Ramayana - Arunima's version !!!

So here we are at the dining table. Me and Arunima having dinner.Just to involve Aru so that she would finish the boring dal n rice I said "Today you tell me a story Aru. " to which she willingly agreed 

Aru - "Do you know Ramayana?"
Me- "Little bit. Can you tell me ?"
Aru - "Sure. So first who is Lakshman ?"
Me - "Ram's brother"
Aru - "Ya..but he is a copy cat. Wants to go to a forest if his brother is going, wants to wear same clothes, hold a bow and copy him in everything. COPY CAT"
Me - "Hmmm. Oh that's bad "
Aru - "Do you know who is Bharat's copy cat ? Shatrughan"
Me - "ok"
Aru - "So when they get back from the forest after 14 yrs, Ram became king and celebrated Diwlai. Bharat and Shatrughan became beggars .(oops) 
Then one of them , I forgot which one wanted to enter Ram's palace but the guards did not allow him. He requested that Ram is my friend 'n' please allow me .....wait Oh this happened in Krishna story ..Sorry "

Me trying to control my laughter- "Oh ya...Krishna - Sudama. Okay you carry on with Ramayana" 
Aru - "Ravan's Sister or wife, someone out of them goes to marry Ram. Ram sees the evil necklace in her neck 'n' understands she is bad. He says am married, you can marry Lakshman. 
But then Lakshman also sees the evil necklace she is wearing and boom cuts her nose " (I didn't know this evil necklace aspect;-)) 
"and she goes to her brother Ravan complaining" (atleast now Aru is clear she is not Ravan's wife )
Aru - "Do you know how this girl Sita got married to Ram"
Me - I shook my head
Aru - "From among many princes, the one who would break the bow would marry Sita and Ram broke it.So he married her". Breaking the bow, interesting 
Aru - "Eeekkkkkkkkssss"
Me - "What happened ?"
Aru - "Nothing. Just remembered Ram is blue in colour...." (now I got a hint where all this was coming from)
"But he is an intelligent guy and this Sita My God..on seeing the golden dear, asks him a million or billion times to get it. This dear is a monster who can look and sound like anyone. When Ram shoots an arrow he cries in Ram's voice. Sita asks Lakshman to go. Lakshman is also an intelligent guy(COPY CAT ;-)) and knows it's not his brother but goes on putting that line - Oh what is it called ??? "
Aru was struggling but I didn't help 
"Ya that Lakshman Rekha ..in Hindi. In English it is called Lakshman Line " OMG I didn't know that either 
Aru - "Ravan takes away Sita in his flying chariot and someone from Hanuman's army sees him. Do you know about the sweet squirrel who helped in making the bridge to Lanka"
Me - "No I don't" and actually speaking I didn't.
Aru - "She takes mud on her back , jiggels it and it changes to stone. This is how all the stones were made for the bridge. Then Ram picks her up and loves her." ....Really ????
Aru - "Now Now Mom should I tell you a very important and special thing "
Me - "Yes"
Aru - "Usually stones sink in water. Right ? But if we write Ram on them they float. Those stone were used for making the bridge. Seems Ram gave all his power to the stones so that they could float "
Arunima pauses and starts smiling.
Aru - "Mom Ram is God and would be happy to hear me speak about him . Isn't it ?" (am not sure of that sweetie. He would be confused like me am sure ;-))
Aru suddenly - "Enough of story - Now quiz time mommy"
Me not prepared for a quiz but - "Okay go ahead. let it come " 
Aru - "Who was Meghnath ?" Smart girl...didn't tell me about him at all and asking .
Me - "I don't know" acting ignorant 
Aru - "He was Ravan's Son and Lakshman killed him. Okay second question - Who is Kumbhkaran"
Me - "Aru you didn't tell about him either"
Aru very happy and chuckling - "That's what a clever quiz master is . Don't worry I'll tell - He is the biggest guy of the world. We have to run for kilometers to measure him .One foot of his is as big as our dining table and he sleeps and sleeps forever. Got it ?"
Got it ma'am :))

And finally Aru concludes - "So mommy you know nothing about Ramayana, sit and watch it with me someday."
Darling I guess I need to sit and read it to you someday  No more cartoooooooooooooooonssss .

Aru and the Tooth fairy!!

Heard Aru cry bitterly in the morn after seeing the gift Tooth fairy had kept under the pillow in place of her tooth. 
Me - "Why are you crying sweetie ? You got a lovely gift. " 
Aru - "I don't want this silly box of crayons. I had wished for something else". At our times even an eclair was welcomed 'n' now crayons r also scorned upon 
Me - "So what did you wish for? " hoping to place that when she would lose her 2nd tooth.
Aru - "Samsung galaxy III.Like you have. " oooooops
Me - "Darling that's smaller than this crayon box.. Bigger the better" trying to convince a kid  
Aru wiping her tears - "Okay if that's the case then next time I need an ipad". 
Oh God!!!!! An ipad for a tooth. I'll turn a pauper by the time she loses all her milk teeth  
Me - "Oh no no Aru. Ipad is heavy n tooth fairies are small n delicate like our teeth. They can carry only light gifts like crayon boxes." This time I had a strong point Felt like patting my back for the logic I gave. 
Aru paused for a while. Me grinning to have finally convinced her.
Aru - "As tooth fairies cannot carry heavy gifts," 
I nodded in agreement n victory, 
" let them place the order online n get it delivered. No problem I'll wait  ".

Birthday special !!!

Yet again.... Aru went out playing at some friend's place without informing and left me in an annoyed , no-talking mode.
Aru - "Mom why are you not talking ?" (though she very well knew why)
Me- No Reply
Aru - "Should you ever do like this to a sweet princess on her birthday ?"
Me - No Reply (controlling my smile)
Aru - "You should excuse if someone's feeling sorry for the mistake"
Me - No reply (Yes I should I thought)
Aru - "Will you smile and bless my little heart ?"
Me - Hmmmm (I was ready but still managed to control myself )
Aru - "Won't you hug and kiss me and say It's okay as its your birthday ?"
Now this would be too much for anyone ....just turned around to take my sweetheart in my arms 
Girl @6 yrs , you truly know how to turn things around :)

Oh these Cookery shows :(

No more Cookery Shows in my house >:–o 
Arunima (with all the ingredients ready) and infront of the bathroom mirror. "Ab thoda powder leejiye, sanitizer ki bottle mein daaliye aur acche se mix keejiye..." 

Opens the davedoff bottle "Wah kya khushboo hai, isme thoda sa handwash milaye..." 

My bathroom lab boasting of new products - Dettol Davedoff, Kaveri water moisturizer , powdery sanitizer, Revlon toothpaste Boohoo hoooo :((((

Moral stories n Arunima !!

Narrated the fox n crow story to Aru where the fox praises the crow for his singing n manages to get the piece of bread. 

After the story I asked Aru - "So darling what do you think is the moral of the story? What have you learnt from it?" 

Aru replies - "if someone takes away our piece of Maggie or something yummy n we want to get it, we should plan like the fox and get it back" :((((((

Arunima and her baby brother :)

Arunima holding the baby in her arms and glancing with eyes full of love - "Mommy my baby is the cutest in the world... " 
awwwwwww so sweet I thought 
"... and I, just a little more cute than him". 
That's Aru... How could I forget ;-)

KIDS will be KIDS !!

Kings XI team boarded the our flight from Delhi to Chd .

Me sounding excited like all other passengers- "Aru. See the cricketers are boarding our flight."
Aru raising herself up and trying to figure out- "Who mom ?"
Me - "Those uncles in white T-shirts and wearing goggles."
Aru - "Mom but why are they wearing goggles in the plane ? There's no sun."
Me - "It's for style darling."
Aru chuckling - "Oho Stylo." ...Pause... "Funny boys" she says scorning their immaturity 
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Aru - "Mom who are cricketers ?"
Me - "Papa watches match on TV. Those people are cricketers"
Aru -"Ya Ya all day he watches" sounding irritated as her TV time is ruined because of that.
"But how did they come out of TV ?"
Me- "Well. They don't live in TV. We shoot a video when they are playing and show it on TV" happy with the explanation I gave 
Aru - "I know that." suggesting as to why I need to tell her such a trivial thing.
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A brief pause

Aru - "Mom but how does papa know them", hearing him speak out the names of a few."
Me- "He watches them and recognized their faces."
Aru - "Hmm. Okay "

Just an "okay" from Arunima's end. I was relieved as the volley of questions seemed to be over. Just then another one 

Aru - "Mom"
Me - "Now Enough baby"
Aru - "One last...Why are they going to Chd ?"
Before I could answer
Aru with a sparkle in her eyes- "Maybe they are going to meet their nana-nani and have fun with cousins n all. Because it's summer vacations"

I didn't want to dampen her excitement so just smiled and nodded in agreement 

Summer Vacations special !!

Arunima saw us using Samsung voice(SV). So trying her hands at it  

TRy 1 

Aru - "Can you type a sentence ?"
SV result - "It is stinking"
Aru on reading it and rather cross- "You must be stinking , not me ".

TRY 2 

Aru - "Okay so tell me a story"
SV replies - "I don't understand you."
Aru - "Why don't you ??? It's easy. You are a 'dump' girl."

TRY 3 

Aru in a serious voice - "Can you put Chotta Bheem ?"
SV result - "I do not get your question"
Aru (thinks SV is angry now..so tries in a very polite voice) - "Can you pleeeeeeease put Chotta Bheem"
SV result - Thats difficult to answer. Let me search the internet.
Aru on the top of her voice - "CAN YOU PUT CHOTTAAAAAAAA BHEEEEEEEEEEM?"
SV replies - "I don't understand you."
Aru too annoyed- "Why don't you understand anything ? Silly girl "

TRY 4

Aru quite exhausted by now - "Why are you so boring ?"
SV result - "Boring"
Aru delighted and with a big smile - "Can you put 'Radha likes to move it' song ?"
SV result -Thats difficult to answer. Let me search the internet.
Aru - "I hate you .Temple Run is much better than you".... and starts playing Temple run :))