Life in the Big Chicken: Wondering Wednesday: Has Bella been able to make many friends?

I had planned to write this Wondering Wednesday question in advance and life seemed to have other plans. Today is my anniversary with my sweet, wonderful husband. We were unable to arrange a babysitter, so after language we are spending a nice evening together as a family and we hope to have a date night later this weekend. In light of that, I decided to answer an easy question for this week's WonderingWednesday question and let the pictures do most of the talking.

Has Bella been able to make many friends?

YES! I really haven't been anywhere that Bella hasn't been able to make lots of friends. She really loves other children! I recently asked our AiYi (house helper) if she was planning to take Bella outside to play or if they were staying in. She responded (in Chinese), "We will stay inside now. Today there are no little friends outside. Bella won't like it. She will be sad"

Our neighborhood is full of children! Our old neighborhood also had lots of kids, but it seems like Bella had a higher celebrity factor there. People often called her nicknames like foreign baby doll, active cute one, or little big sister. They were pushy about having their children play with the American. Our new neighborhood is a little more close knit. I notice that people call her more by her Chinese name or work hard to learn her English name. While there is still (and probably will be anywhere) a little bit of special treatment, relationships seem a little more real and normal.

Bella was invited to join the kindergarten class in a dance on stage for Children's Day. She was a little confused about what was going on.

Bella is in the stage where she really hasn't developed a strong sense of "mine" yet. She is happy to share her toys and snacks. The only things she gets territorial over are her binkys (which we are grateful she no longer wants to share) and the moped (she LOVES that thing). On the flip side, she really doesn't have a sense of "not mine." Which has occasionally created problems with kids who do not share her sense of communal property. She feels totally comfortable hopping a ride on someones bike or taking a bite of someone else's banana - with or without their permission. lol