You might remember a while ago, Kiran laughing at the idea of mama being a doctor (despite my hard work through 7 years of a doctoral program and a Ph.D. conferred by a top 25 school in my field!). Well, he demonstrated over the weekend that he distributes the insults equally...
On Saturday he was building some sort of tower with his K'nex and Tinkertoys (a favorite activity lately). His tower kept tipping because there was more weight to one side, so I suggested that he ask his papa for help, saying, "Papa's an engineer he can help you out with that." Kiran's response was a sort of chortle and, "No he's not...he's not a real engineer." Maybe he's been hanging out with too many civil engineers because he seems to be of the mindset that industrial engineering isn't "real". Ha!
To make matters worse for poor Nishu, we discovered a leak under the sink in Kiran's bathroom yesterday. Rather than try to fix it himself, Nishu said he'll just call a plumber. We have guests over several weekends coming up and it'll just be easier to have someone take care of it. Kiran's solution was this:
K: Well, when I grow up I can fix it...because I'm really smart. Me and mama can fix it. She's really smart, too.
Me: What about papa?
K: He's not really smart.
So, now Nishu HAS to fix the sink himself to prove himself to his 3-year-old!!
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