Bella really enjoys playing outside in the afternoon. She has made LOTS of friends in our neighborhood. One afternoon, she was playing outside with our house helper and became playmates with a little girl that is not quite two years old. The little girl follows Bella everywhere. When our house helper told them it was time to come inside. Bella's friend got really upset. She started yelling, "Why are you taking away my baby doll? Don't take away my baby doll!" Our sweet house helper asked the girl's mom why she was calling Bella her baby doll. The Mom laughed as she told our helper that her daughter has a baby doll at home that looks a lot like Bella. The doll even has "odd color hair" and a binky (pacifiers are not common in China) like Bella. The doll apparently has batteries and moves! So, the little girl literally thought that Bella was a battery operated baby-doll. HER baby-doll in fact! haha I can assure you that if that was the case we would have gone through a LOT of batteries by now. :)
We have heard the phrase "Yang WaWa" often since then. We were told that it means "foreign baby doll". Bella has what we consider a pretty good English name, a Chinese name, and even a Chinese nickname "Xiao Hong" which means "little red." Many of our neighbors know at least one of Bella's names, but who are we to name our child lol. We were told that they'd prefer to call her "foreign baby doll." At least it brings a smile to our faces.
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We have heard the phrase "Yang WaWa" often since then. We were told that it means "foreign baby doll". Bella has what we consider a pretty good English name, a Chinese name, and even a Chinese nickname "Xiao Hong" which means "little red." Many of our neighbors know at least one of Bella's names, but who are we to name our child lol. We were told that they'd prefer to call her "foreign baby doll." At least it brings a smile to our faces.
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