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We went to visit
Mama and Baba’s alma mater today. I was
very interested in the ants that were crawling on the brick road next to where
we parked the car. I also tried to step
on them to kill them. Mama found it
disturbing but nostalgic because years ago, she had tried to tell her next door
neighbor (a little 4 year old boy) that he shouldn’t try to kill the ants and
that they might be trying to get home to their moms and dads. Mama tried to tell me the same thing. I told her that it was okay that I was trying
to kill them because they didn’t have any mothers . . . go figure. Mom was just content to know that she was
able to convince me to at least pick up the cherry pit I had spit on the
ground. J
Mama says maybe I’ll
be an artist because I have a good eye.
I saw a book while at the book store (7 Chinese Sisters) illustrated by
Grace Lin. It looks like this:
I said: "hey, Dim Sum for Everyone!" Helen
A-Yi had recently gotten us a book called “Dim Sum for Everyone” (see above
right) which we love. It turns out,
indeed, the same illustrator illustrated both books. Can you tell!?