Little Shobby pushes his little chair on the floor, making a loud scraping noise in the bargain. The BIL returned late from work the previous night and was trying his best to sleep. I yelled at Shobs to stop pushing the chair. He didn’t listen.
So I gave him one tight spank on his bum.
He immediately runs to his sister.
Shobs : (rubbing his bum) Mumma….maara….dukhta!! (Mumma hit me. It hurts).
Lui promptly bends down and kisses his bum 🙄 !!
Serves me right for teaching her that kisses cure hurts !
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The FIL wanted a T-shirt for sports day in his office. He couldn’t find one, so he asked me if he could borrow one of the BF’s. I selected a few from the BF’s cupboard and showed them to the FIL . There was one that the FIL liked. “I’ll take this one”, he said. Little Shobs immediately comes up and says,
Shobs : Dada…yeh achcha nahi, achcha naiiiii !! (Grandfather, this is not good)
FIL : (showing him all the T-shirts) Phir kaunsa achcha hai? (Then which one is good?)
Shobs : Yeh Abba ka hai. Dada ka nahin hai!! (These are Dad’s . Not grandfather’s)
FIL : 😐
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I’m trying to make Lui have her dinner and she refuses to co-operate. After a lot of cajoling, I give up and threaten to send her to the Scary Monster if she doesn’t obey. Lui doesn’t like my tone and in turn ,threatens me,
Lui : (wagging a finger at me and glaring menacingly) Nooooool……..nai!!! (looking out of the window) cary monther, aa…mumma ko le ja (Scary Monster, come and take Mumma).
Me : *Shudder* 😐
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I come back home from office and am immediately tugged at by two pairs of chubby hands to come inside the bedroom. The twins practically drag me inside and hand me a book.
Lui : Mamma….tholibuk.Padho.(Mumma, read storybook).
Shobs : mai bhi,mai bhi tholibuk padhta. (me too, me too will read storybook).
Me : Which story?
Lui : yeh. Baby tholi (pointing to Beauty from Beauty and the Beast) (Baby story)
Shobs : Nai, yeh (No, this one) (pointing to Beast from Beauty and the Beast)
Lui : Nai, baby(No, baby).
Lui : Nai, yeh!! (No, this one).
Me : oh ho!! Same story hai (Its the same story!))
Lui : (defiantly) NAIIIIII!!!!! (NO!)
Shobs : (sidling up to me and almost purrs) Mummmaaaa……yeh tholi padho (Mumma, read this story) (pointing to the Beast)
Me : 😐
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I’m putting the kids to sleep and it is turning into one major fiasco. Simply because I was bushed to the gills ,where as the tiny-tots were as bright as summer.
Me : (feebly) hush…go to sleep both of you.
(And I almost dozed off…..but not before I caught this conversation between the two)
Lui : thoby nindu aya? (Shobby, did sleep come?)
Shobs : Nai aya. (No, it hasn’t)
Lui : aya. Nindu aya. Thoby thotha ? Mumma piti-piti karta (Its come. Sleep has come. Did Shobby sleep? Mumma will beat us).
(she emphasizes her point by slapping her cheeks)
Shobs : piti-piti kartaaaa? (she hits?)
Lui : Haaaaaaaan!! Mumma martha.(Yes.Mumma beats).
Me : WHAT ?!!! 😐
When did my kids learn to accuse me falsely?!! I’m innocent, I swear 😐
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Shobby had a ring-worm infection a month back. Luckily, it appeared under his knee and was rather mild. A little ointment applied for three days cured him of it. There still remains a faint mark on his skin, but it is mostly receeding.
But little Shobs refuses to part with the sympathy that little wound garners for him. So everytime I scold him, or someone else scold him , or we yell at him for something, or we pay more attention to Lui, little Shobby pipes up with this line :-
“Mujhe baoo hua. Dukhta. Mai dikhaoon??” (I got hurt. It hurts. Shall I show it?) and he promptly pulls up the leg of his trousers to reveal the now-barely visible wound.
The statement is accompanied with the most mournful face ever (read, pout in place) where as his eyes glimmer with mischief 🙂
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I give Shobby two biscuits and instruct him to hand over one to Lui.
Little shobby bounds off to hunt Lui.
Shobs : LUUUIIIIIIYYYYYAAAAAAAA!!!! LUUUUUIIIIII!!!
RS : (holding a finger to her lips) Chupp!!!! Didi bolo! (Silence! Call me ‘didi’, elder sister).
Shobs : 😐
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The chatter, has just begun 😀
Lolz.. I’d almost forgotten how wonderful it was to hear them speak when they’re just starting off.. this is THE best part. Loved the ‘didi’ bit.
Hi OM, this phase is by far the best!!
There isn’t a single day we aren’t rolling on the floor with laughter at things the twins say 😀
Ha ha ha! Nw we know the real u and u did demonstrate that in 1 too 😛 😛 Hw sweet of Lui to take care of Shobs so well 🙂
cary monther sounds sooo cute 🙂
Lovely post 🙂
Thanks S 🙂
True gems these are!! Treasure them!
You are right S 🙂
The chatter has just begun indeed! Wish you many more such happy words with the kids.
Oh P…..you should hear them!!
Its so much fun 😀
I can imagine you being so happy and proud. Hell, I was proud when Phoebe started barking as a 2 month old puppy!
Awwww…so cute 😀
And Phoebe is such a doll (going by her pics 🙂 )
Cute precious stuff 🙂
Cary monther take mumma away..or whoever is troubling :D..
And showing off non existent wounds with mournful face and twinkling eyes… wonder how they learn it!! all of them 🙂
Loved the didi bolo one 🙂 Kissing the bum but demanding to be called didi too..WTG Lui!!
Hehe….I’m totally enjoying this phase Priya 🙂
And I have no idea where they pick up their tricks !!
Awww what fun reading this was. Your munchkins are getting smarter by the minute!! 😀
They are getting on my nerves by the minute.
😀