The school year came to an end. Aditya, who attended only 4 hours of school per week last year, finished the year attending 30 hours a week, every single week, except for the weeks we were in India!
His year end progress report spoke of remarkable improvement in all areas between the winter and the spring semesters! For us, the coolest part of that report was a mention of Aditya taking inititiave and choosing his own activities to do in unstructured time, Aditya playing a variety of games with other kids in the class, and Aditya beginning to voice his disagreements (WOW!) in a respectful manner.
Go Aditya!
Shreya earned a rave review from her teacher too. She is taking on new challenges, learning, and growing tremendously, and having fun at it! It shows in her continued enthusiasm and energy about school, as well as that of her teacher's words about her.
As her token of gratitude for the twins who did so well, Aai gifted Aditya and Shreya with Time for kids' "Big Book of Why - 1001 facts" and "Big Book of How - 501 facts".
Once the summer began, we had a bit of a breather and we held a long pending team meeting in which we played a fun game of putting together a story with 3 random words picked from the dictionary, by the rest of the group (e.g. wishbone, insincere, tetanus or snowflake, navy, defraud). It was a hilarious and reassuring reminder that we all know how to let go and have fun-- no matter what!
On Sunday, Aditya and Shreya insisted Baba stayed in bed until they got done with baking special coconut flour muffins with Aai's supervision (but practically without her help). Aditya also brought a hot cup of tea to Baba in his bed (as he knows BABA LOVES BED TEA:-)) It was hilarious, though, when he earlier tried to keep Baba from waking up by putting a pillow right on his face!
Later that day, Baba spent an hour each playing with the twins.
Baba also re-introduced Aditya to jigsaw puzzles. He showed a lot more interest and readiness for doing puzzles than he has had in the past! The past is the past, it has no relation to the present!
After having cracked a smaller "Disney Cars" puzzle, this morning, he attempted a 100 piece "Spongebob Squarepants" puzzle with Baba. He could not finish it but he got done with about 25%. Bravo!!!
In related news, Baba and Aditya also play the Nerf guns regularly now. He appears less and less anxious every time we play. The last time we played, we took turns pretending to be the cop with his Nerf-gun catching the robber who is scaring Mickey Mouse with his pistol to give away his money!
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