Some more Mana-isms

1. We were at the zoo and when we walked out to the main road, I told M that it was no longer free walking, and that she needs to hold on to my hand. I added that she can't cross the road, till I said so. The 3 year old fed on Ramayana, Krishna and Panchatantra stories, looked at the pedestrian crosswalk marks, and asked, 'I can't cross that line, Amma? Is it like my Lakshman Rekha?' :-)

2. Another Hitopadesha moment at dinner time....
In case I haven't already mentioned, M hates eating any food. So it was dinner time and I was coaxing her to finish up. Every day I have to come up with a new cause, excuse or threat for her to finish her food. This time I told her that she might have to sleep on the deck if she didn't finish and that there was a hungry fox in the woods behind us, and he would eat her up. Fresh after the monkey and crocodile story, she floors me by casually saying 'I will tell the fox, that I have left my heart inside my home, and so he cannot eat me' :-)

3. M was riding in the car with me and I had given her a bowl of peas for snacking. All of a sudden she starts to giggle and laugh. So I ask her what was so funny. She goes, I had a pea in my mouth, and just added another one. The two peas met inside my mouth and are so happy to see each other. That is what you are hearing!

4. I am telling you, imitating, making fun off folks, must be genetic. Tell M to sing the alphabet song, she goes, R-aunty (nanny's daughter) sings it as 'ABCDE -ePh-G' and I sing it ABCDEFG'. She had mehendi on her hands and she returns from school, and says, Ms. C calls it MAHANDI :) At the zoo, she corrects her Patti (grandma) to say 'ELE-phant, not ELEE-phant' Amma, says, she still doesn't get the difference!

5. We have a dead wasp at our door step for the past 3 days. M really wants to touch it, and I haven't let her saying it might still have a sting in it. We check on it every morning and have noticed that the ants are eating it away slowly, and she is fascinated by that. This morning, the wasp had moved some. I suggested maybe it was the ants doing it. But she suggested it could be the rain and then added, 'Maybe, it is Pavan', the Wind God. I smiled and said, she might be right. Then she continued, 'But he would not touch it, because the wasp could sting him'. To that, I absentmindedly said, it can't happen, as the wasp was dead. She went right for her closing argument, 'Oh then I can touch it. It won't sting me, because it is dead, right?' I was had!