Safya: “Brrrr, it’s so cold outside you even have to wear your underwear”
Me: “Uh, remind me to talk to your mom when we get home”
Mar 29 2010
reason #55: underwear and weather
Mar 25 2010
reason #54: miracle
Hamza: “S in my class has a really bad handwriting"
Safya: Oh ya?
Hamza: He told us all a secret today
Safya: What is it?
Hamza: He said he can write really well. He just chooses not to
Safya: What? That’s so cool
Hamza: Ya, it’s a miracle
Safya: Total miracle
Mar 13 2010
reason #53: you shoot yourself!
Kids had friends over. One of their friends, grade 3’er, yelled “fine, suit yourself”. Ayaan, my 3 year old yelled back: “Nooo! YOU shoot yourself”.
Mar 12 2010
reason #52: why mammoth went extinct
Of course if I had it, my 3 year old would call it a “bad guy” and it’d battle spiderman, superman and ironman until it was shattered into pieces (during which it’d have to put up with several attempts to be flushed down the toilet). Either they didn’t have 3 year olds 35,000 years ago or they just sent their 3 year olds out to chase mammoths around. That would also explain why mammoths went extinct.
Mar 11 2010
reason #51: sorry for waking you up
Ayaan wakes me up at some unholy hour.
“What do you want, Ayaan?”
”I am going to wake up bhai and aapi so we can eat cereal together” (his brother and sister)
”Okay”
As soon as I fall asleep, he wakes me up again
”What?”
”Sorry for waking you up”
”It’s okay, what do you need?”
”Nothing. I wanted to tell you something”
”Okay, tell me”
”Sorry for waking you up”
And he walks away.
Tomorrow night around midnight I’ll wake him up to apologize for waking him up.
Mar 06 2010
reason #50: tv scratched
So long, my 52” LCD TV.
I went to Washington DC for a week. I got back tired and hungry. After putting Ayaan to bed as I walked towards the kitchen to get food what do I notice? A huge scratch on the TV, that’s what. On close inspection I could see several small dents. It seems like someone repeatedly hit the TV with something.
When Hamza cracked my previous TV, he did it in one shot. So at least I know it wasn’t him. He didn’t need multiple hits. Safiya is 8. It’d be really sad if she did it. I am giving my wife the benefit of doubt. That leaves Ayaan, the three year old.
I asked him and he replied “it was a bad guy who did it with his sword”. That’s when I took out my stare of death that I inherited from my mother. “Okay, it was an accident”. What? Accident? How do you accidentally hit the TV screen REPEATEDLY????
That’s the second LCD cracked in Hamid household in three years. I am going ol’ school with tube TVs 