5 years planning !

Its that time of year where Halloween is around & all the costumes are coming out for the Halloween celebration..

Its just feel like few days ago when we selected the the costumes for Saanvi.

This year though the costume idea came from herself 

Not only that there is a plan for next 5 Halloweens !

High Five !

When Saanvi was born we called her our bundle of joy..

Ever since then we have been unveiling the constant joy she is bringing every day..

With her every single step, we have enjoyed the parenthood

In this journey, we have learnt about her and about ourselves

Some times she becomes our parent and we relive our childhood

The world has changed for better

Can't believe its been 5 years since she came into our lives & changed it forever..

Saanvi is turning 5 ...

Happy Birthday !

Whale Watching !

Ocean & sea creatures has been Saanvi's source of fascination for a long time now..

Her knowledge of Ocean started from a cartoon show - Octonauts. This is a show about the sea animals & their adventures. Then we got her a picture book of sea mammals with description which became one of her favorite books.

There are Whale watch trips that offers opportunity to go to the natural habitat of Whales and watch them closely.

Being a ocean enthusiast, Saanvi loved this idea of going for whale watching.

She was very eager to see the whales and of course carried her favorite sea-mammal book to compare the whales that she would see. After traveling into the ocean for 8-10 miles, we started seeing the whales & sprouting.

Here is the artistic rendition of the whale watching by Saanvi.

That is Saanvi & family on the ship 'See Fox' looking at the whales that are sprouting.

Here is video of whale watching with commentary from Saanvi
Whale Watching Video

Hope you enjoyed the Whale Watching !

The Moon Landing

Like all kids, Saanvi loves bed time stories..

Animals-birds stories, fairy tales, fables...every night the stories flowed.

Very soon we ran out of the stories we knew !

One night, unable to recollect any known story, I thought I will tell something which was different.

That was the story of landing of first man on Moon !

I was unsure if Saanvi would like this story but anyways narrated it..

To my surprise, Saanvi loved that story and it became a bed time routine to end with Moon landing story..

Recently when she started putting her ideas & imaginations to drawings, that moon landing story transformed into a drawing..

Not only that.. she has updated the story based on her own imagination & its her story now

Here is the moon landing story in her own words..

Story of Moon Landing by Saanvi

Click the link to listen to the audio of Moon landing story narrated  by Saanvi

Time Machine !

Today we were watching Jurassic Park. We were talking about Dinosaurs which happen to be one of Saanvi's favorite subject.

She wanted to see Dinosaurs and suddenly came up with the idea that we can go to see Dinosaurs if we have a time machine !

After few minutes, she declared that she will be creating a time machine and ran to grab a paper & pencil.

While the movie was going on, she wrote this Time machine...

As per her own description, the time machine has the following parts

Conveyer Belt :
We can stand on this and it will take you into the time machine. The conveyer belt takes us out of time machine and we are in different place and year looking at dinosaurs.

Beeper : 
This has red alarm light and beeps when there are dinosaurs come near time machine.

Chemical :
This is used to spray when dinosaurs are very close.

Placer :
This will place us where want to go in the time machine.

Stayer :
This will makes us stay in the time machine.

Teller :
This will tell where we are.

Wire :
Lots of wires inside the time machine to make it run.

Battery :
Time machine runs on battery and it shows how much is remaining.

Button :
Buttons to press when inside time machine.

Wimer :
Doesn't do anything..its a wimer..just there in Time machine

Color Scheme ->  Time machine has to be white in color with black conveyer belt

Can't wait for the time machine travel !!
Are you coming ?

The Garden

Saanvi's pictorial & poetic rendition of the garden

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I plant the seeds deep in the hole
It sprouts slowly into beautiful daffodil

My dad sees how hard I was working
He gives me a warm glass of milk

My mom sees daffodils, buttercups & lotus
My dad picks the fruits with me
My mom helps making fruit salad

I took a big byte of delicious fruit
I said "Hmnn..its good" to myself

I love my fruits as long as I made it !

Good night time !

A new poem by Saanvi !

This time the little poet talks about bed time..
Poem is accompanied by a drawing as well

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The Sun is setting deep into the Ocean
And I feel to catch the Sun.

The Sky turns black like it was deep caves
And I want to go to bed.

But its still a dark cave
So I want to stay.

Mom is calling for nice warm hug
Dad snuggles me into my bed
Telling me goodnight.

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