Vivid colors!

Sid (washing his hands in the bathroom, calls and asks me): Mamma, what is champagne?
Me (surprised): It's an alcoholic drink, white in color, something like soda.
Sid: Then is there pink champagne?
Me (SURPRISED and a tad confused): Maybe there is, like flavored drinks.
Sid (obviously not done with the questioning and STILL washing his hands): Is it kept in ice?
Me (Running to the bathroom now and asking him pointedly!!): Where did you see all this?
Sid (not at all perturbed by my tone, casually SINGS): Pink champagne on ice. It is there in 'Hotel California' lyrics!!
Me (makes a mental note to talk to Josh): Ok, usually champagne or wine is kept in a bucket of ice to keep it cold. Now come out!

With a kid, surprises are at every corner! This was all thanks to his keyboard classes!

Shifting scenes

(Scene 1: Mom (a.ka. me) coming back from work and being greeted by an over-enthusiastic 6 yr old)
Mom: "How was school?"
Sid: "It was good. You know we had discussion about God today."
Mom (frankly amazed that the teacher actually had a 'discussion' about God): "What did you discuss? Did you tell anything?"
Sid: "No, I had gone to the restroom."
Mom: OK!!

(Scene changes, Sid having dinner and hesitatingly tries tonDekayi palya)
Sid: "Mamma, this is very nice, it is so juicy, I am eating it all."
Mom: "Very nice."
Sid (amused): "You know why I am eating?"
Mom: "Why?"
Sid: "Because Ma'am talked about God today and so I am eating this."
Mom: "Ok, but what was talked about? You were in the restroom right."
Sid: "Ya, but Ma'am talked right, that's why."

(Scene ends with a befuddled, albeit, relieved Mom, asking the kiddo if he wants a second helping of tonDekayi palya.)

Honesty!

So the kiddo was giving the usual trouble of not finishing his milk quickly in the morning. I was sitting next to him reading the paper, and was telling him that I will visit a 2 month old baby today.
He asked what his name was and I said its not yet decided.

And then started this very honest conversation!
Sid: So you named me Siddhant because you thought I would be a good boy. (giggling uncontrollably) You were wrong no?

Me: (surprised) Probably, so would you be a good person now?

Sid: Maybe when you die!


Kids, I tell you!

Clay and stones

It has been quite a long time since I posted travelogues. Although, there are quite a few to add, thanks to our wonderful vacation in Australia, this post is not about it, but a quick trip planned with the family.

Since the kiddo and his cousins did not have any good outing together, this summer, we decided to go to 'Our Native Village', near Hesaraghatta for a day.

Well, it was terribly hot, but the place had shade, thanks to the trees, and was full of engaging activities to keep us occupied, for the most part of the day. The highlight of the place was all the rustic games - Kite flying, Laggori, Gilli-danda, catapult, tyre-racing, spinning tops. There were added attractions too, in the form of pottery making, garland making, rangoli making, cow-milking (yeah, you heard that right!) and a bullock-cart ride! A few indoor games, like carrom, chess, snake and ladder were also present.

Through the bullock-cart ride, I was trying to recollect the bullock cart ride songs in Hindi/Kannada movies that I had come across! Some of the ones I remembered were 'Oh re taal mile' and 'Janumada jodi' songs.

It was a return to our childhood seeing the games, and the village ambience and the other activities made our parents nostalgic! Needless to say, the kids enjoyed thoroughly, making the most of the time we spent there.
The adults had fun too, although, there were pockets of time, when we did nothing, but just slept/sat on the mats/benches and talked. Well, doing nothing was fun too, I guess, if you could excuse the heat!

Food was very good, and the buttermilk was just what the doctor ordered for a hot summer day!!!
We even got to buy some organic vegetables, that were grown in the resort.

All in all, a good place to spend a day, esp. with kids and if you enjoy playing outdoors.

View greeting us on the way to the resort.

Inside the resort. The fruit ladden mango, sapota, lemon trees were a beautiful sight!

And so were the flowers!

Decorative door

Fun with Sid!

"Mamma, you are so lucky to have me as your son!!!"

This, when I caught him playing with toothpaste and water and chided him for wasting water!
"Why do you say that?", I asked.
"Because I love experimenting. You will be happy right, when I experiment."

Scientist or not, he sure will be a smooth talker! 

Reassurance

"I want my mummy, I miss my mummy!"

That wasn't Sid. That was me! On a cold rainy night, just while sleeping, I declared that. Suddenly!

You know what my 4 and a half year old did at that point??
He called my mom. On an imaginary phone. "Hello Ajji..Ajji.. Ya come soon ok. Bye". Next minute he was consoling me "Mamma, she will come ok. Don't worry." Then he gave me the tightest hug ever, smiled a dazzling smile and went back to sleep!
Speechless and so so PROUD!

No two meanings about it!

We use so many words in different contexts to produce totally different meanings, that it is quite a shock when someone (read the kiddo) understands it at face value. Gives a good perspective on things and sometimes, it is funny too. Have noted down some recent conversations, that I remember, below. Damn, I should note them down immediately, else will lose them in the sands of time! ;-)

Sid negotiating something with me.
Me: Nice try!!
Sid: No Mama, bad try.

Me to Josh: You get the point don't you?
Sid (interrupting): I get more points, not you!

its been a long time!!

My world is still actively revolving around the kiddo, who, I must add, is talking like there is no tomorrow! He has become a parrot, repeating everything we say. Its super fun!! :-)  He still can't say a couple of letters, but who is in a hurry anyway?! He also has his own words for some things, like, 'Neeru' is 'amiyun', and cat was also 'amiyun' sometime back. Bat is 'tukku', probably because of the sound the bat makes when it comes in contact with a ball. The bird bat is also 'tukku'! 

He loves drawing with diff color pencils/crayons. I think I have, as of now, scribbled a 100 suns and snails in all the colors, doddaDDhu and chikkdu!

Here is a small video of Sid identifying all the colors in a book! 

p.s: de-de is Red, adhun is orange, ba-backy is black!

Mausam ka haal

N: No mails today, wassup?
M: Blue sky :)
N(taking a whole min to understand!!): Soon you'll see thunderstorms and lightning!! ;-)

Skanda's rules of classification

A typical conversation with my 3 year old nephew, say, while watching animal planet. (Can be equally applied to any other show on any other channel too!)

Skanda: Adhenadhu?
Me(or his mom): Tiger
Skanda: Tiger kacchatte?
Me: kacchatte
Skanda(watching the tiger stalk a deer): Adhenadhu?
Me:Jinke
Skanda: Jinke kacchalla?
Me: kacchalla

I flip the channel to Cartoon Network..

Skanda(pointing to a book, that Tom the cat, is reading): Chikkamma, adhu?
Me: Book
Skanda: Book kacchatthe?
Me(Eh?): Kacchalla (Notice, I tell something that he is not expecting, usually whatever he asks, that should be the answer!)
Skanda(assertively): Kacchatthe!!!
Me: ok kacchatte!

So, according to Skanda, there are 2 types of people/animals/things etc in this world.
One that bites and one that doesn't.
Simple ain't it! :-) Aahh..to be as innocent as a child again!

Revisited..

..the joys..

.. the sorrows..

.. the fights..

.. the teasing..

.. the senseless debates, which at that time felt oh-so-important..

.. the various bahaanas for bunking classes**..

.. the fierce arguments for increasing the internal score-cards..

.. the last-minute exam preparations..

.. the aching, loving and broken hearts..

.. the awesome days spent here!!!!!





..revisited on friendship day.


**yeah, was still studious enough not to bunk without a valid reason!

There's treasure everywhere!

Few of our colleagues had organized a treasure hunt today. It has shaped up into a 3-day event [for team-building i think] which culminates with a day outing on Friday.

Teams were formed randomly and captains to the teams chosen randomly too. The clues were scattered all over. From our cubicles to our labs to our online home page, from the pantry to rest-rooms even!! Finally the code had to be deciphered and the "treasure" turned out to be our Business Unit Head. :-) And to think we searched frantically in his cabin for the "treasure" in front of him!!! It was indeed fun.