And Me! And Sissy Too!

My children are drawn to books, any book will catch their eye. On our recent evacuation to Philly due to Sandy we took along books because with us, books ARE a necessity. But Ev likes to look at what she calls "The Holey Bibble" (that is a whole other post in and of itself), she likes that the pages are thin, she likes that some things are written in red, she likes that some of it is about Jesus (see we are not TOTAL heathens). Liam wanted his turn with the Bibble because Ev had her turn.

So he was looking at the Bible and at the beginning where it has paragraphs written in different languages from around the world. Like an introduction part? He looks at the part written in Chinese and he points to it and exclaims "Mama! Like ME! Like SISSY!!" And he makes the sign for China. And then he proceeds to talk about what he sees for a good minute or two before he calms down. I have no idea what he was saying. I have no idea how he knew how to distinguish the Chinese writing on that page from the eight or twelve other languages on that page but he definitely put his little finger on the Chinese and he definitely knew what he was talking about.

Today I was watching a video on Facebook that a friend posted of her daughter being silly. It just so happens that they too, are an adoptive family and her daughter is from China. Liam came in about halfway through the video and he looks at the video, gets this strange look on his face and asks, "Mama? That Sissy?". I answer "No. That is so and so. Not your Sissy". I wanted to see how he would process the situation.
After a second or two, he grinned big and he said, "Oh! And Me! And Sissy too!"

Again he makes the sign for China on his chest, and he says" She have her Mama?" and I say, "Yes" he says, "Not you?", and I say, "No her own Mama" then he ran off to play.