K2 on his birthday, 280123

Me: Happy birthday! 

K2: You be the Evil Grandmother for my breakfast. 

Me: “pluk-pluk-pluk”…(I indicate a thought bubble over my head, saying, “Aha! He isn’t eating! This is a good time to go and steal his Lego Nexo Knights.”)

 K2: Promptly swallows a spoonful of his scrambled eggs. 

Me: “pluk-pluk-pluk”…(I indicate a thought balloon that says, “FOILED!!” …I have to underline it in the air with my hand.) 

This goes on until scrambled eggs, the RB (Regulation Banana) and milk are all finished. 

Ask me why I am exhausted at 8am? I have already staged a full-scale drama!

 George Bernard Shaw has nothing on me! Off he goes on the school bus, with me savouring the kiss the reluctant little face dropped on my cheek.

One year ago, K2…

One year ago:

K2: Why did the astronaut not want to go to the moon at once?

Me: I give up, why?

K2: He had crater worries on his mind, ha, ha, ha!

My grandson is from Pun-jab too….

K2, from 251017

K2, while getting ready for playschool: I want to be like the old pwesident of Amewica.
Me: Who’s the old president of Amewi..sorry, America?
K2: Obana (sic).
Father: The present president is older than the old president.
K2: Oh, Donald Twump is older?

….the things four-year-olds know! ❤

Bird-day card from K2, 231023

It was a delight to get this “bird-day”card from my beloved K2!

You can see the American Eagle coming at me (the holder of the card) with outstretched talons on the upper right-hand corner. The lower right-hand corner has the Red Cardinal, along with a “confetti cannon” which is spewing coloured confetti all over the centre of the card. There are two floodlights with the rays crossing the page.

At the top left-hand side is an unidentified blue bird which has a strange call (“Sqwack”).In the middle at the top is an owl, saying its name in Hindi (a reminder of the years that K2 spent in India!). At the lower left hand corner is my national bird, the Peacock, with the Indian flag too.

I am a bird lover and now a bird-day card lover too…added to my role as a doting grandmother!

Here he is, on the first day of school in Seattle.

Sarakki Lake, 231023

For my 69th birthday, Anjana arrived at nearly midnight, and I was able to join her on video visitation for K1. Biju, Padma and we met up at Sarakki Lake, and had breakfast at S N Refreshments afterwards (good food, outstanding darshini)

Anjana, Biju, Padma

eBird: https://ebird.org/checklist/S152881617 (55 sp)
iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2023-10-23&place_id=any&user_id=deemopahan&verifiable=any (https://tinyurl.com/38zw42d9)
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/86494503@N00/albums/72177720312150245 (38 photos)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10160203626183878&type=3 (34 photos)

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Sunrise

Shikra

Great Cormorant fishing

Jungle Myna

Cormorants and Egrets

Water patterns

Canna Lilies

Padma’s delicious chocolate cake

K1 sent this beautiful bird-day card to me

More K2 science

K2: I  opened up the Band-Aid on my little finger, but the finger is looking pale. I think my finger has not been getting oxygen. So I will go to the sitting room. There are some plants there, they will give out oxygen and that will heal my finger.  Or…if I go cycling, and pedal fast, the oxygen will enter my finger faster. 

Me: (to myself) I hope this stops the constant  use of Band-Aids by the dozen, all over your little body, for every tiny cut!

K2: from early 2019

Father: Why are you sitting in front of your food for half and hour and then poking at it? Your mother made it just before you sat down, so are you waiting for it to cool?

K2: I am making sure no maggots and flies come out of my food.

I am very worried about what he might be telling his school teacher  (and friends) about what he eats at home!

More K2 word play

My beloved K2 started his education in his country (Grade 5) on Wednesday.

His latest wordplay: He spotted rabbits, so he wanted to tell Chad Moore, who lives in Cedar Rapids, “Cedar Rapids! See the rabbits!” I think that’s a cool pun!

K1,K2, breakfast conversations, 050818

Overheard at the breakfast table:

K2 with eyes big: “So she’s just a head ? How does she move ?”

K1: “No no, everyone just calls her head ma’am, that’s all. She has a body and arms and legs and everything.”

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K2: “I’m going to be singing for Independence Day, ‘We are Indians, bold and free…'”

K1: “Indians can’t use the bald eagle, that’s American…”

K2: “Nooooo, BOLD…”

K1: “You should teach your class and sing, ‘We are Americans bold and free. Americans are awesome, but so are we…”

K2 and the lullaby…a few years ago

K2, as I put him to bed: “Sing jO jO (a lullaby) for me.”
I start singing, and stop after a while.
K2: “Sing! Why have you stopped!”
Me: “But you are not sleeping.”
K2: “I am sleeping. I slept long ago. You go on singing!”