Sameer turned 5 years a few weeks ago. There are so many things I want to write down about him, but now I hardly remember anything. Life has been very hectic since Ashwin's birth. Sameer enjoys having a baby brother to cuddle and play with. Although, he hates it when Ashwin gets into his stuff. Sameer is himself not very careful with his things, but he does not like someone else messing his stuff. When we have a kid visiting us at home, it's the same way.
He is developing a more and more assertive personality. He wants to do things his own way and only that way. He will get defiant if either one of us says no to him. That has led to more and more arguments and tussles between me and Sameer as he spends the maximum time of the day with me. Some days, it feels like I am constantly fighting with him, yelling at him and getting frustrated with his non-cooperativeness. I have to figure out a better way to communicate with him. Lately he has been tellign rahul that his favorite days are the weekends when Rahul is home.
Sameer is trying to be more and more independent. He wants to take his baths on his own, brush his teeth on his own and sometimes even feed himself. However, eating on his own lasts for the first 10 minutes. After that, he begins to get tired. Plus he tends to get easily distracted and wants to talk all the time. Then Rahul or I have to constantly remind him, "Eat your food". Usually that reminder falls on deaf ears, as he will continue with his thoughts with no indication that he heard us or he intends to follow our directive.
He is at an age where he really wants to have friends with whom he can play. While he is enjoying his new preschool in Pleasanton, he does miss his school in Virginia, specially his friends there. He still talks about them and wants to know when we will move back to Virginia. So far, I have no answers for these questions, along with a lot of other ones that he has been asking me.
He wants to know how life began, where did humans come from, where did dinosaurs come from, what was there before life began and numerous others that I can't remember right now. His latest interests are dinosaurs and mickey mouse. He likes to play games online on Sesame Street and that is where he played a game on dinosaurs. While he continues to play other games on Sesame Street, dinosaurs have stuck with him for almost four months now. He loves to draw and color and wants to do it all the time, is reading more and more fluently, enjoys learning spanish words, read hindi books. His favorite author these days is Dr. Seuss.
He used to enjoy Lego quite a bit, but that has faded since Ashwin started breaking up his creations or interrupting his work. I don't really have a solution for that except that Sameer play in his room. He would hate that, he still does not like to sleep on his own and most nights he wants Rahul to lie down with him till he falls asleep.
Sameer has a really good long-term memory. Just recently, while talking about Mickey Mouse, he tells me that Gunjan, the preschool that he used to attend in India, had a Mickey Mouse painted on the walls of it's playground. He was a few weeks short of three years when he stopped going there and, in fact, he attended that school for less than 3 months.
He is developing a more and more assertive personality. He wants to do things his own way and only that way. He will get defiant if either one of us says no to him. That has led to more and more arguments and tussles between me and Sameer as he spends the maximum time of the day with me. Some days, it feels like I am constantly fighting with him, yelling at him and getting frustrated with his non-cooperativeness. I have to figure out a better way to communicate with him. Lately he has been tellign rahul that his favorite days are the weekends when Rahul is home.
Sameer is trying to be more and more independent. He wants to take his baths on his own, brush his teeth on his own and sometimes even feed himself. However, eating on his own lasts for the first 10 minutes. After that, he begins to get tired. Plus he tends to get easily distracted and wants to talk all the time. Then Rahul or I have to constantly remind him, "Eat your food". Usually that reminder falls on deaf ears, as he will continue with his thoughts with no indication that he heard us or he intends to follow our directive.
He is at an age where he really wants to have friends with whom he can play. While he is enjoying his new preschool in Pleasanton, he does miss his school in Virginia, specially his friends there. He still talks about them and wants to know when we will move back to Virginia. So far, I have no answers for these questions, along with a lot of other ones that he has been asking me.
He wants to know how life began, where did humans come from, where did dinosaurs come from, what was there before life began and numerous others that I can't remember right now. His latest interests are dinosaurs and mickey mouse. He likes to play games online on Sesame Street and that is where he played a game on dinosaurs. While he continues to play other games on Sesame Street, dinosaurs have stuck with him for almost four months now. He loves to draw and color and wants to do it all the time, is reading more and more fluently, enjoys learning spanish words, read hindi books. His favorite author these days is Dr. Seuss.
He used to enjoy Lego quite a bit, but that has faded since Ashwin started breaking up his creations or interrupting his work. I don't really have a solution for that except that Sameer play in his room. He would hate that, he still does not like to sleep on his own and most nights he wants Rahul to lie down with him till he falls asleep.
Sameer has a really good long-term memory. Just recently, while talking about Mickey Mouse, he tells me that Gunjan, the preschool that he used to attend in India, had a Mickey Mouse painted on the walls of it's playground. He was a few weeks short of three years when he stopped going there and, in fact, he attended that school for less than 3 months.
