These days :)

Happening 1:

We’ve been having frequent power cuts at home. One night while lying in bed, the power went off. The invertor wasn’t sufficiently charged. Hence no backup power supply either. Mom and I were hoping the power supply came back sooner than later since Joel was awake and demanding we switch on the fan. Our wait wasn’t a long one. Abu got the invertor working again till the power did come back. Mom in her relief asked Joel to say ‘Thank you God’. Joel instead said ‘Thank you Abu’.

 

Happening 2:

Been hearing Joel loudly chanting a few words in the past 2 weeks, that didn’t make sense to me. Till one fine day, it dawned on me that he was saying ‘Saale Kutte’. Now for those of you who know Hindi, those aren’t words a kid of his age should be using. And I was wondering what he’s been watching on TV or did he by chance have a classmate who used the words. It was Abu who figured out that he was trying to pronounce ‘Sarie Kodthene’ roughly translated from Kannada to English as ‘You’ll get a whack/pasting’.

 

Happening 3:

Lying in bed one night Joel was dozing off. He suddenly asked me if the baby was sleeping. For a few moments I was a little puzzled since I always call him my baby. Then he pointed to my tummy and asked if the baby inside was sleeping. Replied in affirmative. His response ‘Sshhhh! Don’t make noise’ and promptly fell asleep on my shoulder, snuggled next to me.

I hope this still works

Been wanting to blog for a while but never got down to doing it.

 

Joel’s vacation went off fairly fast. The vacation camp he joined was just for about 2 weeks if I remember correctly. After that he either fell ill or was off with Abu and Nanna visiting people while I had the usual ‘work’ to keep me busy.

 

School has re-opened on 2^nd June, 2008. Joel’s back in Nursery ‘A’ in Little Angels. He’s familiar with his teacher. He went for the first 3 days and took the next 2 days off. Most of the kids as usual were crying in school. So Abu wasn’t too keen on sending him there just to notice his favorite grandson pull a face or look a little worried. Week 2 onwards has been a breeze. He’s got 2 new text books. No slates required. But Joel insisted on carrying his for the first few days.

 

A month into his curriculum and the guy has been really quick to imitate his teachers and ayah. Every evening for the past week has Joel making us do his routine in school. When he mouths ‘Join your hands’ it’s hard not to smile because next comes the ‘Thank You God’ with such entertaining lip movements.

 

Each Friday he’s given 2 of his text books – one on the nursery rhymes, the other on the English alphabet. This year he’s able to cope with the teaching in school. So come Sat and Sun, Joel and I have a fun time singing the rhymes and identifying pictures in his alphabet book. Till now, it’s 3 rhymes, 3 alphabets and a page full of fruits which he identifies correctly. Looking forward to the coming weekend.