Mary and her mini-me, Ling

This doll is Ling, a Karito Kids doll that Santa brought. Ling received very little attention from Mary until this week. Mary said, no , her name is Ashley (A is Mary's imaginery friend).
Anyway, Ling or Ashley has been seated at the dining room table for about a week, and when I pass her chair quickly, I almost think a real kid is sitting there. Kind of spooked me the first few times.

They both had orange shirts on today, not planned, so ... photo op...

Mary sings a few tunes from the little mermaid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgfDEmzleEs


and also


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL8ZVFbr_zA

and this one from Hairspray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT8AiT4DTzM

Last Saturday at M and M's

and one nicely lit princess photo, i think that is the princess tiana?!

fun evening with Monique, Michael, 2 princesses and a Jedi!

Dr. Mary

Wow, how grown up does our little dr. look?! Love the way she put the princess dresses on the stethoscope. click photo to Enlarge and you can see this.

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I don't have a 'red thread' series of photos, but I am working on my 'red chair' series, of which these are just a few of hundreds taken since 2006.

and below, of course, a gratuitous disney world character photo.

http://www.lovewithoutboundaries.com/


http://www.lovewithoutboundaries.com/pdfs/lj2sample.pdf

Gōng xǐ Fā Cái

We went to Chinatown, Phila style to see the Lion Dance Parade and do some eating and shopping!

See photo evidence above. We met 4 of the other families with whom we traveled to China. Our Hunan girls were not all that happy about the fireworks and the very cold weather, but they had a great time entertaining each other at the restaurant.

gōng xǐ fā cái = Congratulations and Prosperity

Who knew there was a Lion Dance Championship (National Freestyle Lion Dance Competition)?!

http://lion-dancing.com/

More photo shoot results: Location: June's living room

Experimenting with the new camera

Panasonic Lumix, so far, producing great quality photos. My model was fairly cooperative today, due to lots of promised bribes (gum, cookies, fave videos, etc). The Cinderella dress was itchy, so we almost had a meltdown for a moment there!

Snowmageddon, part deux

We survived two days of being indoors, non-stop, save for a few 'sled runs' yesterday. It was too nasty to stay outside long.

Today, we did a small, lopsided snowman, and Mary 'planted flowers' (aka her small beach shovels and tools) in the snow banks. Photos from Thursday's snowy day to be uploaded later.

Snow is too high to sled on. The top 12 inches or so are powder and then the base is solid.

A portrait

The top drawing was done in January, 2010, as part of the pre K Kindergarten readiness eval.
The drawing below was done in September, 2009.

The top drawing could be a self portrait, not sure, but I love the little heart for the mouth!

Who dat...

in the swimming pool?

a future synchronized swimmer? I think not. Little Miss "Don't give me orders!" wouldn't like that sport : )

Some very grainy photos of the Dragon parade

I'd like to say that I photoshopped these and used the grainy texture option, but these photos were naturally that way, no flash was allowed. i seriously have to choose a new camera.

Two really cute, happy BFFs!

Great give-away at Maternal Lens blog, for all you photoshop freaks!

I'd like to try the vintage actions and textures out on photos like these.