Garbage

Syona, you want to take out the trash with dada? YAH. Since she was 9-10 month old, I would take syona with me to the backyard to rollout the recycling and garbage bins. She learn to enjoy this process because to get to the backyard, I would carry her underneath the redwood trees and the prickly branches would tickle her and make her laugh. So this last month, we went to go get the bins again- actually, she walked to the back herself and wanted to take out the bins. As we got to the backyard area, since she was walking on her own this time, she saw the close door and said Uh-Oh. Then she paused and kneeled down to pick up a small stick. That was really funny to me because that is what I usually do to open the backyard door- there is a small string that I use the stick to pick and pull on to open the door. What I like about this story is that I never told her that this was what needs to be done to open the door. She just observe and I guess we did this trash routine enough times that she remembered that this is the trick I do to get the door open. Amazing

Yellow Room

A few weeks ago, right before her birthday, Syona's teachers in the Blue room asked Shilpa and I to try to make it to school on a Friday afternoon because they had a surprise. We knew that Syona was making her transition into the 2 year old room for the week, and thought that they just wanted to have us come and do a small birthday and moving to the next class celebration. The day of, we walked into a full out graduation party with processional music in background and blue gowns/graduation caps with tassles and all (that the teachers made with love). It was really cute in that they had a viewing crowd with little kids in the class sitting nicely into their eating chairs (they are each between 14-23 months old mind you) listening to the ceremonial speeches that Ms. Claudia, Ms. Violetta, and Ms. Elena all wrote where they personalized for each of the two graduates, Syona and Marco. It was so well planned that they had cupcakes spelling out congratulations and goodie bags for the graduates. We spend almost 2 hours there socializing with teachers, other parents/grandma, and the owner Mrs. Maria. This event in itself made the monthly fees for the year to mydreamacademy well worth it as it makes us realize just how much these teachers are involved with their children and creating in the arts for their kids.

Yellow Room

A few weeks ago, right before her birthday, Syona's teachers in the Blue room asked Shilpa and I to try to make it to school on a Friday afternoon because they had a surprise. We knew that Syona was making her transition into the 2 year old room for the week, and thought that they just wanted to have us come and do a small birthday and moving to the next class celebration. The day of, we walked into a full out graduation party with processional music in background and blue gowns/graduation caps with tassles and all (that the teachers made with love). It was really cute in that they had a viewing crowd with little kids in the class sitting nicely into their eating chairs (they are each between 14-23 months old mind you) listening to the ceremonial speeches that Ms. Claudia, Ms. Violetta, and Ms. Elena all wrote where they personalized for each of the two graduates, Syona and Marco. It was so well planned that they had cupcakes spelling out congratulations and goodie bags for the graduates. We spend almost 2 hours there socializing with teachers, other parents/grandma, and the owner Mrs. Maria. This event in itself made the monthly fees for the year to mydreamacademy well worth it as it makes us realize just how much these teachers are involved with their children and creating in the arts for their kids.