I told Yaya that we needed to go to Sam's club to order a birthday cake for daddy. As expected, she was excited-- though I am not sure about the cake or daddy's birthday. Anyway, I warned her not to tell daddy yet since it won't be daddy's B-day until tomorrow. Yaya agreed then, "OK, let's make it a surprise for daddy, and he will have to guess". "but you can not let him guess tonight either, otherwise he will be able to figure out.." I reminded. Yaya seemed to understand me, "OK！"
Lei was already home when we finally arrived. Having learned where we have been, Lei asked me what we bought.
Me: Nothing. We went just for hot-dog.
Lei: Did you buy me...(he paused a little here)
Before Lei finished his sentence, Yaya interrupted, "what? cake?"
Well, we all laughed. (Guess it is not realistic for a 4-yr-old to keep a secret, is it?)
Yaya laughed too. She laughed so hard that she became feeling a little embarassed, and accidentally tripped and hit her head on the floor.
Now Yaya began to cry. Lei and I went up to comfort her. At that point, Peter, must have thought it is finally his turn to do something. He came over and said to us while pointing to his crying sissy "hug, hug..." Yaya stopped after a big bear hug from her sweet little brother.
3 comments:
this is sooooooooooooo cute and sweet.
i totally understand yaya.
i still remember how embarassed i felt when i was 5 year old and all the people on a bus laughed at me cuz they thought some silly thing i did was really cute.
i am just curious other than peter's hug, how would you handle this? tell yaya it's ok to feel embarassed? or it's not necessary to feel embarassed? or you don't think this is an issue?
happy bday to yaya dad btw.
I often hug her and re-assure her that we do not mean to laugh at her or pick on her. But still she feels embarassed from time to time, and yet we could not help laughing under certain circumstances, even though we do try to cut our laugh shorter if it upsets her.
I guess it is no big deal as long as she forgets about it and goes back to her happy self in a minute. what do you think?
well... i am not quite sure what i think, since we havent had such situation yet.
i asked you this simply because i think i myself had, and still have a hard time to handle embarassment. when people laugh at me, no matter what their intention is, i always feel super self-consious and don't know what to do. i just wish my little one will grow up better than me. :)
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