Xuanie’s first receipt of a love letter

Xuanie met a new friend on a cruise on a ferry. She wrote a little note for him and passed it to me, saying she’d like to play with him. In her note, she said her name is M. and she found Xuanie to be “smart, kind and cute” etc. etc. They were playing for quite sometime, until another girl came along.

This other girl, S., told B. she’s noticed Xuanie since we got on the ferry and she wanted to play with X. too. She used her brother’s hand-held computer game to catch X.’s attention, quite successfully. Later, all three of them went to join another group of girls, but X. was playing with cars while the girls played with dolls.

It was funny when M. started offering juice and food to X. to try to “get him back.”

B. concluded that to win X.’s heart, technology and cars would be the best weapons. Our friend Khaled says X. loves good food, cars and women. Not sure that’s necessarily good, and hope it’s not true.

The cruise ended well, with M. leaving X. her phone number, and S. happily saying “hejda.”

Porsche versus Mama

A friend from London is visiting and so B. and him rented a two-seater Porsche so they could cruise around like what guys like to do. Xuanie was thrilled with the Porsche. He went on short rides with them, and alone with Papa. He was never this happy to be seated in the car-seat strapped to the passenger seat.

When we were going out of Stockholm to Dolaro, we had to take another car in addition to the 2-seater. Our friend said that the only constant was having Xuanie in the passenger seat of the Porsche and we have to figure out who to drive it and who to take the other car.  I didn’t want to drive an expensive rented car, what if I crash it?

Xuanie solved the problem for us by insisting that he and Mama will take grandma’s car. He didn’t want to be in the exhilarating Porsche. He wanted to be with Mama.

It was so sweet of him, for I know he loved to ride in that convertible.