Last weekend we traveled with Todd and the local baseball team to another city for a baseball game. Todd has started coaching at the elementary school near our house. Todd put on his coaches uniform and walked out into the living room, Hobs stopped in his tracks and in awe said, "WOW Dad!" The school our local team played against is our people group. So they haven't seen many white people and especially white kids so you can imagine that we got plenty of attention. At one point the kids and I were completely surrounded by school kids who were staring at us and not the baseball game! There were moments where the kids were so close to us that the crowd was pushing each other onto us and I was holding my kids up so they wouldn't fall. Some kids would bravely ask the kids in English, "what is your name?" Ev and Ian wouldn't reply but Hobs got right up in their faces and proudly announced, "Poo Poo!" As it was made very evident to me Hob's thrives in crowds and with lots of people, the other two, like me, don't! At one point we probably had at least 100 kids surrounding our family as we were walking to leave the school- one tall white foreigner who could speak their language and 3 little white kids was the talk of the day. After the game we went to eat lunch with the team, the other coaches and the principal. The principal also caught on that Hob's personality is different from the other two... she even made the connection, Oh he is like his dad, the other two are like their mom!
What 4 year old would have the guts to tease and mess with other kids double his age in a different language? - Elijah Hobs
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