First day of 2nd Grade

Today is the first day of 2nd grade for Rishab at NorthEast elementary school Waltham.

Rishab is now 2nd Grade

Teeth update : Only one upper tooth is yet to show up.

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Playing with Veer

Veer visited us and Rishab was super excited to play with him. Both played with Dash and Dot, though Veer couldn’t figure out what was moving around him.

Playing with Veer

Chasing bunnies

Waltham Overlook has lush greenery and is surrounded by lots of trees. We find many bunnies in the lawn or surrounding areas specially in the evenings. Here is Rishab chasing some of them.

Aligator from Sour gourd

Art time with Rishab. We picked up sour gourd for our art and created these alligators. First one (Rishab is almost touching it) was created by Rishab and the challenging one was by me.

Vegitable Crocodile/Aligator from Karela/Sour gourd -Art

Ingredients : Sour gourd for the body (perfectly matches), Cucumbers for the legs(you could use sour gourds too), Beetroot for the red tongue and Puffed rice for teeth.

Happy Diwali 2012

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous diwali.

Happy Diwali 2012 from Rishab

ISKCON

Our friends from Louisiana visited ISKCON in the evening and here are the kids. F

Shreya, Anushka, Rishab, Avni & Ana

Few more camera shy kids were playing around.

Rishab’s small cars collection

Like all kids Rishab loves cars and other toys.

Rishab’s favorite car – Dodge

Some times i wonder at how many things today kids are exposed to. During my childhood all i had was a few plastic toys which could hardly move. Rishab and this generation has access to iPad, iPhone, remote controlled cars, helicopters and all kinds of fancy toys.

RIshab’s small cars collection

I must say Rishab takes care of his toys and I still don’t remember he breaking any of his toys.
I am glad i looked at his toys through the lens today. loved every bit of it.

Mint plant

We bought a mint plant and i taught Rishab how to water the plant and take care of it.  We also sowed some chilli seeds in another pot.  It was interesting to show him how those plants germinate from the seeds.  

Rishab's Mint plant

Within a week this plant had enough leaves and Preethi used some leaves for making Chutney & i mixed them with lemonade. Now everyday as soon as Rishab comes back from school, first thing he does is check the plants.

Mardi Gras 2012 at Louisiana

2012 Mardi Gras was Rishab’s 3rd Mardi Gras in Lousisiana. Although for us it was no more than a fun filled picnic, For Rishab it was eagerly awaited and very exciting event as he gets lot of toys for screaming at the floats.

We attended 2 parades in Mandeville and this the last one at Metairie on 21st. We went 2 hours early to safeguard our space (Deepak was the first one to go and reserve it for all of us). We played with the football while kids played around. This was a picture taken while kids were waiting for the parades.

Rishab with friends - From left to right Nick, Richansh, Rishab, Aarushi, Inika, Ananya & Anushka

This pony was part of the parade at Metairie.

Rishab whistling at a Pony in Mardi Gras parade at Metairie, Louisiana

Its usually screems of kids that get them most toys so Rishab screemed as much as he could.

Rishab and daddy in Mardi Gras

We did not attend too many parades this year but attended just enough to feel good about the season.

 

Rishab got many swords and other toys along with lots of beads.

Rishab swanking his sword at Mardi Gras

Fact – Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday in french, Last day of the mardi gras is always a Tuesday.

As you can see after Mardi Gras parades, lot of thorws and trash fill the roads. Although road looks like this, Everything is cleaned up in a few hours and city is normal as usual the very next daye

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.