Vyom's 4th Grade (9-10 yr) achievements

Vyom continues to grow as a wonderful person. He achieved many milestones in the 2016-2017 year.
His passion for winning and putting in the best on whatever he does makes us proud. He is a fast learner and continues to be a good listener of coaches. He continues to be a strict follower of rules.

Achievements:

• Attended multiple Warrior camps and in some of them got the MVP award along with many other prizes. 
• Fastest swimmer in all individual events
• Selection in school Basketball team and in starting line up - Team won ALL 7 games against noted schools like Sacred Heart, Pinewood, Nueva, Woodside etc..
• In Track and Field, he won the 800m, 400m as 1st place and 200m as 2nd place. 
• Became #1 USA player in 10U category with FIDE rating 1979.
• Participated in local Santa Clara Tennis tournaments and came 2nd. 
• Represented USA in Pan American Costa Rica coming 6th and World Cadet Chess Championship in Brazil coming 14th 
• 10U team went for Water Polo Junior Olympics where Vyom did great and his team came 17th out of 28 teams
• Vyom also won many chess events in Bay Area
• Vyom took the John Hopkins test for 1st time and did excellent in Math scoring 99%
• Vyom got his Instagram account #vyomvidy where all his chess updates are posted

We had some downsides as well, when Vyom got 6 stitches close to his eyebrows while playing basketball during recess. This injury just healed and was followed by another incident in school where he fractured his collar bone. It was tough 3 weeks where he had to skip all sports but during this time, he spend a lot of time on chess. 

Vyom is excited to be now starting 5th Grade at Harker School!

We are truly very proud of your achievements and we love your "Try your best and leave the rest" attitude!!

Vyom's achievements in Sept 2015

We are very proud of Vyom as he again reached top 100 rating under 8 in US for Chess. His current rating 1292.

Vyom also won the 1st place in Tennis for Under10 Orange Ball Tournament in Portola Valley. He won all his 5 singles games. It was a delight to watch him play and enjoy!!

Vyom's busy life..

Vyom's growing faster than we had imagined :-). He is a 2nd grader now. We were just looking at some of his 3 year pictures and admired them.

He has quite a busy life considering he is just 7 year old.. He is in school from 8:15am to almost 5pm. Then on Monday's he has soccer, Tuesday Chess from 6:30pm to 8pm, Wednesday Swim lessons from 7pm to 7:45pm (Green level), Thursday - take it easy now, Friday not much.. Then comes the busy weekend with Saturday Soccer, Piano, Tennis. Sunday he has dance, Tennis Private lesson. The amazing part is that he enjoys all of it. He takes interest in what he does.

2015 Summer Time

Today, it's Saturday August 15th, and I'm sitting in Fresno Double Tree hotel while Vyom is playing his Chess Tournament.  We woke up at 7:30am and drove to Fresno for his game that started at 11am.

Vyom has had an exciting and busy summer. He had many achievements this summer..

1. Started playing Water Polo, it was a new sport that he picked up and is liking it.
2. Started playing Tennis tournaments (played a couple of Orange and Green ball tournaments)
3. Moved to pre-comp Swimming level
4. Started playing Ping Pong, as we got the table in June
5. Developed interest in playing Piano (we did get a piano at home and now Vyom's teacher comes home to teach them)
6. Both Vyom/Omya went for 4 week Harker summer camp together. They had a blast.

It's nice to see how he is growing up and picking up new things. Vyom still loves playing chess and has been teaching Omya also. His current rating is 1223.

Again, this summer we were able to spend good quality time with both Vyom and Omya.
They were lucky to have both grandparents visit them and spend time with them.  We also had Arunav stay with us for this summer and Vyom/Arunav enjoyed the time playing TT and watching soccer.

We also learned a new game that can be played in family settings (mostly in the car) called Contact.

Yom finally picked up biking as well. This summer Vyom watched the movie "Inside Out"

Vyom will start Harker 3rd grade this August 26th. Omya will started KDG, so the excitement is great..

He is growing fast and becoming a big boy! He loves his time with Noodles as well..

More to come soon..

Love you tons..
Dad

Vyom starts 2nd Grade in Harker

Vyom started 2nd Grade in Harker School on August 25th 2014. He has been a perfect ideal kid and we could not have asked for better.

Some noteworthy achievements that Vyom has accomplished are:

Vyom Vidyarthi – #94, rated 1052 (August 2014 top 100 chess players in USA in age category 7 and under) - We learned about this on Patrika's B'day, so obviously it made her day!!!

Did awesome in ERB Testing for 1st Grade with scoring mostly 100% in Math and Language arts..

His passion for playing Chess continues and is motivated to do better. He is learning Chess from Studygascar and also from Bay Area Chess as part of after school program.

Vyom is also learning Tennis for past 3 months with a new coach Ashvin Soin.  He takes both private and group lessons.

Vyom also is enjoying swim lessons in Saratoga Star Aquatics. He is in Green level and has learned Freestyle, Butterfly, breast stroke and back stroke. 

This past summer, he had a good time with both grandparents. He also read 36+ books.  He attended the Harker summer camp for 1st session and also took daily swim lessons. He enjoyed watched the soccer world cup and supporting USA first and then Argentina. He was a bit sad on Argentina loosing the finals against Germany. We did get in the Messi shirt/short from Omya's side for Rakhi. His love for cricket still exists. He loves to play in the backyard.

Another achievement that Vyom has was to move to P3 level in Language arts at Harker at end of 1st Grade. 

Vyom's 2nd grade teachers are Ms. Mehta for Home room and Language Arts, Ms. Yarborough for Maths.

Vyom's 1st grade teachers were Ms. Proctor for Homeroom and Math and Ms Kusuma for Language arts.

Vyom and Omya get along very well. Vyom is still a role model for Omya. 

Another thing worth mentioning is that we had a puppy dog addition to our family "Labradoodle" named Noodles. We got him in April and Noodles birthday is on Jan 4th. Vyom and Omya love playing and spending the time with Noodles. 

Vyom's love for trying different cuisines and eating healthy food continues. His love for Panda Express, Chipotle and some Indian Restaurants still exists.

Vyom also attended the Pan spelling bee contest held on August 30th Saturday. He was able to clear the 1st round written, but misspelled "source as sorce" " evaporate as evaprorate". He did spell "dangerous" correctly.. It was a fun event and he enjoyed it.

Vyom did pick up a decent amount of Hindi again with grandparents around. We did move to a new house in Nov 2013 and this place is walking distance to Vyom's school. 

Vyom walked to school for Harker summer camp and it was a great feeling. Somedays all 4 of us used to walk to drop Vyom. Since Omya was not doing the summer camp she was excited to go and meet Ms. Kelly.

Vyom also has this interesting habit of saving from time to time. He would make comments how we can save more.. this piece of story to come in next blog..

Overall, we are proud of both Omya and Vyom!! You both rock :-)

Love you

Dad

Vyom would be turning 3 next month

It's been a long time since i wrote about Vyom. He has been a lot of fun and we have been enjoying his questioning on everything. We love it when he says "Whyyy" on everything. On October 1st, 2009, we feel Vyom was potty trained, since then he has not wore a diaper. Although it has been quite interesting since then. He does very well during the day time but do have accidents during night which he feels embaraced.

He has been very excited about his baby sister. We came to know about Vyom's sibling on June 16th, 2009. It was another dream come true. On Oct 2nd, we learned that it was a girl and our happiness on a complete family was just out of bounds.
Before we learned about her, that week, my promotion happened, Gilroy home got rented out and so it was true that "mother goddess" is coming to our life. Her due date is Feb 20th, 2010.

Vyom has been very excited about it and is ready to share everything with her. He has made plans were she is going to sleep and what all Vyom is going to do for her, example, change diaper, give her a bath, make her wear clothers, tell her a story etc.

Vyom had already learned her alphabets and numbers till 20 a couple of months agao. Now he has started recognizing them as well. He has set his target that before he turns 3 on Jan 31st, he would be able to recognize all of them.

During the last couple of months, Meha had a baby girl named "Anika" and Anuprita had a baby girl named "Ananya" so it has been quite fun to see small kids.

Vyom also visited San Diego on Southwest airlines and he remembers that it was orange and purple flight. We stayed in Sangi Didi's place and visited Legoland, Seaworld and Meha's Baby shower.

In school, Vyom is almost ready to transition to a new class (Preschool). We are just waiting for openings in the new class. He has some close dear friends with whom he loves to play, Lozo, Anika, Kylie, Ryon and Austin. Mei was another one but she transitioned to another class.

Vyom still loves to sleep with Mommy and he is concerned that Mommy would be staying in the hospital for 2 days..

Overall it is a lot of fun to see him grow and do new activities everyday. His latest excitement is going to the Santa Clara Library from where he got a couple of DVD's and 10 books for stories. His love for going to the restaurant is still the same.

More later..

Vyom's Dad

Vyom's Second B'day in Daycare and Home

Vyom turned 2 on Jan 31st, 2009. He has started talking a lot. He can repeat all the words we say :-).
His birthday pictures are here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/VyomVidyarthi/Vyom_2nd_birthday

More to come soon..