Picking up the kids from school and a middle-aged lady is standing behind me, waiting to pick up her kids.
Me: Hi Ayub!
Ayub: Hi what’s the Grandma doing here?!
Me: Huh?
Ayub: There’s a Grandma like so old! Doing here.
Me: Shhh… (smile apologetically at the lady who is unlikely to be a grandmother)
Ayub: The Grandma like standing there like (does an impression of an old person “standing there”) so funny!
Ayub: Is that your nappy Mama? You wearing nappy again?
Me: Yup…
Ayub: You shishi in the nappy. Like a baby.
Me: No… I don’t shishi in the nappy. This nappy is when I have my period.
Ayub: Pee weird? You pee weird Mama?
Me: Not pee weird. PeRiod. Period.
Ayub: Yah ok. Mama pee weird have to wear nappy like baby.
Ayub and Sulaiman had chickenpox last year. Ayub blamed it on chicken. Bought chicken today. Cooked it for dinner. It had a weird color and texture. Freaked me out. Mr Ninja ate it. He’s ok.
Ayub: I want the chicken Mama.
Me: I know baby. But I think the chicken is bad and I don’t want you to become sick.
Ayub: But I like chicken. I want to eat the chicken.
Me: I know, I’m sorry. I’ll buy more chicken tomorrow and cook for you. But this one… This one is bad.
Ayub: It’s a naughty chicken?
Me: Not naughty. But I think if you eat it, you might get sick.
Ayub: Oh yeaaaaahh… Like when I eat the chicken and get the chickenpox!
Me: Nooooo…
Ayub: YEAH! The chicken is bad! It make me got chickenpox! I don’t want to eat chicken. Bad chicken!
Can’t figure out if he’s shy or just being a normal dude that doesn’t listen and/or reply when women talk to him. Picking up Ayub and Sulaiman from school…
Lil Girl: Bye Ayub! Ayub… byeeee…
(Ayub puts on one shoe)
Lil Girl: Ayuuuuub… Bye Ayub!
Ayub: Uh.
Lil Girl: Byeeeee!!
(Ayub puts on the other shoe)
Lil Girl: Oh Ayub! I’m going on holiday tomorrow. So I’ll only see you next week ok?
Me: Ayub, your friend is talking to you…
Ayub: (Zero reaction)
Lil Girl: Next week on Monday I’ll be back ok Ayub? …Ayub? I’ll see you… I’ll see you soon…
Ayub: (Nothing)
We get in the car…
Ayub: What’s “see you” mean? What’s… What’s “see you soon” mean, Mama?
Me: Ohhh… It’s when you say goodbye to someone, but you know that you will see that person again. Then you say “see you soon…” Like your friend just now…
Ayub: Yeah?
Me: She’s going on holiday… But she’ll be back next week…
Ayub: Oh. (Silence)
Cute, no? Or weird. Knowing Ayub, probably weird.
Ayub: What’s this thing called Mama?
Me: That’s a shuttlecock.
Ayub: Shubblelop.
Me: Shuttlecock.
Ayub: Shuddlepork.
Me: Shuh-tel-cock.
Ayub: Shut-the-cock.
Me: …
Ayub: …
Me: It’s for playing badminton.
Ayub: Batmangame.
