Word Attack!!

School starts tomorrow!

Saboor’s school starts tomorrow. I’m relieved like anything. Two months of having him at home all day is enough to turn your hair gray! Add a distended larynx to that…from screaming at him constantly. Whew!

I suppose Az and Rayaan will miss him most during the day. I’m waiting for the day I can pack off Az also to school! God…How I dread the time it will take for him to get acclimatized to school! Saboor cried from June, right till August! And only then he kind of settled down in his kindergarten. Az here is more clingy and I dread the hard time we’ll have when I enroll him in pre-school next year, inshallah! Some people think 2.5 years is too young for a child to go to preschool. Someone ask the harried mother!

And now I got to dig out that uniform and press it and everything….Sheesh! And what to make for lunch for him tomorrow…he always brings back whatever I send him almost untouched!

Kids!

My MIL had some suitcases outside and Az and Rayaan promptly made use of them as seats. They played on top of the suitcases and then at some point, Az felt very loving towards Rayaan and he bent over trying to kiss him, saying ‘BeeBee’. Rayaan, affectionate and bumbling lil fella that he is, thought that Az was now his friend and tried to topple him over in an enthusiastic response. Needless to say, before the day was at an end, Az had bitten Rayaan because he was by now absolutely fed up of Rayaan trying to be friendly with him! Kids!!

Saboor’s skating classes

Saboor’s skating classes have been fantastic. For him and for me. He found a group of friends and he’s learnt skating, and he seems to be having fun too. He also seems to have lost some weight which he had put on recently due to too much junk food and watching TV.

Meanwhile I too have found a couple of friends and its surprising to even think that I didnt even know they existed three months ago. Nazima, in her early thirties is a harried mother of two sons, Safwan(5) and Hisham(2), and I really admire how she carries on everything, considering that both her son are so naughty! She is a Unani doctor and was practicing before she became a mother. Now, she doesn’t have time for anything else, but she brings her son to skating classes without fail.

Akhtar is a slightly older woman, although I really can’t figure out her age(I haven’t asked her yet!). She has two kids, but I haven’t seen her daughter as yet. She’s never come to the skating classes as she’s in tenth standard and has to study for the ongoing board exams. Anyway, her son, Yahya skates pretty well, and he’s not even six!

Well, as much as Saboor will miss his skating classes when we leave BTM and move to Koramangala, I will miss my new friends too! I might enroll Saboor in a skating class in Koramangala but it will not be the same for him and for me.

Saboor-isms

January 20th, 2008

I wish I had collected them in a diary right from the time he was saying it. It never, ever occurred to me that I might forget some of them! Kids can say the oddest things and without ever meaning to be funny, they can make you laugh and laugh. Saboor used to say a lot of these kind of things, ask these type of questions that i’ve termed Saboor-isms. In fact, I actually started writing this Yahoo 360 blog because Ayesha told me I should write about these funny things that he says in a blog. (I did write some stuff in the early days, but deleted it for some reason)

Anyway, here are some, right from the time he was about four and in kindergarten. I’ve put them down in dialogue form because they sort of lose their punch when I narrate it to someone.
S - Saboor, A- Andy
********************************************************

S: “Ammi, do you know what Sri Hari did in school today?”

A: “No. What?”

S: “She jumped up and pulled…”

A: “Wait a sec…Did you say Sri Hari?”

S: “Yes. She was jumping and pulling….”

A: “But Saboor, Sri Hari is the name of a boy!”

S: “But then….she has long hair….”

A: “Well, some boys wear their hair long….”

S: “Then…shouldn’t he be called Sri Hara?”

(Hope you got the joke….)

***********************************************************

S: “Why do I have to spit the banana?”

A: “Who asked you to spit the banana?”

S: “Then why is it called banana spit?”

***********************************************************
A more recent one…in fact, this one was just last month.

S: “What is this strange looking building?”

A: “Its called Jal Bhavan.”

S: “What does that mean?”

A: “Well, its to do with water…’jal’ means water in hindi, remember?”

S: “Then why is this building so dry?”

**************************************************************

Can you believe it? But I’ve forgotten so many of them and I realised it as I sat down to write those which I remembered. Anyways, if I remember any more, I’ll put them up here. Even if no one else finds it as funny as I do!!! Childhood is something to have fond memories about especially since he’s growing so big, so soon, mashallah!!!