Almost seven months, i have been living in city Anacortes situated on the Fidalgo island, in Washington State. This is the first time i got to live in a country other than my home country, India.
It is such a beautiful city i had never imagined of, specially during Spring its full of flowers along with the everlasting scenic beauty of sea shores, mountains and trees.
I just walk out of my apartment and look around, it gives me immense pleasure to be here.
This has been amazing experience of my life. I have realized few things which seems to be very important in one's life, if not to others at least to me they are.
The most precious gift was to have plenty of time to spend with my toddler boy.
I loved every moment here with him, i actually got to see him growing and learning new things.
I and my husband have been enjoying to find new games for him every day and have a feel to be a child again. Sometimes i think, there are so many crazy things which parents and child both can enjoy.
One day, my husband just picked up a balloon and started drawing something, my kiddo liked it so much that he would always ask him or me to draw all the animals (he knew) one after another.
Just to add, He has just turned two this April but knows so many animals, almost all the colors, basic shapes, 1-10 counting and A-Z alphabets, few words and few sentences. huh!!!!
He is bilingual, speaks Hindi and English (pronunciation is not very good though). I am sure, when i was two, i would hardly know half of he knows.
But yes, this Balloon drawing lasted very long, almost a month and he loved lion and elephant the most.
He loves reading books. He has almost 20 books, i never had that much, smile... He spend most of the time with books only at his day care. Also plays with blocks and go out, play with ball.
Spring has just started and we go out in the evening, mostly go to outside play area of the day care, my little boy goes to. Here are too many public play areas for children, so he has so many choices. He enjoys swings/slides ride there a lot.
Very recently, we discovered an interesting exercise for him when we were looking at the sky once. The clouds were so nice we just kept watching for few minutes and started to imagine different shapes in them. When we showed the same to our son, he was so delighted to see all the animals he always loved, by his imagination.
I would say, in India, it was impossible because the life would be so busy. In fact, i never had spent much time with my family (at least on weekdays). Most of the time goes in work place and traveling to work just because of traffic on roads.
Here, usual work time is 8am to 5pm (nice early to work and early to home tradition) and after that all time is yours. play, cook, eat and enjoy!!!!!
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