Costa Rica Trip

Agastya is 2 years and 2 months now and like all two year old his favorite words are "I do", "Mine", "Why", and "Mine". All these were in full swing when we went on our year end trip to Costa Rica. Swati and Agastya bonded really well. Swati taught Agastya almost half a dozen nursery rhymes. Agastya learned how to call a monkey. He would put one hand on his mouth and will say ouuuuu. On the beach he would run and jump over the waves hitting the beach and almost got carried by the waves a couple of times. In two weeks I really felt that Agastya has grown by two years.

Red Shiny Shoes

I bought a red pair of bally for myself on November 18th. When Agastya got back from daycare and looked at those shoes he caught a fancy for them. It has been three days since. He has been wearing them all around the house saying "my shoes" and also have been sleeping in those shoes. made a futile attempt to wear them to a party with Agastya in a tow. He screamed all along the car ride and as soon as we got there he literally snatched the shoes from my feet and wore them and I had to be bare feet all along.

Ashish named him Mr Dorothy in her ruby red shoes.

Just like "My Papa"

Sudipto, a good friend of ours got a picture book for Agastya titled "Just like my Dad".
Agastya loves it so much that everytime I say "Just like" he finishes the sentence himself by saying "my Papas"

Two daredevils on treadmill

Swati and Agastya reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes as their adventures together are nothing less. As if jumping on bed, walking on sofa trims holding the walls were not enough - they both devised a new play. Swati manually pushes the running belt of the treadmill whereas Agastya stands in front holding onto the rails and running at the same time. They both together have a blast. I stand there - admiringly at their new game and panicking at the same time that they will fall and hurt themselves.

Agastya's category of animals

It is amazing how each child is different. Swati by the age of 15 months was able to recognize all different animals and to my surprise could even identify closely looking animals. For example, she would distinguish between whales, sharks, and dolphins. Whereas Agastya categorizes animals in three categories - birds, fish, and bhaoo bhaoo (hindi name for dog bark). To him all land animals are equivalent to dogs. We went to SF zoon this saturday and this was Agastya's first visit to zoo. Ashish told Agastya - "Don't call a lion dog else he will get offended. It is a lion Aga". Agastya was sitting on Ashish's soldiers and was quite fascinated by the lion. He looked at it for a couple of minutes and then with a serious thought he pointed towards the lion and said "Bhaoo Bhaoo"

Doing your best

Yesterday, I picked Swati from her camp and we were having discussions about putting your best and doing the job as best as possible. And then I said doing your best never hurts. Swati immediately said "Except you do not want to do a great job of falling from the tree"

Thing one, thing two

The other day Swati and Agastya were playing and Swati out of blue started referring Agastya as "Thing one". And suddenly our whole family was Dr Seuss characters. Swati herself was "Thing two" while Ashish became "The cat in the hat"