Mini Drivers and Adventures with Barbie Car

Cousin Timothy is visiting from Taiwan.  The girls are super excited and having so much fun with their new best friend.  This is Timothy's first time driving, and he did a fantastic job!

Dear God

RiRi has been quite a diva lately. She and I fight about what to wear to school everyday.  She asks about tomorrow's weather every night.  She loves it when it's hot, only because she loves to wear her dresses to school like Tiffany (her fellow classmate).

"Is it hot or cold tomorrow, Mommy?"

"COLD!" I'd reply promptly, quite true sometimes that the weather has been so unpredictable.  Although that's where our differences is, I'd much prefer her to wear pants to school EVERYDAY hot or cold.

Irritated she'd reply, "why?! Why is winter again?!"

"Ask God..." ...Mommy's thoughtful reply.

"Who is god? He lives on the cloud? He is bigger than me or you, or papa?!"

"YEP.  And if he wants the sun to shine, it shines.  If he wants the sky to rain, it rains...  The powerful almighty..."

Kayla, who had an sudden epiphany, interrupted, "Well...  Can God to bring us a bag of cookies now?" （媽米, GOD 可不可以拿一包 cookie 給姊姊?）

Her Prayer that ensued:

Dear God, thank you for a great day today.

Thank you for giving us good dinner.

Can you give me a bag of cookies now?
A-men.

只哭一半的小女孩

Just like that, emphatically, Lala demanded like a queen with a face full of tears.  "拿紙!!  GIVE ME TISSUE!" Loudly she said proudly with her head held high.  Then she stopped her sobbing, and told me that she only cried halfway, unlike Kari who specializes in full-on tantrum.

Lala likes to go to sleep at night, although lately she's been more afraid of the darkness.  She usually wakes up promptly, but today she kicked and fought and cried, "halfway".  She'd say proudly, "姊姊只有哭一半!" (Lala only cried halfway) and pads herself on the back.

The Most Dreaded Bacteria

Everything dirty to them is bacteria nowadays.  They went out to play, and pointed out to each other... "Beware that the scooters left out in the rain now is covered with bacteria !!"（有細菌）They gasped at the sight of "bacteria"(細菌) everywhere, on the chairs, on the concrete, on the seats of their baby scooters, and on Kayla's favorite blue ball.    Speaking of the beloved blue ball...  It was thrown by RIRI in an utterly uncontrolled fashion over the neighbor's fence, which caused a violent outburst of hysterical cry (although quite comical to me) that lasted a decade.   Lala mourned the blue ball tearfully and regrettably, pounding her chest and holding her head while stomping on the ground all at the once. Goodbye dear blue ball. It was good while it lasted.  Now life goes on.