Rishab’s Letter to Santa

Santa’s buzz has been around for a while in all cartoon channels that Rishab watches and now he knows about Christmas and Santa. This year Rishab took some pics with Santa.

Rishab with Santa

We have been asking Rishab to list what he wants from Santa and send a letter to him.

He has been telling us that he will write it tomorrow (he tells that almost every day). He still doesn’t understand the concept of time/date frame yet.

Finally today he wrote a letter. I first checked with him on what he want to write, he told me a long story. I wrote a draft out of it as he doesn’t know spellings of most of the words of this letter.
Then he copied it with his hand writing. Here it is…

Letter to Santa

It sure looked cute. For 3.5 years writing this long letter is a big deal.

I asked him to give this letter to Mailman who talks to Rishab often. Rishab says, “No I will give this letter to Santa”. I told Rishab “You dont know where Santa is so you can give the letter to Mailman and he will give it to Santa”. Rishab replies instantly “I know where is Santa, he lives is North pole!”

—-Update on December 21 – 2011

Rishab’s request was received by Santa Click the link to watch the video by Santa.

Brave Rishab

Aarushi’s birthday was celebrated today at Northshore Gymnastics. As a part of birthday games rishab zipped along the cable.

I was thinking that Rishab wouldnt dare to do it (as one of the girl of his age was scared and came back crying). Rishab handled it very bravely and completed it very nicely each time.

Sweet Family

My sweet family in traditional Indian dress. We were heading to a Pooja (Hindu prayer) in a friend’s house.

Rishab with parents

Although Rishab wasn’t so happy to pose, this was still a nice picture.

City Park – New Orleans

Today we went to New orleans with few more families to visit a friend. We also planned to visit City park on the way. This was a nice little park for Rishab & his friends.

 

 

Rishab on a Carousel @ city park, New orleans

This beautiful slide was a bit scary for few kids but was so interesting that few adults also tried it

One of the dragon slide @ City park New orleans

Rishab with Robot

Rishab participated in Fashion shows @ Chevron. This was Brian Held of our IT team who was dressed as Star wars robot.

Rishab with Robot

Diwali @ Mandeville, LA

As last 3 years, Diwali function was organized for indian community of Mandeville, Covington and Metairie @Fountain blue blvd. Kids and adults enjoyed the event and was organized very well. Rishab and his little friends were dancing their way and weren’t bothered about what else was going on there.

Rishab and friends @ Diwali 2011

Girls (Avni, Ana, Aarushi & Vaani) danced and entertained all of us. Although we didnt prepare Rishab, he didn’t hesitate to sing his part .

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Some kids are fearless and go-getters, I guess Rishab is.

Rishab’s photoshoot at home

We tried Rishab’s photoshoot at home today. Rishab is very energetic all the time and its a real deal to hold his attention. Getting the right amount of lighting is also another chellenge. At the end some pics turn out to be real good one. Here is one.

Rishab's photoshoot at home

Fountainbleau park @ Mandeville, LA

Few of us went to Fountainbleau park today.
I could capture some of the beautiful shots of sunset, this was one of them.

Sunset at Fountainbleau park, Mandeville, LA (From left to right - Rishab, Inu & Aarushi)

Rishab with stripes

Rishab gets excited to find out pets whenever we go out for walk. This time he found a cat which was roaming around. Cat loved all the attention it was getting from Rishab. This cat got his name ‘Stripes’ instantly

Rishab requesting

I have been teaching Rishab how to request for something.Here is he trying to practice the same and getting bored to repeat

It may sound boring to him, but it sure looks cute to any one looking/listning at him.