How I Learned to Be Me

How do parents of bi-cultural children become a US citizen?

I know the answer.

First, you have to become a Mommy.

Mommy is a US Citizen

Then you go to a big celery moment (Ed: ceremony). And old people tell stories that little people don’t really understand or, to be honest, don’t even care about.

Then there is some singing and some hand waving and some flag waving and some more singing but without music.

Then some clapping and handing out of envelopes and and and… big smiles.

Today my Mommy got a US sit on the ship. (Ed. citizenship)

I don’t know why but my daddy says we should be really really proud of her.

So, I am. Proud of her that it.

Daddy said it took her a long time to make such a big decision. And she had to know stuff – American history, and do stuff – mountains of paper work, and live stuff – she’s been in America for a long time.

I am pretty sure that my mommy was not only the prettiest one there today – she was also the pretty smartest one there, too.

68 countries – 416 people (about half of them were Indians and none of them were cowboys).

I am a happy little girl. But there is one thing that makes me even happier than being happy. And, that’s when my mommy is happy. And today I thought her face was going to break from such a big smile. Me, too!

Congratulations, Mommy!!

Hiding Shoes

Do children who live by cows who chew lilies (Ed: bi-culturally) have cents about humans? (Ed: a sense of humor)?

I am not sure about such things but I know that I laughed so hard this morning that I fell on my butt. And then my mommy and daddy laughed so hard they almost cried.

Which makes me want to ask, “If it’s funny, why are they crying?” Anyway…

I love to tease my daddy.

Each morning he drives me to the Johnny Appleseed school. We take the Bob and Larry X Press Way and we teach other how to say things. I tell him in Chinese and he tells me in Japanese.

Anyway… this morning, I thought it would be fun to hide his shoes. Well, actually I think that’s fun to do all the time. Daddy looks at me like I am nuts. (That’s the funny part. You should see his face!!! My daddy says he has a face for radio.)

“What’s with hiding my shoes all the time? Where’d she learn to do that? And why? And she thinks that’s funny!?”

Yup. That’s the funny part. My daddy’s face when he’s all jig saw puzzled about why I do things.

But then he laughs. And mommy laughs. And I laugh. And we sing laughter and and and

And I gotta tell you, there is nothing more fun, not funnier, but funner, than seeing my mommy and daddy with loud faces….oh, and my daddy’s jiggling belly.

Yeah, we little kids cannot only speak different languages and understand different things…we can also laugh in different cultures, too.

Can you?

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