Opera singer in previous birth??

That's what DH said when he saw Anirudh singing lately. And he actually doesn't sing any songs. He just picks up words and names of the objects that he sees and just starts singing them in the style of a tenor :D

So if I try to put it in words he sings something like this..

"Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuujhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee poooooooooooooooooooggggggggooooooooooooooo deeeeeeeeeekhhhhhhnaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiii................(I put on the richie rich on TV and he goes) nahiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.....muuuuuuuuuuujhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee Mr. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaan deeeeeeeeekhnaaaaaaaaaaaaa haiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..."

Get the drift? Hehehe..... So basically what he said "Mujhe pogo dekhna hai"(I want to see POGO) and when I put it on the richie rich cartoon, he said "Nahi mujhe Mr Bean dekhna hai". And when he says POGO he basically means he wants to watch TV.

So when DH saw Anirudh singing like that quite often he wondered aloud "Pichhle janam mein opera singer tha kya?" (Was he an opera singer in his previous birth?) and I had such a good laugh.

Some funny incidents from yesterday

Incident 1:
Me and Betu were driving back home after picking him up from his daycare. If anyone has been to the East Of Kailash area on the road that goes in front of the ISKCON temple, they will know how narrow it is with one-third of the road used for parking cars and how many Rickshaws that ply on it.

So as I was driving, a rickshaw came in front of our car and he didn't seem to be in any mood to give way. So I started honking. I had to literally honk 10 times before he gave way. And as we passed that rickshaw by, Betu looks out and waves his hand out the window at the rickshaw-wallah and angrily said "Problem kya hai?" (What's your problem). I was just so astonished at his reaction and had to tell him that he's not supposed to say like that. In response to which he goes "Woh theek se nahi chala raha tha" (He was not driving properly). I told him that still you are not to talk like that. He said "OK" and the topic got closed.

I tried to think from where he must have learnt this and realised when DH gets angry at Betu, he sometimes uses these lines. But it surely amused me how logically he applied these lines to a totally different scenario. And I had to tell hubby that he needs to be VERY careful of what he speaks in front of Anirudh

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Incident 2:
Yesterday was the day 2 of my migraine which usually lasts 3 days when its bad. And I usually like to sip on to some fizzy drink during my migraine. So as I sat sipping my limca, Betu comes to me and says "Aap coldrink pi rahe ho?"(You are having a cold drink?) and I said "Yes". then he says "Maine to nahi piya" (I didn't get any) to which I replied "Bachhe nahi peetey"(Kids are not supposed to drink them). And he points at himself and replies "Bachhe ne to nahi piya!" (The kid didn't have any).

I literally burst out laughing hearing him. And I just could not resist hugging him.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Incident 3:
Yesterday at night I was again trying to make him understand the meaning of sorry again. So I started by putting his hand on his chest where the heart is and told him this is your heart. And its the heart which gets upset and then you cry when you don't like something. And that you need to say sorry from the heart and not just like that. All this while I was pointing to his heart. He said OK. I really didn't know how much he understood then.

But after 30 minutes he did something and I looked at him angrily. So instantly he said sorry in an angry tone. So I asked him "Aise sorry bolte hain?" (This is how you say sorry?) And that is when he remembered our earlier conversation and points his finger at his heart and said "Sorry!"

And I just smiled, hugged him and told him "Pyaru se sorry bolte hain" (You say sorry in a soft voice) and sent him his way to carry on with whatever he was doing. And that's when I realised that he will take some more time to understand the meaning of sorry :)

Does he really think so much about incidents?

I was just speaking with DH and asking him if Betu went to school fine since he drops Betu at school. And that's when DH told me that on the way, Betu asked him to say sorry to him because he (DH) had scolded him(Betu) in the morning. So DH said sorry and then a minute later he tells DH "Papa, main kal se nahi royunga" (Papa, I will not cry from tomorrow).

Betu was actually referring to the everyday crying affair when its time to brush his teeth about which I had posted yesterday which as you can imagine happened today also.

Me and DH are both are totally dumbstruck that he thinks so much into things and incidents. And its not just today when he talked about an incident which happened an hour ago. There are times when he remembers incidents which happened days ago and tells us that we scolded him that day or we slapped him and how he it hurt him. And it makes us realise that he's such a sensitive child and keeps things to heart which were unpleasant.

Or is he playing smart and trying to make us feel guilty? I wonder......

Meaning of 'sorry'

The other day Anirudh did some badmashi and I told him to say 'sorry' to me. He did say it but in a loud disinterested tone. Which obviously showed that he actually didn't feel sorry.

So when I told him "Jab aap sorry bolte ho uska matlab hota hai ki aap dubara nahi karoge. Aur uska matlab hotah ai aapko kharab lag raha hai." (When you say sorry it means you will not do it again and that you are feeling bad).

Hearing to this he waved his hands and nodded his head in negative and said "Nahi, mujhe kharab nahi lag raha. Meri tabiyat to theek hai!"

I was just so speechless as to what to tell him and how to make him understand what sorry meant. But at the same time I was quite amused how he perceived what I was trying to tell him. Shows that am not a good teacher when it comes to explaining things :

Thank you God for giving me such a loving child!

Yesterday I reached home late from work. Around 8:30 PM. So when I entered the house, Anirudh came running to me and hugged me saying "Mumma aa gayee!" And he kept telling his papa "Papa, Mumma aa gayee!" till his Papa said "Haan!" He must have repeated it about 4-5 times and showered me with the kisses.

He wouldn't even let me go to take off my office footwear or change into home clothes. He just wanted me to sit there. Whereas I just wanted to sit in the room quietly as I was having a terrible migraine since afternoon. But I played along as long as I could. He wanted to paint, so we painted couple of things. Then he wanted to watch Bob the Builder with me. So while he was sitting on my lap and watching it, I fed him roti and subzi. And by the time I finished feeding him his dinner I was all ready to crash in the bed.

So I went to the bedroom, changed and lied down. So he came to me with his box of puzzles and we made them together. This box has 4 puzzles of a Zebra, Tiger, Panda and Kangaroo. By mistake I told him "Lion waala banate hain!" He goes "Lion nahi hai. Yeh to Tiger hai!" :D

So after we finished with them, I told him "Mumma tabiyat theek nahi hai. Aap Papa ke saath khel lo" So he puts his hand on my head and says "Aap Ninni kar lo. Main udhar khelunga" I almost died seeing him so concerned about me.

And to top this, when I woke him up today morning, after cuddling with me for about 10 mins he asks me "Aapki tabiyat theek ho gayee?"

What more can a parent ask for is what I thought. A loving, caring and a concerned child!

I hate the brush-your-teeth times!

Yes I hate them! And I'm referring to the brush-your-teeth times for Betu and not mine :D

Its been so long since we started the daily routine of brushing his teeth but every single day he cries barring the very very rare days when he doesn't. Its such a task to make him stand on the moodha which is used to make him stand at an appropriate height to make it easy for me to brush his teeth. And invariably he gets a big big scolding and once in a while a slap from me when I'm trying to brush his teeth.

And this is exactly why I hate this brush-your-teeth times. Simply hate them. I hate that he cries so much. I hate that I loose my temper. I hate that I have to slap him to make him stand an let me brush his teeth!

I really don't know why he hates it. I've tried everything from different types of brushes with different kind of characters to different kid toothpastes. But *sigh* its just not working.

If you remember more than a month and half ago, I had done a post on his teeth brushing issues and how he wants me to sign a song. Now even the singing the song makes no difference.

But that reminds me yesterday when we were done with the brush your teeth song, he wanted me to sing the 'nahai-nahai' song. And when I told him there's no song for it he himself started singing, "When you get up in the morning, nahai nahai nahai..." and I couldn't help looking at him and smiling!

Sometimes it seems its just become a habit for him to cry when its teeth brushing time. Ohh boy! What do I do? Can I console myself that its a phase and will pass away? Any other parent facing this issue?

Saying 'Thank You'!

Me and Anirudh went for a walk after having our dinner. Since it had rained and drizzled most of the day, the weather was quite nice. Plus since we had been home all day, a walk seemed like a nice idea.

So as we stopped out, nice cool breeze hit us and it felt so good. After a long long time we had such a nice weather here in Delhi.

So we started to walk and Anirudh saw the moon and jumped with joy! As we were walking on, he asked me "Hum Mandir ja rahe hain?" because the road we were walking on leads to the Mandir close to our society. So I asked him if he wants to go and he nodded and said "Haan!" So off we went to the Mandir, and he bowed in front of the idols and made me put some 'bindi' on his forehead. :)

As we were walking back he suddenly said "Kitna achha lag raha hai!" :D He said so because the wind had gotten a bit stronger and was blowing right into us. It actually felt really really nice.

He almost ran instead of walking on the way back! I had to make him stop and wait for me because I was in no mood to run just after the stomach full of chhole puri's that I had made. And he would say "Jaldi aayo na yahan!" pointing to where he was standing. :)

And when we came back home and I switched on the laptop, he came to me and said "Mumma, bahut mazaa aaya! Thank you!" That brought such a big smile to my face and I thought how such little things make him happy and how he expresses it to us too. We adults don't thank each other enough for such little gestures. This is one thing that I have learnt from him time and again and I promise to be more thankful for the little blessings/gestures of love shown to me.

Deciding the food menu!

Recently Anirudh tells me very clearly what he wants to eat and he doesn't like it when I do not make the same thing. His choice varies from Upma to poha, to kakore (pakore) and today in the morning he demanded for 'chhole puri'. Since that requires chhole to be soaked for atleast 6-8 hours I told him I will make it in the evening.

In the evening when I was preparing the chhole, he came and asked me "Aap kya kar rahe ho?" When I told him I'm making chhole puri for you, he, in the most comical way, licks his lips and does a nice big slurp! Hahahaha..

This is a new habit which he has learnt whenever he gets to know of something being cooked or offered which he likes. And it gives me such a pleasure to see him appreciating my cooking!! :D

He's just so adorable!

Saturday evening we went to see "Chake De" - Me, DH and Betu. Since it had no kids in the movie, Betu wasn't interested in seeing it. I had managed to keep him quiet and still in the first half but couldn't in the post interval portion of the movie.

However, having a aisle seat and that too in the left corner of the hall helped us in a way that he didn't cause much of disturbance to others as he was going up and down the stairs. I tried to stop him from doing that but if he would sit he would talk so much that I decided that him playing on the stairs was less disturbing than him sitting next to me and chattering away to glory.

Soon he got a 'friend' - a boy approx 3 years older to him to join in the jumping-up-and-down-the-stairs game. And he sure did have a wonderful time with his friend. But why I'm writing about this is because whenever he would pass by me whether going down or coming up I would get a peck on my cheek - EVERY TIME! :D

He would take approx 5 mins to pass by me in each trip so you can imagine how many pucchas (kisses) I must have got in the 1.5 hrs of the movie :D

When the movie ended and I told him that we need to go, he asked hi friend "Chalo, ab mere ghar mein khelenge!" :D

Tongue of slip err... slip of tongue?

Yesterday night Betu was playing with the hose pipe of the vacuum cleaner. He would wrap it around us saying he's tied us up and now we can't move. But what in reality he would just wrap it around our necks like a garland and he were supposed to assume/think that we were tied down. :D

Later it became a snake that he was riding on and scaring us with making those 'hiss hiss' sounds.

After sometime it became the water pipe which he uses to water the plants..err..not so much to the plants as to the surrounding areas :D And then he aimed it me and with a naughty smile said "Main aapko geela kar doonga! Mere paani se pipe aa raha hai!"

We literally rolled down on the floor laughing but he didn't understand the reason. But obviously... :D

Although the second time he spoke it correctly but we just couldn't resist laughing and seeing our little son has already started with the slip of tongues :D