.
M from nepaliaustralian
XOXO
Posted in General, Our daughter
Tagged Australia, australian, australian nepali, baby, chhori, desert, kids, M from nepaliaustralian, Nepal, Nepalese, Nepali, nepali australian, nepali australian blog, Nepali blog, nepali blogger, Nepaliaustralian, new mum, Our daughter, princess, smart kids, toddler
I am sure I am not alone in this boat. There are days/ week where you feel down and don’t want to do anything, meet anyone and feel as if your life is going nowhere. You just see everything around you and nothing is going according to your plan.
I am having one of those days and I feel like I need to jerking myself out of it and tell myself that I have many blessing to count and I should not waste time thinking about nonsense.
So that is what I am doing right now.
Writing this is already making me feel better.
Please share your own list and hope that list can bring a smile on your face every time you are down or unhappy.
Have a great day everyone.
M from nepaliaustralian
XOXO
Posted in Personal
Tagged Australia, australian, australian nepali, baby, blessed, blessing, chhori, desert, happiness, kids, life, love, M from nepaliaustralian, Nepal, Nepalese, Nepali, nepali australian, nepali australian blog, Nepali blog, nepali blogger, Nepaliaustralian, new mum, Our daughter, princess, smart kids, toddler
Dhido is a traditional and very popular food in Nepal. It is an everyday food for many people in rural Nepal. I have eaten dhido only once before and it was made out of maze flour. Today I am sharing the recipe of dhido, made of buckwheat flour and millet flour, which I learnt recently from my friend.
Generally dhido can contain any grain as long as it is ground into flour.
Ingredients
Method
Eating dhido
Dhindo is eaten by first making a small ball with the fingers, dipping it in the curry or dal and some ghee and then swallowing it. It is not chewed at all.
Hope you will try this easy recipe soon. Till next time, take care
M from nepaliaustralian
XOXO
I hope everyone had a great Easter break, stuffed with Easter eggs and hot cross bun. Normally we get 4 days long weekend off from work during Easter. This year, I took extra day off on Thursday making my weekend even longer.
It was Chhori’s first Easter at her child care and they had an Easter Hat parade. We made a yellow hat for her and I was really excited for her. So on Thursday I went to the parade with my SIL and some other friends.
They had decorated the place nicely and all the parents were excited to see the kids wearing Easter hats. Chhori did well as she had her hat on the whole time. She came with her class mates and went around the yard half of the way for the parade and then she saw me. Instead of continuing, she came running to me and sat with me.
They also had an Easter egg hunt and she managed to find a few eggs which she ate straightway.
She had fun and I am so happy that she is liking her childcare more now. No more tears unlike before.
The rest of the weekend went too fast. The first day, we went to the Easter show with our friends. This was a mini Easter show unlike the one we went to last year. Anyway this was good to go with kids and Chhori had heaps of fun.
We had our lunch there and Chhori enjoyed the petting zoo. They had a dog, pigs, rabbits, hens, ducks, goat, sheep, alpaca, calves among other animals.
Chhori was observing the animals and making their sounds and repeating the names. For some reason, she decided not to touch any animals.
The main achievement for Chhori was that she managed sit on a ride on her own. She has never been on a ride on her own so I wasn’t sure how she would like it but she really wanted to go on one which had elephants with a driving wheel in front of each seat. So we allowed her and I was ready for her to cry when the ride started moving but to my surprise she was smiling and playing happily with the wheel in front of her. I was so happy and proud of my little one. She had real fun and wanted to go again and again.
The next day, we went out with our friends to the beautiful Winnererremy Bay for a BBQ.
It was a beautiful autumn day and we had great fun. The kids went to the beach and enjoyed the sand and the water.
Another day, we went on a picnic with AS’s cousins to Stanwell park. It was another beautiful day to catch up and enjoy the amazing blue sky, sea and sun.
On the last day of Easter, we went to Ikea for some shopping and ended the day and the long weekend with some homemade open momo which we were trying for the first time. It turned out really yummy.
Overall we had a great Easter with friends and family. Hope everyone had great Easter break as well.
Take care till next time.
M from nepaliaustralian
XOXO
Posted in Australia, Holidays, Our daughter
Tagged australian, australian nepali, chhori, Dhido, easter, easter show, Happy Easter, M from nepaliaustralian, momo, Nepal, Nepalese, Nepali, nepali australian, Nepali blog, nepali food, Nepaliaustralian, petting zoo, rides, royal easter show
nepaliaustralian 