First quarter of 3rd year of my life

Greetings everyone !

I am back with the quarterly updates for the first quarter of 3rd year of my life.

Here are the top 12 memorable events and achievements this quarter :

12. Talking in English : I used to speak in gujarati only, but I am starting to learn some English now. One of the sentences that I have recently picked up in English is "I don't know". As you might have guessed, my parents are not very thrilled about it :-)

11. Routine tasks : I can take-off my shoes, socks as well as clothes on my own. While this is a very big achievement, my parents are not very excited about it since I take off the clothes whenever I feel like it and then I make them run after me to put them back on :-)

10. Favorite Vegetable : I have identified my favorite vegetable. Its Okra. If you give me okra sabji with roti, I will eat without any fuss. My mom is happy about it, but she is upset at the same time because I want that everyday for dinner now :-)

9. Gymboree : I started going for Gymobree classes every saturday morning. I love it and eagerly wait for Saturdays.

8. NY trip : When my mommy went to NY for her work in January, I tagged along to meet my grandparents. It was cold in NY, but I enjoyed it.

7. Lake Tahoe : We spent one full week in Lake Tahoe around Christmas. It was lot of fun wearing all the winter gears and playing in the snow. Check out the pictures to see my snowman !

6. Little helper around the house : I have started helping my parents with little things like putting the lights on or off and putting some things where they tell me to. I can also get some things within my reach (like a dish or spoon) for them - ofcourse, when I am in good mood :).

5. Coloring : I have started using coloring book and crayons. At first, I would just randomly color here and there, but gradually, I am getting the hang of it. Now if you tell me to color a circle, I will just put some lines in the circle. I cannot color it fully yet, but I don't color outside the circle at the same time.

4. Playing pretend : I have started playing pretend (not sure if this is because I watch lot of Barney :) ). I pretend being a mommy or daddy to my dolls and softtoys and feed them and take them for a stroll in their little stroller. I also pretend to be a cat or tiger or dog or rabbit or fox or even strawberry :)

3. Story Time : I love to hear different stories. So, my parents make up lots of stories involving different animals and day-to-day activities like brushing, taking a bath, eating, playing, etc. I can also tell you most of those stories (word for word - no kidding :) ) when I am in good mood.

2. Identifying the alphabets : I can identify lot of alphabets along with what they stand for. For example, A for Ami, B for Barney, D for Desai, K for Kavya, G for Gaurav, and so on...

1. Potty-training : I am "almost" potty-trained. Yeaaahhhh !! This one makes my parents very happy. I say "almost" because although I go to potty, I don't always say "I want to go pee" - instead one might see me do the "pee-pee" dance. Also, I don't always wake my mommy up at night :-)

Enjoy my pictures:


Love,
Kavya

I am a little helper around the house

I have started getting interested in small chores around the house. My mommy and daddy keep me by their side when they are doing some of their tasks. For example, mommy will make me sit on the kitchen platform while she cuts some vegetables or cooks something and daddy will take me for a walk with him when he goes to check the mails. While I am still little for most of the tasks that they do, I try to help however I can, of course, only when I am in good mood. Some of the things I help with are :

- If my parents give me something and ask me to go and put it in the stairs (so that we can take it upstairs whenever we go), I will go and place that thing very nicely in the stairs.

- I also help out taking a dish or glass to the sink. Since I cannot reach the bottom of the sink yet, I will put it on the kitchen platform.

- I can also turn any lights on or off as requested.

- I also help with clean-up after making a mess with all my toys - although, this is only sometimes :)

- In the mornings when we are all upstairs and we need a dish to put some "prasad" (goodies) for God, I can go down all by myself, open up the drawer and get a dish and return upstairs - Isn't this something ?

My little mischief

This evening when my parents were busy with something, I quietly turned on the stair lights and went upstairs. Then I turned on the lights of mommy-daddy's bedroom and went to the small "mandir" (temple) that they have in their room. I knew they had some "prasad" in a box near the mandir and I love that prasad very much. So, I tried to open that box, but the lid was too tight to open it fully. I managed to open it a little just from one side - enough to put one of my hands inside. I pulled out couple of pieces of the prasad and put them in my mouth very quickly. Soon there after, my mom came running looking for me and caught me red-handed with the prasad still in my mouth and also all over my hands and mouth (Ooops!) I could see that she had very confused looks on her face. She wanted to laugh but at the same time she wanted to scold me - so she didn't quite know how to react. She called my dad and told him about my mischief and we all burst out laughing :)