The Four Questions

What with his diction refining by the day, he is at the stage of posing a question at every chance. The four often used ones are, "Whatu dooooing mummy?", "What is this one(like 'won' but with extra o's)" and "What happened mummy?" with the cutest tilt of his head and Praveen's peeve, "Whata noooooiiise!" The last one could be an exclamation or a question, we are still not very sure. Praveen is constantly correcting him, "It's not noise, it's sound, sound..". All the questions have an adorable tone of innocence and genuine curioisty with a raising inflection at the end.

His "What is this one?" most often refers to objects he is very familar with and very rarely you find the need to give him an answer he doesn't already know. Yesterday I tried Niru's idea of answering him with some non-sense, like saying "spider" when he pointed to my mobile and asked the question. Of course, he came back emphatically with, "That's a spider(he swallows the 'not' and instead shakes his head to indicate the negation), that's a phone" and repeated it until I agreed that it was a phone and not a spider.

He also repeats his requests until they have been granted or attended to fully. All through the making of a jam and cheese sandwich, you will hear, "I wanna sandwich...I wanna sandwich..I wanna sandwich..". Alright, I am making it right before your eyes, aren't I? Niru says I haven't seen the end of this parroting!