sad sad..

Its a very sad for me today. I have been not getting time to write Kedaar's blog, so I had a draft email "Keduisms" in my outlook where I was just writing down a bunch of interesting things Kedaar said and Kedaar usually says to keep a note. I was planning to put them in blog some time.
Today I just looked at it and to my surprise, my drafts folder is empty.
I just cannot find the drafts any more any where. Worst. I am going to call Microsoft support guys. But I am pretty sure I will not get them.

3 little monkeys

"Chedu vinavaddu, chedu ana vaddu chedu kana vaddu"

Kedaar singing Slokas

Kedaar and his new globe

Kedaar showing few countries in South America and other contenents in his globe (he got it as a gift from Neelima aunty, mummy's friend)

Remlinger farm visit

We visited remlinger farms in Carnation, WA in July. Thats a good 1/2 day trip with a bunch of activities for kiddos. Kedaar as usual had good fun there.
Here are few photos from the trip.

Cow boy

Play date fun

Yellow stone national park

We went to Yellow stone national park in July long weekend with another friend's family.It was 12 hr car journey (around 800 miles one way) from Seattle. I personally have been wanting to go there from several years, but this time we just decided to go ahead with it.
The journey part was most scary part and I should say it went fairly OK with the kids just doing fine through the journey. Kedaar got all set with my preparation saying "its a very beautiful park and you need to take lot of rest in long journey to enjoy it". He entered the car and within minutes he said "mamma, can I get my blanket, I want to sleep". He was a very good boy especially during return trip where we didnt stay overnight in any place instead drove from morning 3.30 to evening 6 to get home with just 2 breaks. Kedaar learned the park name and said it very clearly, he also keenly looked for wild life, learned the differences between hot springs and geysers and did his best to be energetic through the trip. We got a lot of encouragement to risk few long trips with him this summer.
Here are the pictures

Who should clean mess

I entered in Kedaar's toys room to call him for dinner around 8 PM.
Kedaar was inside the tent and all the room was filled small animals (around 200+ that we bought for counting and sorting) .
The room is a mess, but strangely seemed some what nicely arranged.Then it goes ...

[Mummy]Kedaar, what is this
[Kedaar]mamma, I am just playing my little animals.
[Mummy]Is this the way to play, putting everything everywhere on floor, who will clean this mess?
[Kedaar, very politely , without moving an inch from the tent]mamma, its you, can you clean it for me?
[Mummy]Why should I clean?
[Kedaar]because you are the best
[Mummy, shocked, surprised!!!] I cannot do this, you do it yourself
[Kedaar]no, mummy's and daddy's are big, they can do this easily
[Mummy, almost ready to give up]still, I am not going to clean
[Kedaar]Thats ok Mamma, my daddy will clean it for me. Can I eat dinner now, what are we eating today?.

We were eating dinner downstairs, Chandra came from bath and he cleaned it without saying a word strangely. For him, the room looked like "Serengiti national park" :)

Cirque Du Soleil "Kooza" show

We went to the cirque du soleil "Kooza" show today. We have been going to one of their shows since we went to Las Vegas first time and didnt do it so far. Kedaar's friend Anirudh's family also came.
Kedaar and Anirudh had lot of fun, surprise and enjoyment in the show. Kedaar's favorite was "the rings where the 2 guys ran". When we came out in the intermission time, Kedaar and Anirudh did couple of acts (like hanging to the rails with 2 feet up and going around holding each other's hands) and told us "see mamma, we are also doing what they did, its so hard" :)
Anyway, the show was amazing and we are glad we could see once finally.

Pacific science center trip

We took Kedaar to Pacific science center in Seattle in one of the weekends. Kedaar had great fun there especially in the planets area and the dynosaurs. Here are some pictures from the trip.

Completed 1 school year

The first school year for Kedaar is finished by June 30th. He started the pre-school since Sep 15th last year and since then it was a roll for him. He learnt a lot (he got a progress report as well :)), had so much fun, got lot of new friends. We are very happy with the decision to join him in montessori school instead of one more year of day care or regular pre-school. He has summer camps throughout July and August at the same school and contnue with the next year of pre-school starting Sep.

Happy Fathers Day

Kedaar's school celebrated father's day with an ice cream social. All the kids some activities like solving a puzzle with dad, enacting an enimal(parent has to guess) and some other fun things. All the kids also made some presents for their dads. Chandra attended the party and here are some pictures from the occassion.

Soccer boy

Kedaar completed 2 series of soccer classes from January this year at Little Kickers. In the second series, we couldnt go for a lot of them (around 4) because we either were out of station or Kedaar was sick. Overall Kedaar had fun in the classes and we want to join him in little advanced sessions as a next step.

Brilliance in road sense & memory power

I think Kedaar has excellent road sense and memory power. These 2 combined, we just get surprises very often whenever we are in car.
He knows very clearly the roads to his soccer class, temple, school, shops that we frequently go to and finally the home. Not only the destination, he very clearly remembers the different places that come on the way to these places. If we seem to go on little bit different road, he will keep reminding us "mummy, this is not the way to school, are we going in differnet route", "daddy, this is not the way to soccer class, can we turn around and go". When we were in India also, he used to exactly remember each and every place we went and road to get to it.

Some interesting things happened this weekend also.
1. We were going to a place in redmond and we had to cross park. Chandra asked "kedaar, did we come here before , this looks familiar". Kedaar instantly said, "yes, daddy, this is where Neha celebrated her birthday". Its been around an year since her birthday is over.
2. We went to attend Jayaprakash Narayan's speech in redmond library around a month and half back. We were taking a turn on that road, Kedaar shouts "Daddy, we came here to hear the speech, the uncle's speech"
3. We were going to friend's house in Klahanie yesterday. Suddenly Kedaar says "Muumy, daddy, we just passed Tax aunty's house, we came here before". That is amazing, we went there just one time back in April that too by missing a couple of roads. Now when he sees the house, he just could remember it.

It was very nice and amazing to know that kids have so much intuition and memory power.