Saturday, February 19, 2011

Picture People photo session






We all went for a photo session today. Its been quite a bit of time since we did that and as usual Kedaar posed nicely, this time with his own bears (polar bear he had since he was 2 months old, Kelan bear he bought from build the bear workshop, Winnie the Pooh from Disneyland) and his new guitar (latest interest)

Additional pictures from the photo session are at

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Terrafugia, the flying car


Kedaar and daddy are too busy discussing the Terrafugia, the car that can fly.
Here are some facts about the car from Kedaar's words.
1. Where is that car: Lot of people are working hard in factory to build the car, they are putting wings for it. When it comes out, we can fly.
2. What are some things we can do with the flying car:

- You can drive Terrafugia to ocean, the turn into a hydro plane. Take it to go to the shark that has a aavi (wound) on back and take the shark to the shark hospital.
Then the uncle will put a bandage that is bigger than Russia on to the shark's aavi.
- We can go to the school in the car, when the cop comes from the back, we just fly and run away from him. Also if there is a traffic jam, you can fly over aaaall the cars.
- We can use it to fly to San fransisco, its much easy because you dont need to go down from car to go into aeroplane, car itself flies.

3. how much does it cost: It costs one hundred million billion dollars. We can get instead of the hummer I was asking for the other day. No no, we have 2 cars, an old car and a new car. I want to get 2 more cars, one is hummer the newest car and then Transfugia , another newest cars. Then we will have 4 cars. I like 4 cars.2 we can keep in gargage, 2 we can park outside.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Bed time stories



Kedaar got a new year gift from mom & dad, a nice little bed time stories book.
Now its his favorite book. Evening he comes home, takes bath, finishes dinner while watching TV and from then onwards he will waiting for the bed time story book for one story.
Recently he stopped watching the TV while eating food so that he can make mom read 2 stories instead of the one. I can't believe he could trade TV for something else, this is really amazing.
I should look for more interesting books for him.

School reports



A bunch of our friends started trying out for new schools to join their kids in Kinder Garden for the 2011 yr in the last 2 months. Kedaar is november born kid, so he will need to continue in Pre-K itself even if he changes school. So though we went to couple of open houses, we preferred continuing in the same school as in that school he can move to the next level (Kinder garden). He stayed with current pre-K teacher for 2 yrs which is the max time a kid can stay in Pre-K.

In the past few months, Kedaar made very good progress a bunch of academic areas along with the other activities he does in school. Counting from 1-120, skip counting to 30 or so, additions of any number till 100 with another number <10, subtractions with <10 numbers, overall he is showing more intereste in academics.
He is actually trying to not sleep in school because teacher is giving work in additions/subtractions in afternoon classes !! This is a surprise for us, ofcourse whenever I start to feel worried about something, there he goes, he somehow starts do the same thing to free up my worries :)

Here is his school reports showing some indications of progress !

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Kedaar first time diving and swimming



Kedaar's school report & other progress



A bunch of our friends started trying out for new schools to join their kids in Kinder Garden for the 2011 yr in the last 2 months. Kedaar is november born kid, so he will need to continue in Pre-K itself even if he changes school. So though we went to couple of open houses, we preferred continuing in the same school as in that school he can move to the next level (Kinder garden). He stayed with current pre-K teacher for 2 yrs which is the max time a kid can stay in Pre-K.

In the past few months, Kedaar made very good progress a bunch of academic areas along with the other activities he does in school. Counting from 1-120, skip counting to 30 or so, additions of any number till 100 with another number <10, subtractions with <10 numbers, overall he is showing more intereste in academics.
He is actually trying to not sleep in school because teacher is giving work in additions/subtractions in afternoon classes !! This is a surprise for us, ofcourse whenever I start to feel worried about something, there he goes, he somehow starts do the same thing to free up my worries :)

Here is his school reports showing some indications of progress !

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

New year picture


Here is a picture we took on new year day 2011. Its in a resort that we went to in Port Townsend, WA.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Pumpkin farm & Halloween







Kedaar dressed up for 2010 halloween as Woody along with his 2 other friends (Aditya and Anirudh). Kedaar also wanted to decorate pumpkins for the Halloween, so went to Dr.Maze's pumpkin farm in Bellevue and got few pumpkins which Kedaar decorated and colored. Here are few pictures from the Halloween celebration and Pumpkin farm pictures.



Birthday pictures







Kedaar had his birthday celebration this year with Dynosaur theme at Pump It Up, Kirkland.This time we invite a lot of his school friends per his wish and all the kids had a blast.
Here are some pictures from the occassion.

Happy New Year

Wish you a very Happy New Year 2011

Monday, December 27, 2010

Picture with friends


Found this picture going through old pictures we never got chance to upload. Posing for the photo, kids are Atharva, Rushaan with Kedaar.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Cancun trip













We went to Cancun vacation from Dec 4th for 11 days. We stayed in Grand Caribe Real Resort, an all inclusive placee. I should say that this is our first time "relaxing" trip where we didnt use hotel just as pure accomodation but rather a place to have fun. The place is luxurious with bunch of things to do including every night shows in their own theatre, access to beach directly from hotel, 5 restaurants open all the time serving food, people serving you juices/drinks while you enjoy on beach, beds/swings/messages right on beach, entertainment folks organizing sports on beach/at swimming pool, kids club, 24 hr room service one can really see what "being pampered" means here. We went for day trips to XCaret (a nature theme park), Chitchen Itza temple (one of the wonders of world, ruins of Mayan coluture representing a calendar) and a submarine trip. Other than these 3 days, rest all days we had fun pretty much at the resort.
Mexico felt so close to India with the weather, trees/plants/informal people. We all loved the place and Kedaar didnt even want to come back to Seattle.
Pictures from the trip

Friday, December 17, 2010

Short stories

A new thing started recently, telling short stories. This started in recent Cancun vacation. All of a sudden, he came to me and said "mom, do you want to listen to a story". Then he started with "Once upon a time,..........., the End". The story lasts for 2 lines or so and the "Once upon a time" and "The end" are the most important parts of it.
Sample stories
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Story on mom: Once upon a time there was a little boy who has a big mom who took care of him. But the boy called her "bad mom", mom felt bad. Then the boy one day shouted "Mommy", the mom came and hug him. The End.
Story on mouse: Once upon a time there was a little mouse who went to eat a carrot and he couldnt because he is not a bunny. The end.
Story on Beach: Once upon a time there is a nice beach where a little boy and his dad went, They played in water, collected lot of shells , got them home and showed to his friends. The end.
.. and the list goes on and he can tell interesting short stories about any topic realy, car, tree, TV, food etc.

He also assured me that he can tell more longer stories when he grows more bigger :)

Madagascar

Kedaar makses his mom and dad realize the meaning of MadGasCar.
"MadGasCar is a car that runs with gas. The more gas you put in it, the faster it goes. Thats why it is called MadGasCar".

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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)