School friends

Elizabeth had a lot of fun at her friend Ethan's birthday party which took place at Goat Hill Junction where she got to ride on an antique train. She also got to play with her buddies from school.

I love these two photos of her with her guy friends since they seem to illustrate standard male/female interaction.

Here she is with Ken. Elizabeth is cuddling up next to him thinking, "gee this is great I wonder if this is going anywhere, he really seems to like me." And he is thinking, "Oh, cool I get TWO peanut butter and jelly sandwiches."


And here she is with her beau Ethan. Elizabeth is posing as if it is senior prom with her date and Ethan is looking at his shoes thinking, "I should have gotten those Nike running shoes".


Elizabeth and her friend Jasmin.
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A day at the pool...

This pics were taken sometime in early March on a day we weren't expecting to be so warm. Elizabeth was thrilled to get to dip her toes in the water and hopefully this will be the summer that she learns how to swim.

Some photos

Been a long time between posts. I am going to work on that. In the meantime I am posting some photos from this last December that I never got around to posting.

Here is Elizabeth with her friend Keira who invited her over to make some Christmas cookie trains.



And here is a photo that Keira's dad had taken at Elizabeth's fourth birthday extravaganza.

Practicing Tap Dance

So I finally have figured out how to get some video onto the blog! Hooray. The problem is that I am lost in the sea of technology and a backlog of videos. I really haven't taken that many over the last year but the ones I did take need to be reworked so that they can play on the blog.


Here is the little lady deep into practice for her recital in June. This is one of the tap numbers she is practicing for.

You probably would be better off watching it without sound since all you really hear are the parents sitting behind the glass chatting away.

E at Pretend City

Here is Elizabeth on afternoon at Pretend City. We went at 3 oclock for an hour before it closed and there was NO ONE there. Quite a contrast to the usual times there when you feel as if you are trapped in a NYC subway with 3,000 kids.

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Here she us running like a looney tune, as only a four year can. You may notice a little shamrock on her face--yes it was St. Patrick's Day!
And you will notice Marty in his wildly green jacket--which I only allow him to wear on St. Paddy's day.

A medley of photos

Here are a few more photos that I had in the photo files. Gee, I only have about 2,000 other photos that I have never posted.

Here she is practicing her ballet at her dancing class at school. She attends two different dancing classes. This one is a little less "serious" than her Saturday class. Her Saturday dancing class is taught by a professional dancer who used to tour with Michael Jackson--and he takes the work VERY seriously. Currently they are rehearsing for a recital that happens on June 18th. Let me know if you want a ticket and we'll gladly see you get one. It should be fun. I'll make sure to post photos of that one and hopefully I will get the video up and running by then.


Elizabeth trying to decide which sort of candy to buy. One of life's tougher decisons.


And here she is riding in the shopping cart at the market--something she loves to do. She is, however, aware that she is already five pounds over the 35 pound posted weight limit. I guess she is learning early try and fudge on her weight.

Elizabeth and Maria (aka Mei Mei)
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Here she is with football in hand.


Mei Mei an Elizabeth taking a break during a day of shopping

Elizabeth and her fancy sunglasses

Playing around with Auntie Holly at the playground near our house.


Elizabeth and Kaila playing around at the Mission Viejo mall--a place where they have been meeting up since the first months they were home from China.