Treasures from the pocket!

A half eaten and squashed 5-Star fruit and nut chocolate. A green colored clay and a broken eraser.

I've learned my lesson well so this time no questions were asked. :D

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Octopus

Anyone seen a cuter octopus than this one? :D
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Artist by nature?

Every time I see Betu drawing or painting I wonder if set is in his nature. You have to see for yourself the concentration with which he does and how engrossed he gets. The brows are slightly knitted, the lips keep pouting in and out and even if I call him numerous times he doesn't listen. See the pout in the picture below.

And when I was clicking him painting a butterfly, he actually got slightly angry and told me "Aap photo kheench kar mujhe pareshan kyun kar rahe ho? Meri painting kharab ho jayegi na fir?" (Why are you troubling me with your picture clicking? My painting will go wrong then.)

And I just had to sheepishly retreat back saying "Sorry!"

And see in this pic how he has hung his drawings on the clothesline using the clothespin.

And this is his version of a Christmas tree that he made couple of months ago. Its a tall green tree decorated with strings of red lights.

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A very hungry caterpillar

This is Betu's illustration of the caterpillar from the book "A very hungry caterpillar"

I found it really cute!

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Butterfly butterfly, how do you do?

First we traced you out,
Then Mumma made a cut out!

I colored you purple, yellow and brown
Made me so happy, I jumped up and down.

You looked so pretty
In those colors all over you.
Mumma snipped in the center
to put on the finger too!

I put you on and made you fly
Up up up, in the sky!

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His paintings

The two paintings that he made recently:

The one above, was given to his papa saying "Yeh aapka gift hai"(This is your gift). And when hubby said "thank you" he added "Abhi touch nahi karna. Abhi geela hai. Nahi to kharab ho jayega."(Do not touch it now. Its still wet. Else it will get spoilt.) :D

And this one he gave to me as my "gift" and when I asked him what has he drawn he said "Bahut saare red flowers!"(lots of red flowers) and waved his hands to show how many . :)

He really loves to dabble with paints. You give him a brush, a paper and paints anytime and he is ready to paint. Right now I can call all his paintings as the abstract kinds. And I like some of them a lot. Like the one he gave to his papa, its so colorful.

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Aapko kaise pata?

As I picked him from his daycare, he told me his friend Jas Karan ate "chewgli" and he also wants one.

For a moment I didn't understand what he wanted so I just said let's first sit in the car and then we will talk about it.

And as soon as we started driving, he said "Chalo market chalte hain aur 'chewgli' le kar aayenge. Mujhe bhi 'chewgli' khani hai.". And then it struck me that he meant "chewing gum".

But obviously I said no. And he started fussing. I tried to tell him that its not good thing to eat and he will get germs in the tummy. But he would not hear anything. I even pretended to call up his friend and ask him if he ate chewing gum and told Betu that his friend didn't eat it. But still he wouldn't listen and started getting angry.

I also was getting a little irritated now and told him "You are a bad boy!" and can you imagine what he replied to me? "Aapko kaise pata?" I just didn't know whether I should have gotten angry or laughed.

*rolling my eyes*

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Treasures from the pocket!

Today's findings include a blue balloon, a blue dried piece of clay, a navy blue colored broken piece of crayon and a broken piece of an eraser.

Any questions about them, like always, were answered with "Yeh mere hain!" and like always were left at that :D

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Treasures from the pocket!

Its after a very long time I've chanced upon Betu's pocket treasures. In fact I had started wondering why has he stopped. Silly mothers that we are :)

I just put a batch of laundry and this is what I found today in his pocket - a piece of green crayon and a pink tiny plastic bead. I know that this crayon is from his home crayons but I guess the plastic bead must be from his school...which he probably picked from the arts and crafts class. Anyways whatever it is, like always, I was amused at his treasures.

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Yeh ladka...Baba re baba!

I was talking to hubby in a loud and angry tone because of something wrong he had done. Betu got very upset that I was scolding HIS Papa.

When I told him why I was talking like that, he very matter of factly told me "Aapko mujhe bolna chahiye tha na? Main papa ko bolta. Aap Papa ko kyun daant rahe the?" (You should have told me. I would have said it to Papa. Why were you scolding him?)

I just looked at him open mouthed...totally dumbstruck...rolled my eyes and went on with whatever work I was doing.


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