Unconditional love

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There are three kinds of unconditional love that I know of.

First, a dog's unconditional love and loyalty to its owner. Second, a parent's love to his children. Third, and something I just realized recently, a young's love to his parents.

During our recent trip to Korea, I was carrying and taking care of Angel most of the time, near the end of the trip I was feeling a bit tired and short tempered. When we visited the palace Angel was all naughty running around by herself, even getting into restricted area of the garden. She refused to come out even after repeated calling. I lost my temper, went over to her, yelled at her extremely loudly, and grabbed her out. She cried of course, and got frighten of me. She was afraid to do anything.

But just a few minutes later, when I had not cooled down completely, she saw me, came running to me, grabbed my hand, and called me "daddy!". I was really touched by this moment..

Similar thing happened tonight at the park, I yelled at Angel because she was refusing to go home. She showed a long face, almost cried, but she still held out her arms, wanting me to carry her. My anger turned to guilt and sympathy immediately.

After my shower, Angel was already asleep. I went to her, put my forehead against hers, placed my head on her little fingers, and I rested with her for a while. She's always so active and naughty, not often do I get this quiet time with her, such wonderful feeling. And I thought about how she had waited for us to come home the night before till she fell asleep really early.

I love this girl so much.

Angel's birthday

As we had just come back from Korea, we decided to have a simple birthday celebration for Angel this year, so we brought her to her first Universal Studios trip.

There were several rides a 3-year-old can go on, and Angel went on all of them. She got frighten on the Canopy Flyer and the Enchanted Airways, but overall I think Angel enjoy her adventures exploring the worlds, taking the rides, taking photos with the mascots, and watching the parade. We even bought a little cake for her.

Happy birthday to my little darling Angel.


Follow her, do something stupid

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I was never comfortable around kids, I didn't know how to communicate or play with them. I did not like kids at all.

And then Angel was born.

This Angel of mine has totally changed me, I discovered something inside me that I didn't know existed. Everyday I baby talk with her,  almost everything is made up of two words now: car car, train train, shoe shoe, horsey horsey. We danced to Mickey Mouse and Dora the Explorer, we hop around when we go for a walk, and we chase each other at the playground.

Ever since Angel learned to recognize us, whenever she does something - be it picking a flash card, pronouncing a letter, or performing an action - she would always look at us, waiting for us to acknowledge her. When she does a little dance, I smile at her and she would show a big grin. But if I do the same dance after her, her grin becomes even bigger.

Last night we were at the playground, after going up and down the slide a few times, Angel started to play "fall down" where she just runs in circle and suddenly go down on the ground. After a few rounds she started to roll around the ground, and she looked at me waiting for my acknowledgement.

I smile at her. I was sitting quite comfortably on the ground and did not want to get myself dirty. Then suddenly I thought "why not?", so I rolled myself over to her. Angel burst out laughing, I think the whole neighborhood could hear that.

That made my day. But of course, being a kid, she wanted to repeat that process. About ten times...