Photos: La Conner and Roozengarde Family

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Mom, Lydia, and dad are posing in front of a row of tulips

Roozengarde show garden; Mount Vernon, WA

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Mom, Lydia (who is standing on a red plastic stool), and dad are amidst the daffodils

Daffodil field; La Conner, WA

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Mom, Lydia, and dad are positioned in front of red and pink tulips.

Roozengarde display garden; Mount Vernon, WA

Note: These pictures were taken on April 11, 2008.

Photo note: These family pictures were made possible because of four key items: a tripod (to mount the tripod, lens, and flash), a camera with a port for a cable to allow remote triggering, and two Pocket Wizard Plus II radio transceivers (one connected to the camera via the cable and one held in dad's hand to trigger the camera). In each of these family picture situations, 20 to 30 images were taken to ensure several good pictures, and SiowFong selected the best one for Lydia's blog.

Photos: Roozengarde and Froggie

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Doesn't Lydia look comfortable as she is sitting on a statue of a large frog?

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Lydia looks like she is directing traffic while sitting atop the frog statue.

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At the end of our time at Roozengarde, Lydia and her mom are posing for the last pictures of the day.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on April 11, 2008 at Roozengarde, a display garden, in Mount Vernon, WA.

Photos: Roozengarde

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With the diversity of flora and visitors at Roozengarde, Lydia is gazing at something or someone interesting.

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Lydia is standing in front of a large topiary.

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Lydia is looking at some tulips in the foreground with the large windmill in the background.

Photographer: SiowFong

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It's snack time. Dad is eating a hot dog while Lydia is enjoying her chips. At Roozengarde, food vendors set up their kiosks for hungry visitors.

Photographer: SiowFong

Note: All of these pictures were taken on April 11, 2008 at Roozengarde, a show garden of tulips and daffodils, in Mount Vernon, WA.

Photos: Roozengarde and Tulips

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Lydia is examining the interesting flower shape of tulips.

At Roozengarde, a display garden, one can find a variety of tulips with respect to their primary color(s). In nearby fields, the tulip blooms had not yet opened, but at Roozengarde, the tulips were in full bloom.

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A close up of Lydia

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Lydia is holding a tulip's stem.

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Lydia is standing in front of red tulips with yellow daffodils in the background.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on April 11, 2008 at Roozengarde, a show garden, in Mount Vernon, WA.

Photos: Roozengarde and Aeroplane

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Lydia is employing sign language to communicate that she just heard or saw an airplane. When she does this, she usually opens the palm of her left hand and then she quickly moves the palm of her right hand across the palm of her left hand to signify that event to us.

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Lydia is giving the airplane signal.

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To demonstrate how an airplane flies, Lydia places her arms behind her as she walks.

Note: These pictures were taken on April 11, 2008 at Roozengarde display garden in Mount Vernon, WA.

Photos: La Conner and Daffodils

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Lydia is standing amidst a sea of daffodils.

The annual daffodil and tulip festival in La Conner, Washington draws hordes of visitors to this part of the state each April, particularly on weekends, as the yearly celebration spans the entire month.

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Lydia is standing beside the field of daffodils.

Because of the large weekend crowds, SiowFong took half a day off from work so that we could see the fields on a weekday when the number of visitors is much lower.

Photographer: SiowFong

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Lydia, who was wearing her yellow boots, is standing in between two rows of daffodils.

The daffodils always bloom before the tulips bloom. In past years, by the time we went to see the tulips near the peak of their blooms, most of the daffodils were harvested already, and the blossoms on the remaining daffodils were dying. This was the first year in which we saw the daffodils at the height of their bloom.

Photographer: SiowFong

Note: These pictures were taken on April 11, 2008 in a daffodil field in La Conner, Washington.

I Want to See Auntie MayLee

April 14, 2008

“I Want to See Auntie MayLee”

Lydia’s viewing preferences have shifted. Previously she watched some children’s programming in the morning on the local public television station when she drank her milk. In the evenings, she would often ask to watch one of the Let Your Music Shine videos at dinner and / or before bedtime. After our trip to the Big Island of Hawaii, Lydia clamored to see those videos on a daily basis for weeks after we returned home. Now her interests after changed. After SiowFong informed Lydia that “pour pour” (Lydia’s maternal grandmother, Ma Wee) and auntie MayLee would be coming to visit later this year, SiowFong wanted to show Lydia their images on the home videos of our trip to Malaysia last June. Since seeing those videos, Lydia consistently requests, “I want to see auntie Maylee.” Although we are happy that Lydia is excited to see Ma Wee and auntie MayLee, we are somewhat concerned that Lydia’s video viewing has increased to 2 to 3 hours per day, thus sometimes exceeding the 2 hours per day, which is the maximum amount recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.