Summertime antics

Mary inspecting the mural in the kid's play area at my dr.'s office.

A still life with tired toddler in entry way of same dr.'s office.

Mary trying on TT's shoes, and lastly , Mary with the Cape May bear.

I will not dunk my Dora sunglasses in the Italian wedding soup

I will not dunk my Dora sunglasses in the Italian wedding soup!

I will not dunk my Dora sunglasses in the Italian wedding soup!

I will not dunk my Dora sunglasses in the Italian wedding soup!

I don't have photo evidence of the incident itself, just the aftermath. The 'perp' confessed to the whole crime, and admitted that the sunglasses did not fall into the soup, they were pushed!

Where in the People's Republic of China was this photo taken?

I have hundreds of photos from my parents' 1994 trip to China, which have a renewed interest for me now. Would love to know the city or province in which some of them were taken.

Who, me??

well, hello to you too!

Janet in Pensacola, lunching in the sunroom!

Martians invade China

The "Martian Language" is a term used to describe words in the Chinese speaking cyberspace that are not commonly recognized. The words are a combination of English letters, Chinese characters, Internet slang and symbols. The language first became popular in Taiwan in 2004, and then spread to the mainland in 2007.

trip to the zoo, rain in the afternoon

We went to the zoo, met up with friends from our China travel group. The girls loved it, we didn't cover enough ground, due to the rain, but they still enjoyed it. Took a pony ride, fed sheep and goats, lovely!

Favorite ice cream flavor: Blue

Recent trip to local dairy farm/ice cream shop. Mary checked out the rows of flavors in the freezer case and pronounced that she wanted the 'blue' ice cream. It's just cookies n cream with blue food colour in the mix. Couple of photos of M as she sets out to conquer the ice cream.

Shopping with Mommy

My cousin gave this outfit to Mary, and it's very apropo. Mary may be even more of a

shoe-a-holic than I am.

Note how the 'Bear' is in suspension, hanging from the cabinet door by his little ear! Another new discovery by Miss M.

Historic register farmhouse

The natural lighting in this photo reminds me of Vermeer.

A few more images

Well, someone has to clean this place up!

Gotta love it!

mary with her latest toy of the month pick!

And a few photos of Mademoiselle Kai-Lan and friends. Chinese words Mary 'knows' thanks to repeated watching of the premiere epi (Dragon Boat Festival) of KL.

1. Yeh Yeh

2. Ni Hau

3. counts to 3 in Chinese ( I haven't remembered this one yet)

4. the word for 'jump'

She is internalizing it faster than I am, although I am always multi-tasking or zoning out when KL is playing.

Ready for bedtime, see below!

Mary's 2nd professional haircut

we went to Great Clips, a hair cuttery type place. mary was pretty good at holding still. After she was finished with her hair cut, she went to the next work station and turned on the hairdryer.

She was fairly well behaved while I got my hair cut.

One more party dress photo

the lighting was cool...

and here is my improv table centerpiece!

Mary and her cousins Easter fashion show

more photos , pre egg hunt, of the girls in their pastel dresses!

Getting all dressed up for Easter Sunday

Bruce takes crash course in dressing a little lady in her Easter dress. I love these photos, they tell a really cute story about a wonderful Daddy. Bruce took over this task because I had a major muscle spasm in my back/shoulder. It lasted several days and the Rx muscle relaxant pills did not help nearly enough. But onward to more fun and important things!