Arhaan’s BMW February 13, 2012
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Here is Arhaan with his favourite car. I spent about two hours drawing his cartoon character (BMW-coutesy- http://www.cartoonaday.com). But he is so particular and detailed oriented. when I showed him this…. He was quick to point out…. “”papa! there is no B M W written around the logo(he call it black and white triangles)… .and the logo is not black and white…. but blue and white”…. My excitement about drawing this was very short lived….. …… that he was too quick to point our what is wrong with this….. I forgot that this is favourite car and he can recognise it even from its side…..On the side note……After asking him repeatedly…. he said he liked it…..
Happy New Year 2012 December 31, 2011
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Here is my first Card that I made on my tablet …. Happy New Year
Dec 2011 December 27, 2011
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the last month of the year…. and i had to keep up and finish some unfinished work…..
Learned to write -ABC …. first the CAPITAL letters and then the small letters ….. was tough at first but then i was so much fun since i started writing on the playbook….. and i can pick up anything that i can do on the playbook…. may be its a game….. matching shapes…. coloring….. or writing abc…. but i am still far away for recognising words…… just few like bat, cat, ball, hat……five or six at the most…. and i am not counting arhaan, gugu, minni, kuldeep that I can recognise from their first letter…..
the month started with the enrolment in Lowe’s for a weekly class or art… where we made engine, caboose and a boggy over three different weekends and then made santa’s slay in the fourth weekend. We made everything from the pre-cut wood, nails…. hammering the nails through those precisely drilled holes was fun….. and “no! i know it…. mainu aanda aa” never allowed anyone else around me to use the hammer…… or put the stickers on its place…. and that often make us the last ones to finish….. but hey! I made them….. i even hammered my dad’s finger one day….. but everything turns out pretty good…..
The cold wave has started but we still managed to get around over the weekends….enjoying the cold weather……
We went to shri gurudwara sahib too…. many times in this month…. party because of the year end holidays and partly because it was guneet mami’s father death anniversary. Whenever i go to gurudwara sahib..I am more concerned about the prasad… and tries to get it twice all the time….. one day when we were sitting there and the shift changed and a new baba ji came … I asked mom …mom look baba ji changed can i go and get prashad again…. and that was my third time…… needless to ask…. i did go and got it……
The christmas was fun….. first i was supposed to get a mighty machine… but then changed my mind… i got a new soccer ball, boxing gloves, a remote control car….. and few other accessories….. the part was at kamal uncle’s place….. who was dad’s class mate…. it was my first time…. when i played with the kids alone…. in the basement while my parents were upstairs…… and that led to another first time…. my first fight with one of the kid…. who was so stupid….. he scratched my face with two of his finger nails…… that left a big red mark on my milky white cheeks…… did i hit her first ….. i am not sure… .coz i told three-four different stories of this incident to my parents that they were not able to make out what exactly happened…. but i said it repeatedly… he is a bad boy…..
This Christmas came with another first timer…. i finally started liking choclates and ate a few in this season…. the new year party is at our home… and few my parent’s friends are coming… I am sure it will be fun…. i will try to update this post if something interesting happens before that …… or else…. ….
Marry Christmas……. ….if you love Jesus…. have a safe holiday season and if you want to meet him…. then drink and drive….
21-30th November, 2011 November 30, 2011
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Now I can pick up hte phone and start the conversation a little…. but only if I like to… My first few sentences would be…. `pari paina…..sasrikaal…vaguru ka kalsa…. vagu ki fate` and these words will spurt out so fast especially the last few words…..just like a slipping car with worn out tires on the frozen ice, …. and then my nerves are calm and composed and i will restart like “thoda ka haal aa”….and some responses to their queries “main teek aa”….. and by this time…. something else will distract me… and I will try to find a reason to handover the phone to someone else…. and if nothing works and I seriously want to avoid the conversation on the phone…. i will toss it over… and i am sure someone else will catch it…. and I will run away….
My emotional aspect really gets ignited just before the sleeping time…… coz that is the time when i want to call someone … go to them and sleep with them…… i even have said something like “mera ji nahi lagda”….”main uthe jana”…. “ I want to sleep with…………” where this blank space is always the person who is not on that bed where i am lying…. like if I am with dadi ma… i want to go to mom…. if with mom… .to dad….. if everyone is around… then someone who is not at home…. like bhuji… .dada ji….. jassi uncle….. chacha ji…. mama ji……. long thing short…. I want to avoid sleeping by hook or crook…. but somehow i always sleep after some time, while trying to distract my parents…. but one thing is sure… most of these times…I made my mom sleep before me……
My stories these days start with “onc pon a time, there was a gagga”…. i am not sure…. in fact no one is sure…. what this gaga is????
An all my faults are taken care by monster….. like if I am scolded by anyone saying … why you did this or why you did that…. i will innocently say….. “monster did it… not I” or “squirrel did it”…. its funny how i am able to make instantaneous stories…
The biggest change that has come in my personality is that I have stopped watching TV as much i used to watch when i was in London. Here time is spent playing with gugu, dadi ma …..
My speaking abilities have successfully transformed from english to punjabi…. although I still try to mix those two languages but now most of the times…. its punjabi that rules…….. went ot library couple of times….. and the afternoon walks with dadi ma…… the daily routine is pretty much set….. a good 2-3 hours sleep in the afternoon and late night bed is very common.
Things have been changing a little…. I am growing and so is my learning…. manipulations….. naughtiness and ability to impress others……
13-20th Nov 2011 November 21, 2011
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the special part of these passing days is the way i speak in punjabi ….. and mostly surprising everyone around me……
like one day when dadi ma was not giving me chayanprash saying that I already had it during the day…… and its not good for me to have it twice in a day…. I innocently said “dadi, ji kardaa aa” and she had not answer but to give me some
when dad was going to pick mom up… .I insisted that i will go too… but he was adamant not to take me… .and said “arhaan your stay home and i will bring blackberry playbook for you”…. my witty reply was “o.k. mummy nu rehan do… playbook le aao”
when I woke up one afternoon …. i saw dadi ma sitting besides me and saying….. “arhaan uth ja….”….. instead of getting up…. when i open my eyes and heard dadi ma saying that….. instead …. I raised my arms so as to give dadi ma a hug and said “dadi ma… lamme pae jo…. ” and she could not deny….
I had stopped wearing diapers or underpants for over a month now … .even at nights… but when my nights become too long like from 9:30 Pm to 8:30…..I sometime could not control…. but i still insist…. “main ni daiper puna…. main big boy aa”…..’main ni diaper puna main kaka nahi aa’…
But i still cann’t sleep without listening or making a new story every single night……… and i still say ”sory”.. and when someone asks me to sleep because they are tired… i will say “sory sun-ni aa”…. and i will start…. once upon a time…..
Well these days are fun….
Weekend(18-200 was fun because mama ji was staying with us….
My explaining capability is improved and that too in punjabi…. now i know when to say what… .which tone…. and what adjectives to put in my vocabulary to convince someone….
“mera ji nahi lagda”…”mera papa nal nenni karn nu ji karda”…”main dadi nal sauna aa”……”main gusse aa”….. “oh uth gaya aa”…”Main neeni nahi karni”….
one of these days… when mummy papa came home… i ran towards them and touched their feet as instructed by my dadi ma…. and the funny part was which followed after that…. i pulled mom down a little….toward me and said…. ‘jaldi karo… mainu paari aayi aa”…means i want to kiss you….. it was so much funny…..
I have learnt to write all letter of ABC ( capital)… I can read all the letters small or big…. but i don;t remember the sequence but you tell me which letter to write and i will write that letter on the paper… or better on black berry playbook….. but the font’s will be mine….
I have remembered my spelling by heart… and write it where-ever…. paper …playbook…. A…R…H………AA …N ….. and remember whose name start from which letter….. learning words is next step…. B A T is bat…. CAT…cnake..(snake) as i think the sounds of C and snake are same
on 20th… I didn;t sleep the whole day… and in the afternoon spilled the Vaseline all around the wash room….. and slept with great efforts from my parents…..
12th Nov, 2011 November 13, 2011
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Today was the day when mom, dad and dadi ma all are at home and it is so much fun and today was the day when we celebrated muskaan di birthday..
the day started with a treat… as when satpal aunti were going somewhere… i was expecting her to take me with her… and I was so annoyed when she didn;t …. and i was gusse with her… she finally gave me a treat before going… and then i let her go…. then i went with mummy papa to bank and got a treat from there…. then we went for grocery shopping… and i lifted some many things from the shelves… saying….’dadi vaste aa’….’dadi ma needs it…’ came back home late and then had some sleep before celebrating muskaan di birthday…
we made cake at home and decorated it with fruits as i don’t like to eat cake at all… so ate only the grapes from it…. and the funny thing was when i was trying to win an argument from dilpreet didi…. I did something funny…. when everyone said…. that she is big… i should listen to her… i climbed up on the table besides her… to prove that i am taller…. haha… funny….
9-11th Nov 2011 November 13, 2011
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9th Nov, 2011
I wonder sometimes… how people around me blush or laugh out loud on my small mischievous acts …. the things may be small like my witty responses… weird logics….. dramatic expressions….or suspicious acts …sometimes i feel that everything that I does makes people happy around me….
I am always surprised when i hear a new word… like today…. ‘bhabhi’ that is how chacha ji addressed mom… and i was like…bhabhi…hahaha…. chacha says ….bhabhi…..hahaha…. and when i know that i am getting good response and people are amused by what i do…. i do it again…again and over again…. till someone says “arhaan! bus kar” and this is the normal routine for every new word that I over hear….
These days I have started speaking lots of punjabi words… .and as usual I always do what someone requests me not to do…… like “khlara pauna aa”, “uppar charna aa’ …”main ni neeni karni’ ……’main hit karna aa’…. and you knwo the usual trick that my elders try to use does not work …. for example when someone say … arhaan don’t do this… gande bache karde hunde aa aaidain…. and instead of stopping … i will say….. “arhaan ganda bacha aa”…. and “main ganda bacha banana aa”
mama ji came to our place for her dentist appointment and i was playing with him like mad as usual.
today I was playing with jassi did and I hit her and when in the evening dad was trying to explain to me that hitting someone is really bad…. and baba ji does not like it… i was quick to turn to mom and said…. don’t hit me …. baba ji will be mad at you….and they exploded with laughter….. i guess they were supposed to teach me something here…..isn;t it? ..
10th Nov 2011
Happy Birthday Muskaan Di… we talked to her last night and talked today as well…. and here is one of her photo from the day.
11th Nov 2011
its has been a special day… its 11-11-2011…. and did i do something special here… well everything that i do is special … isn’t it…. but I was so much busy today that i don’t recall anything….but one thing is sure….
these days…. whenever someone does not listen to me… he or she is ganda bacha for me…. and you will probably hear from me twice or thrice everyday… when i will say…..”papa ganda bacha”….”dadi ganda bacha”….”jassi ganda bacha”…”gugu ganda bacha”….. “mummy ganda bacha”…… or even “sariyan ganda bacha”…..
well tomorrow we will celebrate muskaan di’s birthday…. which was on 10th but we could not celebrate as mom was busy.
8th Nov, 2011 November 8, 2011
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My wild imagination, mischievous thoughts, curious exploration, unusual thinking and abundant physical energy keeps me going these days… and in the process things happens that no one likes….
like today… when mom was thinking go to bed… I ran towards the stairs… and when she tried to catch me…. i thought of giving her a tricky move and I started climbing the stairs and when I turned around … I fell down and my head hit the stair case….. the middle part of the forehead…. naturally i cried…. but still was trying to trick mom… but finally she got hold of me… and brought me to bed… but my creative juices for the day were still struggling… so I asked papa to sleep with me while first reading two stories and then making a story (something related with dada ji and scooter)…. finally slept on his arm….. with ‘robra’ (slight bump) on my forehead….
6th-7th Nov, 2011 November 7, 2011
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6th Nov.:
today i went for grocery shopping with my parents… and wanted them to by an electric scotter….. which is meant for adults i suppose… it was too hard for them to convince me …. but finally i got another Halloween dress and calmed down…
the interesting part was when we were buying my night suit…. these days i have started speaking punjabi… and punjabi is typical…. the sentences end with the wording like…. ”ਵਾਸਤੇ ਆ”… “ਹੁੰਦਾ ਆ”….”ਕਰਦਾ ਆ” and when mom was asking me to select the night suit… they asked my opionion on a grey one which had small red lines in them… and it seems little pinkish… and i was quite in retaliating….. eh pink aa….. mom said “nahi putt, this is red” and then i questioningly asked with a raised nose ”ਇਹ boys ਵਾਸਤੇ ਆ”….. and my parent’s laughter could not be controlled…… and they were literally laughing till the time we reached home
7th Nov:
Today, I had to be taken to the emergency again…..
In the evening, guneet mami, anmol bhai and nehchal didi came to our house. i was so excited to see anmol bhai…. and played with with the ball, racket…. and anything that I found…. i was so so excited…. and in that excitement…. when he was holding my arms… i pulled with the greatest of force…. and something went wrong on my elbow…. it was terrible… i immediately hold my elbow… and said… papa it hurts…papa hold me in his lap and thought that it will go away after some time…. he helped me to soothe this arm a little…. but i was able to move my arm that freely… it was terrible. i was crying like never before…. and today I was not even saying my pet words when i get hurt lightly “no…oh…no…i am fine…. nonu is ok“…. which means i was really in pain
Finally, after waiting sometime….. he took me to the hospital….. we had to wait in line for about half an hour…. and somehow i got the courage to stand on my own….. with my arm stiff…. fixed to my side…. with no moment at all….. and waited there patiently…… with my anxious face, glowing eyes with controlled tears, and my right hand holding my left elbow…….. mom asked me couple of times…..are you fine now… and my moving head told her everything…. and then when our turn came….. i cried a lot while removing the jacket…..it was serious… .and then nurse sent us to urgent care… where the doctor was really nice and intelligent… he straight way knew what the problem was…. .my elbow wwas pulled and one of my muscle or small bone was dislocated…. and he put it back to its normal position with a little massage….. and told me i am good to go… then we moved outside…. and was still not moving my arm….. but i think it was alright… coz i was not feeling the pain… and then papa asked me to catch him … .and i started running with my arms moving in the running mode. …. it was relief for my mom…. and especially for my dadi ma… who was at home.. and we called her and told that i was fine…. mom was curious if i am alright before coming back home from the hospital…. she asked me if i am alright while touching my right arm….. and we started laughing….coz i was hurt on my left arm….. and when papa was quick to point out….. I was like….”hahaha… momma don;t know it…papa know it….. not this one… this one… hahaha“…… and during the process… my mom said she will get me french fries if i move my arm….. and thus they had to when we were coming back home….
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