無題(No Title)- (3)

(一)

Getting out of the car at the Korean store parking lot, we saw many oriental people. Olivia was watching one fashionably dressed Korean woman walking ahead of us when she said to me: “Mommy, I like Chinese girls better than the American girls.” It is not surprising that she could not tell the difference between Chinese and Korean.

“Oh, really? Why?”

“Because they are prettier.” Hmm, here is something new I have not heard of.

“You think so?”

“Yeah, and I am not pretty because I am an American, not Chinese.” she said with an upset voice.

It is amazing how girls at her age already start to pay so much attention to their looks while the boys can care less. Even though my husband does not want me to talk about her looks, I hugged her and said: “Olivia, not all the Chinese girls are pretty and not all the American girls are not pretty. You are a pretty girl. You will always be to mommy no matter what.”

(二)

On the way back home from daycare, the sun started to go down. Evan looked outside the window at the beautiful sunset and said to me: “Mommy, the sun is tired. He is going home. He is going to see 外公 (grandfather) and 外婆 (grandmother) in China.” 

(三)

My best friend in California finally was able to cut and send me some DVDs of the volleyball games we played at the Northern California Chinese Athletic Meeting last summer (our first high school team reunion after 18 years). 

After dinner, daddy asked the kids: “Do you guys want to see mommy on TV?” “On TV?” Olivia immediately asked with a disbelief and envy look on her face. Her eyes were so big. She thought her mommy was really going to be on a TV show and being on TV is like her dream.

To my surprise, not knowing anything about volleyball, the kids were really excited to watch the game, especially Olivia. Whenever I was on the screen, they would point at me and scream “Mommy, mommy!” After she saw me making a good save, Olivia said to me: “Mommy, you are so good, you should play at the Olympics.” Honey, you have not seen how the Olympic players play, I wish I were that goodJ.