graduation day

"Mommy we have graduation day on the 28th"

The concept of kindergarten children graduating really amused me but the preparations made real sense to me. 

They were going to sing this song-Start spreading the news we are leaving today, we want to be a part of 1st grade,1st grade. We worked very hard, our teacher is proud, so open up the doors to 1st grade, 1st grade. If we can make it here we'll make it anywhere, so here we come 1st grade ,1st grade.

I feel this was a great way to prepare children for the next step they were going to take.

The day started with songs from the LKG and then UKG. The IISJ has half the school strength as kindergarteners and I really commend the work Ms Nirmal Jain has done in helping these little kids bloom. I am sure it is really difficult managing a school in this not so open community,language being one of the biggest hindrance. 

Manu will be going to grade 1 from the 2nd of april. Feel a bit sad for him for when he goes back to India he'll have to go back to UKG. Indian schools are very strict in terms of age :-( 

Anyways so today was fun. The little kids did a great job with the beautifull songs their teachers had helped them prepare. They looked really cute with their graduation caps :-)

scared of the dark

A recent development ...this bindaas boy was not scared of anyone,anything but I see the fear of dark . 

Nights he dosen't want to go to the toilet alone .The other day we had gone for a walk .There is a beautiful walk by the sea near our home .On our way back we lost our way .There were huge trollers and no one around .Manu got really psyched up.Don't know from where this has come...

some observations

Its interesting to see the dad-son relationship building . Manu loves to fight with ajit .He punches and gets his swords out for a ninja warrior fight . He thinks I am not good at it.

We have a chart with our names written on it and everytime we help someone we get a red star .

Well manu gets loads of them because he helps me whenever he drinks milk,changes clothes,takes a bath...the list continues,he's helping me ain't it:-) 

Daddy gets his red star on weekends when he washes dishes .

Mommy gets red stars when she cooks really nice stuff .

Manu is bothered about the number of stars daddy gets .He wants him to get more red stars so he keeps telling me see mommy, daddy woke up on time lets give him a red star:-) or daddy helped you clean...He really wants to help ajit :-) .He feels daddy will feel bad if he dosen't have equal number of stars.

I am sure he sees ajit as competition .When we go out for walks manu dosen't want us to talk ,he wants us talking to him .This has been there for a long time but I see him slowly accepting that it is ok for daddy to talk to me. 

The other day he told me to give a star to ajit and  myself because we love each other a lot...

why do we need to sleep?

question that has been bothering manu for quite some time .Only if we didn't have to sleep we'd be able to play so much more,read much more,spend so much more time with friends ,draw much more ,play piano ...i don't like sleeping

electronic man

Last weekend manu was chanting -daddys name is electronic man he loves to go to bic camera 

ajit-beware ,he's picked up that electronic shops are ur favourite time pass and all u love to buy is electronic items :-)

Something more -Manu goes to ajit when he is working -daddy do u have time for me? When will u talk to me? So ajit looks up from his laptop -yes tell me and he blabbers something which ajit has no clue of(because he definitely was not listening) .And he gets it again:-)see-u don't listen ...

It's fun to watch a five year old behave like a grown up...may be he's picking it from me :-) 

is daddy crazy?

Ajit has been coming really late for the past 2-3 days due to some release at office and manu dosen't get to see him in the morning as well .

Today morning he got up and asked me if daddy was asleep . All three of us usually head out together in the morning for office and school and I guess he was missing ajit .

manu-"mommy is daddy still asleep "

me-"yes"

manu-"is he crazy"

wo! ...where did he pick up this word from...

me-"why do you say that"

manu-"does he not have to go to office? why is he sleeping so late?"

I explained that daddy was working really hard and that he had to stay late in office so he's not able to get up early .

manu-hmmm he should get a red star for working hard but no stars for not getting up early:-)

r u feeling better?

Manu went straight to harsh's house form school ,friday evening so they were supposed to have dinner together.I hadn't seen him after I dropped him for school in the morning at 8:30 .

When I picked him at 9:00 pm I told him I had missed him. On reaching home he asked me to play catch catch. It was surprising as it was bed time and he loves to read or do puzzles before he sleeps. Anyways we played for five minutes and then he asked me if I was feeling better?

I realised later that this is the activity I usually do to cheer him up when he is in a bad mood.

How caring...

seat belts in the rocket

manu-i think this person has not put seat belts  ,please can u ask him to do so ...

harsh-ok i will 

manu-check...check...

harsh-ready to fly?

manu-yes 10,9,8,7...

This converstaion caught my attention  and I peeped in their room to see what they were playing.They were sitting on pillows flying a rocket ,with a map in hand that was suppossedly the seating arrangement,and the rocket had passengers who had to fasten seat belts:-)  

sanya is coming

sanya :-) a pretty little girl age 5 ,neils friend 

harsh -4 and a half ,neils friend 

Sanya was coming home to play with neil and harsh came home as well straight from school. I picked them up from the bus stop .Read the conevrsation between the two-

manu-sanya is coming home today 

harsh-who is sanya?

manu-she is my friend

harsh-is she 3 years old 

manu-no 5 years old .when she comes home be very carefull ,please do not touch her,she might get hurt

harsh-why will she get hurt ?

manu-her fingers are very soft :-)

my my ...i couldn't stop smiling ,hmmm getting his facts right-girls are delicate:-)

are they real ?

We had gone for Nikuledian circus-an amazing performance by russian trapeze artists ...

Seeing them fly manu asked if they were real? After the James Bond episode it was hard for him to beleive that they were real people . Their performance was just fabulous. I pointed out that there was a net below and even if they fall  they would not hurt themselves. 

I could see the awe in his face. 

I think it was a little difficult for him to distinguish between the tricks of Bond and the artists...