Danichan has crafted a new style of talking in the last one month. He just realized all the people around him are much bigger than him, so he now refers to everyone as 'Big person' or 'Big aalu' (in Malayalam). This pattern started when Amma and Papa came here to stay with us for a month. If he didn't see one of the them he would ask " Oru big aal enthiye?" ( Where is one big person?). When they left for India, he cried and asked " Airport il poya big aalukal enthiye?( Where are the big people who went to the airport?). Now all of us are big people!. When I am at work, I am referred to us as the ' Big person who went to work'. His uncle Joepa works from home usually and the other day when he was not home he asked " Where is the big brown person who sits on the spinning chair in Joepa's room?". The other night, he woke up from his sleep crying and wailed " Where is the big person who stands on the brown mat in the kitchen?" aka "Where is mummy?!"
I believe this is just a phase. There was a time when he was upset and sad he would say " Nammukku vere oru Ammaye vaangikam"( Let us buy another Amma!). And then we would make fun of him asking " Which shop do you want to go to buy Amma?" " How about buying another Daniel from Target?" and " There is a coupon for Daniel from Costco this month, how about we buy ten Daniels?. He stopped saying that after a short while and modified it to " Eee aale kondu poyi trash il idaam" or "We can put this person in the trash" ( sounds very rude as I type it!!). Then when he saw that mummy was occasionally throwing the kitchen waste as organic manure for the long green beans that we had in our backyard kitchen garden he modified his rant to " Let us throw this person to the beans plants outside!". Presently it has evolved to " Let us take this person away from here" or " Dani wants this person to leave". He doesn't seem to understand words of wisdom as " Don't say hurtful things!". He would reply " Dani wants to hurt people!!" just like an autonomous toddler at the peak of his terrible twos following his guiding principle 'Do exactly the opposite of what is being told'.
I believe this is just a phase. There was a time when he was upset and sad he would say " Nammukku vere oru Ammaye vaangikam"( Let us buy another Amma!). And then we would make fun of him asking " Which shop do you want to go to buy Amma?" " How about buying another Daniel from Target?" and " There is a coupon for Daniel from Costco this month, how about we buy ten Daniels?. He stopped saying that after a short while and modified it to " Eee aale kondu poyi trash il idaam" or "We can put this person in the trash" ( sounds very rude as I type it!!). Then when he saw that mummy was occasionally throwing the kitchen waste as organic manure for the long green beans that we had in our backyard kitchen garden he modified his rant to " Let us throw this person to the beans plants outside!". Presently it has evolved to " Let us take this person away from here" or " Dani wants this person to leave". He doesn't seem to understand words of wisdom as " Don't say hurtful things!". He would reply " Dani wants to hurt people!!" just like an autonomous toddler at the peak of his terrible twos following his guiding principle 'Do exactly the opposite of what is being told'.
