One month anniversary

Wow. It’s hard to believe that we’ve now officially been in India for a month. This week I signed Levi up for a morning program at a little preschool named Medhaam in our South City 1 neighborhood here in Gurgaon. I like the school because It’s new and there’s just a few students right now so he definitely gets lots of attention. The symbol for the school is an elephant and Levi talks about going to “elephant school” and playing with his friends Sachi and Arush. It’s interesting because the other children are at the school to learn English since their first language is Hindi. The teacher speaks to the kids in English, but I’m sure Levi will pick up some Hindi just hearing the other kids talk. Isaac is learning to write the Hindi alphabet at school which I have to admit he’s not particualary excited about, but we just focused on one letter this week. Ty is going crazy with the signing time movies sent courtesy of his uncle Timo and Aunt Julia. He loves making all of the food and animal signs and he has invented his own sign for “I want”—basically tapping his jaw with his fist. The big good news of the week was that I found (thankyou internet!!!) an expat playgroup that gets together at different people’s houses every Wednesday afternoon. It was so nice to meet some other foreigner moms from the U.S, England, Sweden, Germany, Malaysia, etc. There was a good group of kids at the playgroup and my boys had a ball playing with their favorite thing—O.P.T. (other people’s toys!!!).