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..

Vyom's recent activities

It's been sometime since I wrote about Vyom. The reason being that Vyom has become more fun and hence we love to spend most of our time with him. He is running all over the place. Loves to climb stairs and is now familiar with all the rooms. He know where we sleep and how to turn on the tap when he wants to take a shower.

We took him to the swimming pool which he absolutely loved it. It was a good time since Vyom's mommy also got a chance to remember her old stokes. He enjoys his time in the daycare and has transitioned to Toddler class on April 21st. He is now very familiar with his new teachers. Vyom now knows to open the drawers and take out stuff that is of interest to him. He makes sure that the drawers are closed after he has taken the stuff out.

Vyom will be 1 tomorrow

Wow.. Vyom will be 1 tomorrow. Time flies by. Well this month he achieved a great milestone. On Jan 10th, 2008 he took his first couple of steps and by Jan 26th he was comfortably walking :-). He seems to be enjoying the fact that he can walk and his hands are now free.

Vyom did celebrate Tanu didi and Satvik's b'day in the month of January. His tastes buds now want to explore many more new dishes. He still loves banana; apple sauce, mommy made idli's and dokhla. He seemed to like Kiwi and oranges as well.

We will be celebrating his 1st B'day on Feb 2nd in Sitara India Cuisine.

More to come in a day or so..

Vyom is 11 months old

It's been quite sometime since I wrote about Vyom. Past couple of months has been quite busy for us. We moved from Gilroy to Santa Clara in Sept mid (19th) and then rented our old home in Gilroy. In October Vyom celebrated his first Halloween in which he wore his Puppy dress. He enjoyed the party in Gilroy @ Oak Commons community meeting all his friends; Logan, Gia, Mihir, Amy and others..On the day of Halloween we picked Vyom from daycare a little early and then in the evening went around the neighborhood collecting Candies :-) Overall it was a fun filled Halloween for us and for Vyom. Ohh yes, Vyom started stading up quite comfortable holding our center table and enjoys that!

In early November, we went to India so that Vyom can meet other family memebers and enjoy some time with grandparents. First we stopped at Hong Kong where we met Naveen/Bhart/Abinav and visited a couple of places. We had a nice 1 day stop over at their place and ate good food. We then reached Delhi on Nov 6th @ 2am and then around 4am took a cab to reach Delhi railway station where we took Shatabi for Lucknow. Vyom met all the family memebers and one general comment he got his that "Vyom needs to gain some weight" :-)

In an unfortunate circumstance vyom lost his Neeti bua on the day of Diwali....

He juggled between Dadi and Nani house and entertained everyone with his smile. He had a blast with all the kids around (cheeku, akshat, poison, tita kati, mahi, khushi and mahek). He adjust quite well to the Indian climate and the environment and kept his grandparents very busy :-) Vyom had his mundan in a temple and a party at Nana Nani's place. His first flight experience was good and he seemed to have enjoyed it.

In Decemeber Vyom started going 5 days to daycare and we noticed that he became a complete extrovert; as he adjusted to the daycare environment very comfortable.

Vyom's Massi with Family also moved to California so he has fun with Tani didi. We did set up a Chritmas tree for the first time as it was his first christmas and he did enjoy it :-) Vyom has a big toy room where he loves to spend time and explore all his toys.

And before I forget to mention; Vyom is very talkitive, he would love to say something that is beyond our understanding :-)

He seems to be very close to walking and it should happen anytime. His sixth teeth is also coming. Vyom's Nana Nani also came fot 6months to California. Vyom enjoyed his 10 days vacation with us and what he did the most is "sleeping".

His daycare also changed fromm Kindercare to CCLC from January 1st week and he seemed to have adjusted very well. His new teachers are Miss Angel and Mis Marcia.

He loves eating by himself and would not like someone feeding him. I have so many things to write ....every day he does something new which keeps us entertained..
We have entered in 2008 and Vyom's birth year has passed and soon he will be an year old. Time flies by so fast...as it was just yesterday that Vyom was born and we help him in our arms .....

More to come soon...

Proud dad...

Vyom turned 6months

On July 31st, Vyom celebrated in half yearly B'day. We can't beleive that he is now 6months old. It has been a wonderful experience seeing him grow everyday and do new activities. His new development is to to try to get everything that attacts him.

On his 6montn B;day, we first wished him early morning (midnight as well) and then gave him a shower. We then took him for his 6 monthly doc appt. He is now 16.5 lbs and 26inches tall. Doctor K Bhatia suggested to start giving him solids. Then he got 4 shots, which he took quite bravely. Just cried for two minutes then was happy.

We came home and did Puja, Mommy made Panjiri and Charnamitra which we made Vyom taste after the pooja. We then cut the cake and enjoyed the rest of the day with him.

Vyom's massi also visited him for an interview at Palm. She enjoyed her short stay with Vyom. Massi, Masarji, Tanu didi and Satvik are moving to Bay area close to Vyom in a few month time frame. We also assembled Vyom's high chair gifted to him by Massi and gave him his first solids (Rice cereal) and water in silverware.

Dada Dadi also emailed Vyom and wished him on his 6month b'day. They went to temple as well for Vyom's well being..

More to come next month ...