Rishi.....

It's fascinating to follow the growth of a child from a wailing red thing into a cub, as mother says. Rishi has really grown into a cub, I should say. He's a real prankster, a keen observer and listener of everything that happens around him, and a real fun-to-be-with kid. True to his age, he asks a lot of questions, reproduces everything we say even without knowing it, speaks of himself in third person and wants to have his share in every talk that happens. But one thing that really surprises me is the way he's learnt to dodge tricky questions. Yesterday he proudly stated that he threw the cap of a water bottle somewhere and Ajja and Ajji were searching for it. This has been happening quite regularly so I thought I would be serious. I asked him thrice why he did it and got three different answers, none related to the question! First he said the news reader on TV was a lady, next he talked about some flower in the book near him and third time, that he had taken my father's pen to write. I couldn't help laughing. How do they learn these things? How could he?