May 5, 2011

Sweets, sweets, sweets

After Chinni's last visit to Dharwar, sweets have become her favorite dishes. She wants sweets throughout the day. If there is no sweet savories, she will stick to jaggery or sugar as the last resort. This is all because of the sweet dishes she tasted prepared by her maternal grand grand mother during the 2 weeks stay in Dharwar. Now it has become difficult for us to find one new sweet dish every day.

Everybody must have read or heard the story about the thirsty crow. This is Chinni's favorite bedtime story, now she is so perfect in the story that she herself tells us the story. Normally it goes something like this, the conversation is all in Kannada, I am translating it in English here
Mummy: Tell me the crow story.
Chinni: There lived a crow in a town.
Mummy: So what happened to crow?
Chinni: It was very thirsty.
Mummy: What did it want?
Chinni: It wanted water.
Mummy: What did it see?
Chinni: Water in a bottle.
Mummy:What did it do?
Chinni: It put stones in water, it drank the water and flew away.
Claps, claps, claps........

But yesterday night the story changed suddenly. Here is the new version-
Mummy: Tell me the crow story.
Chinni: There lived a crow in a town.
Mummy: What did it want?
Chinni: It wants sweet !!!
And we both bursted into laughter, at 11pm.

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