Sunday, May 3, 2009

Mastering the Alphabet

It has now been almost a year since kuttan started attempting to master the alphabet. The capitals and the small letters and the cursive. I have not been taking it too seriously and have generally gone with the flow, just letting him learn as much as he does from school while occasionally asking him to read out from newspapers and billboards trying to understand how much he knew. Well the other day, as I went to pick him up from school, he bounded alongside me and burst out with great enthusiasm, 'Amma, E(who is his most bosom pal on earth) and I went to do susu together and were standing in the opposite ends and you know what?? We made an 'X' with our susu'!!!! Ewwww!!! The husband is still grinning looking mightily amused by this shockingly male bathroom behavior. I, on the other hand am going around still ewwwing about it. The fact that he CAN recognise 'X' in any form is scant comfort right now....God have mercy and give me a delicate daughter the next time around! On an aside, I have always wondered how men get to pee standing right next to each other without a trace of shame.....I mean, imagine casually talking shop with your boss over a urinal!! Ewwwwwwww!!!!!!

12 comments:

Just Like That said...

LOLOL! On second thoughts, Ewwwwwwww!!!!!

Monika said...

eekkkkkkkkkkkkkssssssssss

but then lol

Sangeetha said...

Yuck! - from my side and my daughter's...

Hee hee hee! - from my husband.

Sangeetha said...

One more thing...Abt this:

"I have always wondered how men get to pee standing right next to each other without a trace of shame.....I mean, imagine casually talking shop with your boss over a urinal!!"Don't u know, BM, it's all abt attitude in doing this kinda thing. It's called the Shameless Attitude...:-))

Cantaloupes.Amma (CA) said...

ewwwwwwwww !!
And I have always wondered the same too !!

Swati said...

Ewwwww and LOL ! You know I also wonder why all the guys for my team go to washroom together :-P

Vidooshak said...

wait till he tells you who won the highest, farthest and longest contests. i hope he does, of course. wish him luck.

er... and you too.

nice post. brought back so many memories from 25 years ago......

:-)

Collection Of Stars said...

BM, you had me bursting with laughter :)
KT also has this favorite kakka-susu joke which she narrates to everybody who cares to listen.

Mama-mia said...

hahahaha!

me, i just laughed! and i laughed more at the fact that you noticed he knew X! i didnt realise it at all! ;)

and men do it because they can! it will be terribly cuncpmy for us women! hehe!

cheers!

abha

sher khan said...

Hi...was goin thru ur blog and archives . just realized that der r som many ppl like me :-) working with kids and full time agonizing abt every single decision u take, every minute spent with the kid- is it productive or not and blah blah :-) thanks for making me realize i'm normal!!!!

Cool writing. Hope you succeed as a prt time writer :-) Cheers!

the mad momma said...

LOL! boys huh? and trust the men to look amused while we get grossed out!

AMIT said...

Oh that is a nice post u shared.

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