What do you do?

Me to DD1: What do you want to do when you grow up and you have the ability to do what you wish to?

DD1: I will help poor children.

Making egg juice

One fine evening, me, DD1, DD2 just returned from outdoor play. As DD2 had to be attended on an immediate basis, I asked DD1 to go ahead and start washing her hands and feet with soap and water.
Just when I was done with DD2's task, I turn around to find DD1 standing there smiling at me.

Me: Did you wash your feet and underneath them with soap ?
DD1: No No I didn't
Me: OK, let's go and clean.

Going to the bathroom

Me, looking for the soap: where is the soap?
DD1: I kept it there, inside.
Me: Why is it there?
DD1: It's boiling in there. It is being cooked.
Me: Were you playing without washing your hands first?
DD1: Na. I first washed my hands and then put the soap in cooker for it to boil.
Me: Oh, inside it?
DD1: Yes, It is boiling. we have to wait.
Me, laughing: Oh! you are cooking something!
DD1: Yes, I put it in the cooker. It will boil and will turn out to be Egg Juice.

Seemingly funny things that kids do with their immense imaginative power. No, it is not funny for them. You have to ask for the juice in sometime and pretend to taste it too. That's a part of their serious play.

Touch the aeroplane

A: Aeroplane goes zzzzzzzzzzz up in the sky

Me: Yes, up in the sky

A: Aeroplane goes zzzzzzzzzzz up in the sky

Me: yes, very high in the sky

A: Aeroplane goes zzzzzzzzzzz up in the sky. I will touch the aeroplane like this (pointing her fingers)

Me: You will touch? When? When the aeroplane is in the sky?

A: Yes, when it is in the sky, I will touch the aeroplane.

Me: Do you think you can reach the aeroplane when it is very high?

A: Ummm... you will lift me up like this and I will touch the aeroplane.

Will you fly high?

A: Look, pigeon, it's flying high

Me: Yes, it is high in the sky

A: haan, sky!

Me: Will you fly too?

A: yes, I will fly

Me: Oh! How will you fly?

A: (flapping her hands vigorously while running some distance) this way I will fly

Me: In the sky?

A: Yes up in the sky!

Making funny faces

Look into your child's eyes for a moment and burst out laughing.

Make funny faces.

Try to look for your child by tilting your head in various angles.

Hide your face for a while and look at your child with a quick move.

Your toddler is also sure to imitate all that you are doing in order to make you laugh. 

What are the stars doing?

Me: Look up there, you can see so many stars tiny in size and shining!
A: Ah! Stars, amma , stars!
Me: Can you count how many stars are out there?
A: Trying to count those that fall in her sight
Me: There are many stars
A: Yes, there are many stars
Me: What are the stars doing there?
A: They are doing 'twinkle twinkle'
Me: 'Twinkle twinkle'?
A: They are doing 'twinkle twinkle'
and she sings the twinkle twinkle rhyme for me

Conversations and Memories

We could have various conversations with our little ones ranging from water that drips from tap to water that flows down from clouds, from the tiny stars peeping from the sky to the giant star we call as sun, from the itsy-bitsy spider that climbed up the hose to the hose that is used for gardening, from the grass that we can roll over up on while play to the trees that give us all the good things in life and many more.

Also, the same conversation can be had at various ages of the little one to learn how kids' brain develops, how kids' comprehend our question differently at various phases, how kids develop the art of answering creatively as they grow.

Here, I will be listing the tiny conversations that I have with my little one, which in turn enhance my learning about her.