------ Thursday, May 28, 2014 Aashish had ordered Stethoscope for Ishan and it was delivered today. Before it was delivered, when he got up in the morning - Aashish was sleeping besides him, he tried to wake him up saying - 'aashish, to stethoscope kutheparyant aala ahe te bagh na' :D (aashish had told Ishan earlier the status of order - that it was dispatched to Pune city) Ishan is very happy to hung it by neck and call himself doctor! we all felt our own heart bits for the first time :) After some time he says he is a photographer and his name in the Euro school should be changed to "Photographer Aashish Kulkarni Smita" ! Few things that are very close to his heart are - Whiteboard - that is needed in the bedroom while he sleeps, his new cycle gifted by Pradnya, Sony Nex3 Camera and now new Stethoscope. He reckons he is going to be a doctor and check all kids and adults. Then he says is a photographer but stil he would check patients :)

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 Ishan went to school on 30th June (Monday). Teacher asked - "Holiday mein kya kiya? Mamma ne kya kya khana banaya tha?" to this Ishan replied "Dhensu"!! Dhensu is all purpose word. It can be answer to any question these days. When we had gone to vasamt for "Snehal's marriage", I asked Ishan pointing to Devidas kaka - 'do you know which ajoba is this' to this he replies "Dhensu ajoba" :D :D He had spoiled red color yesterday all over the floor from kitchen to dining to hall. When i entered home in the evening i was shocked to see red things on the floor and bad thoughts came to my mind - what has happened and how come nobody called me? Next moment i realized it was color and i was relieved! :) It took half an hour for me to clean the floor and then Ishan! :D :D

Ishan demanded a white board similar to one in the school, so he got the white board, duster and red, green, blue & black marker pens. Now he is so happy and has started teaching all of us. It is mandatory to attend the lessons and follow his instructions else he replies like teacher "Why are you not saying 1,2, 3?? " "Tumko sikhaya hai na" he even gives complements for correct replies!

Now he saw a whileboard having 'black' corners somewhere and has started demanding for this. In addition to this he thinks 'black' duster also needs to be bought else it will be mismatch with the whiteboard (having black corners) So here we are looking for tips of how to convert a normal white board into something as below

can we get only corners in the market? Probably not .. then will repainting work? again probably not!

ईशान साधारण अडीच वर्षाचा असताना बाल्कनीतून एक मोठी कुंडी हलवून घरात आणण्याचा प्रयत्न करत होता. त्याला विचारलं की अरे तू काय करत आहेस तर उत्तर असा आलं - " अरे झाडाला ऊन लागत आहे न म्हणून सावलीत आणत आहे " !! So innocent emotions! I was really touched!

ईशान च whiteboard वर लिहिणे सुरु होते
१,२,३ काढताना ३ चे spring संपताच नव्हते।
मी त्याला ३ कसे काढायचे ते दाखवले। .
Still he was unable to write it correctly. Then he told me "मम्मा अरे मी ३ capital मध्ये लिहितो आहे म्हणून असा आहे !" It was an amusing answer!!

Few days back when we returned from Guajarat Trip, he demanded that Petrol Pump should be bought and kept in the Parking so that he can fill in the Petrol as and when needed!! I actually went to a toy shop and asked for petrol pump toy but its not available .. :( Ishan can identify all the petrol pumps when they are at distant just by looking at their logo.. BHarat Petrol Pump, HP Petrol Pump, Indian Oil etc are all known to him.

Today morning Ishan demanded that I should buy Sugar cane juice machine in the home so that he can produce sugar cane juice!!