Karthik got so many stars

Karthik got 7 stars. It is the maximum till date. Feeling proud!!

Karthik's Journey at School - 1

Karthik joined Sishu Griha in June, 2014. He did take a while to settle but eventually settled with his aunty.
At school, they have started teaching him tracing numbers and alphabets.  So, my teaching him is getting streamlined and falling into a routine.

I procured sandpaper tracing numbers after some intense search in net. I sit with him everyday with the box of 10 numbers and coax him to trace. It is often met with resistance. I am more keen on pushing him to trace numbers everyday since I saw he wrote mirror numbers if asked to write. Just tracing didn't seem to work. So, I focused on just one number per day. So everyday trace two, write two and overwrite two. Today, he wrote two properly. I was soooooo happy. He wrote 2 properly about ten times and then wrote mirror again. I am happy that his mirror writing is temporary state and I realized we both have long journey of reading, writing and so on.

Brotherly care...

This is one amazing incident which happened sometime in August 2014.

Both Karthik and Vaibhav were still asleep in the morning and I was in the kitchen. I had cleared Vaibhav's feeding bottles from the bed and put them on the counter in the hall. Vaibhav woke up and began crying for milk. This woke up Karthik too. I hadn't heard Vaibhav's sound. Karthik came out, saw the feeding bottle on the counter, picked it up and gave it to Vaibhav. He then slept next to him comforting him while he had milk.

Vaibhav supporting his brother...

Today Karthik was taking the Magic car / Cart and hitting it on the walls, cupboards and bed. I told him many times not to do that. I finally lost patience and started scolding him. Vaibhav began to call me "Amma, illi noodu.. illi noodu..."[amma, see here ..]  he went on non-stop. He didn't stop till I looked at him and then saw what he was pointing at. He was pointing at blank wall. I asked "Eeen iidhe alli?" [what is there ?]. Vaibhav continued "Amma.. illi noodu.. illi noodu". I told Vaibhav "alli ennu illa..". Vaibhav continue "amma.. alli gode noodu"!!!!![amma see wall there]. I then realized he just wanted to take my attention away from Karthik. Wow!!

Karthik's Englishing..

Maid had buttoned Karthik till the neck. So, I unbuttoned Karthik's collar button, with the intent of making him feel more comfortable. He didn't like it, he immediately got angry and said "shall I tell appa". I innocently asked him, what will he tell appa...He replied in his broken english, "I will tell appa, that you are biching the cover" [Biching = removing. bich is remove in kannada, so he added "ing" to it.]

Police station

Karthik sometimes just surprises me with this answers.

Maid was feeding him. Since, he has this habit of keeping food in his mouth without chewing she kept on telling him, chew... chew... chew. At one point Karthik got fedup and angrily told her
"Ninu hinge maadre, police station ge kals  bidthini" [If you keep doing this, I will send you to police station].
My maid responded "Nanu, Alli hoogi nanu eenu maadli" [What should I do going to police station].
Karthik instantly replied "Nin eenu maad beda alli. Police ee ninage maadthare" [You don't do anything there Police will do to you].

I just couldn't hold myself back for more, I burst out laughing.

I continued, I asked Karthik, "Police een maadthare?" [What will police do?]
He responded "Police hodithare" [Police will beat].

Vaibhav con???

Vaibhav can become a successful con artist. Believe me. The act he puts up in morning to avoid school is just amazing. 

This is in 2014 when he would go to euro kids. He would be awake and pretend to be asleep. I would then say Vaibhav..vaibhav.. he wouldn't be able to contain himself and begin to smile. He would then begin.. "i dont want school". 

Then he would hold his tiny tummy and begin saying "hotte nawuuu'. It just would be ao cute.

What is written in the prescription?

Vaibhav fell down and hurt his lips. It looked like there was puss in his lips, so we took him to doctor. The doctor began with asking his name, but Vaibhav didn't open his mouth. He then wrote a prescription, as he wrote the prescription he explained what each medicine was for. He then handed me the prescription, immediately Vaibhav  took the prescription in his left hand and with his right index finger, pointed to the prescription and asked the doctor "Eenu bardirodhu"[What is written here?]. Immediately, all of us burst laughing.