Mana-isms

M is so funny and she cracks us all up with her innocence and quick wit. I told myself that I would jot down anything funny (in my eyes, which as a Mom, everything) she comes up with, so that I can have it as my keepsake of memories, something I did not do with D. I will try to keep this blog as an ongoing log of such happenings.

1. M has been hooked on the DVD, 'Krishna', the animated (I must say rather poorly, but that is for later :)) movie about the life of Lord Krishna. My in-laws, being big devotees of Krishna, have given her a little idol, and named him 'Kamala Kannan'(KK), which she adores like one of her dolls. The routine for the morning in our absence is to bathe KK, sing him a number of songs, all in tune might I add, followed by her own ablutions, and then a Lunch n Learn, where she watches the movie, Krishna. Having done this for a couple weeks now, she knows the story by rote.
One evening, I came home to see her watching the movie intently, as she chose to give me a running commentary. As the episode of Poothana trying to poison Baby Krishna unfolded, she educated me of the characters in play, and told me that Poothana was a Rakshasa and was there to 'kill' Krishna, at the order of Kamsa (a bad king), but Poothana could not because Krishna was God and nobody could harm him. Obviously this initial narration having come from my m-i-l, I looked at Amma in alarm and asked her why she had given her the gory details to the story. Amma, said she could not think of any other words to explain Poothana's evilness and told me not to sweat on the details anymore than what was told to M. We left it at that.
Fast forward to bedtime a couple nights after, where our ritual to put M to bed includes reading her at least half a dozen books before we turn the lights out. Book reading is followed narration of at least one story by either party (M, to dad or self). This time she chose to tell me a story, and of course, who would have thought, it was Krishna Story...again :( Fast forward yet again to the Poothana episode. M in her animated best, explained to me that Poothana, the Rakshasa, was in Gokul with the sole intention to 'kill' Krishna. And did she get me roaring with laughter when she actually pinched me to make the action of 'kill'. To 'killu' is to 'pinch' in Tamil, and our dear three year old had understood just that as the reason for Poothana the demoness's presence! So much for my chagrin of what she was exposed to at such a tender age, and even so was my m-i-l's amusement that her grandkid understood an English language completely different from what she was told :-)
Thank God for little kids and their innocence ... may she stay 3 for many more such episodes, is what my inner-mom cries for!