41 month olds

Dear Elle,

You praise everything as if it's the best ever with words like "The best, the greatest, the most wonderful in the world!". You got so excited getting to help us staining the deck. You painted the deck happily like a clam for hours and bragged about we're the most wonderful painter in the world and the deck would be the most beautiful in the world too. Your strength of persistence and concentration on the job at hand shines through.
You'd tell us, "It's only pretend. Just use your imagination." when we refused participating a silly pretend-playing game with you. Mischevious you would pretend calling falsely the "toaster" as "The TOFU machine". Sometimes, you messed up "french fries" with "fried rice", telling us you wanted to eat fried rice at McDonald's.

That day mama told you that one day mama will grow old and be dying. You said, "Mama will not grow older.. mama will grow NEWER when baby grows up.. mama will become a baby and stay at home and papa will take care of you and baby will go to work.. baby will buy my own car and drive to work....".

The other day, you sobbed saddly saying you want to grow up just like mama and learn to read chinese.

We have been reading the toothfairy book recently and be mermerized by the legend of toothfairy.

One evening, you caught a glimpse of the rainbow above the sky and shrilled "Rainbow! Rainbow!" so loud that our neighbor ran out to the backyard to watch the rainbow you discovered.
Love,
Mama