Aththai's car!

Last week Kavin's friend Aaditya came to our home after finishing their karate lessons. Usually his grandfather comes to pick him up. But that day, Aaditya's aththai(paternal aunt) came to pick him up. She has a red swift car and her two kids also came along with her. Kavin was very impressed with the car. So after they left, Kavin started wondering aloud-"When will my aththai come to pick me up from school in her car with her children?"
I told him that no problem with the car, but to have kids she has to get married first. So he started making a plan-"Let's get aththai married, and I'll ask her to buy a car(preferably an i-10 automatic). Then she can have babies and then she can come to pick me up."

So aththai----lots of expectations(read positive ones) from the young man!

Living life KING-SIZE!

Yesterday Kavin and me were having a conversation in between the study-time.(I'm telling you-HINDI is a killer subject). Suddenly he said-"Amma. Childhood is so King-like no!"
I asked him-"Why so?"
Kavin said-"See, I just have to sit and order to you and Appa, and you bring everything to me. I don't have to do much work. So I feel like a King."
I said-"But when you grow up and become a father, you also will have to do the same for your kid."
He said-"No, that won't happen. Because I will not marry. Then I won't have any kids. I'd still be a King."

Last Wednesday, we had lots of guests at our home from Delhi. Kavin had a great time playing with his cousins and Maami. One enthusiast (Abhilash) bought a sugarcane on the way which was quite hard to chew.
Kavin's Maami asked him to eat one of the pieces and he says(quite mischievously)-"If I eat this then my teeth will become like Naani's teeth."

Actually Kavin's Naani (My Mother) is toothless. And the comparison was quite funny!

MY BEST FRIEND!

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Last week, I was waiting outside Kavin's school to bring him back home. I met his best friend Aaditya's grandfather and we started chatting like old friends. He kept telling me stories about Aaditya and his baby-sister. Then suddenly he remembered one incident about Kavin. He said that once he was talking to Kavin outside the school and asked him casually who his best friend was, expecting an obvious answer--"Aaditya". but Kavin surprised him by saying-"My parents are my best friends!" Gosh I was amazed.

But they say naa that your honest efforts never go waste.....I realized that now :-)
CHEERS!!!!

Save electricity!

Last Sunday, Kavin and his Dad went to visit an Electronic goods shop called "Chroma" nearby to check out some item. In this shop, there are two floors and to go up there is an escalator. It's a motion sensitive escalator and if there is no activity, it will stop by itself. So Kavin's Dad asked him why the escalator stops after some time, he thought and said-"To save electricity!"
Gosh, we were amazed!

Mission Impossible!

Today is Kavin's holiday because of Andhra Pradesh Chief Ministers sad demise. But Kavin wants to know what this day is called. Like on Wednesday, they had a holiday because it was ONAM. So he wants to name this day too.
I told him that we can call it a MOURNING DAY.
But he didn't like this name and said--"No, We will call today as MISSION IMPOSSIBLE DAY."
I asked why. He said-"Because going to school is not possible today, that's why it's a MISSION IMPOSSIBLE DAY".

Dog Food!

Hi all,
Last week, Kavin made us buy a variation of corn-flakes, it's called choco-smacks. He got this idea from his cousin Sumukh. Anyways, these smacks look somewhat like dog-food. So this Saturday, when Kavin was having it in breakfast, Kabi told him that it looks like dog-food. And Kavin got really angry and threw a big tantrum over it. He threw all the possible items kept on top of the dining table(except his food). It took some time for me to make him sane.
Anyways, in the evening his Aruna Aththai came home and Kavin showed him his new asset(for kids a new food item is also an asset, believe me.) and guess what she told him------that it looks like dog-food. But this time, Kavin didn't get upset. I think he understood the fact that two people can't be wrong about the same thing.
So next day morning, when I gave him his breakfast, he told Aruna--"Look Aththai, Dog-food has come!."
Cheeky, right?

Moral of the story.

Last month my friend Madhavi visited us for a week with her three year old child, Nishad. So one night, after the lights were put out, kids wanted to hear a story, so Madhavi Maasi started telling them the famous story of a woodcutter and the Goddess, in which an honest wood-cutter drops his axe by mistake in the lake and the Goddess shows him a gold axe, a silver axe (to test him), but the wood-cutter says that his axe was an iron-one, so the Goddess becomes very happy to see his honesty and she gives all the axes to him as gift.

So after telling this wonderful story, Madhavi asked Kavin-"Toh beta, is kahaani se hamein kya seekh milti hai?" Means what's the moral of this story?
Kavin said--"Is kahaani se hamein yeh seekh milti hai ki kabhi bhi lake ke paas trees nahi katne chahiye, lake se thhoda door jakar tree katna chahiye. Fir axe paani mein nahi giregi."
Means-We should not cut the trees near the lake, we should go away from the lake and then cut the trees, so that the axe doesn't fall in water.
Hee-Hee...

CD-PUTTER

Kavin's vocabulary is improving day-by-day. But he is also adding his own words into it. I mean it's OK till he used to be a toddler, but now it sounds really irritating sometimes...sometimes funny too.

Last week, Aruna had come to our home, and these two people were reading newspaper (?)---- Kavin's intention of opening a newspaper is to find a sheet from BIG-BAZAAR which says--"We'll help you spend less." and Kavin likes it because it has pictures of his favourite things- Lizol, Domex, Chocolates, biscuits etc...

So while opening the newspaper, he came across the headline which said--"TERRORISM IS PAK BABY-ZARDARI." And Kavin interpreted this news item as--"Aththai, terrorist Uncle ne ek baby ko maar diya, uss baby kaa naam thha Zardaari. Woh Uncle ne bomb daal ke maara hoga. He's a bad BOMB-PUTTER Uncle."

And yesterday we got our new desktop installed, so Kavin was all excited about using it. I told him he can play only internet games in the new PC (nicksplat) and he can play CD games in the old PC which we will install in his room. He asked me-"Why Amaa? Doesn't this new computer has a CD-PUTTER?"

Full day no school

12July-2008
Over breakfast I was telling Aruna my school stories(ofcourse mischievous ones).And Kavin was listening with lots of interest.There is one story that goes like this-
When we were in 9th standard,all the kids used to fly paper aeroplanes in class and sometimes on the school ground.So one day the Principal announced after the assembly that the students who are caught doing it will be thrown out of the school.
Kavin was very thrilled to hear this.He said-"Oh,Then full day no school!Wow!"



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Make me Big

13July-2008
Sunday
Kavin was asking Kabi for his I-POD because he wanted to listen to his favourite song-"Pappu can't dance s....".He wrote I-Pod on his notebook and asked Kabi to give it.
Kabi:It's very expensive.Kids aren't supposed to play with it.
Kavin:But I want to listen to songs.Get me a smaller one like Maami.
Kabi:But that's also expensive.You become big first,then you can earn and buy one for yourself.
Kavin:Then make me big now.

Baby-talk

Kavin's age:2yrs-he had just started talking.
Once Kavin's Thatha-Paati visited us in our hellish horamavu flat.Hias Paati was getting ready to go somewhere.She applied powder to her face and guess what Kavin said-----Paati bhoot ban gayi.
She told this to all her teacher friends & all of them enjoyed it.