After the 'Preponderance' incident, my children demonstrate they take after their father.
Peanut (in a mocking tone to me, peeping out of the tenthouse I have foolishly purchased for my children) - Hanna Ka Montana!
Me (shocked at the tone as well as the realization that she's heard about Hannah Montana from somewhere) - Do you even know that that means?
Peanut (in an even more derisive tone than before): It's a Human Being.
And then, when we have a visitor - a conservative family member from Vijay's side, who has come to visit my Father-in-law at home. I am sitting in uncomfortable silence sipping tea, trying to find something to say to this gentleman who is from another world, and has dropped by unannounced. I catch sight of the twins peeping out cautiously at the stranger.
The stranger is as relieved as I am that we no longer have to rack our brains on what to say to each other. He invites them 'Idhar aao, Idhar Aao'.
My relief changes to horror as I hear my twins whispering to each other in their baby babble and then arriving at the consensus 'E Motu Uncle Hai.'
Cursing my husband for teaching them the phrase Motu Uncle, I abandon my cup of tea and hurriedly run into the babies room to lock them in for the rest of the visit.
Peanut (in a mocking tone to me, peeping out of the tenthouse I have foolishly purchased for my children) - Hanna Ka Montana!
Me (shocked at the tone as well as the realization that she's heard about Hannah Montana from somewhere) - Do you even know that that means?
Peanut (in an even more derisive tone than before): It's a Human Being.
And then, when we have a visitor - a conservative family member from Vijay's side, who has come to visit my Father-in-law at home. I am sitting in uncomfortable silence sipping tea, trying to find something to say to this gentleman who is from another world, and has dropped by unannounced. I catch sight of the twins peeping out cautiously at the stranger.
The stranger is as relieved as I am that we no longer have to rack our brains on what to say to each other. He invites them 'Idhar aao, Idhar Aao'.
My relief changes to horror as I hear my twins whispering to each other in their baby babble and then arriving at the consensus 'E Motu Uncle Hai.'
Cursing my husband for teaching them the phrase Motu Uncle, I abandon my cup of tea and hurriedly run into the babies room to lock them in for the rest of the visit.
Wow! I can see what your next book is going to be about! Incidentally, I also have twin daughters.
ReplyDeletegee; kids say the darnedest thing !
ReplyDelete:P :P
ReplyDeleteThey are cute ;) All three of them :)
Ha ha ha...I am smiling as I write this comment. "Motu Uncle", so funny.
ReplyDeleteHannah Montana!!! hmm...it seems Peanut has started learning from environment around her.
My favourite cousin once referred to someone as 'Gund-du' uncle. Yeah we still kept him.
ReplyDeleteYou had me guffawing loudly with your stories, good thing I'm on my own in the office.
:)
ReplyDeletei can't stop smiling
smart kids:)
I am so glad to have landed at your blog from somewhere. This one transported me to a memory of my own of around 22 years back from today. A colleague of my parents was famously known as 'Mr. Long Nose' and we happened to be visiting a family, with him too invited. We were 5 kids tearing the house apart just when i saw him. I screamed (musically though) - 'Hello Mr. Long Nose' and my shocked parents froze. Mum came after me ushering to the room, packing all kids inside and locking us from the outside. :P :)
ReplyDeleteI love all your blogs and am going to order a copy of JMPE for myself. Cheers Yashodhara :)
I am so glad to have landed at your blog from somewhere. This one transported me to a memory of my own of around 22 years back from today. A colleague of my parents was famously known as 'Mr. Long Nose' and we happened to be visiting a family, with him too invited. We were 5 kids tearing the house apart just when i saw him. I screamed (musically though) - 'Hello Mr. Long Nose' and my shocked parents froze. Mum came after me ushering to the room, packing all kids inside and locking us from the outside. :P :)
ReplyDeleteI love all your blogs and am going to order a copy of JMPE for myself. Cheers Yashodhara :)