Days with grand parents

Hari and Sree with their grand father Mr.K.P.Raju

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children "- Alex Haley

Some shots of children with my father during vacation. They had a wonderful time with my parents. Hari always comparing about the cool atmosphere at Kasimadom and the suffocating heat at Maradu. A lot of trees around my home make it cool. Plavu, Aanjili, Mahagony, Veppu, Vatta, Ilanji, Perumaram, Ambazham, Thekku are some of them. They played with my parents. 'Kuzhiyana' was their favourite friend.

Grand parents love them unconditionally and they allow them to play any thing and every thing. Its a great luck to have some days with grand parents its really a path to your childhood itself.

Two 'mottas'

Mandachare mottathalaya.....Sri doesn't know to tell 'motta' he tells the term as 'Pattappo'. After the hair cut he always tell, pointing his head' pattappo'പട്ടപ്പോ' . It was so funny to remember these code words...

Hari and Aswin

Vacations

Vacations means a head ache to parents and a heaven to children. Every mind needs freedom. Let them play and let them do something they love to do. Some schools are running vacation classes. Working parents have to face a lot of problems during vacation. The freedom of these weeks will rejuvanate them to tackle with the next academic year with a lot of energy.

Summer vacation

Summer vacation -Need more time to manage children. Most of them spend a lot of hours in front of the TV. My children's favourite channels are Cartoon Network, POGO and Disney channel. They spend some hours with Kalikkudukka and painting books. A website with some activities for children in this holidays...http://www.create-kids-crafts.com

Hari's picnic

Yesterday he went to Picnic at Children's park Ernakulam with his friends. After the announcement of picnic day he was very happy and asked me what the term picnic means. He enjoyed the trip to the park and told me about the events there. He was very curious about the dancing fountain there. They travelled in the train in the park. He also mentioned about the statues of Mayavi, Kuttoosan and Dakini.
Children like to travel and visit new places. His school arranges field trips and visits to important places. Last week they visited Fire station and told me about the fire engine and its operation. He is very sensitive and also very keen about his surroundings.

Children at various parks in Ernakulam
The full name of Children's park is Indira Priyadarshini Park. The park is run by District Council for Child Welfare(DCCW). District Collector is the Chairman of DCCW. It is a renewable energy park in Kerala. The park has equipments working on Solar, Wind, thermal, micro hydel, bio mass and bio gas. This will create awareness among children about the non con conventional energy sources. The park has a wonderful dancing fountain and a pond with pedal boat facility. A park is not at all a place to play its also a place of relaxation, a place for communication thus a place for the uplift of the community. In foreign countries there are parks and play areas for people crossed 60! Its wonderful!!!This help them to exercise, have more laugh and strengthen their bonds...interesting story about the adult park...

Other major picnic spots in Ernakulam are

• Kumbalangi tourist village
• Veegaland amusement park
• Kodanad elephant sanctuary
• Bhoothathankettu and Thattekkad bird sanctuary
• Cherai beach
• Hill palace
• Mangalavanom bird sanctuary
• Fort Kochi
• Bolghatty palace
• Mattancherry palace
• Willington Island
• Vypin island and Gosree bridges

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We enjoyed the freedom....

Hari and Sree with their cousins on the top of a huge rock at Thookkupalam. Thookkupalam(means hanging bridge) is a main city in Idukki District. Thookkupalam 'Chanta' (market) is famous for transaction of cattles. Now a wind energy station is coming in Thookkupalam, attracting a lot of tourists. High range tourism is a bit more adventureous than back water tourism. Trekking wild life areas and travelling through forests.... Here in Thookkupalam tourists make temporary huts in the top of big mountains and enjoy the freedom of nature.
High range tourism includes Periyar wildlife sanctuary(Thekkady), Idukki wild life sanctuary, Munnar famous for hillstation and Neelakurinji flowers, Thattekkad bird sanctuary, Mattuppetty, Thommankuth waterfalls, Eravikulam national park and Chinnar wildlife sanctuary.
Sree was in good company with nandu chechi.

We enjoyed the trip to Highrange..A lot of space to play with Nandu, appuchetta and Mahesh chettan.