Papparrazzi

I always wondered what it would be like to have swarms of people taking my picture, or asking to give me a hug or hand shake. That is my life now. Wherever we go, my kids are the talk of the town. We are constantly stared at, pointed at, said hello to, touched and asked for pictures.
Oldest child loved the attention at first. She said she felt famous. Now she will politely let people take pictures. She had a school mate ask if she could touch her hair. Oldest child replied only if she could touch the other girls hair. She said the Korean girls hair is more corse, while hers is more fine. When I trimmed her hair this week she wanted to save it in a bag to give to"a lucky Chinese person". Thinking this was weird, I threw the hair away.
Child #2 will stand still for pictures but is usually scowling. She will kick and scream when they try to pick her up.
Child #3 will usually wave at people and will smile for pictures.
Brandon has told me people say they want to hug my kids, this has never happened until this week. The girls and I were walking to the market and an old man approached us with his arms open and totally went in for a hug. The kids eyes were as big as 50 cent pieces and they started to back away so I put myself in between them and the man, gave him an awkward hug and talked to him for a minute.
If WeChat ever gets facial recognition, I think we are going to get hundreds of notifications of being tagged in photos. These are a few pictures I snapped of people taking pictures of my kids or gawking at my kids.

                                                              I think this picture is so tender. Both girls

had huge smiles on their faces, like old

friends reuniting.