I dont know whether other kids his age do the same, but Sid is a total copy-cat. He wants to do/get whatever other kid(s) he is playing with has. He is also a human version of a repeater station - echoing the actions and words of the child he is playing with - creating funny scenes more than a few times (and sometimes not-so-funny ones, at least for us).
Since we moved to B'lore, Sid has found a playmate in A, the boy next door, who is a few months older than him; the two create a storm all the time, and are pretty much inseparable. Sunday morning, they were playing together when A had to leave as his parents were going out. First, Sid threw a tantrum that he has no one to play with - "Ab main kiske saath kheloonga" [crying with copious tears]. At such times, he refuses to acknowledge that he has loads of fun doing crazy stuff with us at other times - "main aap dono ke saath nahin khel sakta" [more crying]. After a while, he got into his head, that since A has gone out, he also has to go out - anywhere.
Trying to pacify him, I told him, OK we will also go somewhere. We had to go to the market in the evening, but he had to have lunch and afternoon nap in the meanwhile. Calmer, he started asking when will we go - "ham kabhi kayenge", "ham kahan ja rahe hain". Ok, so, out of the frying pan, and into the fire :-) Trying to think of a way out, I told him that we'll go when papa has taken his bath and is ready, hoping he'll get busy with something else and forget it. After few minutes, Sid cheered up and started playing, and I heaved a sigh of relief that my trick had worked. But as soon as N was out of the bathroom, the questions started again, "ham ja kyun nahin rahe" - so much for my smartness!
With much difficulty we managed to get him to have his lunch, telling him that we would leave after lunch. And then tried putting him to sleep, promising that we will go after he wakes up. Anyone who has kids would know what I am talking of; anyone who hasn't, can't imagine the challenge :-)
Anyway, he always resists sleeping (as most kids do!), even if he is literally dozing standing up, and on this particular day, he had an alternate agenda. When he gets quiet sleepy, he gets rather confused, gaining hold of conciousness in bursts in between, resulting in some amusing conversations.
"mujhe nahin sona"
Since we moved to B'lore, Sid has found a playmate in A, the boy next door, who is a few months older than him; the two create a storm all the time, and are pretty much inseparable. Sunday morning, they were playing together when A had to leave as his parents were going out. First, Sid threw a tantrum that he has no one to play with - "Ab main kiske saath kheloonga" [crying with copious tears]. At such times, he refuses to acknowledge that he has loads of fun doing crazy stuff with us at other times - "main aap dono ke saath nahin khel sakta" [more crying]. After a while, he got into his head, that since A has gone out, he also has to go out - anywhere.
Trying to pacify him, I told him, OK we will also go somewhere. We had to go to the market in the evening, but he had to have lunch and afternoon nap in the meanwhile. Calmer, he started asking when will we go - "ham kabhi kayenge", "ham kahan ja rahe hain". Ok, so, out of the frying pan, and into the fire :-) Trying to think of a way out, I told him that we'll go when papa has taken his bath and is ready, hoping he'll get busy with something else and forget it. After few minutes, Sid cheered up and started playing, and I heaved a sigh of relief that my trick had worked. But as soon as N was out of the bathroom, the questions started again, "ham ja kyun nahin rahe" - so much for my smartness!
With much difficulty we managed to get him to have his lunch, telling him that we would leave after lunch. And then tried putting him to sleep, promising that we will go after he wakes up. Anyone who has kids would know what I am talking of; anyone who hasn't, can't imagine the challenge :-)
Anyway, he always resists sleeping (as most kids do!), even if he is literally dozing standing up, and on this particular day, he had an alternate agenda. When he gets quiet sleepy, he gets rather confused, gaining hold of conciousness in bursts in between, resulting in some amusing conversations.
"mujhe nahin sona"
"acchha mat so, bas let jao"
"main to nahin so-oonga"
"acchha eyes close karke let jao"
"Ham kabhi jayenge"
"Abhi 10 minutes mein jayenge. 10 minutes ke liye eyes close kar lo"
"mujhe neend nahin aa rahi"
"main theek se nahin let pa raha"
"mujhe kahin jana hai"
"mujhe poora blanket ke andar kar do"
"ham ja kyun nahin rahe"
We can barely control our laughter at the flip-flop, when all of a sudden he gets alert and says, "mere pet mein bahut zor dard ho raha hai". I get slightly alarmed (as he had had a slight upset the previous day, and had thrown up his evening milk, along with the lunch and snack he had earlier), but I'm not sure there is actually anything wrong, so casually ask him, "potty to nahin aayee?".
"nahin uske liye nahi ho raha. potty nahin aa rahi"
"To phir kis liye dard ho raha hai"
"Ham kahin gaye nahin uske liye ho raha hai"
"main to nahin so-oonga"
"acchha eyes close karke let jao"
"Ham kabhi jayenge"
"Abhi 10 minutes mein jayenge. 10 minutes ke liye eyes close kar lo"
"mujhe neend nahin aa rahi"
"main theek se nahin let pa raha"
"mujhe kahin jana hai"
"mujhe poora blanket ke andar kar do"
"ham ja kyun nahin rahe"
We can barely control our laughter at the flip-flop, when all of a sudden he gets alert and says, "mere pet mein bahut zor dard ho raha hai". I get slightly alarmed (as he had had a slight upset the previous day, and had thrown up his evening milk, along with the lunch and snack he had earlier), but I'm not sure there is actually anything wrong, so casually ask him, "potty to nahin aayee?".
"nahin uske liye nahi ho raha. potty nahin aa rahi"
"To phir kis liye dard ho raha hai"
"Ham kahin gaye nahin uske liye ho raha hai"
2 comments:
Everything here sounds like a true version our household!
@Swati: Ha ha. All kids are alike in that respect - too smart for their parents ;-)
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