Madras 12 - Conversation with Little One..

Now a days it is so much of fun to have little conversation with you. Your questions are filled with curiosity and mostly you have your own answer to your question, which I love hearing from you. At age of 35 months you could talk in full sentences. I remember your first full sentence was Reet is wearing shoes. I love the way you say your own name in the conversation. 

You have learned to express your needs, sorrow, happiness and joy through words/ sentences now. We speak in three languages at home, and you can communicate one full sentence in one language. Here is some record of few conversations we had. 

You: Mumma what is this. 

Me: You tell. 

You: This is a Drum 

Me: Reet this is a guitar

You: This is a drum guitar and after some time you say this is a guitar with a twink in your eyes.

You: Mumma what are you doing?

Me: I am cooking vegetable

you: Oh vegetable wow!! 

You: She wants to touch a dog.  

Me: How Reet

You: I do not know

# On the way to the car I do not like to sit in a car seat
 

# On seeing your father driving, पापा गाड़ी चला रहे है

# You sing Jingle bells on seeing Santa made with lights. 

# Your father bought some dresses and you asked innocently can I try? 

# You are riding a scooter in a shop and to my surprise you left it  by saying to yourself I cannot take scooter. 

# Reet is crying. 

# You cannot see me upset like your brother, you come immediately to me and ask me Mama what happened and then you say mama I am sorry. 

# And when you do not know how to do something you say in a very cute voice. मुझे नही पता कैसे चलते है 

# You love wearing dresses and on that I will write a new post. Whenever I wear cloths for work you come to me and appreciate by saying wow nice dress.  

# You close the door of the room, when you do something which you know that you should not be doing. Most of the time it is when you are using my cream and lipstick. 

We all are in love with you, love with your innocence,  and love the way you shower so much of unconditional love. Sometimes I see my reflection in you and feel so proud and scared at same time. I pray that you do not grow up as honest with your thoughts as me. I pray that you should be more smarter than me. 

Madras 12 - Translations

I do not know how you learned to translate words in different language. We speak three language at home Hindi, Punjabi and English, and you even can translate into Tamil. Tamil is spoken to you by our staff at Srishti. I am amazed how did you learn to do same. Children hear and they speak. But you have an ability to think and belong to same. For a record here are the few words you even started at the age of 20 months. 

1. You will say Water पानी water and now you have added Tani to same in Tamil 

2. Food खाना Food

3. Study पड़ाई study 

and you could say your name and others also at age of 20 months. Now at three you translate full sentence. 

1. Muma what are you doing?

म्‍मा आप क्या कर रहे हो1 म्‍मा आप इंटरनेट कर रहे हो 1 muma you are doing internet. 

2. Reet wants water. रीत को पानी चाहिए1 

I am feeling great at your translation and making a post here for you and all of us to enjoy... 

Madras - 11 Happy 3rd Birthday

You are three now. Time flies, I still have the memory of your birth very fresh in my mind. Your birth story is very amazing. 

You have your own way of doing things and that was clear from your birth also. Doctors said I will deliver you on 6th Jan, but you decided 7thJan for you. I believe you wanted the same date of your  brother. The day was like this, I went to hospital in the morning of 7th and they started giving me induced pains. It was continued for almost 12 hours and my water bag did not break. Your doctor Witty Rana whom we chose in the 39th week was very much hopeful to have a vaginal delivery. You had cord around your neck and vaginal delivery in this case are little difficult, I believe you and me were all set for same. You were very brave inside and supported me to go through this journey wonderfully. I vomited before you came out and that was very unusual for me. The doctor was checking me regularly and she said that you will see this beautiful earth around 930 but at 715 I felt you wanted to come out, nurse rushed to call the doctor and at exact 730 in the night you cried. We knew in our heart that it’s a girl and we invited you in our life. We named you the day I conceived you. You are Reet for us.  

The last three years with you have been challenging, wonderful and spiritual for me with your growth. You are my shadow; you have traveled more than any other member in our family at this age. 

At three you play on your own, and I can do my things now. Earlier you will sit to insist on my lap while I am working on computer but now you are happily exploring your toys. 

You are very expressive child and famous among all my friends. They all love you more than they love me. You also express and gives love to them, sometimes I also get amaze at your expression. You are full of love and child like you are very rare. 

On this 3rd birthday of you my dear little Sai I wish you a great life ahead. 

Chennai - 10 Vocublary

This post is copied from a letter ( Sept 17, 2014) your father has written to your brother when he asked what all words Reet can say... you learn all this after we shifted to Madras. Children learn by seeing and listening, You are a fast learner at the age of 33 months...

# for her Kurkare is 'kurki'

# any fruit except apple and banana is 'orange'

# she can take few tough names very clearly - vedhema & Alangara (working in srishti, puglendi (driver), dhanlaxmi (our maid)

# she just adores 'lungi dance' song and can listen to that all the time. You should see her excitement when that song plays. And yes, she runs to find own glasses (we bought her own glasses in mumbai) as the song starts playing because she loves dancing on that song with her glasses on! As the song says "anna ke jaisa chashma laga ke.."

# she loves watching old videos on my ipad, especially the ones we shot in Pathashaala during our visit.

# she's addicted to ipad in a way and you should look at her when she comes to me and ask for the ipad. She will come to me with twinkling eyes so that i mellow down, point using her eyes to ipad and says to me in hush-hush tone 'papa ipad khelna hai' and if I say no, she will first make very masoom sa face, on 2nd no she will hit me and on 3rd no will start crying!! She knows one of the three things will work on me! Total natakbaz!

# she loves going to swings and it is become so difficult to get her back home! She will go from swing to slide to see-saw and will keep repeating this cycle. She starts chatting with kids there and try telling them about Kavita, kavita uncle (our neighbours), dhanlaxmi (our maid), or something about srishti or some event during the day. And you know she loves to talk!!

# for her dustbin is dustpatin  

# and  when she need iphone you will say Reet wants to charge the ipad and she will say this is my phone, ये म्‍मा का फोन नही है1 she wants to keep phone to her side and then she will take it quickly to take some pictures. 

On the way back home, she likes to spend time near the I block tower. She will run away from me and get into any elderly lady's lap by calling her Nani or Dadi and will start saying 'bye papa bye papa'

when i read this post i feel very delighted. I am sharing here as a memory to create for you to come to this space and read.. 

Chennai 9 - First term of Siddharth

Siddharth your first term has been completed at Pathshaala along with first holidays at home. When you came home, you were completely transformed. This materialistic world where we live in, seemed alien to you. You forget how to open a plastic wrapper from a toothbrush and cheese slice pack, as you did not do all these things in your first term of four months of Pathashaala.

The most amazing thing happened to you is self reflection of your own thoughts and your confidence.   We all were happy to see you back home but how these two months passed we did not realise. We did all kind of fun , studies, discussion, fights, love and all.

Your Nanni and Daddy joined us at Madras for holidays. You had a great time with them. Daddy became your permanent teacher for your hindi and other homework.

You enjoyed your English and project work the most. Here are few glimpse of our first holiday spent together.

1. You were so kind and helping toward your little sister Reet.

2. You were happily posing for picture below in this blog.

3. You became fond of your bicycle that you even wanted to ride Reet cycle.

4. You finished your homework without much help from me.

5. Your reading of books is as amazing as it was always that one day in library you finished seven books in one hour.

6. You enjoyed visit to Blossoms book house and were delighted to see book Winnie the Pooh I liked and bought for myself.

We cried when you were at school again. I know both of us are going through an emotions of being happy, sad and exciting.

I wish you a great time at Pathashaala. I have chosen some pics of you and your sister to remind us how we spend our days at home.

Chennai 8 - Letters

Dear Siddharth its been more than two months that you have been studying at Pathashaala. We met last month and other than that our only way to communicate through letters. I am cherishing it and loving this way with you. 

I love reading all your letters and in the first two days of week, I start calling Postman to confirm your letter. Your first letter was reached me after three attempt by postman at our house. Now I have taken his mobile number and he confirms me whenever there is a letter. 

We share about each other life. I am glad that you write very honest just like me. It touches to my heart, stay always same. I wanted to write this post so that we can remember how beautiful our bond became thru these letters.

Chennai 7 - You and me..

I wanted to write about this post since the day you born. You are always there with me. Your presence is different from your brother. You always seem to be in your own world. 

We both together have explored the whole world on our own. The day you were three months, I took you everywhere where I needed to go for Siddharth school, my household chores, my business meeting. You are so adjusting that you never demand anything from me. In my board meeting now, you need a copy and pen to write and then you are again in your own world. 

You were born at a time, when I was at a peak of my career, but I decided to take  a back seat there to just be with you. May be you understand all this, and you support me always. Last few days when I was fixing a meeting with an architect, I did not realize to mention him that I will be bringing my two and half year old daughter. When we getting ready, I thought you come so naturally with me. 

Now in Chennai when we are alone, since your brother is in residential school. I am enjoying this time with you. You are my reflection, my strength and joy in my life. I am so excited and blessed that you are there with me my little Sai. Stay Blessed.

Chennai 6 - Live in present!!

When we visited you at Pathashaala, I had eyes full of tears looking at how thin you were. Yes you are looking smart, but for a mom a child is always thin. 

You shared so many things with us, First time in our life you talked the whole day and we just listened to you. I remember when I asked you whether you want to stay here for next year also, You said Mom lets live in present. Do not worry about future.

I was touched and amazed by the way you took care of Reet, you let her do things the way she wanted. She was so happy to meet you and was not letting us come close to you. 

You shared about symbiosis of animals, which was a new learning for me. You told me that for anything we have to stop ourselves. 

There was a mixed feeling of sadness and happiness we all went through. We enjoyed fully one day with you and you were so excited to show us around your playgrounds, solar fields, science park and library. Below are some pictures from our visit to you. 

They meet after 45 days

Siddharth Favourite bench where he reads his book

I am happy for you my son that you are enjoying your life.I am happy that i took this lesson of living in present from you today at aug19, 2014. I am with you in this journey of life called " Awakening of Intelligence"

Chennai 5 - Pathshaala

Siddharth My Son, 

Today its been 16 days that you have been moved to your residential school. This post was long due, but I was emotionally not ready to write same. 

The day you left for your new journey, I felt a huge vacuum has been created in me. I have never felt like same ever in my life. I was worried that If I am feeling so low, how you would be feeling. So I started giving strength to myself that we both have chosen this decision and we will go through this feeling. I know feeling from me to you passes very fast, So I wrote my points why I chose this school for you. You have so much of hunger in you to do different things in your life and that can be taken care at your school, you were open and wanted to explore this life for you. You will be in a positive and healthy environment always. 

Siddharth I know you will go through your own loneliness, the way I am going through. I knew that this will be tough for me but how much I think, I cannot prepare myself for this situation, irrespective of how hard I try. You and me were doing everything together from eating food to sleeping in night. I always thought that you were dependent on me, but after you left for your school. I realized it is other way around, I am more dependent on you, I cannot even decide for myself what to eat, what to do. You kept me so busy and always fulfilling your wishes that in whole process I became just the way you wanted me to be. I always enjoyed doing same. 

I am very happy that you chose this life for you, I believe you will chose your own destiny. I am writing this post for both of us as a memory to cherish, how we felt and why we chose this school for you.

I wish you good luck and you enjoy always your life at Pathashaala and make memories for both of us that we will be proud of!!