Pool Fun - Cont...

Pool Fun - Summer 2010 Swim Lessons

This has been my long awaited fun activity and had been asking mom to take to swim lessons. My cravings grew even more whenever I read 'Lets go the Beach with Dora' and pretend to swim by kicking my arms and legs on the air while lying on mamas lap.

Since a week, Mama had been inculcating 'You are going to swim with Ms.Andrea', and I became even more enthusisatic and couldnt wait to go to YMCA. I wore my Disney mermaid swim suit and a matching mermaid flipflops. My hair bands were also matching to my suit.

I was very much excited to see Issac, my class mate in the school. He is also my buddy in the Music class. I was more than ready to swim. I was the first person to call for, and asked to sit on the wall. Then Issac and his brother were called and then a sisters joined them.

We had a funny start with splashing water all over, and then Ms.Andrea gave general instructions on how to swim. I swam with her with my float on and off, on my front and back, with kickboards and marshmallows, blowing bubbles in the water, taking a dip by holding breath, jumping into the water, doing spider man move by holding the wall and climing up the stairs and then jumping into the pool back. I did very great and was very comfortable with all the three instructors.

Ms.Stephanie praised me a lot for doing so wonderful. Believe it or not, I was the youngest kid in the class. The other younger kids had their older siblings accompanying them. But I did very well with out anyone. I was not even eligible for this course, since I am not yet 3 yrs old. But Mama gave a strong recommendation that I have already taken a baby course in Swimming last year, and more zealous than anyone. They said they might even reject me, if dont cooperate. But I did so well, that they couldnt say no at all.

Mom took several videos of all the excercises, but unfortunately they are too large to upload. Pls see some of the pictures taken during the session.

Cars, Dogs and More

We had been there to our friend's home last weekend for a lunch, and Gita Aunty gave a tour of their home. When she openend the garage, I intantly told Amma 'Mama this is a Honda car and this is a Toyota'. She was astonished listening to me and asked Mom how come I could get know all these. Mom shared her secert with her.

At our home, No time is a waste time. Our parents try to make use of all the hours when I am awake. Spring is just around the corner n its pretty warm and sunny during evenings, and mom does her evening walking round the apartment after I am home from the school. She stops at the top model cars and teaches me the Car Brands. I do revision every other day whenever I get a chance to walk with her. I mastered about 10-12 brands of car in a week. Lexas, BMW and Benz are my favourite. Now I am going crazy with cars.

Pets are just as common in this country. Almost all of friends have a doggy with them and I wanted one too. Appa got me a pink fur doggy for me, for the valentine's day. My music teacher named him Pooky. When I went to the music class last week, We learnt a song on doggies and she asked us the names of our pets. When she asked me, I said 'Yes I have a pet' and showed my pooky to her. She placed him on the parachute and pooky had a nice parachute ride the other day. I read about doggies these days and could identify about 8 breeds. Besnji, Poodle and Maltese are my favourite. But when it comes to 'German Sheperd' I say 'Bid Red Clifford'.

Am I not a diamond in the rough? Mom thought she should introuduce letter sounds to me. She placed some of the two letter words (flash cards) on the table and asked me pick cards like 'is, it, an , as' etc, and I did it. I have a tinge of these sounds innate. Now I am working on sight words and started to read some already.

Picture Day

I am very excited today. Because I had my portrait pictures taken in the school. Last time when they took me pictures I cried and dint cooperate well. So this time, I prepared very much to smile and got myself pictured on several poses. The photographers congratulated me for ever smiling during the session.

Next thing is we made Orange Juice with Ms.Cathy in the School. All of us peeled one orange each and then Ms.Cathy belended them on a juicer. The Juice was yummy.

I have started to ride three-wheeler bikes on my own. We have 2 hours of outdoor play time everyday. But when the whether is bad, we ride bikes on the Fellowship hall (a large hall empty most of the time). So I learned to pedal up and down and riding bikes these day. Its a lot of fun.