Yellaam 'Pattu' mayam !

Jillu has been fascinated with "pattu" (mardhaani/Mehendi) all along !

Right from when she was a baby, she has been able to identify it and now that she is growing up, she's associating all kinds of things to "pattu"

The other day, she had her Polio drops and the nurse marked her little finger with a dark ink. Soon after, Jillu said to everyone who would listen to her

" Yenakku kaila pattu ittu utturukaa paalu "

(or)

"Yenakku kaila pattu yezhudhirukkaa paalu"

Yesterday, she was watching Krishna and her observation was that

"krishna inga pattu ittundu irukkaa" pointing to his lips and it was left to my mom to correct her that it was indeed lipstick and not "pattu " !

Self Dabbaa

You should really hear Jillu praising herself ! Its not to be missed at all !

When she is playing with her puzzles and stuff

"Naan yevlo kkkasssshhhhhta pattttu vechuruken paar " (Look! I have kept it with such difficulty!). The emphasis on "kashta pattu" is to be definitely noted!

When she is having her food,

"Avo chamathaa chaapadraa paar" (See! she is eating like a good girl!)

When she has finished having her bath

"Avo azhaama jo kulichaa. Chamathaa kulichaa. sooooo-per a kulichaa" (She took bath without crying like a good girl! )

(And in the mean while, looks like I have to overlook it, even if her claims are perfectly false at times !)

And suddenly out of the blue she would say

Jillu : Avo chamathu

Me : yaaru ? (knowing well , who :) )

Jillu :  Jillu. Avo jillu pattu! Jillu kuttttti! chittu! (endearments we generally use to call her )

M e: ????

Idhu Podhumma ? Innum konjam venumaa ? (Do you need more ?)

ROTFL !!!

Back ground : Some Carnatic music (Keerthanai) was being telecast (combination of song and dance) in one of the Bakthi channels in TV.

Scene :

My mom and me were chatting about something and suddenly we hear Jillu singing "Bro che vaa " (another Carnatic song). We both turn to look at her and then at each other. She had her eyes squeezed shut tightly, was shaking her head both sides and singing a series of carnatic songs known to her with no pause. At first to me, she looked like she was imitating a blind person, but then realization dawned, i looked at my mom , she looked at me and both of us crumbled with laughter.

Jillu was simply trying to imitate the singers, the way she has seen them close their eyes, enjoy and sing (mey marandhu paadardhu :) )

And when we hadn't even recovered from the first bout of laughter, she again made us laugh so hard, almost to tears (probably encouraged by our first reaction) by singing "Baba black sheep, have you any wool" in the same way again, eyes squeezed shut with a shake of her head as well.

I really wished I had kept the handy cam ready then. It was such a cute and lovely sight and such a spontaneous moment with so much laughter that I am unable to do justice to it with this simple write up! I am laughing even now when I recollect the incident to do this post !

God bless Jillu !

Mixed Bag

Jillu sings..

அ, ஆ , இ , ஈ , உ , ஊ , எ , ஏ, ஐ , I ,J , K, L , M, N, O,P, Q.....

LOL :) Poor thing ! English ,Tamil renduthuleyum "I" vandhaa, confuse aagama irukkumaa yenna ? 
(There is an "I" in both English and Tamil and hence no wonder that she is confused! )

Complaints

After reasoning, now on to complaints:)

A couple of days back, I was in the kitchen and she was with my mom in the hall.  My mom was combing her hair and they had their usual interaction (dialogues) with regards to when she can get hold of the Parachute (hair oil) container. Soon after, she came riding to me in her tri-cycle and told me , no, make it complained to me,

"Ava yenakku thara maatengaraa" (She is not giving me")

Me : Yenatha? (what?)

"Yennai ya. Paati yenakku yennai ya thara maatengaraa" (Oil. Paati is not giving me the oil)

And then after some time, she again came back and told me

"Thala valikkudhu, paati thalaikku yennai thadavittaa" ( Paati applied oil on my hair and its paining )

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This afternoon,I was feeding her, her usual pappu mammam, and there was a guest as well then. After a couple of mouthfuls, she said No to me and pointing her outstretched palm towards the bowl, she complained to the guest

"Adhu kaaramaa irukku" ("That is spicy" - but when in fact it was not)

and all of us burst out laughing :)