How To Get Your Little Brother To Sleep
Me: come on babies, it’s time to sleep…
Sulaiman: no mama, dowan sleep
Ayub: have to sleep schlyman, it’s night time
Me: that’s right, it’s night time ^_^
Sulaiman: nigh-tigh?
Ayub: yeah. Night time. Coz the sun is sleeping.
Me: yup.
Ayub: and all the zombies wake up.
Me: noooooo…
Ayub: and the zombies bite you and eat your blood!!
Sulaiman: mama..? 🙁
Grammar Gone Wrong
Me: Ayub do you want rice?
Ayub: Yeah! Rice! Nak rice nak rice nak rice…
Me: Sulaiman, do you want rice too?
Sulaiman: No mama. Dowan rice two. I want rice three.
When Small Kids Have No Volume Control
We’re having lunch at a busy food court in a packed mall. A rather overweight man squeezes his way past Ayub’s chair…
Ayub: OH MY GOD MAMA! Look at that man. He’s SO FAT!
Me: Ayub..!
Ayub: Oh My GOOOODDDDD. He’s SOOOOOOOOO FAT!
Me: (whispering) Ayub, shhhhh… Dont’ say that. It’s very rude.
Ayub: (at exactly the same loud volume as before) It’s very rude Mama? Yeah! He’s so FAT and RUUUUUDE!
Whoever you are, I’m so sorry.
Don’t You Just Love The Purity Of A Child’s Perspective?
Before we get into this weird Ayub gem, I just have to say that Ayub isn’t racist. When he says black or white, he means the colors not the races. It’s funny to me because society has placed labels on people to separate them from each other, and Ayub has no concept of that.
So anyway… This conversation happened about a month after Ayub and Sulaiman met Mr Ninja (who isn’t black, but more of a dark brown imo.) We were already engaged so I told the kids to call him Ayah rather than Uncle Ninja.
Ayub: Hi Ayah!
Mr Ninja: Hi Ayub!
Ayub: Ayah… Why you so black?
Mr Ninja: wut?
Ayub: (laughing) You’re so black Ayah! Why you so black?
Mr Ninja: You’re black too! Look at your knees! They’re black.
Ayub: Yeah! Ayub knees are black! Hahahahaha. But Ayah is sooooo black!
(Ayub runs to my room)
Ayub: Mama! Mama! Ayah is black!
Me: lul.
Ayub: Ayah is black but Mama and Ayub are white.
Me: Saywhatnow?
Ayub: (laughing hysterically) Yeaaaaah! Ayah is black.