Vaibhav's love for Karthik

Vaibhav's love for his brother Karthik is amazing. Not one but many such instances.

Doughnut incident.

We had got a couple of doughnuts from mall for both Karthik and Vaibhav. Vaibhav was asleep and Karthik ate off his doughnut. When Vaibhav woke up, I gave him his doughnut to eat. So he asked me to make it into two pieces and give one to Karthik. I told him that Karthik had already eaten his doughnut so he can eat all of it. But, he refused. I tried to convince him but he began to cry. So I made two pieces of dough nut and gave one to Karthik. Both of them ate happily.
But I was so moved and touched.

Chocolate incident.

I had taken Vaibhav to medical store. He asked me to buy him a chocolate. I bought two (one for him and other for Karthik), but gave him one while keeping away the second one from his view. He immediately asked me to buy for Karthik. To see what he will do, I refused to buy one for Karthik. He began to cry and didn't stop till I handed over Karthik's chocolate to him. Vaibhav didn't eat his. He carried it all the way home. Gave one chocolate to his brother and then he ate his. !!

Bangle incident.

I was cleaning my cupboard. I had four odd bangles, which I couldn't use for anything. So I gave it to Vaibhav to play. He immediately split them into two each and gave two bangles to Karthik incident

Water incident

When I sit to feed both I don't get water for them. Vaibhav when feels need of water he goes and gets one glass for himself, keeps it in his place. He then goes and gets another glass of water for karthik. Just amazing.

Vaibhav's latest game

Vaibhav picks all sorts of things and keeps stuffing into his father's pockets. This time he found a big shampoo bottle to stuff into his father's pockets.

Kids enjoying flinto

Flinto is an activity box for kids. This time one of activity was finger painting the animals. Since, there was lot of paint and lot of waste cardboard I made a jungle out of it. Kids enjoyed painting more.

I have kept it on floor

Vaibhav had a newly bought pen in his hand. He put it down to take up something else. I asked him "yaako pen na kelaage bisakidhiya" ( why have you thrown pen down). Immediately vaibhav made an angry face and replied "bisakilla.. iitidhini" (not thrown but kept).👌👌👌

Experiment with water

Today i was reaching boys concept of surface tension. Too much for them? Believe me, they love it and they do understand it to their best level.  They totally enjoy it.

Karthik and Subraction

I started teaching Karthik Subtraction. Yesterday was the fourth class of subtraction, and I was amazed that Karthik could do all the sums. To make it more interesting and give him more practise I found a game website which has games for subtraction. And Karthik did 20 sums all correct!!. Just wow!!. Well, I felt just proud and happy that I did a good job, happier than a personal achievement.
 But, I do know people around me will say, what is the hurry, why am I burning him out. But, they dont realise that, it is a two way process Karthik should be willing to learn and I should be ready to teach. Only when that happens, we can see results.

Karthik's drawing classes

I was able to start drawing classes in my apartment for Karthik's sake. It made me super happy.

Karthik loves drawing and he has been asking me for a drawing class for almost six months. No classes close by and I didn't want drive for this class too. I am already driving kids for shloka and dance classes, so driving again in this traffic and bad roads was not an option for me or them.

So, my only option was to start a drawing class in my apartment. Knowing my apartment folks attitude towards such extra classes and money, I knew it will be tough. I asked my apartment secretary if she will let me use the common puja room for classes. She agreed!  

Next task was to find a good drawing teacher. In Vaibhav's school there is a good drawing teacher, Soni but I didn't have her number. Called Leela the head of Vaibhav's school maybe about ten times before she gave me the number. I had by then googled and found some ten teachers and spoken to about five of them. No one was convincing. Glad that Soni got convinced agreed to come. Now I needed to get at least five kids. In a building of forty kids one might think it is easy. But it was hard. Most didn't care about drawing class, for some felt it expensive and for some time didn't work out. I just had four kids for the class. I went house to house asking if they will send their kids and believe me people gave pathetic response as if I had gone to ask donations. Finally I got five kids and drawing class started.  i

I was so so very very happy, my Karthik could go to drawing.

Fun doing it together.

It is so much fun to take my boys around on my bike to shloka classes or dance classes and participate with them. In shloka class I sing along with them, while riding back, we continue to sing together. Everyday night we recite all the sholkas and bhajans before going to sleep, that is amazing.
I go to dance class, it is great to see Karthik dance, I put the video back at home for them to practise while I either watch or dance along with them.