[larrie and gracie]

larry and grace

i went to my cousin's place on tuesday. she has two daughters and i dont even know their names. one is a four year old with the energy of a mountain lion. my cousin is a fob, so the kid's first language is korean. she recently picked up english. the younger one is less than a year old.
i asked the four year old what her name was. her response? a shrug, ran in a circle, followed by a high pitched scream. we can cross "doctor" off her possible career opportunities.
later i found out her name was grace. i then spent the next 10 minutes throwing the huge yoga ball at her head. which knocked her down several times but whatevs she was having the time of her life. after she grew weary or braindead, she gave me a book to read. i asked her if she liked this book. she said no. do you know how to read? she said no. i asked her what her favorite book was. she said "hello kitty." awesome. and she then threw the book to the ground as if she was making some sort of anti-book-reading statement. we then carried a 10 minute conversation about her preschool. this is part of the conversation we had.

me: what did you learn in school today?
grace: dinosauruses!
me: oh really! whats your favorite dinosaur?
grace: pink dinosarisus!
me: there isn't anything called a pink dinosaur dude
grace: i like pink dinosaras.

we then played with legos. she said "ill make train you make boat" i said cool. a few seconds later she said FINISH!. i curiously looked over to see what kind of train she made. what i saw was a massive lego blob of whatthefuckness. which looked liked absolute shit compared to my perfect boat. it was actually pretty impressive with the limited amount of supplies i had. i said hey grace look at this!
her response? "its okay i fix it".
i said "you dont need to fix it. its perfect!"
she then grabbed it. her way of fixing it? smashing it to the floor. we can cross "engineer" off her possible career opportunities.
what the fuck! i spent like a good 10 minutes on making it.

so i was playing and making her laugh. the thing about her laugh is that its just screaming. no "HAHAs", but more "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" like i'm attacking her. and literally her little sister was just staring at me like "what the fuck is this man doing!" she was obviously traumatized. so when i took ONE step towards the younger one, she just broke out crying. and as a good older sister, grace ran to her and gave her the biggest bearhug, which was really cute.

the cutest moment of the afternoon was when i was leaving grace attached her to my leg and said "koala time" and told me to stay. i then accidentally bumped her into the wall and she didn't seem to miss me much after that. just kidding she still walked me outside.