The Mystery of the Shrinking Chair

Today Kari asked me, "mommy why is my chair getting smaller? Why is it so small?"

I looked at her curiously, "because it's made for babies like you!"

Agitated, she clarified, "no Mommy, I mean it was bigger before, really big!  Now it's so small!! What happened?!?!"

I laughed out loud, "it's you that's growing bigger, not the chair getting smaller.. baby."

She laughed with me, a little embarrassed, and crawled straight into my arms happily.

Conversation with Kari

 ...Regarding sharing, charitable acts, and good deeds.


Kayla found kari's new crayon pack and started to try to open it while Kari was struggling to put on her shoes.  On the floor Kari, with raised teary voice, demanded it back, became agitated and started to cry.  I asked her, "aren't you two sisters, and shouldn't you share anyway, be kind and caring to each other?"  She replied, nodding her head as tears dripped down her cheeks, "Yes, we are sisters, and YES we should share, but that is MINE, and *I* will share with her!!"  I got the point, the emphatic "I", loud and clear, made sense to me somehow.   She got her crayon back, but was angry that Kayla had tore it slightly trying to open it.  She said regrettably,  "see you tore it. Now I have to go buy me a new one!"

Hilarious figure drawings

By Kari Fu @age 4 - Her supposedly strange looking families.  She usually include her cousins, even the ones that live oversea, in her "MY FAMILY" drawings.  I want to hug my baby to sleep...  Her daddy asked her if she liked US or Taiwan.  She said she didn't like Taiwan because it's smelly. I then asked her the same thing, and she told me that she liked US because she missed me.  Miss you too, baby.