.. per chotu.
Chotu: The clouds are packed with water and then it just bursts and the water all comes down. (Step 1)
Me: How did the water get there in the first place?
Chotu: Ohh ada (ada = that in Tamizh) it is the remaining water from Step 1
Me: Ok but how did “the remaining” water get there?
Chotu: (thinks for a while) Varuna put it there.
Me: Varuna-va?
Chotu: Ammam, avan thaaan rain god.* (yes he is the rain god)
Me: How did Varuna get hold of the water?
Chotu: In the night when everyone was sleeping, Varuna took a bucket from his bathroom, got into his flying space craft and came down to a river which was on earth, filled up the bucket and went back and put it in the clouds.
Me: Ohh now I understand.
Chotu: Good girl amma.
* Per Hindu mythology, Varuna is the god of water bodies and the sky
November 29, 2011 at 1:32 am
Chotu makes geography so interesting..
idu kooda amma vuku teriayalai, chaa
different perspective, was nice to hear when he said it matter of fact.. and btw amma is very boring
November 29, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Actually, the logic is impeccable and quite true. If you substitute bucket and spacecraft for evaporation and add sea to river, this is exactly what happens. Chotu is a budding scientist, methinks ………
Good girl amma, indeed
I thought so too (except the scientist bit), and to receive these rare compliments from chotu..what joy!
November 29, 2011 at 4:16 pm
i’m doing a virtual – hai -hai and dhristi to chotu.. did you hear the knuckles break?
I did, adhu neenga thaana.. ok ok..
November 30, 2011 at 5:49 am
LOL I like that logic of Chotu
November 30, 2011 at 10:47 pm
“good girl amma”
))) so cute..btw you have to teach him “good gael amma” 
aha geal.. too good.. how come I never thought of this.. will do, but most likely my “rules ramanujam” son will say “amma nee wrong-a pronounce panarae, its not funny amma”
December 4, 2011 at 1:28 am
I’m imagining varuna carry a bucket of water …rofl!
Now that you say it, Im imagining Varuna too.. (from one of the Ack series).. hiking up his veshti with one hand and a bucket in the other, and then trying to adjust his crown.. haha!
December 18, 2011 at 11:32 am
hahaha i think we shd let him write the book
adu seri
January 13, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Hi,
Thanks to a friend, rediscovered you today- What adorable tidbits 
Your son is the cutest encyclopedia ever !
I used to read you when your blog had a different name nenakaren
Hi!! apadiya? have u commented before? anyways, your comment brought a smile to my face, barring a few ppl on this blog, most of my readers are relatively new..thanks for the comments