Uncle Andrew, Turning 5 and Identity

Uncle Andrew is comin' to town! We're excited. This is Keohi's godfather--and our first visitor to Mui Wo from Arizona. He knows Keohi pretty well as he's seen Keohi during our summer visits to the US. Uncle Andrew gave Keohi Pregnant Barbie a few summers ago.
Pregnant Barbie's stomach (plastic, tan, and removable) has recently been featured in Keohi's wooden dollhouse/action figure house as a sculpture with various magnets stacked on top of it. Very avant garde sculpture, but with a kind of Fluxus humor to it all...

He turns 5 on Friday. So on Saturday it is a family journey to Ocean Park where we will view the Chinese sturgeon in solitary confinement and experience other such aquatic moments. This will be followed by Keohi's new fave dinnertime eating: yep, squid/octopus wok-prepared by Ms. Angie. What I note about this stage is that he has started to develop a pretty good sense of humor already and that he tells these amazing stories, stringing together books, films, bits of this and that, that can go on and on. Stephen and I were laughing and laughing last weekend as Keohi rambled all about what he was doing--including pirating, deep sea diving, seeing his brother, rescuing this or that...lots of adventure. He tells long convoluted and complicated stories. So conversation at mealtime is definitely changing--we're watching him become an individual.

And on another note, a few weeks ago, I asked Keohi: "Are you Korean American, or are you English?" And he looked at me completely annoyed and said: "I'M CHINESE!"

Must inform HK government that son wants citizenship laws updated....