Kool Kids

A couple of wonderful pictures from Jia's cousin Melissa's 7th birthday party. These are rock stars in the making! Jia does have a bit of a runny nose, but, hey, that's a perpetual state these days. And Melissa, hello, can you say MOVIE STAR???

Beautiful

Back to our regularly scheduled program - pictures of Jia! Not much to say tonight but want to add a few pictures that will brighten your day!

I'm Ready for My Close-Up

Jia is an amateur photographer, in case you haven't heard! She loves, loves, loves taking pictures with her mom's camera. She even knows to put the strap around her arm so as not to drop and break the delightful contraption. It's getting increasingly difficult for me to get shots of her since she insists on being the photographer. Tonight I was trying to explain again how it works. She's got the pushing of the button down pat. She knows how to turn it on and off and that it's a no-no to do so in rapid succession. Tonight the lesson involved taking a picture of the intended object. She got a lot of shots of me during the lesson. I have the following observations about the pictures I've included:

1. Honey, hey, I'm over here.
2. See, point the camera a little higher.
3. I need a filter, God knows, but that's a little strong.
4. Your mom is old and tired, bug eyes should try to be minimized.
5. Ah, there you go - your mom even looks a little bit like a hottie. Heh. From now on, Jia takes all my pictures!

Cheese As Art

Random Monday evening - Jia won't sleep (typical with her Type A I'm Learning personality). It is late and she is playing in the kitchen while I make dinner for the Dad and lunches for the next day. Despite having eaten quite a big dinner she proclaims that she is "hungie". Jia loves to play in our kitchen pantry and while doing so I give her some of the standard orange processed American cheese. She eats the first slice and asks for another. Hmmm. Really hungry I think and peel the next slice from its plastic ickiness. Jia heads back into the pantry. Soon she is back out asking for "glue". Huh? "Glue mommy". Low and behold when I look in the pantry she has created quite the cheese art. She tore the second piece of cheese into various geometric shapes and slapped them against Nora's (our dog) big tupperware dog food bin but one piece was not quite sticking so well and falling forward. Thus the request for glue.

Have I commented lately about how smart our daughter is at 2.5 years old? Wow.

Love to all - here are some late and incomplete photos of cheese as art and also random making a cake with her dad photos.