We were play acting some scenes last week under junior’s direction. He would ask us to close our eyes and when we open, he would reveal which character we need to enact.
“Dei appa..open your eyes”
“yes?”
“nee thaan raavan”
“ok”
“amma..nee Lakshman..naa thaan ram..paati vanthu hanuman”
“ok”
He started mimicking battle sequence with imaginary bow and arrow being fired from his arms. Being Raavan, I was “stuck” by his index finger arrow and was supposed to fall dead.
“Aioo appa..unakku sariavay panna therila..all of you close your eyes”
We all did.
“Open your eyes..ippo amma Lakshman..naan raavan..appa Ram”
Again the battle started and this time he got “hit”. He rolled eyes up and down, clutched his tummy, turned around twice and carefully fell on the sofa.
“Ipdi than vizhanum”
I never realized how far my jaw had dropped “Dei ..idhu ulaga nadipuda saami!!!!”
Night time, wifey sleeps early as she has to get up along with the sun. Me and junior, usually are out our boisterous best during night time, especially after being banished to the bed. We would form a castle/fortress with all the pillows and would form ball pit, similar to the ones at fun city and malls. Junior loves it and it gets extremely tiring within the first 5 minutes itself. Else we would be playing scrabble or word games in phone till the time wifey kicks us both to sleep. “Blippi” educational videos are the latest fav for junior. He literally swears by Blippi who is his guru. And the videos are quite enjoyable to watch as well. As I keep mentioning, probably this is the way ahead for education- videos. I could see that even product companies like Oracle, SAP have all shifted their documents to interactive video mode. Would be interesting to see how successful this approach would be. Mothama fees yethi utra poraanga for sure.
“Dei appa..open your eyes”
“yes?”
“nee thaan raavan”
“ok”
“amma..nee Lakshman..naa thaan ram..paati vanthu hanuman”
“ok”
He started mimicking battle sequence with imaginary bow and arrow being fired from his arms. Being Raavan, I was “stuck” by his index finger arrow and was supposed to fall dead.
“Aioo appa..unakku sariavay panna therila..all of you close your eyes”
We all did.
“Open your eyes..ippo amma Lakshman..naan raavan..appa Ram”
Again the battle started and this time he got “hit”. He rolled eyes up and down, clutched his tummy, turned around twice and carefully fell on the sofa.
“Ipdi than vizhanum”
I never realized how far my jaw had dropped “Dei ..idhu ulaga nadipuda saami!!!!”
Night time, wifey sleeps early as she has to get up along with the sun. Me and junior, usually are out our boisterous best during night time, especially after being banished to the bed. We would form a castle/fortress with all the pillows and would form ball pit, similar to the ones at fun city and malls. Junior loves it and it gets extremely tiring within the first 5 minutes itself. Else we would be playing scrabble or word games in phone till the time wifey kicks us both to sleep. “Blippi” educational videos are the latest fav for junior. He literally swears by Blippi who is his guru. And the videos are quite enjoyable to watch as well. As I keep mentioning, probably this is the way ahead for education- videos. I could see that even product companies like Oracle, SAP have all shifted their documents to interactive video mode. Would be interesting to see how successful this approach would be. Mothama fees yethi utra poraanga for sure.
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What on earth is happening. Gilus seeing Blippi educational videos ?? He should feature in a video on blogging !
Happy New Year Junior.
Blippi videos are a sure child-puller. My son, after watching his visit to Pacific Science Center, had been insisting on visiting it. I have tried hard to distract him from Blippi's videos ever since. Now we watch Jonathan Bird's Blue world, Brave wilderness and such - you see, these are exciting and scary and would not warrant a visit :P