Me : “ Mowgli, what did you do in daycare today?”
Mowgli : “ mama, 3 moskikos bite me!” and proceeds to show me three minuscule marks.
Me grinning widely at the mosquitoes from Moscow! : “ and then what happened?”
Mowgli : “ Then three bluds came!”
We all lose it at this stage…
At night I’m singing some old song to him. “mama, ee paatu venda.. Mowglinte favrit paatu kaito aanu.” ( not this song. My favourite song is kaito). I totally don’t get which song this is. He gives me long explanations of how he used to listen to this song and all. Finally he gets totally exasperated with me and runs and gets my mobile. “ ithilanu kaito” (kaito is inside this).. and then it strikes me.. it was Kahin Tu from jaane tu ya jaane na.. that used to be the only song stored in my mobile and long time back it was kept on loop for him to sleep. Don’t know why he suddenly remembered that song.
From God who was an abstract, Mowgli has somehow understood that God can get things done! One night in our daily prayers the first line by Mowgli was “Dear God, mowglinte toys loftinu eduthu taaa!” ( Get me my toys from the loft!) . Because he was naughty and was not keeping his toys back, I hid them away and told him that he’ll not get it again. And the again another day, he got these Bible quotes and was pretending to read them. I told him he was too small for this and maybe once he starts big school he can read one everyday. The reply I get “ Illa mama.. Mowglinu vayikaam. God parayuva Mowglinu 1 kinderjoy and 1 car also venam nu” ( No mama, I can read. God says , get Mowgli one kinderjoy and one car also).. Really?????
