Stuff Milind says

A parking lot for all the funny, cute stuff M has said over the past year or more.

These are probably from 3-ish age:
Table car (cable car..)
I definitely...
I probably..
Lets figure out, Mama
Anju Mami - when you drop Naina off, don't forget to give her kiss.
I think maybe is in Papa car - said whenever we can't find something in the house.
I don't do it. Papa do it - all time favorite!!
Kolala bear

Mama said "You're a rowdy!". And M said "What you say, Mama? I'm an Audi?"

M:"What car name, Mama?".
Mama: "Nissan".
M: "Meeshan"
Mama:"No, Nissan"
M:"Meeshan. Like Meeshan mama."
Mama:"Who Meeshan mama?"
M:(talking to me like I am an idiot) "Meeshan mama. He go running with you all the time, Mama!"
Conclusion: Meeshan = Nishant.

You so nice, Mama. You give me gift every time I listen.

Whispering: Papa, if you behave in office I give you gift in the evening. That's the rule.

In response to me saying something along the lines of "why don't you do [xyz]?":
Sure Mama, that's great.

In my office, when he looked up and saw all the ethernet cables in the ceiling & I told him that was so I can use my laptop, he was very puzzled. His question was:
How you sit there and work, Mama?

First sentence to valiyachan when he picked up the phone:
Where my Chappal?

Showing him a boar in a book, I said "That's a boar". And he said "Oh, like boring!"

Mokiiito = Mosquito

fall - small
file = smile

Oppopus = Octopus

Engery = energy

Aminal = animal

Remembering a trip to Ohio:
We go on a plane, then we drive a Ford and go to a hotel. How you manage all that, Mama?

I had just come back from work and M started playing in the Subaru before I got a chance to go in. Asking him to step out of the car, I said "I haven't even said hi to Papa". So he asked "You going to do umma" - making a pouty face and kissing noises :-O

At dinner in a restaurant, when the waitress asked what drink he wanted, he ordered OJ and nicely asked me - you want wine, Mama?

Mama: Milind, you know only one word in Kannada - "idu".
Milind: Ohh, idu is like my big brother. He carry me around all the time when I was a little baby.
Mama: what?
Milind: You know mama, Idu, with Ammu Chechi.
Conclusion: Idu - Sidhu.

Aminal = Animal

We had an impromptu biology lesson, talking about the heart, stomach, brain, etc. and I explained what each of those do. So of course, a couple of hours later, as we were driving around in the car and I was being silly pretending not to understand what he was saying, he says to me:
"Use your brains, Mama!"

There's only one Milind!

Latest report of the day's activities in school:

M: Papa, everybody wants to play with me.

Papa: Oh yeah? (extremely surprised since the last report was "no one wants to play with me.")

M: Yeah, they all say "play with me, play with me". There's only one Milind, you know!

Bicycles are easy

I'll pretend that the 8 month lapse never happened and just pick up where i left off..Too much explainin' to do otherwise!

So anyway, as I was saying we were considering taking the training wheels off his bi-cycle and letting him go at it. Got a "training handle" a few months ago, but never really took him out - (big)part laziness and part busy with dada-dadi. Finally got around to it a few weeks ago. Papa took him out a couple of times and he did pretty good. But then we relapsed and forgot about it. Another couple of weeks, two more visits to the park and voila - off he went! Like a little rocketship. Really. Had me running *all* over the park in my ballet flats. Sure got my workout for the weekend!

Here's a little clip of him back at home, showing off his skills to Papa.