A week gone by....

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Yesterday me n Sahej went out to market to fetch some fruits. Now a days, I have made up a point to come early in the evenings to be with Sahej for some time. As he now wakes up early for his school, he generally sleeps by 10 in the night. So if we both come by 9 in the night, there is not much time left to interact with Sahej. So any one of us has to come early. Now a days my work load is less, so I reach by 6.30-7 in the evening and then me n Sahej either go out to get him chips, or we do the home work together. yesterday we went to market to fetch some fruits.

In the way, Sahej told me that when ever he reaches Oakridge(this school is on the way to his DPS), hsi bus starts dancing up and down. That is because there are speed breakers in front of the road bend to Oakridge. The thing which surprised me that he remembers hsi way to school and knows that the bend to Oakridge is there. Amazing that Sahej at his age knows and remembers the route to everywhere we go. He knows the road bend which leads to Ameerpet and can easily differentiate when we dont take that turn and go straight to Secunderabad. He can easily identify that we are going through a new route and then asks us which way the road goes.

On the way, I also went to ATM. When I inserted my card, Sahej told me "papa aapka card to theek hai"(Dad, your card is fine). I could not understand what he was pointing to at that point of time. Then he told me that "woh Kismet Konnection waala uncle hai na, uska card to kharab hai"(The guy who was in film Kismet Konnection, has his card problems, and it does not work fine for him). Actually the male lead in kismet Konnection always gets into trouble when he goes to ATM and his card is not accepted. Sahej remembers that thing and pointed to me that my card is fine and accepted. Whoa....

Its really amazing that Sahej remembers so tiny details. He has a great sense of understanding and knows when he has done wrong and when to say Sorry. This last sunday, when we were shopping in Central, he got restless and asked to buy a CD. When we refused, he got more restless and took his nanny forcibly to buy him a CD. I was a the bill counter and when I came back and knew that he has forcibly bought a CD, I got angry with him and told him that I wont talk to him. He kept on trying to get my attention, but I didnot relented. When we bought him his birthday gift of table chair, he came to me and sweetely told me "Soory papa". He knows how to bribe his way out....

Chalo will update more.

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BDay Frenzy

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This week is Sahej's 4th Bday. Its on this saturday. So last weekend, as mentioned earlier, was the time we rush through our shopping lists to collect the things needed. We went to a shop and got the return gifts, decoration materials, disposable plates and all the other stuff needed for his birthday celebrations. This is the first time that we are going to celebrate his birthday at home. His 1st birthday was a big bash party in a hotel with all the decorations, food and DJ done by the hotel and nothing by us :). So this time we have to prepare everything ourselves and so the rush. We then went to get Sahej his perfect birthday dress. He should wear everything new on this day as we used to do when we were small. When our middle income parents can do so much for us, we dont want to leave anything for our Sahej. But to our dismay, we were not able to find anything worth on Saturday, even after scouting to 3 super markets.

Anyways, we didnt lose hope and on Sunday went to Central. There we finally got the shirt and the capri we were looking for. Then we went to get Sahej his this years birthday gifts. We got him his table chair and also a basket ball shooting tower. This tower is really cool and he can use it for at least 3-4 years, if he wants to. We also discussed his party foods, but havent finalised anything right now.

This week is going to be a long week again with his studies, and party preparations going on.

Chalo will update more later.

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1st Parent Teacher Meet @DPS

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Today was the first PTC in DPS. We went and attaneded it. As soon as went to sit in front of his teacher, she said, are we Raj Inders parents. When we replied yes, the first words she spoke were "Naughty Child".

What a way to start a PTC.....

She told us that Sahej is good in school, doing well in studies. The only problems he has is that he speaks in hindi most of the times, and that he is too lazy to write the things given to him. His hindi speaking thing has been told to us by his Euro kids teacher as well. And then we had thought to start speaking in English to make Sahej understand it and to let him start picking the language. But after a couple of days, the steam used to blow away and we used to settle in the our old rhythm. But after hearing from her DPS teacher today, we have vowed to speak English in front of him and to make him understand and pick the language. I hope he learns soon enough.

The other problem is that he is slow to write, slow to be an outright lazy. And believe me he is lazy. When ever he gets the homework, he always asks me to help him get it done. I have to hold his hand when he is doing the work and that takes the energy away. He knows that papa is there and thus he does not put a lot of passion and interest in his task. I know this is wrong, but then He is starting to learn to write, and I thought that its best to guide him for some time before he picks up. Now we have got him extra set of text books to allow him practice at home. I can tell, next couple of months are going to be tough for him and for us.

Apart from that, his teacher told us that he is good otherwise. He has adapted well. She told us of one incident which made them laugh. She told that one day, some other teacher came to the class and gave some work. When one kid was not doing it, that teacher started scolding him. At that time, Mr. Raj Inder, true to his nature, put his foot down and protested to the teacher "aap kyon daant rahe ho, aap to hamare teacher bhi nahin ho"(why are you scolding, you are not our teacher). And that when he was not being scolded at all. Call of leadership.

The other thing his teacher told us was that when ever he is given something to write, he does not do it. He is lazy. Then she resorts to saying "OK, who ever will not finish the work, will not go home and stay here". To which Sahej responds "kyon nahin jaana ghar, ehhh jaana hai". And then he starts to write, but only for some short time.

So time to buckle up. We need to make him learn English fast, make him practice writing. Otherwise....he will be left behind...which we dont want.

So hard days ahead...

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Another week passes by...

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Last week Sahej was very ill. He was down with temperature, which at one time had reached 104. He was at home all this time. He used to call me and tel me "papa jaldi aa jao na ghar pe"(Papa come home early). He used to do the same to Munna as well by calling him, to which Munna used to reply "Main aaj jaldi aa jayungi, thoda kam kar ke"(I will reach home early by doing less work). However, as Munna was busy, I used to reach earlier than her and this seems to have pleased him somewhat and turned him into my supported, albeit for a few day only.

When ever Munna reached home, he used to remind her "mumma aaj bhi aapne thoda kaam nahin kia, aapne bahut jyaada kaam kia hai"(Mummy, you have not worked less today). During this time, he seemed to be backing me in every thing I said or did. He started calling Munna "Lalaji", which they used to call me before. He started screeming at Munna when ever she tried to outwit me. It was a welcome change to me at least.

Then on friday, we went out to have dinner. When we were returning, Munna as usual was trying to persuade me to go with her to shopping and I was trying to persuade her to go alone and do the stuff. At this Munna replied that he wont go alone. To this, our Sahe cutely replied to her "Mumma, main aapke saath chalunga na, agar aapko darr lagta hai to. Main to big hu, mujhe darr nahin lagta"(Mumma, I'll come with you if you scared. I am a big fellow now and dont get scared). Sweet na....

His birthday is coming real soon. We need to get a lot of work done before that. We need to get him a new dress, new shoes, and a writing table.

Chalo will update again later...

Down with Fever

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Sahej has been down with fever this week. In fact a very high fever. Monday we forced him to go to school. In school he vomited after trying to take his lunch. When he came home, he was exhausted and his eyes were red. His nany thought that he must be tired after a long sunday. Sahej didnot eat much and slept. When he woke up, he was having high fever and his eyes and face were red. I came early from office to be with him. That day he had to go to a birthday party and when I reached home, he was trying to persuade his nanny to let him go to party. He was saying "main abhi birthday party pe jaunga, then at 7.30 maine sidharth bhaiya ke satah khelne hai. main nahin jaunga to sare baby kya bolenge, woh wahan pahuch jayenge"(I will go to birthday prty first and then at 7.30 I will go and play with Sidharth. If I dont go, what with the other babies say. ". I tried to persuade him for not going by lying that the party has been cancelled. He somehow agreed to it.

His temperature was really very high in the morning. He didnt eat much that day. We took him to the doctor for examination. He was given a gentle wash with cotton to lower his temperature.

Today he was feeling good. His temperature is down and he was a little more energetic. Hopefully his temperature goes away soon and he recovers fast.

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School, Homework and CD's

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Last week went as fast as it could have. With Sahej going to school on Saturdays as well for the time being, there has been no time to rest. Its just plain waking up at 6.30 in the morning, getting Sahej redy for school(no mean task), dropping him at the bus stop, taking a quick nap(which Jovita does not take and always teases me about), getting ready for office, working in office, going back home and getting ready for the next morning. It was a tire some week.

Sahej sometimes wakes up himself in the morning for school. Sometimes he has to be dragged from the bed. He is now-a-days playing with my ming phone(which he had broken). So he has the alarm set to 6.30 in the morning and when it rings, he sometimes stops it and then gets ready himself. Sometimes its very difficult for us to get him ready as he is no mood to wake up. Its these days that he is the toughest and it takes a lot of persuation to take him to bathroom and then to get his teethes brushed. Other days, he is so sweet to do his chores himself and go to school smiling.

As I told earlier, he is now-a-days playing with my ming touch screen phone. He was always trying to get hold of Jovita's new phone so that he can play with him. When we tried to stop him, he used to say "main kya karu, mujhe koi mobile nahi le ke deta :("(what should I do, nobody buys me a mobile phone). So then I decided that till the time, I dont get my ming phone repaired, he can use it. I even had some games installed on it for him to play. But now that he has it and is bored with it, he still asks for Jovita's phone. When asked why he wants mummy's phone when he has his, he replies "usmein miss call nahin hoti, to mujhe mummy ka phone chahiye"(that phone does not allow me to call, so I need mummy's phone". Such is life.

The other day, when the charging of this phone died, he asked his nanny to get it charged. She was busy and told him that she'll do it in a moment. Not of the waiting kind, he himself put the charger on. On knowing this, nanny told him not to do so again. Upon facing a situation in which this could be reported back to me, Sahej sir told nanny that "papa ko mat batana"(dont tell this to papa). But nanny finally told me and I gave Sahej a class. When the class was finished, he confronted his nanny "maine bola tha papa ko mat batana, phit kyon bataya"(i told you to not tell papa about this, why did you told him then).

So life goes on. This week Sahej has only five days to go. Saturday is off. So we can look forward to it. On sundays, we go to gurudwara saahib in Secunderabad in the morning. There is a person selling CD's just outside gurudwara. I had bought Sahej some CD's from there. So now he starts demanding CD's every time we go there. He has started saying "papa, yeh gurudwara to bahut achha hai, yahan roz aaya karo"(papa this gurudwara is very good, we should come here every day". I know the reason behind his liking for the place. On sundays, normally he doesnot sleep in the afternoon, so goes to sleep early in the night. But this sunday, we had some guests coming over for dinner. Their son Agam was expected and Sahej was excited to meet him. When he came to know that he is coming, I asked him to help mein getting the house in order, and he started doing it. He picked up a waste cloth and started dusting the things, he himself sorted his toys and put them in right place, he kept all his shoes in the closet and even got himself ready for the meeting. When they were slighly delayed, he kept asking "aaye nahin abhi, dekh ke aaye"(why haven't they reached yet, lets go and see them). When they eventually came, Sahej played with and hosted Agam really well. But due to this, he slept very late. And due to this when it was time to get ready for school today, he was not willing to get up and go to school. No persuation was working today. He was crying non-stop. It took a lot of time to get him ready eventually. His bus was already gone, so we had to take him to another stop for him to take his bus. But he was still crying and not ready to go to school. Probably we could have allowed him a rest today, but then thought that if we did it once, he will start using this as an excuse and then will demand more leaves. Little harsh on our end, but there was no other way, at least we thought so....

Chalo will talk again later about his adventures during the week.

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Monkey Aala Re......

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As last updated, the favourite monkey of our own Sahej was lost in Ooty. We came to know about this when we were leaving Ooty and all of a sudden Sahej demanded to play with his monkey. We searched the car and the baggage and realised we have not seen the monkey since we went to market in Ooty the first day and quickly reached the conclusion that he is lost. We tried to console Sahej, but he was not in a mood. When we reached home, he cried bitterly. But somehow he accepted the fact and created Sheep as his next best friend. But in thenight, when we were watching the snaps, Sahej again started crying for his monkey. All the Sahej snaps were with him and he surely was missing him. When we were watching the snaps, I saw that Sahej was carrying the monnkey when we went to Big Shop and was not having him when we left the shop. That gave me an idea that probably we can call Big Shop and ask them if they have found something. This idea hit the Bull Eye when Jovita called them and they agreed to search for it and when she called again, they told us that they have indeed found the monkey and will send him back via courier. We were ecstatic to hear the news, but we didnt told Sahej this news as we wanted to give him a surprise.

So on monday, when we reached home, Sahej was having his monkey in his hand. His smile was as long as river Nile and there was a definite spark in his eyes. He was very happy to be back with his monkey. When asked how the monkey came back(we had sold him the story that monkey was taken by the big moneky who had attacked munna in ooty), the story came out like this "woh na uncle ne big monkey ko coke pila di, to uska gala kharaba ho gaya and then uncle ne us moneky se mere monkey ko le lia"(Big Shop Uncle gave the Big monkey coke, when he dranked it, his throat began to pain and then uncle took my monkey from him and sent it to me).

So there it was......both the lost brothers were back again and happy as ever.

Bye...

Sukhmeet