Whose Line is it anyway - #2

Our "young man" continues to amaze as with his cute one-liners..Here is some more --

1. My wife always has this nagging feeling that our son will take either the GRE or the IIT entrance exam when he gets to his kindergarten age. True to her feelings, she was furiously trying to make our lad spell out simple words like CAT, DOG etc. She wrote CAT on a piece of paper and read it as "C-A-T" and said "CAT". Our fellow said "CAT" too. Now she asked, "How do you spell CAT ?". Eagerly expecting a "C-A-T" from him, she was astounded when he came out with a cute "meow". Apparently the concept of "spelling" itself was yet to sink in.

2. As I mentioned earlier, as our young man grows up, there is a constant battle of wits going on between him and the adults - constantly trying to out wit each other. One late night our man was put in his bed, lights switched off (so that he wont jump off bed and run out) and was asked to sleep. Somehow he was not in a mood to lie down and at the same time afraid of the dark to get out of bed as well. He desperately wanted to get his grand parents in so that he can figure a way out. He yelled from him bed "Good night, thaatha(grandpa)". When his grandpa from the other side of the room's door yelled back "Good night", our fellow, realizing that he is not going to come in, replied back "I am not able to hear you say "Good night", so come inside and tell me". There are lot of things going on in that little beautiful mind of his. As I remark sometimes, a young velociraptor in the making - constant learning and trying to break and outwit boundaries and rules..

This post's pic was taken at Sea Port Village of San Diego where this amazing guy was creating all cartoon characters with balloons. My son wanted a Nemo and there it is..

Whose line is it anyway ?

Having a toddler at home is a constant battle of wits. Straight forward question and disarming and almost-always-cute comments that can catch the parent off-guard. Here are some from our young man.

1. Once he was given a plant at his preschool to keep at home and watch it grow. The next day when we asked him to water it, he asked why. He was told that it helps the plant grow. Following is his comment while taking bath the next day -
"என் மேல தண்ணி ஊத்து. அப்ப தான் நான் வளருவேன்" (Pour water on me. Only the I will grow).

2. His DVD collection includes one on "Lord Ganesh" where the lord is portrayed small, dynamic,colorful and cute . On our subsequent temple visit, our young man literally refused to believe that the idol there is of Lord Ganesh whom he knew from his DVD. Well the idol was big, stationary and not doing any stunts.:-)

3. Finally he was convinced a few days later that both Lord Ganesh's are same. This time around it was his hindu star birthday and hence the pooja at the temple in him name for Lord Ganesh. My wife asked what he saw. The prompt answer came -
"அந்த மாமா கணபதி மேல Flower தூக்கி போட்டா " (The priest uncle was throwing flowers at Ganesh).

4. When his grandpa came back home after getting a haircut, following was his comment after remembering the complete headshave had in Tirupathi -
" ஏன் தாத்தா இங்க haircut பண்ண. திருப்பதில போய் பண்ணலாம் இல்ல " (Why did you get get your hair cut here, you could have gone to tirupathi right ?")

5. One of his biscuits fell on the couch. One of us offered to eat it so that he doesnt have to do it. some how he thought there was a hair strand that was stuck to that biscuit when it fell on the couch. His comment -
"தலை முடியை ஏன் வாயில போடுண்ட. தலையில தான போட்டுக்கணும்" (Why did you put that hair strand in your mouth? shouldnt you put it in your head ?") Of course, it took a while to convince him there was no hair anywhere.

Pic shows our young man in his tricycle. One way of capturing the feel of motion in the photo is to pan the camera in the same speed as the subject, there by keeping it in focus but the blurred background implies motion sense.

Darkside of the Moon

Taken at 200mm small aperture for about 1/100th of second reveals the craters of the moon to some extent. Couldnt resist the title for the post which is actually a rock album title from Pink Floyd.

Neighbourhood Night Shot

Taken with at 55mm aperture wide open for 8 seconds.