Breakfast conversation this morning…
Ashwini: I am going to marry someone who has a sister.
me: Why?
Ashwini: That way I can marry the boy and Adit could marry his sister.
Adit: But… I don’t want to get married.
Ashwini: Come on, Adit. It will be fun. We will be one big family.
Adit: OK. I’ll marry her if she plays with me.
Ashwini: I am going to have an Indian wedding.
Me: Why is that?
Ashwini: Because, I don’t like all that kissing in the American wedding.
Me: What if the groom wants an American wedding?
Ashwini: Hmmm…. Then, we’ll have to do both. I like the white dress but, I like Indian wedding more.
Me: That’s a good idea. You can do Indian wedding in the morning and other one in the evening.
Ashwini: No, no, no. I’ll do the American wedding in the morning. I want to get done with kissing and then have fun at the Indian wedding.
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Overall, 2010 was a good year. Here are some brief highlights.
- January: A trip to India. Hiked Kulanggad. Observed a partial solar eclipse after a long time.
- February: First ski lessons for kids.
- March: Ashwini turned 7. More skiing.
- April: Mexico vacation with the Desais. Fun, fun and more fun.
- May: V and I turned 40. Started a veggie patch. Started bicycling regularly.
- June: Another short trip to India for Deven’s wedding.
- July: 4th of July fireworks in Niantic. Beach visits. Summer fun. Started kayaking.
- August: Hiked up Mt. Washington with Manoj. Watched metamorphosis of caterpillars into Monarch butterflies. Adit started kindergarten. Ashwini is happy to have him on the school bus with her.
- September: Hiked up Mt. Marcy with Manoj (in New York’s Adirondack mountains).
- October: Apple picking. Family vacation at Acadia National Park in Maine. Ashwini taught me what acrostic poems are.
- November: Diwali. Thanksgiving. Seemed like Ashwini was at “Nutcracker” practices all the time.
- December: Ashwini’s “Nutcracker” performance. Nice holiday break. Adit turned 5; now he is officially a big boy.
Hope y’all had a good 2010, too. Wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2011!
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After watching the new Apple-Beatles ad on TV during football, I was humming the song “I want to hold you haaaaannnd, I want to hold your hand…” That prompted a response from the kids.
Ashwini: because, I love you.
Adit: because, I am scared.
Now, I know why they hold my hand when they do. 
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It is just amazing that for a tiny fraction of waking time, the kids are well behaved and are actually nice to each other. As a parent, one wants to remember and cherish these rare moments.
This morning, I dropped them off outside the school as we missed the school bus. Ashwini offered to help Adit get to his classroom so that I didn’t have to park the car and go inside with them. It was just picture perfect to watch them walk together on the sidewalk holding each other’s hand.
I couldn’t take a picture as I didn’t want to hold up other cars behind me. But, this following picture is almost exactly what I saw. I know the number of kids is not right but, it was a similar image. All you Hindi movie buffs, let’s see if you can recognize this. If not, shame on you.
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One of the new things that Ashwini is learning in second grade is writing ’snapshots’. The kids are supposed to describe a scene using all five senses. The teacher gave them a handout with several examples of different verbs to use for different senses and Ashwini is having a lot of fun writing her snapshots. Here are a couple of examples that her teacher gave to me at parent-teacher conference.
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It was a gorgeous Fall day… perfect for doing anything outdoors. Kids just love this yearly activity of visiting pumpkin patches and apple orchards for picking apples. Thankfully, our neighborhood orchard has both pumpkins and apples. There was a lot of chatter while we walked between the rows of apple trees looking for apples that were low enough for the kids to pick by themselves.
Adit: Did you know how I got this apple?
Me: How?
Adit: My friend gravity helped me pull it down from the tree.
Ashwini: Gravity is good. She always pulls everything down. Apples, your arms and legs. Keeps you from floating away in space.
Adit: Gravity is not a girl. He is a boy.
Ashwini: No. She is a girl.
Adit: Uh.. uh. A boy!
Ashwini: Maybe gravity is both a boy and a girl… a goy or a birl.
Adit: or a borl.
It stopped right there as we approached a tree with lots of low-hanging apples. Click below for more photos.
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I get to learn new things almost everyday from kids. Ashwini was totally surprised and shocked to learn that I didn’t know what an acrostic poem was. She then went on to educate me by writing two poems as examples. Here they are…
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Compare and contrast:
Adit: Today, I was sent to the thinking chair.
V: Why? What happened?
Adit: Robert and I and Emory were squishing together. So, Mrs. Whipple sent us to the thinking chair. But, I got the best thinking chair to sit on.
Ashwini explained that in Kindergarten the timeout chair is called the thinking chair.
V: Ashwini, do you have a timeout chair in your classroom?
Ashwini: Yes, there is one. But, I have never sat in it.
V: What about last year? Was there one in your first grade classroom.
Ashwini: Yes. But, I was never sent to that one, too.
I can just imagine getting several phone calls/emails from the Principal’s office in the future. Can you guess who will be responsible for those?
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