Flying High!

 Siddharth at the airport when he took his first flight

Travel to pune last week brought back the memories of my first flight. I traveled first time by air from Pune to delhi in year 2003. I was supposed to come by train, but due to ill health i came via flight, since it was my first flight i still remember my inquisitiveness getting through the plane. The moment i entered into the airport i called the airhostess of my airlines for help and asked her for the help. Till date i have the sweet memories of the help from the young lady and her addressing to me as Mrs Kalra one of the rarest I had. I laugh today to remember my expression of happiness on my face when i saw the plane for the first time and called Mr. Kalra over the phone saying with happiness “oh it is so big”

I always love the part when plane runs on the runway at its maximum speed and then it takes off I believe to get the best in life also we have to first put the maximum efforts and then we fly… Similar Siddharth has put his best of the efforts and he can read full sentence now  and I am glad he loves reading books and doing math like his mom… 

When you wanted the most there is no easy way out... 

I can do..

Siddharth will write the notes in the new class on his own, i heard this from him when he was in bhoomi, but never thought it will give me so much of happiness. 

Siddharth wrote this note in the class today... 

While on our journey to GOA, last week. He wanted to run the trolley on his own. This was the first time on a travel that Siddharth took a Backpack of his own goodies.. 

हम जो चलने चले चलने लगे रास्ते
जीवन के यह रास्ते.... 

More on Goa.. will follow.. 

Bhoomi Se Ambar!

Siddharth made this set with the help with Gaggi Mammu

Today is Siddharth's first day in class 1(group name is amber) , it is a very important day for all of us. We are happy and anxious. His earlier group name in kindergarten was bhoomi. I thought the above picture manifest his this growth in life.

There has been an amazing growth through this year. He has become more calmed and focus as the pictures below show.. 

 The first drawing he made in kindergarten

The new play with ice cubes he discovered

Learning about new experience in the Vanar Vatika( at junior school) with his friend

 

Converting Imagination into reality

New pathways of life

Snowman with Icecream

New colours in life

Preparing for new heights

His passion for reading

बचपन के ये सुहाने दिन
याद आयगे हमेशा तुम्हारे साथ बेटे यह पल
सेंजो लू यह पल
यह प्यारे पल...

Santro Kee Baarish!!

Its raining outside but she is not with me today to give me the shelter as she did in the year i got married.. It was the very recent days of my marriage, Vivek was dropping me till the bus stop in our brand new car Santro, and it started raining. Both of us planned to bunk the office. Vivek had a small one hour job at the office and we planned that i will sit in santro in the parking and he will finish the job.. Those were the days without mobile phone.. so i did not had any other option but to wait in the car... It was raining heavily and first time i heard the sound of rain drops from very close..and enjoyed the time alone with Santro, rain and FM music.. we remember this sweet incidence as santro kee baarish.. 

 

Siddharth with our first car Santro while she is going

Santro has gone now.. i had tears in my eyes saying good bye to her... she was there with me and lived for nine years with me and seen all the ups and downs in my life.. 

Below is the one who replaced Santro, but the memories are still there .... 

 

 

Vivek and Siddharth with our new possession in life...

दिल तो बचा ही जी ( dil to bachaa hai jee) 

Questions and Questions...

Siddharth wanted to buy a book so we headed towards the book store, we started selecting books. In the process i selected a book for him, the moment he saw it he knew that book. He started telling me the stories looking at the book.

Siddharth narrating the story at book store 

After selecting few books for him,we moved to the toy section to buy a toy for one of his  friends birthday.  He started playing with few of the airplanes. I went out to search few books for me and when i came back, siddharth asked me innocently Mama i want to buy this airplane. I asked Siddharth we have come to buy book not a toy. Here is a cute question, ठीक है लेकिन आप मुझे Book  की जगह toy क्यूँ नही खरीद सकते... ( why can't you buy me a toy instead of a book) I did not had any answer.. so we ended up buying a toy. And i was smiling on the innocence of a six year old kid. 

And yes he got the book also, when we were reading the book. It was written that bear baby is called cub, male bear is called a boar and a female bear is called a sow ,a group of bear is called sloth.. he asked me तो bear किसे कहते हे ( Who is called bear? ) 

again i have no answer to it... any answers.:)

All is Well JOSH Trip 7 !!

The Josh started from the  3 idiots. After watching the movie on the last sunday. We got so inspired that took the off from Tuesday and started the journey towards Dehradun for the new year celebration so the journey towards Josh Trip 7 began. 

Below are the photos from the trip.. by the way this was the last Josh trip for the year  2009 also.. Hope to have more josh trip in the coming year.. 

Siddharth's creativity was best at this trip he started with the game made out of ganna ( sugarcane)

Siddharth playing pichoo with ganna 

 

making Cat in the Hat from Crayons.. 

Siddharth's Boat from leaves and sticks

Siddharth and Dev with Vivek doing Sewa at Ponta Sahib Gurudawra 

Siddharth and Vivek Khetoon mein 

Siddhartha crossing River with his friend Dev  

Siddharth with his friend Siya making plans for the sand castle 

Siddhartha in the garden of Bird House 

Siddharth enjoying Sun with his Father 

यह लम्हे यह पल हम हर पल याद करेंगे
यह मौसम चले गये तो हम फरियाद करेगे

Colours of Christmas!!

Siddharth made this at school, on the Christmas eve. He called this as reed and shared the below story about the colours of christmas, which i never knew. 

Green colour: जॅहा पे jesus born हुए थे..वाहा पेड़ था ओर वो green colour का था
Red color : एक अंकल थे वो देखते रहते थी किस गर्ल को क्या चाहिए और डाइयरी में नोट करते थे जो भी गर्ल कहते उसे ड्रेस चाहिए वो उसे ड्रेस दे देते ...वो Santa  के कपड़े पहनते थे और वो  red color का था!
White Colour : White snow पड़ती थी  jesus के पास घर नही था और white उनका favourite colour बन गया... 

Christmas Cake Siddharth learned at school and we tried at home.. they tasted yum..

Siddharth giving cake to Lakshmi didi...

Siddharth got Truck, book, bubble wala and gulel as a gift from Santa, vivek got the perfume and me got the pair of red socks...

दिल है छोटा सा छोटी सी आशा...

कुछ दिल से!

The last month of the year is at the end, with the new year at few days  apart making new promises and new commitments. So many things happened in this last month that i just could not get the time to come here..

Here is the snapshots:

Me and Siddharth did the role of Santa at Siya's  Birthday party daughter of our friends Asha and Sumant .. With love i call Siya puttar (means son/daughter in punjabi) and now she fondly calls me Santa Claus..:)

 Siya with hum sab kee favourite Jyoti Massi

Then we met with the new member of our family.. Siddharth's little sister Shreya ( Vivek's brother daughter)

Cute little Shreya on a bean bag 

 

and Siddharth met his Vipin Chachu(Vivek's brother)  after Five years as they live in US .. 

Siddharth with his Chachu

आ चल के तुझे में ले के चलूं एक ऐसे गगन के तले
जहाँ गम भी ना हो आँसू भी ना हो बस प्यार ही प्यार प्ले...!!

Kuch nayee Kadam!!

Siddharth With his friends Mani & Khushi at the skating ground 

This Sunday was spent at Delhi, Siddharth participated in an event of skating. This was the first competition for siddharth. 

The ground was full with kids, Siddharth was quite confident like all other kids. I remembered when i have to perform in a fancy dress show at the age of seven i was really nervous. Now  day's kids are very confident. 

 

All of the kids performed very well. Though he has not got the first position but he was happy on getting a trophy and certificate for participation. When he shared this in his class at school,he mentioned अगर में First आता तो मुझे मेडल मिलता...(if i would have scored the first position i could get the medal)

Siddharth with the participation certificate and trophy

I am glad at his participation, anyways he has given me the award for life as he has started reading three letter words in English....

यूँही क्ट जाएगा सफ़र साथ चलने से
मंज़िल आयगी नज़र साथ चलने से...

Aapko Pata Hai..

मम्मी बीज कैसे बनता है, मुझे नही पता... 

बीज ऐसे बनता है.. पहले मिट्टी होती है, पानी होता है, हवा होती है और वो सारी मिक्स हो जाती है... उसके बाद वो एक बीज बन जाते है.. ( There is a sand, water and air they make seed by mixing)

आप मुझे क्यूँ पूछ रहे हो.. ऐसे ही.. So now a days he has answers and shares with me also.. It is fun to converse with Siddharth...   

Last weekend was spend at Punjab.. On the way i saw cottonseed plants ,we stopped the car and went near to the plant.. Siddharth was excited to see and wondering how come a cotton grows on plants.. 

Siddharth in the fields of cotton at Punjab

We pluck one flower so that he can share in the class, below is the version of sharing... 

यह cotton का प्लांट है.. मैं जब अपनी नानी के घर गया थे, मैने रास्ते में यह देखा.. यह ऐसा एक प्लांट है, जो तोड़ने के बाद भी उग जाता है.. ( it is a cotton plant, i plucked it on the way to my nanny house, this is the only plant which grows after plucking also) 

Since we plucked a bud, and it converted into a flower after plucking.. which we didn't notice and Siddharth made a good observation.. 

The class teacher has kept the cotton plant in the school. to use again for the winter theme... and Siddharth is very glad .. Making me think again.. 

आपको पता है....

Birthday at School!!

Every year we are invited on Siddharth's Birthday to his school for the lighting of Lamp ( Diya) I have always loved this and me and Vivek both look forward to it..

The ceremony goes like this, after doing the exercise and chanting of mantras, we parents are asked to come to his class. we need to take sweets they don't allow anything else.

We sit with Siddharth in the circle along with the whole class and didi's  and the below is the poem which school sings..

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy birthday to me

Every moment we are born,

Every moment we are free

Happy birthday to all of us

Happy Birthday to me...

And then one of the parent lit the diya... and then Didi says Bhoomi group (Siddharth) sing your song... and then they sing the song we all know yes...

Happy Birthday to you.. Happy birthday dear Siddharth... Happy Birthday to you....

Then we are back home with these sweet memories... but this time we came back with surprise that Siddharth did not cry to come back home with us.. He was enjoying with his friends.. 

And i found the real meaning in the poem.. 

Every moment we are born.. 

Every moment we are free... 

Happy birthday son!! 

Birthday Siddharth!!

Siddharth felt excited for the celebration of his birthday. We celebrated Siddharth’s birthday with creativity and some different way.. 

This time creativity started from the invitation card, i have a good collection of old marriage cards, so we used the plain side for the pasting of printouts which has a nice little poem on it..

 आयो खेले..खेल खेल में..

मनाये हम यह दिन..मेरा जनमदिन.. 

तुम भी आयो.. हम भी मिले.

और मिल कर करें शोर…ना हम हो बोर…

मस्ती में हो जाए सराबोर… 

Siddharth designing and making stories on the back of card

 

Invitation card

All the kids were invited to the Play Zone area, a place in a shopping mall which is normally used as a baby sitter when parents shop.. we choose as birthday destination..

And the kids had so much of fun beyond our expectations… below are the few pictures..

 

खेल खेल में मनाया हम ने यह दिन
बहुत मजा आया....................

Dear सिद्धार्थ,

Today when i have forget to tuck you in your bed, you came to me and told me Mama आपने मुझेटक नही किया, I remember the day, when i got the news from the doctor it is a son.. and i saw a bundle of joy in the hands of doctor. I still have the remeberances of the day, when i fall down on the floor carrying you in my tummy , and i rushed to the doctor.. But you were alright, you are brave from that day..

Today when you can sleep alone in your room, मेरा दिल यह मानने को तेार नही की तुम इतने बड़े हो गये. बहुत बार तुम्हारी प्यार्री बातें मान को मोह लेती हैं और सबसे मस्त तुमहरे ज़वाब That take us by surprise many times... मेरा दिल यह मानने को तेार नही कीतुम १०८ pieces का jigsaw puzzle बिना डिब्बा पे तस्वीर देखे बना लेते हो...

मुझे आज भी वो दिन याद है जब तुंँगे चलना नही सीखा और मैं डॉक्टर की बात से रोने लगी, और आज तुम दौड़ में मुझे पीछे छोड़ देते हो...

वो भी दिन था जब में तुम्हे शबाद सिखाती थी और आज तुम मेरे बहुत शबाद बिना बोलेसमझ लेते हो..तुम्हारी पहली हँसी, पहली धूप और तुम्हारी पहली किताब, जब मेरा मान करता तुम पड़ते रहो और आज तुम मुझे रोज रात को किताब पड़ने को कहते हो... Life changes my son and with this change we also change.. there are few things in you which i love and feel should never change...

Your kindness towards people, your reasoning, your style of questioning, your creatvity और तुमहरा प्यार, तुमहरे सपने...

Today on your birthday i wish you love, success and togetherness...

God bless you amen!!

With lots of love

Your mom...

ps: i am not allowing comments for this post.. wait for the next one how he had fun on his birthday..