Snow & holidays

Seems like the holiday season started much earlier and going on for us. We took off from Nov 9-12th just like that and stayed at home to relax. Then we went to work/school for a week. Again on Nov 22nd, there is a huge snowfall and the whole week is off due to the snow as well as Thanksgiving holidays.
Back to work this week after long break. Once more,this is going to last only a week because the trip to Cancun is coming soooon (we will leave on Dec 4th and back on 15th)

Kedaar saying some telugu slokas

Milestone

Recently I and a couple of Kedaar's friends moms were talking about how the kids are doing at school. Everyone's feeling is that kids are not enouraged/stretched enough whether it is in reading or math and hence we were thinking whether to change school/join Kumon etc.

I also started to worry about Kedaar not showing too much interest in either reading or writing. Then to my surprise, all of a sudden, kedaar started telling spelling for 3 letter words and spellings for some straightforward 4 letter ones. . Cat, hat, fix, mom, dad, lamb ... all by himself. Wow, thats a real surprise for me. A great milestone and another milestone for which we didnt have to either try or worry too much (just like his potty training, teething etc)

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY KEDAAR

Many Many Happy returns of the day little Kedaar Nandan!

Kedaar's cute videos

Swimming first time without help


Walking styles


Karate

Indian independene day celebration

Longtime since Aug 15th. Its worth mention anyway.
We attended Aug 15th celebrations organized by EKAL Seattle along with Kedaar this yeat.There was 5 Km, 1Km independence day walk organized after flag hoisting.
Chandra went for 5Km walk. I and Kedaar wanted to do 1 Km walk. We both started walking.It was very sunny , we kept on going with realizing the 1/2Km point which is when all the 1Km walk participants returned. Eventually Kedaar got tired and then w realized at we are at 11/2Km point. That was very hard walking coming back , but Kedaar managed it with few breaks. Overall that day Kedaar walked for 3 Km and he was very proud of his achievement.

Kedaar's singing songs from music class

Kedaar started going to music classes for a couple of weeks now. He is trying to sing these songs at home.
Here are some bits of his attempts.
Vara siva balam


Syamale meenakshi


Subramanyam


Narayana manthram


Om gan ganapahaye namaha



Raaravenu

Visit to Olympic game farm

We went to a 2 days trip to Olympic Game farm in the long weekend last week.
We went to ferry from Edmonds to Kingston and the farm was just 50 miles from there. The farm was great. Lots and lots of animals , There were bears, zebras, rhinos, peacocks, goats etc along with caged animals like tigers etc. Bst part is that you can buy bread packets and feed any un-caged animals walking freely on roads (like goats, horses etc) and sitting by side ways (like bears)
Kedaar was little bit scared few mins and then he started his feeding by giving few bread pieces to small birds, peacocks, rabbits and then slowly started giving to other bigger animals.
Interesting part was tjat he feeds them a piece, says that "I will wait for birds to finish" and then feeds second one. He carefully tried to feed most of animals and it was a very god experience. We spent 4, 5 hrs there and then stayed in a hotel in Port Angeles. Next day, we saw hurricane ridge, crescent lake, ruby beach and reached home in the night.
It was a pleasant trip, relaxed trip and was good break.

Kooza tricks

After we saw the Kooza show by Cirque De Soleil, Kedaar got really interested in acrobatics and he kept on asking us if he can join a acrobatics class.
Along with asking those, he started demonstrating few circus type of acts on sofas, chairs and some times on daddy.
Here are some pictures of few tricks dad & boy practised recently.

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