Pondicherry: Promenade, Bharathi Park and Hotel

We walked on the Promenade on all three days of our stay in Pondicherry. French-ish buildings on one side, Bay of Bengal on the other.

Gandhi.

That's right, folks. Free Drinking Water.

Bharathi Park.

We stayed at Hotel Atithi, pretty much just because of the rooftop pool (with Ocean View!)

Lucky Maggie got to wear a shower cap.

Valentine's Day Kids Crafts

Here are the Valentine's Day crafts Maggie and I did this year. This is also counting as V is for Valentine for preschool.

Love Bug Valentines

Playing Card Banner and Playing Card Pals and Hug Me Heart Valentine

Maggie has been making this silly face a lot lately.

Conversation Heart Wreath

Maggie's cute ideas: Flower, Pooh and a lady bug.

Recycled Valentine's Day treat jars

V is for Valentine

For Grandma: Owies

Dalton fell off a chair at the cricket match and got scratched by the sand.

Maggie fell face-first on the flat of the slide. I'm not sure why it gave her such a big bruise. This was five days later.

Both our poor clumsy kids.

Cricket and Other Insects

EY sponsored a Sports Day. Full-on breakfast & lunch, 5 team cricket tournament, track races, face painting, the works.

Dalton is still a little small to be a cricket player.

But that didn't stop him from trying.

He made friends with the Midwest team. Guys that did their US rotation in Minnesota.

The West team (which is ours, get it?) cheerleaders even had a snare drum.

And they had caricatures.

And a millipede.

With Maggie's foot so you can see how big it was.

We also found this butterfly today on the wall near our balcony.

It looked like a leaf at first.

Preschool Activities Letters Q-S

Letter Q is for Quilt and Quills. we made this paper plate porcupine using half a paper plate and cereal box quills.

I cut these patterned paper squares and brought them from Utah for this craft. Maggie also practiced drawing Question marks.
Letter R is for Rainbow, Robot and Rocket. The rocket is made out of a toilet paper roll, a circle with a slit cut in it, and three legs glued together on one side. We made the robot from an empty snack box, tin foil, buttons, straws for legs, and paper clips for arms.
Letter S is for Snake and Snow. Here is the snake before I cut it out.
The cotton ball S is one of the ideas I got from Ember's preschool stuff. It was nice to have a book that went along with our theme for once. On this day we also went to the playground to play on the Swings and Slide.
A few days later, we practiced Sewing a Star.