Happy 3rd Birthday, Ishaan !

Ishaan turns 3 today. What a nice milestone !!

We got him a Lighting McQueen laptop as his birthday present. He loves cars and he often wants to play with Kavya's princess carriage laptop. So, figured it would work out well. Although he is little young to figure out all the operations, I could see that he was delighted to have it.

Gaurav and I discussed if we want to throw a big party for this milestone and we decided against it. However, we felt that it would be unfair to Ishaan if we didn't do anything. So, we decided to have a very small celebration - with just 3 of his school friends at Bouncy Land in Oakridge mall. Small enough to not have to prepare a whole lot and big enough to call it a birthday party and make Ishaan happy.

I look back at last 3 years and see how much he has grown from just being a little baby to a full-of-energy 3-year old !! At the same time, I also cannot help but compare him to 3 year old Kavya and feel that Kavya was much more matured when she was 3. I had Ishaan when she was 3 and she definitely was more "grown up" than Ishaan at this age. I can honestly say that it will take Ishaan at least 6-12 months to get to the maturity level that Kavya demonstrated at 3 - may be that is the difference between a boy and girl.

Ishaan is a cute boy.. always smiling, loving and full of energy. He loves fruits, cars and thomas. He hates tooth paste, soap and shampoo :) He is very stubborn and so far we haven't found a way to get him to do what we want/need - counting or scolding/shouting just doesn't work with him. But he is a good boy most of the times :)

Lots of love and blessings to my little big boy.
In his own words "I am growing up, mommy" :)