Car quiz

Nice summer evening, night 8'0 clock.
Dad and Kedaar goes for a walk. Kedaar cannot stop talking, he has so many things to explain and so many questions to ask to dad. The most famous conversation now is..
[Kedaar] Daddy, lets do a quiz on cars. You tell one letter and I will tell the car name that starts with it.
[Daddy]ok, let me think. The letter is..
[kedaar]Ok, Ok, I will tell what we should start with., H for Hummer, hummer is greatest car. it can go in jungles, on water, everywhere.
[Daddy]ok, let me ask next.[starts thinking]
[Kedaar] How about we do "P" daddy. P for Porche. Porche is the fastest race car. its faster than even Ferrari. Hey, "F" for Ferrari. I wish I have so much money to buy one Porche and one Ferrari for my own self
[Daddy] you can buy it when you grow up and study well. Ok, lets continue.
[Kedar] ok, let me tell. A for Acura or Accord, B for BMW, C for Corvette, F for Ferrari, H for Hummer, M for Mercedes Benz, N for Nissan Maxima, P for Porche, what else. [He keeps thinking and ush, back to home already]

He lives and breathes cars now. Finally the trains are over and we are fuly into cars.

Kedaar joins Taekwondo

A couple of weeks back, we joined Kedaar in Taekwondo in GoldMedal martial arts school in Foster City. The teacher is a 1992 gold medal winner and extremely popular in the area. Taekwondo is a different sport than the Karate Kedaar has been learning in Seattle, but several basics are same. So when the teacher took a test, Kedaar did nicely including the suprising demonstration he did by breaking a wood piece. They respected his yellow black belt earned this March and put him an appropriate class per his age and level. We are really excited about this activity and hopefully Kedaar will have fun in this too.

Trip to Napa Valley

As a first trip after we moved here, we drove to Napa valley,CA yesterday with our friends Saritha/Sree's family. The drive was beautiful and the views were amazing. Kedaar had great time in till afternoon running around in the green wineries with Isha sister and later coming back in the friend's car having fun watching movies together with other kids.
Here are some picturs from the trip.

Mothers day

Kedaar made some gifts for mom for Mothers day and gave it as part of the parents day tea party they had at school. The parents day tea party was fun. Each kid demonstrated a little bit of what they learn at school. Kedaar answered a subtraction question one of the moms asked. Then all the kids/parents did dance for few minutes:)
In the gifts, the mirror in the picture above is the cutest of all along with a key chain. On the mirror, the sentence says "Mommy I love you, thanks for all you do, really thank you". He wrote this sentence with his own spelling.
The other one he made at home is a small coloring thing along with a poem they were taught in school
"I am like a flower, raised with love by you
Mom. Dad, thanks for all you do."
Again Kedaar wrote this with his spelling and it was so cute.
Later in the evening, dad and the kid got a mom cake and greeting card. Kedaar also cleaned the home, his room that day to give me a surprise and make me a mothers day mom :)

C/O Foster city

After 2 months of rigorous work with planning the move, looking for jobs, packing things, preparing home for sale, meeting people, staying with friends for few days, driving to California , finally we became residents of Foster City, CA :)
This is a real adventure for us with such a short cycle of planning and implementation, Its a lot of hard work and I am sure for Kedaar it was much harder going through this. Its been a couple of days since we are here and we setup most of the rooms and the place is looking like a home now. Kedaar started going to the Foster city preschool and day care from 4/27. He liked the school so far, they have activities like socker, an yearly bicycling event called "Trike a thon". We also started looking for his Kindergarten school as well which he need to join after summer.
Here are 2 pictures I took in my iPhone on his first day. More pictures to come once we find our camera and download photos .. :)

Hula hoop

Kedaar's video of latest hula hoop interest. This started all of a sudden from the inspiration of Anjali akka (his friend Rishi's sister) and Ronit bhayya (his friend Rohak's brother). He started practising in one fine weekend and within 1, 2 days he started doing this like an expert. Now he wants to do hula hoop while walking :)

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

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.

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 !

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 !

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.

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.