Kevin had a light cough on Wednesday.
“Don't go to school today”
“You will be at home?”
“I need to go in to work. But Rebecca (nanny) will be here.”
“Then I am going to school.”
“Are you sure?”
“I am sugar!!!”
Come home in the evening to find him down with fever. Really bad temperature et al. Yesterday he was still down so he willingly stayed home.
This morning he woke up coughing. The nasty cough was still persistently hanging on to him.
"Do (cough) we (cough)(cough)(cough) have shool today (cough)(cough)(cough)(cough)(cough)?"
"You don't need to go. Stay home."
"Why(cough)? School leave?"
"No sweetie. You have a cough."
"I want to go to schoooool."
"Not possible. You should have listened to me on Wednesday."
"I will pick up my dress and go(cough)(cough)."
"Nope. You can go on Monday."
He ran to my dressing table, stood up on it, put his hand up, leaned his head on it and declared, "You are a bad girl. Bad girl! bad girl! BAD GIRL!!! Daily you are telling me ‘don’t go to school.' Daily you are telling me that. (cough) (cough) (cough)(sob) (sob) (cough)”
“Who asked you to get a cough? You’re a bad boy!”
“I’m not a bad boy. (cough) And I have only litttttttttle cough, no?”
“You can go on Monday.”
“If you don’t let me go to school I will not let you go to office. (cough)” He ran t the door locked it and stood with his back against it, in Bollywood filmy style.
“Stop acting like an ass.”
“Don’t say ass to me. It’s a bad word, no?”
“Sorry. I won’t say it. Now move and I need to change.”
“No let me sit here, no. I want to say something.”
“Yup, But make it fast, ok?”
"You are a bad girl. Bad girl! bad girl! BAD GIRL!!! Daily you are telling me ‘don’t go to school.' (cough) (cough)Daily you are telling me that. (cough) (cough) (cough)(sob) (sob) (cough)”
“See let’s stick to the truth here. I am not telling you not to go daily. I only asked you to stay home when you are sick.”
“But yesterday you tell me that. Long back you tell me that. (cough)”
“Because you were not feeling well.”
“I am not having fever now. Don’t tell me lies!”
“But you still have a cough. And a bad one.”
“I have school tomorrow? (cough) (cough)”
“It’s weekend. You don’t have school tomorrow and Sunday.”
“See!!!! You are a bad girl. Daily you are not sending to my school. To my yellow color bus. Daily you are not sending me. (cough) (cough) (cough)(sob) (sob) (cough). I will go to Madras. (cough) (cough) I will not talk to you. I will lock the door and go to school in my yellow color bus. Rebecca will not be take caring of you. You will have to be alone here. And eating oranges and drinking juice. And eating soup only.”
The prospect seemed so blissful and bohemian. Not working. Staying home and feasting on fruits and juice and soups. And Rebecca staying out of my hair. When do the trials of childhood become the pleasures of adulthood?
17 comments:
Don't know about adulthood, but just a few more years before going to school is not so much fun anymore.
Smart kid you have, by the way!
@ amateur: Thanks dewdrop. :)
tell me which school he goes to :O. coz not all 5 year olds (err assuming 5) want to go to school daily :|.
lovely kid.
The prodigal son. This kid seems to have some great genes.
He is like Calvin (of Calvin and hobbes), only he does all the right things and you're way cooler than Calvin's mom.
kevin reminds me of calvin...not very sure if u are the hobbes...guess with time i can comprehend it much better :)
guess that the circle of life all abt...first the kids(including moi) love the school..then suddenly they dont want it anymore...
and hence the vicious cycle eminates
Summit.. I think its anti-Calvin effect... Remember the strip where there is a Clone who does all the right things and brings a bad reputation to Calvin??
@ Careless... But this Kid seems too nice and easy to handle. Thats good for you and saves you some energy. :)
@ Freaky: He goes to a boring school which is high on discipline.
@ Summit: I am liking you more with every passing day. :)
@ katz: I must brush up on my Calvin and Hobbes. And I think I went the other way. I hated it till I turned teenager. THEN I began to love it.
@Sriram: Mums tend to have expectations that their kids don't meet. I expect Ken to protest against school. He SO doesn't meet my expectation when he protests against holidays!!!! As always the generation gap continues. But on a serious note, I wouldn't exchange him for any other kid.
Likewise, Careless. But, frankly I did not see that coming. Next time, give some warning before you express your liking. Not used to all this, you see. :-P
@ Summit: This time has been warning enough. Next time, you won;t be as surprised. To use the famous MTv cliche "What to do? I am like this only!" :) Life is too short Summit, to think twice before you say the good things you feel. If you wanna say it, say it, is my policy. :)
oh !! sumit u believe her!! wow amazing should look up the dic for the synonyms ...didn't see that coming too........
how could u ......now what happens to the "will u marry me" a 100th time she asked this morning to me .....
careless with words i guess as she knows too many !!!!
@ ash: You know I am the kind that blows air kisses at everyone, goes down on my knees proposing marriage at random and splatters "I love you, dahlings" on my trail. Now Summit knows it too... :) Don't take me seriously.. :)
Oh gee! Thanks for the warning, Ash.
But for you, I was gonna round up the family and converge in Hyd to put the great Indian shaadi thing in motion.
Btw, I totally dig chicks who are into other chicks ...
@ Summit: I hope you were joking about the shaadi.
If joke:
Good One. And damn, Ash thanks to you I missed the Potential Love of my Life!!!!!
If serious:
Please, please let me matchmake for you. I know awesome people. I already had my chance at marriage (Big time screw up though it was) already. :)
And am not into other chicks. Much as I seem to get along better with them than with the men, the urge to swing that way hasn't struck yet. I wonder why????!!!! It SO limits your choices when you're straight and you don't meet guys you like!!!!! If only I was "bi" now...... Sigh.. Let's not think about things which were not meant to be....
:) I am enjoying these conversations or should I say comments.. keep it going buddy..
Was wondering where you are. Just asked G about you today.
Where was I??? You will have to wait to see about that on my blog. I am a bit slow to blog it all.. Been bot busy traveling mostly for Official stuff and weekends for myself.. Pretty exciting places :) will pen it all down... soner or later with pics...
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