Photos: "I Love My Tiger"

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Lydia is holding Tigger the Tiger, her favorite stuffed animal, and touching one of Tigger's ears, something that she often does.


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Lydia is laughing as she is holding Tigger. Despite knowing that the tiger's name is Tigger as she has heard us use that name to identify him and as she has seen his picture and name in the Winnie the Pooh books, Lydia still calls him "Tiger".



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Lydia is hugging her tiger. She frequently reminds us about her affection for Tiger by stating, "I love my tiger."


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Tiger is sitting on Lydia's head.


Note: All of these pictures were taken on June 29, 2008 in the upper landing of our home.

Photos: Country Village, I Am the Gymnast

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Lydia is reaching for the rings.

For the last several weeks, Lydia has relished hanging from various pieces of playground equipment, such as monkey bars and rings. At home, she began hanging onto the dining room table until we admonished her not to do that.

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Lydia is holding onto both rings and hanging in the air.

Note: SiowFong took both of these pictures on July 1, 2008 at the Country Village in Bothell, WA.

Photos: Country Village, Ducks and Carousel

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Lydia is riding on the carousel.

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Lydia is gazing at the mother duck and her three ducklings.

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A closer view of the mother duck and her three little ducks

Note: SiowFong took all of these pictures on July 1, 2008 using the camcorder at the Country Village in Bothell, WA.

Photos: Country Village Train Ride

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Lydia is walking towards the train station.

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The train

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Lydia and Ma Wee are sitting on the train.

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There goes the train on its ten minute journey.

The price of each passenger's ticket is $ 3.

Note: SiowFong took all of these pictures on July 1, 2008 at the Country Village in Bothell, WA.

Photos: Sandbox Delight

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Lydia is walking around with sand in the shovel held in her left hand.

Although this playground had normal equipment, Lydia was primarily interested in playing with the sand during this evening.

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Lydia is examining the sand.

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Double scoop of sand !

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Lydia is transferring sand from one shovel to the other.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on June 25, 2008 at the playground at the Shoreline Children's Center.

Photos: Sun Dress

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Lydia is wearing her sunglasses and her pink sun dress. The dress was a gift that Lydia received during her baby shower at her mother's work place last January.

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Lydia is lifting her arms.

One of the joys of photographing a toddler is that a child at this age can follow instructions. Lydia's mom asked her to raise her arms for this picture, and Lydia immediately complied with her mother' s request.

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Does the words "cool" or "chic" come to mind with this image of Lydia?

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Lydia is laughing in response to something funny that her mom just said to her.

Note: All of these pictures were taken in the upper landing area of our home on June 29, 2008 in the morning before we left our home to go to church.

Photos: Strawberry Festival

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Mom is holding Lydia's hand as they stroll down the sidewalk. Lydia is holding a red balloon in her right hand and her blue sun hat, which has a flap to protect the neck from the sun's rays, in her left hand.

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A closer view of mom and daughter

The sun was blazing today, necessitating plenty of water, sunscreen, and the sun hats. We visited the strawberry festival during the late afternoon for about two hours, but it was still sweltering at that time of the day.

Note: These pictures were taken on June 29, 2008 on the walk back to the car from Crossroads Park in Bellevue, WA where the city's annual strawberry festival was held.

Photos: Matthews Beach 3, Close Up

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Lydia is sitting in a bucket swing, which was the first playground equipment that she liked when we brought her to parks last year.

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Lydia is standing on a bridge on the big playground apparatus with the slides.

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Lydia considers what she ought to play with next.

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Lydia is enjoying herself as she rides this bouncer.

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Lydia is sitting inside a large bouncer -- a whale.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on June 20, 2008 at Matthews Beach Park in Seattle, WA.

Photos: Matthews Beach 2

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Lydia is climbing onto the playground equipment.

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Lydia has reached the top of the slide.

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Lydia is sliding down the slide towards mom.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on June 20, 2008 at Matthews Beach Park in Seattle, WA.

Photos: Matthews Beach 1

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Lydia and another boy are playing with the steering wheel.

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Lydia is trying to figure out how to operate this sand scooper.

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Dad is climbing aboard the merry-go-round with Lydia.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on June 20, 2008 at Matthews Beach Park in Seattle, WA.

Photos: Northgate Mall Morning Walk

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Ma Wee is pushing Lydia in her stroller.

Because Ma Wee does not leave our home during the week days in which she is caring for Lydia, I thought that going to a local mall would provide Ma Wee with a temporary change in scenery and some exercise, so we strolled twice around the perimeter of the mall this morning.

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After sitting in the stroller through one round trip through the mall, Lydia wanted to walk and push the stroller. Ma Wee is walking beside Lydia and guiding the stroller's direction.

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Lydia is walking ahead of Ma Wee, who is pushing the stroller that is carrying Lydia's diaper bag.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on June 25, 2008 at Northgate Mall in Seattle, WA.

Photos: Daniela's Birthday, Petting Farm

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Lydia and her mom are walking around the enclosure that houses the goats and towards the small barn to see some other animals.

As part of the birthday package for Daniela, a farm tour for the guests was included. "A Farrel-McWhirter Farm Tour provides a fun and educational opportunity for children to meet, feed, and learn about the farm animals. We are home to ponies, fowl, goats, sheep, rabbits, cats, an alpaca, Eeyore the donkey, and seasonal animals including pigs. During this 1-hour tour you will learn about this working farm and its interesting history. Maximum 18 children. Available year round." (Source: http://www.ci.redmond.wa.us/insidecityhall/parksrec/recreation/preschool2.asp)

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A close up view of ten piglets that are continuously drinking milk from their mother's nipples in the barn

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A sow is laying on the barn floor while her newborn piglets are eagerly consuming milk from her breasts during the entire time we toured the facility.

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On this sultry day, this smart turkey is resting in the shade of the barn.

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With the assistance of Erika, Daniela's mother, Lydia is feeding a goat.

Lydia thoroughly enjoyed seeing and interacting with the various farm animals.

Note: All of these pictures were taking at the petting farm during the birthday celebration of Daniela Tejada, who recently turned a year old, at Farrel McWhirter Park in Redmond, WA on June 28, 2008.

Photos: Daniela's Birthday

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Lydia is touching the straw that is attached to her apple juice container.

At our home, we rarely allow Lydia to consume juice unless we have guests to our home for a meal, occasions during which she drinks some sparkling apple cider, and we have asked Lydia's day care staff not to serve her juice during snacks (giving her water instead); as a result, when Lydia receives an opportunity to drink juice, it is a treat for her. (We discourage juice consumption for two reasons: its promotion of dental caries and our desire for Lydia to eat fruit instead of drink juice.)

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In her right hand, Lydia is carrying her two party favors that Erika Tejada, Daniela's mother, gave to her. One favor was a bowling set with one plastic bowling ball and ten pins, and the other was a set of buckets. In her left hand, she is holding her juice.

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Lydia, Erika, and Daniela (who just turned one year of age and is sitting on her mom's lap)

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Dad is spending a moment in the shade on this hot day.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on June 28, 2008 at Farrel McWhirter Farm Park in Redmond, WA.

Photos: Lydia and the Kaings

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During dinner, Matt Kaing is holding his son, Kyvin, and Lydia on his lap as Lydia points to an image on her Winnie the Pooh and Tigger ball to them.

Dining room

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Mayfanna Li, Kyvin (her son), Lydia, and Matt are observing as Matt is trying to reinstall the seat to the toy baby stroller.

Living room

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Dad is holding Kyvin and Lydia on his lap.

Living room

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(left to right): Kyvin (who is two months younger than Lydia), Mrs. Li (his maternal grandmother), Ma Wee, dad, and Lydia

While the children played, Ma Wee and Mrs. Li talked, and they conversed for a good part of the evening on this red sofa.

Living room

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Lydia and Kyvin are playing "Let's fall down" as they first stood on the sofa and then immediately sat down.

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Note: All of these pictures were taken on June 27, 2008 in our home.