Breakfast snakes

The menus in Varanasi were really funny.

Jr. was laughing all the way just trying to make out what the real items were.

This one was really hilarious..

Breakfast snakes ?!!

and much much more..

By the way, in 1990 there was a new fastfood place started Lanka gate and his new banner read "SEPCAIL BERGER" in big letters on a 12 x 2 feet red and white announcement.. The thing is still there today! Guess the special burger's aka specail bergers are still satisfying customers just like the breakfast snakes!

It was good to have Jr. laugh and lighten up before her meals!

.

The world will turn...

Bedtime conversation with the kids:

Jr. : Which house was I born in?

Me : We used to live in Santa Clara when you were born but we moved within 6 months after that to Sunnyvale!

LO : Which house was I born in?

Me : Sunnyvale house. But when you were six months old we moved to Cupertino!

LO : I want to go back to Sunnyvale because I don't remember that house. We only see it when you show "baby photos" before going to bed. Akka (sis) remembers that Sunnyvale house because she lived there for long time..

Jr.: Come on, it is the same thing for me, but I don't ask to go back to the Santa Clara house!

Me : Don't worry. You will both go live in many houses as you grow older. You will go to college and live in a hostel or dorm. Then when you get a job you might live in an apartment and when you get married and have a family you will have your own house..

Little One : AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, MOMMY WILL BE THE GRANDMA AND SHE WILL DO ALL THE WORK FOR ME!!!

Had no idea where that came from, but sent me literally rolling on the floor laughing!

San has it coming. . .

.

Home office

Little One : Daddy can you make our garage into your office?

Me : What can we do in that office?

LO : We can turn our garage into a nail salon and you can do nails at home!

Me : But I don't know how to do nails and you cannot just change your garage into a nail salon. You need to go to nail school and get a certificate before you do nails or the government will stop you.

LO : What certificate?

Me : When you go for hair cut do you see the certificate in front of every mirror? That is the certificate from hair school. Same thing for nail school.

LO : What about make the garage a photo studio or a yoga place?

Me : What ?!

LO : We can change our living room carpet to hardwood and then take this carpet and put it in the garage and then make it a studio!

Me : Why do you want me to work in the garage so badly?

LO : So I don't want you to go to work in office.. if Amma and Paati (mom and grandma) can help you we can all work from the garage and no one has to go to office. Also if you are a car salesman, people will give you 100 dollars a day!

Me : Car salesman are not rich and no one gives you 100 dollars a day. You need to stop watching silly programs on Youtube from now on.

Later did tell San that we have a budding entrepreneur in our house! Such conviction that we can make a living out of our garage and multiple ideas within a few minutes including how to get the garage carpeted.

Very proud of this little girl and her enthusiasm. Wish I could turn the garage into a nail salon and do nails for her!

.

Action replay

Was going through the blog archives to see what we did last year same time.

Last year almost same week the same sequence of events .. this is unbelievable!

Cold from Jr. -> Little one -> parents with Jr. showing mild symptoms and quickly recovering in less than a day, the little one suffering through it for weeks and then the parents getting hit hard. The little one meanwhile is not learning no matter how many times we tell her not to touch her nose and rub things on her blankie or cough directly into daddy's open mouth just when he is trying to say "cover your mouth when you cough"!

This year, even the abnormally healthy me showing no sign of hospital visits or tablets for more than two months, got hit for two days. Still no hospital visit or tablets. So far only lot of water and sleep to recover! There is some saving grace there.

Guess from now on we have to get the sweaters and jackets out for a week or two in mid May as this weather has repeated two years in a row!

.

Sales

Little One came home from school to find me in bed today. After giving her usual sorry for getting me sick and some small chit chat she goes

"Daddy, can you become a car salesman?"

Me : !!!! Why?

LO : So I can have a room to myself, we can have a second floor in our house and have grand birthday parties in our house and a pony in our backyard and pretty much anything we want!

Me : 1. Why do you need all that? and 2. Who told you that car salesman have all that?

LO : Muffy's dad is a car salesman and Muffy has all that. No other kids in hehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifr class have all that! Only Muffy. Her dad's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifname is Ed Crosswire and he is a car salesman!

Me : Do I know him? Have I seen him in your school?

LO : No.. No.. he is not real. He comes in "Arthur"!

Me : !!!!!!!!!!! Starting tomorrow you two are not going to watch anymore Arthur. We are done with this living in Arthur world and watching the same episodes of Arthur on the ipad day after day.

LO: Fine. But can you be a car salesman?

Me : What ?! That is a TV program. Real life car salesman are not that rich and living in mansions and you don't need any of that stuff. You should be happy with what you got!

LO : I am happy. Just wanted to check that is all..

Sometimes it is very difficult to answer these kids and set them straight. Even a supposedly educational program like Arthur on PBS kids can have devastating effects.. Who knew?!

.