Class Comedian

Arnav refused to go to school this morning. My sis asked him why. This is what he said;

"Yesterday, in class, the teacher asked who is the funniest person. All the kids said 'Arnav', 'Arnav', 'Arnav'. They said I laugh the most and I make everyone laugh. Then they all laughed loudly. After that the teacher scolded me and said school is not the place to come and laugh. I don't like the teacher. She doesn't understand my jokes. I don't want to go to school."

My sis was in splits when she was telling me. I was too.

But I also thought- Stupid Teacher!! Taking away laughter from little kids. Grrr.

On second thoughts, who cares about her. My nephew is the Class Comedian. That too by choice and not circumstance. Can you beat that!

Catfeeder

My Dad installed a new bird feeder in the Kalyan house a week ago. Despite him changing the water and food everyday, not a single bird visited the bird feeder yet. No,not even a crow. He called Arnav to pour his heart out to him. Arnav had a couple of quick suggestions.

Suggestion 1
Ask the next door uncle to release the African parrots from his Aviary so that they'll come and eat food from the bird feeder. Dad told him this idea was kind of impractical because the chances of the next door uncle letting go of his prized possessions was really low.

Suggestion 2(because the first one was impractical)
Empty the grains from the bowl on the feeder. Fill the bowl with Milk. Call the apparatus it a Cat feeder.Dad was speechless.

I continue to be amazed with the kid.

School of Fish

Arnav's Black Molly fish gave birth to little baby fish. On my advice, he removed the other big fish from the fish tank and kept them in a separate bucket so that the little ones would live unharmed (read would not be regarded as fish food by the other big fish).

So now his fish tank had 29 little dot sized black mollies swimming around. He called me later in the day and sounded super excited. He said his baby fish were really intelligent. I asked why. Apparently, he had written 'School of Fish' of a piece of paper and stuck it on the fish tank like a little notice board. He tells me, all the baby fish went and sat under that notice. They knew it was a school notice for them.

Intelligent fish. Cutest Nephew.

1 Page Books

I was under the impression Arnav's a voracious reader, he'd managed to read every single road sign that we came across during my visit this Diwali. Out of curiosity I asked him if he likes reading books.

He said, "Yes, I like 1 Page books."

I ask, "What are 1 Page books?"

He answers, "You open the book, there's a nice picture on the page, you close the book. That's a 1 page book"

And they say.... Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

Almost Evicted

We were on our way to Kalyan for Bhaubeej... Arnav, My sis, Dad, Me and my Brother-in-law(who was driving). Bro-in-law decided to play songs from Rock On. I love the songs from that movie, the music is good and all.. but more importantly because I can actually sing along with some of the songs without sounding really besura :-)

The song 'Tum ho toh' starts playing, I sing along... utilizing my full lung and vocal chord capacity at the 'zindaagiiiiiii' part. Now Arnav's sitting next to me, and he's really really getting irritated. He asks me politely to not sing. I don't listen.

Next, tired of just sitting around in the Car,I start practicing the finger conditioning exercises that Ashwin has asked us to do. My sis asks me about it, I explain how it strengthens your fingers and to demonstrate, I jab her in the upper arm.

She hollers in pain.

Arnav who's had enough of me by now, stands up on his seat and starts yelling, "Dad please stop the car. Ask Mugdha to get out. She's troubling everyone, not listening to anyone, is generally being naughty and doing a lot of mischief."

His age 5 1/2 years. My age 30 years.

By the end of the trip:

1.Ravi did not evict me on the Thane-Kalyan Highway.
2. We had an extremely disgruntled child in the car.
3. My sister found a great way of demonstrating to her son how annoying it was when someone did not listen to you.
4. I just had a lot of fun.

Yes Mamma. 100 times

Was talking to my Sis over the phone this evening. We were generally catching up on family gossip.... when suddenly I heard my sister yell and scream. I heard sufficient numbers of 'Eeeiii' and 'Shiiii' and 'Eeewwws' to realise that Arnav had done something again.

I asked her what happened, she said, "You'll vomit if I tell you"... and then she told me.. Arnav had basically picked a huge booger from his nose and eaten it!

The confidence that he displayed while doing this prompted her to ask if he had done this before.

His response: "Yes Mamma. 100 times"

Oh Really!

I told Arnav this morning that I was really excited about meeting him for Diwali.
His response: 'Oh Really?'
His Age: 5 years 9 months
My question: Where did he learn to speak like that

Who Hits Who?

Had read an article about Jujutsu... just for a lark, I googled Jujutsu+ Bangalore.... found http://shootfighter.wordpress.com in my search results. I really liked what I read, and went for a trial class.

Now 8 classes and 10000 aching muscles later. I am hooked!

Toinks thinks its a phase. Arnav thinks it's called Whohitswho. The husband thinks... well, sorry he doesn't think.

It's a supercool feeling... to know that when the situation arises. I'll be able to kick butt