... are the words 'maintenance' and 'refreshing'. Impressive, huh!!
The other day, Vansh jiggled out of his room, balancing a kind of big car holding it with one hand and its remote tucked in beneath his arm and in a thick tone said to me, "Mummy, 'nemance' uncle hai Vansh, theek kar diya!" (Mom, I am the maintenance uncle and I have fixed it!) Apparently he was imitating an apartment maintenance guy who had come in the morning to look at the heating unit which was making some noise. The big guys in uniform are THE rockstars for our little guy :)
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The other craze is 'Moe Doodle' from the 'Doodlebops' and his act of pulling the rope in each episode which results in a big load of water landing on his head which he shakes off with a fervent nod and mouths 'Refreshing'! To be able to act the same way, Vansh demands the pail of water be emptied on his head with a thud and off he goes "Refreshing". My laugh is greeted with a sheepish "Funny guy"!!
He's our cute little funny guy indeed!! :)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The latest additions to Vansh's vocab ...
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Mr Niño is a trashman!!
One of Niño's favorite books these days is Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha. Its a book about a trashman Mr Gilly who has does the Oh So ENVIABLE task of driving a BIG blue GARBAGE TRUCK!! Yeah thats the enthusiasm and awe we see in Niño when he spots a trash truck and better still a trashman - well I am sure the big truck making rambling noises when the trashman empties the big trash cans into it has a great appeal - audio and video, and not without reason, for a 2 year old. In addition the book has a good rhythm to it with repetitive text - "Dump it in, smash it down! Drive around the Trashy Town!!" and two of Niño's favorite words "STOP" and "NO" on every page! So in addition to repeating the words of the book all day long, Niño also likes to pretend that he is Mr Gilly himself, drives his own garbage truck around the house and tries to turn each one of the containers (the bigger and bluer it is, the better, for its close resemblance to the actual trash cans) into the truck and 'dumps it in, smashes it down!' Things falling to the ground have a potentiality of cracking him up with laughter like nothing else does. That the contents of a 4 cu ft toy box are too much for a 1 ft long trash truck is something he still needs to figure out!!
Friday, December 21, 2007
Pretending to be a parent!
Lightning McQueen, Winnie, Teddy and Doggy are assigned a few toys by Vansh and are told "Toys share karna, no shouting, no pushing, OK!"
Getting to be someone's parent is so much fun, hanh!! :)
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Hello ..OK Bye!!
Its so funny the way Vansh pretends to talk on the phone to someone, more often than not its Arnav, his best buddy by far whom he misses and remembers every single day ever since he left for India 2 months back. He'll first convince us with all his might to hand him the real phone and a working one at that, saying "Arnav phone hai" as if thats one important phonecall we wouldn't ever want him to miss. Then he would start his conversation with the usual "Hello". Whatever he is doing at that particular time would make up the body of his commentary which would sound like "Garbage truck देख रिया हूँ." or "Book पढ़ रिया हूँ।" (Don't know where he picked up the 'Surma bhopali' accent from) followed by "Oh अच्छा अच्छा।" and finally "OK bye!" and if he is in a particular hurry, its just "Hello Arnav, OK Bye!!" :)
And yeah he's been at it ever since he was 6 months old.
