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Suhani brought home her class picture. We were talking about her friends, their names, their outfits,  and little bit about their personalities. And ofcourse later she quizzed me for their names. I asked Suhani who her best friend is. She diplomatically answered saying “All are my friends and I do not have any best friends.” But later she said “This boy in the white shirt is not my friend. And the other boy the other white shirt is my best friend”. I was like “Wow, in both categories, it was boys.” She then with an attitude she answered “the other boy in the other white shirt is not my best friend anymore”. I raised one of my eye-brows and asked “why?”. She replied back with the same attitude “He is keeping secrets from me. So he is not my friend any more”. My thoughts were racing down ”Was I sleeping last ten years? Is Suhani fifteen years old?” Then I got myself back and asked her “What kind of secrets?”. She sighed “Amma, a secret is something others do not know. I do not know what that secret was.”

We usually talk different things at dinner table. Usually it ends up me telling a story and feeding yougurt rice to kids at the end. They used to eat all courses by themselves before. But lately they are so much into these Indian stories, they wantedly eat slow during yougurt rice, so I get fed up and feed them with a story. It works for me too, as I let them talk it is only them talking non-stop. If I tell them the story then the only thing that is done by them is listening while chewing.

Yesterday, Dad after watching Suhani not obeying us all evening, he seriously was talking to me that we need to put Suhani “in order” (ie discpline). Shivani said “You mean on the menu”. Suhani answered “Yes. Put me on the Cheese-dip Menu”. As her favorite food is Mexican.

The other night I fed Suhani too much food. After some time she complained “Looks like my stomach is going to drag my body as I am sooo full”. She kept saying “My stomach is strong my head is weak”.

Shivani lost one of her teeth this morning. I mentioned tooth Fairy might give you a dollar as this is the 7th one. Shivani gasped and said “What! She always gives me $20″. I replied “She cannot give so much money for every tooth you lose. There are many kids and many teeth”. She gave me a are-you-kidding look and said “She can always sell teeth”. Before I asked “To whom”, she explained “To babies who do not have teeth. Babies parents can always buy’em”.

Every Monday Shivani has a pre-test. If she scores 100% in pretest she does not have to take the real test on Friday. But she would be doing homework on more harder spelling words (enrichment english). Last night I made her write all the words on a sheet of paper. As she missed couple, I wanted her to rewrite all the words, which she did not like. She answered back “I will spell out words but I will not write all of them again.” I said “Spelling out loud is not as effective as writing them down. If you write them down you will remember them pretty good.” She just did not want to write them, so she said “If I write it down they will be on paper, but if I spell it out loud they will reside in my brain for ever.” I teasingly said if she spells them out loud they will disappear in air. “Air is everywhere, I will use these spelling words from air at school” said Shivani.

Suhani was checking with me whether girls can watch a movie while I was cleaning up the kitchen. I just said “Choodamu” (will see) and kept quite. She asked me “amma, which choodamu?” - Is it “I will think about it - choodamu” or “we will see the movie - choodamu”.