It was Christmas again, December 25th.
A day of grief and regret.
It was Jing Xi’s birthday, as well as her two boys’. Moreover, it was the day Little Apple went missing.
No one wanted to celebrate. But the elderly people prepared the grabbing game for Little Grape as a traditional way of celebrating a baby’s first birthday.
The couple invited Jing Xi’s grandfather and uncle, as well as Huo Yunshen’s two sisters to witness the game.
The lunch was hosted in the presidential palace. After lunch, Jing Ruyue placed various objects on the mat and covered them with a piece of red silk.
Then they put Little Grape on the mat and asked him to go pick something up.
They all took out their phones to record this interesting game and encouraged Little Grape to start.
“Brother, come, come! There is lots of good stuff here!”
Ying Bao squatted at the other end of the red cloth and tried to attract Little Grape.
Little Grape seemed have understood his sister’s words and started crawling. When he reached the edge of the red cloth Ying Bao uncovered it as her grandmother instructed. “There you go! Pick one, brother!”
There was a pen, a toy, a phone, an abacus, some cash, a book, and a boiled egg.
“Little Grape, hurry up! Pick something!”
“Come on, son!”
Everyone was encouraging him. Little Grape looked around but picked nothing.
Instead, he stood up unsteadily, reached out his arms and walked toward Jing Xi.
He had barely walked two or three steps before he fell by his mother’s feet and cuddled on her leg.
“Haha, what is this about? You picked your mommy?”
Jing Xi was made speechless.
He was probably the only one who had picked his mother in the game throughout a hundred years.
Everyone burst into laughter. But Huo Sanyan realized something and got excited. “Wow! Didn’t you see that? My nephew just took his first steps!”
“Oh, yeah! He walked there by himself just now. Didn’t he?”
Then Jing Xi realized that her son was finally making his first steps on his one year birthday. It was a big surprise.
They were all amazed. Helian Qingyu put him back onto the mat and said seriously, “Hey, boy. No matter how you like your mother, you are not growing up into a mama’s boy. OK? Come on, let’s do it again. Be tough and pick something from there.”
Under their encouragement, Little Grape was asked to play again.
To everyone’s surprise, he still picked nothing this time, as if the things were of no interest at all. Instead, he crawled toward Jing Xi and cuddled her leg once again.
Jing Xi lifted him up and laughed. “What happened? Why are you so into me today? Are you a compass and I the north pole?”
They could not help laughing. Huo Sanyan said, “Does Little Grape have a mommy GPS? He can locate his mother instantly. That is also something impressive!”
“How could that be possible? Let’s try again!”
Helian Qingyu wanted to play a new game called Little Grape Looking For Mother.
He asked the women to sit on the mat, each with a scarf covering their face.
Again, Little Grape found his mother without difficulty.
“That was amazing! Did he recognize your clothes? Let’s try switching your clothes.”
Jing Xi switched her clothes with Huo Sanyan and stayed behind the couch to watch.
They placed the boy on the mat again and asked him to find his mother.
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