Bed-time tales - II

As difficult is it to put Sid to sleep in the night, its even more difficult to wake him up in the morning, to get ready for the school. On weekdays, he will protest and cry even if we wake him at at 7 o'clock. But many times, on weekends and holidays, he gets up early by himself - sometimes as early as 6 am. And then wake us up - while we would like to catch up on sleep a little - "Dekho subah ho gayee, uthne ka time ho gaya na, main curtains khol doon?" [See, its already morning, its time to wake up, shall I open the curtains?]

One friday morning, he woke up quite early, around 6:30, while we were still having our morning tea. Surprised, we asked him, "Aaj aap itni jaldi kyun uth gaye?"
Sid: Mujhe laga ki aaj saturday hai!!

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Us: Why did you get up so early today?

Sid: I thought today was saturday!!

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This saturday morning, once again, he woke up early - just as I was waking up, but before I was ready to get out of the bed. He smiled at me and said, 

"Mujhe bahut bhookh lag rahi hai".
Me (sleepy and lazy): Ok, I'll give you some milk
Sid: Nahin, usse kuch nahin hoga
Events of two days earlier got me on to his agenda at this point, but I played innocent.
Me: I'll put some chocos and honey-loops in the milk
Sid: Nahin usse bhi kuch nahin hoga
Me: Phir kisse hoga?
Sid: Breakfast se ...
Me: Breakfast mein kya khaoge?
Sid: Jo bhi aap banaoge
Me: Parantha?
Sid: Parantha nahin
Me: Poha? Seviyan?
Sid: Nahin
Me: Aaj to breakfast mein Parantha, poha, seviyan, idli, yahi ban sakta hai
Sid (sad and disappointed): Nahin ye sab nahin chahiye
And I was looking at his face, laughing inwardly, waiting for the truth to come out ...
After few minutes, it did:
"Maine kitne dinon se pasta nahin khaya na!!"
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Sid: I am so hungry!
Me (sleepy and lazy): Ok, I'll give you some milk
Sid: That won't help
Events of two days earlier got me on to his agenda at this point, but I played innocent.
Me: I'll put some chocos and honey-loops in the milk
Sid: Even that won't help
Me: Then what do you want?
Sid: Breakfast ...
Me: What will you have for breakfast?
Sid: Whatever you will make
Me: Parantha?
Sid: No, not Parantha
Me: Poha? Seviyan?
Sid: No ...
Me: Today I can only make one of these .. Parantha, poha, seviyan, idli ...
Sid (sad and disappointed): No, I dont want these ....
After few minutes, the truth to came out ...
"I haven't had pasta for so many days!!"
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Part 1: Bed-time tales

Bed-time tales

It is very difficult to put Sid to sleep at night - the naughty guy always tries to find excuses to delay going to sleep.

One day, I was trying to put him to sleep, while N was winding up the things around the house for the day. Sid was, as usual, in a playful mood, evading going to bed. So I tried to scare him ...
Me: Jaldi so jao, nahin to papa daantenge.
N (loudly, from kitchen, pretending to be angry): Ye soya nahin abhi tak?!
Me: Dekh lo, papa daant rahe hain ...
Sid (cheerfully): Nahin, mere ko nahin daant rahe, aap ko daant rahe hain!!
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Me: Go to sleep quickly, otherwise papa will scold you.
N (loudly, from kitchen, pretending to be angry): He hasn't slept yet?!
Me: See, papa is scolding you ...
Sid (cheerfully): No, he is not scolding me, he is scolding you!!
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Yet another time, as I put him to bed, he started crying (as you can figure out, it was just another excuse ...) "Aaj maine Aryan ke saath nahin khela..."
So I tried to calm him: Ek din mein sab kuch nahin ho pata. Dekho, aapne school se aa kar kitna kuch kiya to ... blocks se khela, TV dekha, homework kiya, niche park mein khela ... 

He immediately protested: Par homework koii masti nahin hota!!

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Sid (crying): I didn't play with Aryan today ...

Me: You can't do everything in one day. You did so many things after coming back from school ... played with blocks, watched TV, did your homework, went down to play in the park ... 

Sid: But homework is not something fun!

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Whose song is it anyway?

When Sid takes a liking to a song, it becomes his song - "Ye to mera song hai". He gets quite excited when a snippet plays on the TV (and it does air quite often, around the relase of the movie); after a while he is able to recognize it even on the radio, just from the initial music.

One such favorite song was "Rabba main to mar gaya oye" from 2011 hindi movie "Mausam". Yesterday evening, as we were driving in the car, this song came up on the radio, and even as the initial beats were playing N asked Sid, "Ye kiska song hai?"
Sid listened for a couple of seconds and said, "mera!"

I was quite amazed, I could not recognize it at all, and this little guy could do it after a gap of few months!
N checked again, Pakka, ye aapka song hai? Ya papa ka?
This time, Sid replied with more confidence, "Nahin, ye mera song hai."
In this while, the lyrics came on, and Sid told N, "Dekho, maine kaha tha na ye mera song hai"

To prove his claim, he started describing the video:
"Mujhe iski AD (he meant the video trailer) bhi yaad hai. Isme ek boy hota hai, aur woh tree mein hide karta hai. Aur uski mumma use dhoondh rahi thi."
This left us in splits, and we tried to tell him, "Woh to theek hai, par wo uski mumma nahin thi!!" [For those who don't remember, or couldn't make out, the "boy" was Shahid Kapur, and the "mumma" was the heroine - Sonam Kapoor"]
But he was confident, "Nahin mujhe pata hai. Woh uski "mumma" hi thi aur use dhoondh rahi thi."
So we stopeed trying to convince him, and just listened on.
"Woh neeche let jata hai jameen mein. Phir uski mumma usko neeche se bhi dekh rahi thi. Aur ek baar woh andhere mein baitha hota hai aur uski mumma baithee hoti hai .... dekho mujhe poori ad yaad hai! Ye mera hi song hai na!!"

Hmm, quite a good description, but the "mumma" in the story had us laugh like crazy for a few minutes!

EDiJ - the rest of the month

I think I made good progress on EDiJ challenge after the previous post. I didn't miss too many, and graduated to colors too :-)

EDiJ #20 Draw a screw.

 

EDiJ #21 Palm of my left hand.
I think the proportions are a bit off .... neverthteless here is my left hand :-)

 

 

EDiJ # 22 - Draw some gloves.
A cousin got these cute red-and-yellow gloves for my son a couple of years back. Apart from the obvious fact that they kept his tiny hands warm, what I loved about them was the stick-on cartoon with "revolving eyes". Her daughter had a similar pink-n-violet pair. Last year we moved to a place where he doesn't need those gloves, so I have tucked them away somewhere and had to draw them from memory.

 

EDiJ #23 - Draw something bubbly
Tried painting some bubbles in watercolors.

  

EDiJ #26 - Draw a shirt
A bit delayed in drawing, and more so in posting ...
Currently my favorite shirt - cool & comfortable.

 

EDiJ #27 - Something orange.
An orange traffic cone (from my son's Lego blocks set).

 

EdiJ #28 - Draw a snack
These are called "Fry-em's" ... crispies made of rice flour and/or refined flour. Supposed to be fried, but I usually microwave :-)

 

EDiJ #30 - Draw something you can keep in pocket.
I usually do not have a pocket in my dress, but sometimes I keep my wallet in my trouser pocket. My reliable companion for many years ... I love it for its comfortable size and utility, despite a broken zipper.