Nov 2011

Birthday party! 

For his mama's birthday, aj wanted to go to india and celebrate it right away! and he got mad at me for not taking him to his mama's party! :D When mama asked him what he got for his birthday he generously said "Pokemon cards" (that belong to ashu!!)

I told B that we need to make sure we highlight Ashu's name in bold, italics, double quotes and what not..in our will :) 

Thankful for self! 

For thanksgiving AJ had written, " I am thankful for my brother, my dad, my mom and myself" :) Ofcourse seeing brother on the top of the list melted the big brother's heart (for few minutes!) 

Generosity!!

I got my new iphone 4S and AJ had been waiting longer for it than me because he got to play cut the rope at my friend L's place and unfortunately it was not available for android..well the free version and i didn't order the full version because i knew i was gonna switch to iphone. So, as soon as my phone came they used it to the heart's content before i even figured anything out! Ashu downloaded HP spells and AJ cut the rope! And then he made some bad choices the next day - he was talking back and in general not listening to anything i said. So, i refused to give him my phone and he said, mommy i am sorry, can i please have your phone. i said no and he said he would give his piggy bank to me and i can take all the money from it. I couldn't stop laughing, but i said, but you don't have that much savings anyway so i dont want it. And he generously says "You have mine + Ashu's savings - all of it, if you give me  your phone". Now that is an offer because Ashu is good at saving and has a decent money in his piggy bank ;-) I told Ashu that AJ offered his savings + ashu's to get the phone from me to play CTR and the look on Ashu's face was priceless. ROFL!

Parent Teacher one/one for both the boys :

They both made us proud!!

Ashu : Ashu's school they have groups based on the level of the students in each subject. Teacher said he is in the highest group for all the subjects and is quite happy with him. She said that there is very limited number of students that go for gifted program and Ashu didn't make it to the gifted program yet, by a tad difference in aggregate marks (they consider tcap scores from prev. year + initial assessments for this year) and she is going to give him additional assignments and take it to the gifted teacher and show that he should be in gifted program. hope that works out :)

She said that she likes Ashu particularly because he takes his studies very seriously, but when it comes to recess he is a typical kid out there. She gave me an example that when she did spelling test, he was making some careless mistakes and even though she knew he could move to the next level, she kept him in the same level and he kept asking her what he needs to do to move to next level :) She said she hasn't seen many kids who cared this much about the levels :)

AJ : is idenitified as gifted child too and is being given more challenging work. Ofcourse AJ's school being a private school, they don't have a separate gifted program and they just give additional work to him. They are doing Kindergarten level work with him already and said they will move to the next level when they feel he is ready. His teachers are pretty stunned at his reading level and also math :D