Thursday, October 2, 2008

Bu ic ca?

That means Bunica.

Some other conversations:

Anjali, how do you give patti wet clothes to hang?
one onna

(Incidentally i was very surprised when she said this one, because patti talks to Anjali in Tamil, and was asking her in the taxi. Husband wanted to know what all the exclamation was about and I was explaining the situation to him in English, and then asked her the same thing in English and she gave the correct answer. Thattha was extremely surprised that she was able to correctly understand the question and context even in a different language. Now, if I can create something like that, why cant I create a computer model that does that same thing? *sigh*)

Anjali, how do you say patti?
Pa.
Pa... ti
Paaaaaaaaaati

Anjali, do you want to go home and drink paal?
Pa
Paalu
Paaaaapu

Anjali, what is Swati aunty's baby's name?
Anana
What is mummy's baby's name?
Annie
Anjali
Annani

Anjali, what do you do in the potty?
Aie
What else?
pee.

(so why do you pee on the floor?)

Yesterday I was tired in the morning and was lying down a bit. Husband came in to talk to me for about three minutes. Anjali was playing in the living room. She was quiet for a bit and then we heard a lot of meow meows, and assumed that she was randomly exploring the house.

Three minutes later Husband went to check on Anjali. From the bedroom, I heard the following exclamation

"No no, Anjali, you must not do this. It is very bad."

I was amazed. Husband was usually very relaxed with Anjali, and no matter what mischief she does, he usually tells her "very good", "you are a scientist", or some such stuff. The exclamation that "it is very bad" actually made me get up and check on what was going on. And what I found made me laugh.

The imp had (from somewhere), managed to procure a black marker, opened it, and was drawing meow meow on husband's super expensive, and super precious go board. By the time he had caught her, the go board was full of marker ink and the imp was saying "meow meow". thankfully it wasnt permanent and we were able to wipe it off with some oil.

Then she decided that there has to be more scope for imagination with the go table. Somehow, she managed to discover that the woood of the go table was softer than the wood of the other furniture. And her next project is

Sculpture.

Using the sharp point of the saffron box

To carve the go table.

Unfortunately carving cant be wiped off with oil.

I suggested to husband to wait until the second baby turns five years old and then buy a new go table.






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