Our daughter is so adorably naïve at times. One of the delights of parenting our children is writing little notes to encourage them, to explain something important to them, or just to make them laugh. It's also a sneaky way of furthering their learning of Chinese (for Evangelina) & Spanish (for Jadon)... and of course a challenge for my own learning these languages as I write the notes to them.
Recently I drew some pictures of a horse stopping, an eyeball, and a knee joint as a way of expressing the Chinese equivalent of "I love you" ("Whoa," "eye," "knee"), and when she finally figured it out she gushed a little: "Daddy, when I get married, that night I want you get all the journals that you wrote to me & read them all to me, OK?"
Chuckling inside, I queried, "Aren't you going to be busy at that time?"
"what do you mean?"
Avoiding the obvious BUSY-NESS of the marriage night, I explained, "Well, that's going to be such a busy day for you with a lot of things going on."
To that, she corrected herself, "Well then you can read all the letters to me the night before the wedding."
[Don't worry Beautiful! I won't hold you to it!]
