Lola and I

Having no idea what to blog about, I thought I could share a few funny moments from my everyday life.

I have a 5 year old niece who is very fond of her auntie Swarnali. Whenever I visit my cousin's place, she runs to me with her books and asks me to read out things to her. Here are a few pieces of conversation with her-

Scene 1

Me: Name 4 birds.
Niece: Sparrow.....
Me: And?
Niece: Ummm...sparrow, sparrow's mum, sparrow's dad and sparrow's brother. That's 4 birds.
 Me(in my head): *Damn, why didn't I ever think of that as a kid*


Scene 2

Find the odd one out - Sparrow, Cow, Peacock, Hen, Crow
Niece : Cow
Me : Good, now tell me why it is the odd one?
Niece : Because it is not a parrot.
Me : *facepalm*

Scene 3

Picture of a pig given in the workbook with fill in the blanks option right next to it P__ G.

Niece fills it up as P O G.
Me : That is wrong. Its P I G.
Niece: The name of this pig is POG.
Me : I cannot say you are wrong anymore ( POG is now a proper noun and hence not a wrong answer) . You have mastered English grammar my lady!!!

Scene 4

This conversation will make more sense to people who speak and understand Hindi. I'll add the English translations in parenthesis for my non-Hindi readers.

Am teaching wild animals and domestic animals to the niece. I usually translate the English terms into Hindi and Bengali for her to understand it better.

Me : Domestic animals are those which we pet and who stay with us in our houses or in houses we make for them (this is the simplest way I could make her understand the concept; I know its not a completely correct definition). They are called "Paltu Janwar" in Hindi (translation - "Paltu" = Domestic and "Janwar" = Animal). Wild animals are those which live in the jungles. They are called "Jungli Janwar" in Hindi. (translation - "Jungli" = Wild). Understood?
Niece : Ooooooooo yes I did.
Me : Good, now tell me what type of animal is a dog.
Niece : "Faltu Janwar" (translation "Faltu" = Useless)
Me : ROFL

Scene 5

Me : Lola (yes, that's what I call her), write the spelling of 36 here (pointing to a notebook).
Niece : (writes down) Thirty 6
Me : I asked you to write the entire spelling. This is wrong. It is Thirty six.
Niece : If you can write 6 as both six and 6, why can't 36 be Thirty6? Why is that wrong? I don't understand.
It took me another half an hour to make her understand the difference between a symbol and its spelling.

So that is all I could remember at the moment, will come back with more if I get to remember them. Hope all of you are doing well.

Till next
Love
Swarnali