2 conversations in Wal-Mart March 26, 2016

Adrian: Olivia, the movie "Sisters" will be our soon.   I'll get it for your birthday.
Olivia: Thanks, but it's rated "R".
Adrian: I didn't say it's for your birthday this year, where did you get that idea?

Both kids enjoyed our trip to Tokyo a lot.
Adrian: Mom, when I grow up, I want to go to Japan, tour around for two weeks, all by myself.
Me: Just like your daddy...
Adrian: Oh yeah, I'll call it a business trip too. 

Interstellar March 2015

2 conversations with my kids.   One from today, one from awhile back:

1) Adrian is very into the movie Interstellar these days.   In the car, I asked him and Olivia: Do you think one of you will be an astronaut when you grow up?
Both of them said no. I said, "Why, you don't think there's a chance at all? "
Adrian said, "Well, maybe I'll be in the movie Interstellar 3 and they may shoot on location."

2) Olivia was sick before and daddy wanted to take her to the doctor. She asked him why.   Daddy explained that we wanted to see if it's only viral.   Olivia said, "Good, then I'll be famous.

Favourite Subjects

Daddy: Livie, which subject do you like the most at school?
Olivia: Art!
Daddy: Which one is your second favourite?
Olivia: Mmm...  Recess?

Bragging

Adrian:  Mommy, did you know that you are the best mommy in the world?
Me: Er... (before I could answer...)
Adrian:  You have to pretend that you didn't know so that you don't look like you're bragging or something.
Me: (I played along) Oh, I didnt know!  Thank you.  Why?  Is it because I look after everything for you, so you and Livie don't have to do anything?
Adrian: No, you are just nice!

Thank you Adrian.  In fact, no matter what this answer is, I'm happy.

Homework

Livie is just recovering from her strep throat.  I asked her to catch up on her homework on Sunday today, so we can still enjoy the Monday off, which is the last day of Family Day long weekend.

Olivia: Mommy, I have a suggestion!  Since it's called Family Day tomorrow, let us play Wii together.  Each one of the family takes turn to play, half an hour each.
Me: I think that's a great idea, but we'll see how much homework you can finish first.  If you can do them all, we should be able to have enough time to play Wii after we have lunch with auntie D and auntie Angel.
2 hours later, Livie has only finished one of her four worksheets.
Me: Olivia! I thought you wanted to play Wii tomorrow?  With your speed, I don't think it's possible.
Olivia: I don't care about playing Wii.  Work is more important, we should put more focus on work!

??!?!

Great great great great grandpa

A: mommy, who is our great great great great grand pa?
M: I don't know, you’ll have to ask your grandpa.
A: I don't think he'd know.
M: Then why do you think I would know?
O: I know, grandpa is our great great....... grandpa.
M: Grandpa being a great person doesn't make him your great great....... grandpa.
A: If he is, he would be a caveman, Olivia.
O: Then what does that make grandma?
A: She'll be a cave woman.
O: What about 姑婆?
A: Cave aunt
O: How about “yee-sum” (二嬸)?
A: Cave sum
O: “Yee suk” (二叔)?
A: Cave suk suk.
O: Daddy?
A: Cave dad.
O: Mommy?
A: Cave mom.

When you wish upon a star...

Livie was overtired at night when we were at the hotel in Big Island, Hawaii.   She started crying when we told her that she couldn’t take the stuffed dolphin left in the room by the hotel.  Daddy tried every way to distract her from being upset.

Daddy: Livie, let's make a wish upon the stars.  What would you like to wish for?

Olivia: I wish I can have a stuffed dolphin.

Daddy: I wish my kids will stay with me forever, even when they grow up.

Olivia rolled her eyes, gave daddy a look and said, "You will!  So make another one!"

That made daddy's day.

The Day After Tomorrow

Ho loves the disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow. He likes to watch it every once in awhile. This weekend he watched it again and left it on the shelf at a spot where it can easily be seen. Livie walked over to the shelf when she came down from her room this morning. After a minute, she said,

"The Day After Tomorrow is the end of the...

(Both Ho and I knew that she was scared of the movie. We were curious at what she'd say about it. However, she finished the sentence with:)

Month."

And she is right, it will be May 31st then. Kids, they are full of surprises.

My kids are funny!

1) Livie was curious about the hair volumizing cream which I bought recently.
Me: It works really well, it makes you look like you have a lot of hair.
Olivia: Can I try it too?
Me: Sure! Let me show you how to use it. First, you have to wash your hair, then squeeze some on your hand...
Olivia: When you put it on your hand, does it make you look like you have a lot of hands too?

2) The whole family was getting ready to go out. When we were at the door, Livie was getting impatient.
Olivia: Can I go out to the porch to wait?
Adrian: Go ahead Olivia, go to visit the Portugese!

3) Adrian was looking at a picture of Livie and Auntie D.  We said Livie looked very mature in the picture, like she was being interiewed by auntie.  Adrian started to pretend as if he was in an interview too:

"My life, began when I was born..."

4) Languages

Olivia: Mommy, I know 5 languages.
Mommy: Really?  That's great!  Which 5?
Olivia: I know French, English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Chinese!
Adrian: Haha!  Olivia, Mandarin and Cantonese are both Chinese!  That means you only know 4!

Oh, I love listening to them talking to each other!

Picking a husband

We had Dim Sum with friends and their babies yesterday.  When I walked Livie to the washroom, she kept saying that the babies were cute.

Me: You like babies a lot, don't you?
Olivia: Yes, they are so cute.
Me: I remember one time you told me that you wanted a baby brother or baby sister too.
Olivia: (After thinking for a moment) No, I just want to get married and live happily ever after.
Me: You don't have to be hurry.  When you grow up, you'll find someone you really love and want to stay with for rest of your life, then you'll marry him.
Olivia: I know how you picked daddy, mommy...  You went shopping one day and you saw daddy shopping there, so you picked him to be your husband.

I think I should also educate her that marriages are final sale with no exchange and no refund.

Brother

After dinner with grandma, Adrian brought Livie's drawing bag into the house from the car.

Olivia: I left my bag in the car!
Me: Your brother brought it in for you already.
Olivia: Oh, thank you Adrian!  You are the best brother I have!
Adrian: I'm the only brother you have.  In fact, I'm the only brother you'll ever have!
Olivia: No!
(Ho and I were looking at each other, confused.)
Olivia: I'll have a brother when I get older.
(Ho and I were even more puzzled.)
Adrian: That will be your son, Olivia!
Olivia: Oh...

Her brother knows her the best.

Whisper

After the Disney on Ice Toy Story 3 show, we went to visit Jennifer. She took us n the kids to the roof top garden at penthouse of her apartment building. Ho was excited to show Adrian where he used to work. So he picked him up trying to let him see the building.

Ho: Adrian, daddy used to work there. Do you see the blue lights? That’s the building I’m talking about.
Adrian: Oh yeah, I see it.

Then Ho put him back on the floor. Adrian pulled me by the arm and whispered to my ear…
Adrian: Don’t tell daddy. I actually didn’t see anything but I was scared of the height so I just told him “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” So he will put me down.
Me: I think that’s a very good move, Adrian.

That will be our little secret.

100%

Adrian was telling us that he would only share things with boys at school, but not with girls.

Ho: That’s not fair Adrian.  We should not discriminate anyone.  We treat everyone the same.  In our family, we have 50% boys and 50% girls...

Olivia: (tried to be the smarty pants) No, we have 100% boys and 100% girls.

Ho:  Sorry, Livie, it’s impossible to have 100% and 100%, only 50/50.

Adrian: Of course we can!  I’m not 50% boy 50% girl.  I’m a 100% boy!

Awww...

Adrian twisted his ankle over the weekend. We kept him at home so he wouldn’t hurt it again when he runs around at school. Today is also the TV commercial audition day. When daddy took Adrian to the audition, I picked up Livie from school and went out for dinner. We don’t usually have girls only time when Adrian is around. It’s a nice time to have some girls talk. Yet, Livie loves her bro so much that most of our conversation was around him.

Olivia: Mommy, I’m sad today.
Me: Why?
Olivia: Because Adrian hurt his ankle. I don’t want Adrian to get hurt ever again.
Me: Aww... Me neither. I want both of you to be healthy and well always too. But he’s getting better today.  Mommy rubbed his ankle with some Chinese herbal stuff. He should be able to walk properly soon.
Olivia: We prayed for him in class today.
Me: That’s very nice, did you tell your teacher about his ankle?
Olivia: Yes. And after we prayed for him, I prayed for myself too.
Me: Why did you have to pray for yourself?
Olivia: Because Adrian kicked me on my face the other day, so I had to pray for my face.
Me: Does it hurt still?
Olivia: No, it didn’t hurt even when he kicked me, because his foot didn’t really touch me.

Afterwards, daddy and Adrian join us for dinner. I told Adrian what Livie said and he should give Livie a BIG hug. And he did, with a big smile too.

Livie's Comment

Ho is very conscious on his look.  Every now and then he likes to change his look by growing his hair long or having a moustache or goatee, side burn, whatever you call it.  Recently he's growing the beard again.  I got so used to the ever changing look that I took it for granted.  Today at dinner time, Livie asked daddy a question...

Olivia: Daddy, when are you going to shave?
Ho: Why?  Some people may say it's cool.
Olivia: Some people may say it's itchy.


Of course we all know that Livie is the only one who would complain about the itchiness.  Ho loves his little girl so much that he shaved it all off his face the next day.

Another way to use a colander

We received all kinds of presents this Christmas. One of them is silicone collapsible colander. Kids can be really imaginative. While they have never seen anything like this before, Livie asked:

“Is this a toilet seat? Do you think my pee will go through the holes?”

Honestly it does look like a toilet seat, don’t you think?

Chef Adrian

Kids pick up whatever the adults do quickly.  My kids know not to touch the food when mommy takes the camera out. Today we had pancakes for breakfast. I let them served themselves with as many pancakes as they wanted. Suddenly Adrian said, “Look at my breakfast creation.” I had to take a picture of it. He asked me, “Can you name it Le Adrian Breakfast?” I said, it should be “le crêpe de Adrian”, he said, “No, le crêpe de Adrianne”. I don’t even know if that name exist, but if he wants it that way, Adrianne it is then.

Of course Livie wanted a picture of her breakfast too. Ok, here’s Livie spooning syrup over her pancakes.

Patience

The long waited Toy Story 3 Blu-Ray was finally released! Adrian and I were discussing when and where we should buy it from.
Adrian: Did you buy it already?
Me: No, daddy said we should shop around to see where we could get it cheaper. Or we can wait to buy from Blockbuster when they have previewed ones for sale.
Adrian: (His eyes wide opened) Oh yeah! Maybe we should wait until next year to buy it. It will be cheaper because it's old!
Me: Right! But can you wait that long?
Adrian: Only 2 more months and it will be next year!
Me: Oh, right...

Adrian’s Bible Workbook

Adrian brought his bible workbook for me to sign. The title was “Learn to Obey”. Here are some fill in the blanks on the sheet:
I learn to obey to God by:
Being kind to others.
I learn to obey at school by:
Being quiet.
I learn to obey at home by:
Not punching Olivia.

Getting Intellectual

1) For Adrian’s daily reading assignment, he’s supposed to do reading for at least 15 mins everyday. He can pick whatever comics, magazines, or books. Last night, he took a magazine from our bathroom. He said, “it may sound weird to u but I’m reading Today’s Parents for my reading today.” When I asked him why. He said,

“They have a topic on ‘Top Toys – Kids Tested.”

2) Livie was grocery shopping with me. Suddenly she asked me, “Mommy, do you know how people say “.com” in Chinese?”

I was really curious. Livie’s Chinese level is only up to general conversation, I could never imagine she would know something so much on the technology side. I was waiting for what she’s going to say.

Me: What is it in Chinese then?
Olivia: Dot CA!