Summer Vacation: Story Telling Competition

Telling the Story

At Fun Republic Mall, they had organized few events as part of "Summer Fest" celebration. One of the event was story telling competition for kids of age 3 to 9 years. Akil participated in the event and won 3rd prize. :) He told his favorite story - "The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf". Akil was really bold and told the story well. In his age group, he was the best and I am definitely a proud mommy :). They announced the 3rd prize first and Akil mistook that he has won the first prize. Innocent chap!!! I never revealed the truth. :) As a prize, they had given a book from the collection of Barbie's magical stories. This story is about Barbie and her friends visiting animals in the zoo and feeding baby animals. Akil being animal lover is crazy about this book and sees to that the book is in his eye sight all the time. Now, my job is to read the story to him. I have already read it multiple times to him and I'm sure I'm going to read it for many more times.

I always had the feeling that he has not received the appreciations that he deserves. His class teacher often used to tell that he was one of the eligible candidate to win the prize for various things conducted at school. But something or the other must have stopped him from achieving it. Luckily this story telling competition was not one such one. This event made Akil very happy and I could see lot of confidence in him.

With his prize

Next to story telling was solo dance competition. Many sweet girls in 3 to 4 years of age were very cute at their dance. I was mesmerized seeing few dances by those innocent tiny angels. As we were watching the dance, Akil gave a starring look at me and said, "Amma, I'm not good at dancing. Don't ask me to dance.".  I only laughed when he said that. Akil was just not interested even to see the dance... from where can we expect him to dance. Both the events were organized very well for the charming and admiring darlings.