Lamb Dosa

The other day at our favorite dosa place in town, my daughter watched me gorge on my dosa and said -

"You are enjoying your dosa Appa."

"Oh yeah, it is very tasty. It is a little spicy. You want to try some?"

"What is it?"

"It is lamb"

With a shocked expression and misty eyes, she asked "Are you eating a baby lamb?"

Totally unprepared for this question, I stuttered "No kanni, it is not a baby lamb... It is an old adult lamb."

"No, big one is a sheep. Lambs are babies."

"Anyway, it was already dead." I tried to console her.

"Amma, did you know that he is eating a baby lamb?" she continued in her accusing tone, almost crying.

By then I had lost my appetite and pushed my plate away "Sorry, I didn't know. I won't eat it again!"

Maybe the time has come for me to quit eating meat, I thought to myself. "But.. they are sooo tasty...", the part of me that grew up on meat whispered, "are you sure you want to give up?".

Google Google

We were watching the 'google google' song from the movie Thuppakki the other day when my 6yr old asked "What is she singing about Google, Amma?"

"She is singing that she searched all over Google but couldn't find a better boyfriend than him."

"Oh. But, she shouldn't be searching on Google! She should go out in to the world and talk to people!"

I eat what my mom eats

Herbivore mom + omnivore dad = herbivore kids.

Omnivore mom + herbivore dad = omnivore kids.

Angry Birds

“What are you doing on the phone, Appa?”

“I am playing Angry Birds.”

“Everybody is playing it. Even Aachi is addicted to it!”

“Yeah. It is fun. Want to try? You just attack the pigs by slinging the birds at them.”

“Why?”

“Because, the pigs ate the birds’ eggs and the birds are angry.”

“Pigs don’t eat eggs, do they?”

“Hmm. I don’t know. I think pigs eat everything.”

“Anyway, it is silly.”

“Okay. So, what do you want to do?”

“Will you paint with me?”

“What? You would rather create something than addictively bomb and destroy green pigs?”

“What??!”

“Never mind. You paint, I will watch.”

Today is Tomorrow

When my wife told our 4yr old daughter that she can have a lollipop the next day, she promptly asked the next morning ‘Amma, can I have a lollipop? Remember yesterday you said that I can have one tomorrow? Today is tomorrow, right?’.