Suction Cup

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A couple years ago, I won a chicken doll from the arcade vedio game. The arcade game center is in the service station where we made a brief stop before heading to the southern Taiwan. The doll came was a string. The other end of the string is a suction cup, it was a popular design such that the doll can be hung up inside the car window. I quickly pressed the suction cup on XiaoHo's forehead, I think he was only 3 or 4 years old back then. The chicken doll was dangling on his face and that really made me crack up hard, XiaoHo thought it was funny also. When Grace and my mom found out about it and hurriedly took the doll off XiaoHo's face, it is all too late. A small circular bruise was formed, I laughed so hard again.

Just when we threw a tea party for my friends last Saturday (they came with kids), there were 3 toddlers (Christine's baby number 2, Emily's daughter and Grace's second kid), 1 baby (Eric Pan and Wood's Little Cherry) and 4 destructive kids ages from 3 to 6 (XiaoHo, Chistine's oldest son, Jimmy's son and daughter). Soon the situation is out of control, and I found XiaoHo is putting the Hello Kitty doll suction cup on Christine's son's forehead. The doll stayed hanging for a while, everyone cracked up. I tried to entertain the kids so I put the suction cup to my forehead and walked around with the hello kitty on my face for a while. Man, I wouldn't have thought this also created a bruise on my face!

That was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, the sun was very strong and kids were playing on the balcony (I really have the urge to lock the door so that we cannot hear them) and the living room was brightly lit. Some kids were sleeping in my mom's room and most of them were trying everything possible to destroy adult's peaceful world. My dad was given the task to take all destructive and noisy boys to do some archery practice in the yard. I was really worried since I am not sure how my dad can watch over 4 jumpy and hyperactive kids. I went downstair and found that all arrows were shut to the roof. "Auntie Joey, get those down please", I had to step on my dad's shoulder, climbed up the roof to get the balls, some arrows. That was fun though. I am still quite good at climbing.