Convocation

Talk about generation gap.

The little blue colored invitation on the table reads - 'Bluebells nursery, requests the pleasure of your company at the, BLUEBELLS 6TH BATCH GRADUATION CEREMONY 2009.'

hehe, now who is being sarcastic here? - My 3.5 year old nephew Alen stops at "con...." and looks at me with a cute face full of doubt and curiosity, when I tease him to pronounce 'convocation'. So we have "graduation" from playschool now - probably a kid will be graduated on or before birth, by the time Alens will have his own kids - as if, next generation does not have enough reasons for hoping. :P

Couple months back, they had a "mini Olympics" in the playschool, which still brings a grin. 3 kids were taking part in a race - the idea is to run about 20 meters in the demarcated courtyard to collect matching fruits, shapes etc, resembling the ones in their hands. Half way through the race, parents started clapping so as to encourage the kids, and on hearing the applause, one of the contestants aborted his mission, faced the crowd beaming with pride, and started clapping along with...:P – and lolz, most of the kids, while collecting their prizes, were wailing uncontrollably, unable to suppress their emotions!!!

I have asked my sis to maintain a diary for little Alen's playschool life, so that she could blackmail him when he is bigger. The kid accompanied with actions, narrates how Lavina Sreenivasan(class mate) saved his day from class bullies, how his teacher picked him and made him to sit along with her for being persistently naughty etc...& you should see how he blushes as he is interrogated about his crush Dabitha (school van mate).

hmm…by this pre KG training, he has picked up few skills viz, inventing his own language to fill gaps, loud bathroom singing, ensuring gifts from his mumma for going to school and above all, he has become more English language oriented. At home we all decide to talk to him in English from time to time, but find ourselves surrendering to the resistance from our all knowing mother tongue Malayalam in no time - perhaps there's some negative spell over the family.... :P