‘The first identification by my son’

With every successive day, month and passing season, my little one is growing and turned toddler to running little human. Every time on my brief vacation from Spiti, we visited to and from my spouse's university to my home parent and in-laws. We usually travel in our mutually favoured Altroz (extended family member) and enjoy the trip as a foursome together. 

 My spouse is constantly driving, while Drishy and I sit on the other front side of the Altroz. I stopped driving after my son was born, or perhaps I have lost my driving curiosity and prefer to sit in other front-side while observing the little activities of my little one.

 In the last month of the festive season of the year, Drishy turned two. Compared to his first birthday event, this one was compact, but still, we celebrated with plantation activities. As transplanted last year, a one-year neem sapling turned ‘two’ the same as him. Drishy assisted us this time with digging, planting, and watering the new plant together. – here we are trying to cultivate the sense and emotions with nature in little one. 

                                                     Activities on Second Birthday

 Coming from a Forestry background, I've always wanted my child to learn about nature. I tried first that he should identify different nature creatures. However, because this world is full of manmade artifacts, his first learning is the identification of vehicles. These moving objects tempt him and he falls for their dummy toys. Moreover, their precise visualization in Car videos, especially on YouTube. And now he recognizes the red icon on the phone very well.

 He kept a close eye on the moving vehicles he saw during the traveling. Watching the large bus, truck, tractor, and another ascending vehicle with excavators which he had seen in videos made him very cheerful. If he notices his familiar object moving quickly on the highway, he shouts and stands up. Though I adore his innate yelling and cute expressions. 

 During the journey, once I lowered my head down to create a parallel view perspective with Drishy so I could see what he sees when he is sitting on my lap. At that parallel view, roads were not visible. But all I could see were fast-moving vehicles without actual visualization of rotating tyres. Here I was curious to know what a small human mind could be thinking about moving vehicle. 

He broadens his focused eyes when a vehicle crosses slowly by our Altroz.

 It was a realized moment when he stood up on my lap and thrilled especially in the traffic. There he could see the entire vehicle stuck in rows. He yelled "car," "gaddi" and made engine sounds with his cute facial expressions. Another if he sees something moving in the sky, he shouts "Eli-eli elicoptor," 

Maybe for him, every moving object above the ground is a helicopter. Once he pointed out wind wane's revolving wings and referred to it as an "Eli-eli elicoptor". 

 This is his first identification, no animal, no birds, no plant differences. 

 Is technology overlapping nature? The new generation is getting interested in what they perceive more from their surroundings.