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.

The Negotiator

Snuggling in bed before bedtime, which is getting later and later for these two toddlers, Kari gently and sweetly whispers in Mommy's ear, "I love you SOOOOO MUCH, Mommy..."

Feeling overwhelmed and overcome with joy, Mommy replies, "Awww....thank you...you are soooo sweet!!"

Just as kind , loving, and sweet, she whispered again in Mommy's ear, "You're welcome..... (pausing 5 seconds) ....so can you take me to disneyland again next time?"

That's my girl.

Perfect Imperfection.

Today I mentioned to Kari, "hey, show me your dimple baby..."
Kari replied, "I don't want that dimple anymore, can you take it away?  Why is there a little hole on my cheek?!?!"  I think she's always been a little upset about that perfectly adorable imperfection-in-her-eyes that she takes after her father.

I adore her. 

The perfect little angel that sprinkles happiness in my path.

Liar Liar Pants on Fire, Hangin' on a telephone wire

Mommy: Buckle up everyone! Are you all safely buckled?
Kari (lightning fast reply): Yes Mommy ready to go!
Kayla: No no...not yet, I am not...

Mommy did a final check before take off.  Kari sat there not buckled and not even trying. Kayla still struggling. Too young to be a little liar?

A few days later...

Kari hit Kayla, when Kayla just awoke from her nap in her bedroom.
Crying hysterically, Kayla issued a imminent threat to tell Mommy.
Poised and sly, Kari urged, "go ahead Kayla. Go tell Mommy! She is downstairs!  REMEMBER, she is DOWNSTAIRS! GO ON..."

Just a few minutes before that Kari had conversed with me in the office upstairs while Kayla was still sleeping..
Way too young to deceive...


For you, Little Miss Kari---

“Liar, liar, pants on fire. Hangin’ on a telephone wire!”
paraphrased version of the 1810 poem “The Liar” by William Blake.

Deceiver, dissembler
Your trousers are alight
From what pole or gallows
Shall they dangle in the night?

When I asked of your career
Why did you have to kick my rear
With that stinking lie of thine
Proclaiming that you owned a mine?

When you asked to borrow my stallion
To visit a nearby-moored galleon
How could I ever know that you
Intended only to turn him into glue?

What red devil of mendacity
Grips your soul with such tenacity?
Will one you cruelly shower with lies
Put a pistol ball between your eyes?

What infernal serpent
Has lent you his forked tongue?
From what pit of foul deceit
Are all these whoppers sprung?

Deceiver, dissembler
Your trousers are alight
From what pole or gallows
Do they dangle in the night?

Little Miss Demanding

Kari & Kayla: Mommy...I want milk...we want milk...M-I-L-K... Mommy: So sorry sweetie, Mommy forgot to buy milk.. maybe tomorrow! Kari: 我教妳 媽媽！妳可以買水阿! (Let me teach you Mommy, you can buy water ok?!)

Bunch of us adults gathered together standing in the garage and chatting up the storm. Suddenly came a little body and two little hands waving and shoving people aside, "EXCUSE ME EVERYBODY! LISTEN TO ME!!!" She's got to something to say...

You can sue my head

Mommy: Oh! Kari...you hit my head with your head. Ouch, I am going to sue you. Can I sue you?
Kari: No, Mommy. You can sue my head.

Mommy Happy!

She loves to say that to me nowadays, "Mommy Happy!" She smiles at me and points to herself, she means she's happy to be with Mommy... Awwww... Love you too!

You are my Sunshine

After little Kari awoke from her nap today, she cuddled up next to me.

"Who am I, Kari" Mommy asked, just for fun.

Looking sweet, Kari replied, "you are my sunshine..."

Awww... melted again.

Retro princess

Ba ba black sheep

Sweetness

No other word for it.
I love you.

Vampire

The Bug scare passed, and the Police deal was getting old...

Mommy, sticking up two finders on head pretending to be: If you're not good, Kari, the VAMPIRE （吸血鬼) will come to eat you and suck your blood...

Kari frightened: Mommy.... 你是豬血嗎？ (are you pork blood...)
Mommy: 我不是 (no)

Kari more frightened: Mommy.... 那你是吸血狗嗎？ (are you a blood-sucking dog...)
Mommy: 也不是 (no)

???

Kari concluded, after some soul searching: Mommy...你是豬血鬼！(you're a pig blood-sucking zombie!)

Mommy in tears... Time to go to bed...

Make her dirty as well!

Kari, stripped to just diapers after soiling her pretty pink dress: Mommy, I'd like to wear the same dress as Kayla..." Looking at Kayla longingly.

Mommy: That is not possible since You dirtied your dress. You must wear nothing to school tomorrow.

Kari with a smirk on her face: Sure it's possible, Mommy. You can soil Kayla's dress as well, and we'd be the same!

Pretty little

I love her smile...so pretty and sweet. It's rare to catch her not making silly faces. She has grown so big and witty. She asked me where my rental car went. I said, "It disappeared". She frowned at the reply, "No, Mommy, you gave it back to the man..." She remembers lyrics better than me, and she even remembers the Hello Kitty cupcake given to her 8 months ago by our neighbors! Still mischievous, still playful, but she is sweeter and sweeter everyday!

She still says to me when I ask her "who am I"....

"You are my Sunshine!!!"
Love my baby!

Pinch me

Grandpa commented in Taiwanese, "Shouldn't let that little one pinch you back when you pinch her..." thinking that she wouldn't understand.

Before you know it, Mommy's feeling that little pinch, multiple pinches, on her arm as kari looked up smiling mischievously...

We hardly ever talk to her in Taiwanese, yet she understands!

The reason I cried...

Back from Las Vagas, a two and a half day trip, Kari snuggled next to me. She put her face next to mine and said, "I missed you..."

"Oh really?!" Mommy said, surprised and so happy to hear.

Kari, "yes really. Mei mei kept crying at the restaurant. It's because I missed Mommy..."

Awwww.... you melt my heart.

A smoothie...PLEASE...

Today on the way home from Sumi grandma's house, Kari asked for her usual. Oatmeal and smoothie. Kayla said she didn't want any. After placing the order at the drive-through, Kayla changed her mind and wanted a smoothie. Unwilling to share, Kari decided to take matter into her own hand. As Mommy was paying at the window, Kari screamed through her backseat window at the cashier.

"A strawberry smoothie for Kayla, please! A STRAWBERRY SMOOTHIE FOR KAYLA!!!!!!! STRAWBERRY SMOOTHIE..."

She was loud and clear and determined with her order. Thank goodness the window was closed and Mommy sped away!

A glimpse

of this quirky little playful and mischievous whatshamacallit...


As she left Akio grandpa, she shouted from her car seat, "Grandpa don't cry! 不要哭喔！妹妹會再佪來喔！“

Then she walked into Kimberly grandma's arms, she asked, "阿媽, 你想我嗎?"

The only way to describe her...heart and treasure of everyone.
Where she goes, a whole world of sunshine and happiness follows...
My baby.