Early 2015
We watched the animated movie Planes with Yohaan. He liked
it and we had the DVD at home so he was asks a competitorable to watch it a few more times. In one of the scenes when Dusty arrives into New York he asks a British plane about
his racing techniques. Of course he drives him away, not willing to
reveal his tricks to a newbie competitor and angrily says, “of course not, I’m
British”. A few days after watching the movie Yohaan was upset with me and said, “I’m British!”. Satya and I giggled and asked him what
it means to him when he says “I’m British”. Due to the tone used in the dialogue in that movie, Yohaan thought it meant angry or furious. After a few more
chuckles, I explained what it means and gave him the correct words to express
anger. But a few days later, at a pound party at Nayana’s house he said it
again! Much to our amusement… J
If Yohaan wants Milo he says “ could I have Milo-milk and
plain milk?”, and for rose milk, he has coined the term, “rose milkshake and
purple milkshake”.
June 2015
His 6th birthday theme was Transformers - Optimus
Prime. We had a nice party for the kids by the poolside. Games, dance and
pizza. Yohaan felt so important and really enjoyed all the attention he got. Big boy! And such a loving one too.
Yohaan and Inaya were having a discussion in the car on the
way to their hindi class on Saturday morning 25th July. Yohaan said
you know one night the moon was following me where ever I went! Inaya said, “oh
the moon follows everyone” Both wondered how and why the moon follows people so
Yohaan wanted to come up with his own explanation. With serious consideration
he finally said, “ you know I think the wind blows it so it follows us!”. It
was a very cute conversation to hear the bro-sis duo chat away. It was amazing
to notice how their little minds work and how they are noticing the nature and
curious to find answers. With them growing up, God has given me a great chance
to relive my childhood with my brother.
The whole of July 2015, Yohaan has been totally absorbed in
learning to make shapes with this fingers. Cobras, planes, fighter planes with
missiles. He has also assumed his identity as a Jaguar and has a special jump
called Jaguar jump (makes a huge leap from a crouching position).
August 2015
Yohaan plays with Parth, an Indian boy who goes to a British
school and has an odd whiny English accent. They also go for Hindi classes and
skating classes together. For the 68th Indian Independence day, we
took Yoyo to the Embassy on 15th August 2015 for flag hoisting so he
could experience some Indian patriotic feelings. He came home and was inspired
to make a couple of Indian flags which made us proud of our decision to take
him along for the ceremony. Later that evening he went down to show those
hand-made flags to his friends. When he was back, at dinner time, I asked him
what they discussed about India, our country, and the flags he had made.
To that came the most unexpected reply, “Parth says he is
Japanese, but his mother wants him to go for Hindi class.” Recovering from the weirdness of that
statement, we had a good laugh! He of course couldn’t understand why it was funny at all!
Sept 2015
Amma Baba came to
visit us in Singapore. They got a monster truck for both Yoyo and Inaya. Big
mistake! Inaya was not impressed but clung to her gift nonetheless and Yohaan
assumed that both the trucks were his. (coz he knows that his Didi doesn’t like
cars) Finally after a lot of pleading, fighting and then scolding, he finally
agreed to give one truck back to Inaya. Before he did that, he did a quick test
to see which one was faster and of course his truck turned out to be faster!
Surprise, surprise! He returned the other one to Inaya teasing that his truck
was faster! All in all, it was resolved without bloodshed, three cheers to
that!
Oct-Nov 2015 Yoyo the negotiator!
Yes, everything is about negotiation these days. He tries to
push the boundaries about everything under the sun. From what time he will do
his Kumon maths worksheet to how much time he can watch TV. Which channels, to
how many laddoos he wants to eat in one sitting. At times its enervating at
other times it’s just “liharious” as he says it. Hilarious!! J
Favourite words of 2015 –
Liharious
Awkwardsss – he has no clue what it means and uses it with
an ‘s’ at the end…haha
and Reallyyyyy!! (trying to convince that imaginary things did happen!)
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