Photos: Carousel Ride

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Lydia is riding a horse on the Qwest Carousel across the street from Westlake Center.

The Fungs, Uncle Victor and Auntie Ellen, have been wanting to take Lydia to ride the merry-go-round for about a year, and after church today, we met them and their daughter, Tracy, here, so they treated us to multiple carousel rides, experiences that delighted Lydia. Lydia enjoyed this activity so much that she did not want to leave.

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Lydia is ready for another carousel ride, and she rode the carousel about a dozen times today.

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Auntie Ellen, mom, and Lydia are enjoying the carousel ride.

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Mom, dad, and Lydia

Photographer: Victor Fung

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Qwest Carousel

Note: All of these pictures were taken on December 28, 2008 at the Qwest Carousel near Westlake Center in Seattle, Washington.

Photos: Jigsaw Puzzle

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Lydia is getting ready to give her mom two "high 5s" after completing the Happy Birthday puzzle that was given to her by Auntie MayLee.

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Lydia is determining where this piece of the puzzle fits.

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The puzzle is complete!

Note: All of these pictures were taken on December 28, 2008 in the living room of our home.

Photos: Christmas Gifts

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Beginning with Christmas Eve, December 24, 2008, we allowed Lydia to open just one or a few gifts each day. Here Lydia is holding a 2009 Melbourne Zoo calendar from Uncle Tony, SiowFong's second oldest of three brothers, and Auntie Janice.

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Here's a Happy Birthday puzzle from Auntie MayLee, one of SiowFong's two sisters.

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Lydia is holding Dora the Explorer DVDs and flash cards that are in Mandarin and English, a gift from Auntie Mayfanna and Uncle Matt.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on December 28, 2008 in the living room of our home.

Photos: Toys at Sears

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While mom was looking around for some post-Christmas bargains, Lydia and dad spent time in the toy department. The toys that most interested Lydia today were electronic gadgets like this laptop computer.

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Lydia is touching some Disney Princess dolls.

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The sounds emanating from this electronic alphabet toy intrigued Lydia, so she played with this toy for quite a while.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on December 27, 2008 at Sears in Shoreline, Washington.

Photos: Lunch at Sam's Club

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Mom and Lydia are drinking soda together. Lydia rarely drinks soft drinks, but when given the chance, she relishes them.

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Lydia is using two straws to drink the soda.

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The soda, Lydia, and dad

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Now it's dad's turn to drink soda with Lydia.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on December 27, 2008 during our pizza lunch at Sam's Club in Seattle, Washington.

Photos: Cake Ordering

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Lydia is looking at the refrigerated cakes in the bakery at Sam's Club.

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Mom and Lydia are leafing through a binder that has a number of birthday cakes that Sam's Club makes. Among these was one with a Winnie the Pooh theme (though Tigger was not on the cake), so mom selected that one for the party to commemorate Lydia's third birthday later this week in Chesapeake, Virginia, the city where Lydia's paternal grandparents live.

A Sam's Club manager kindly called a Chesapeake, Virginia Sam's Club and spoke with staff at that branch's bakery to place the order today.

Note: Both of these pictures were taken on December 27, 2008 at Sam's Club in Seattle, Washington.

Photos: Princess Gift

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Lydia is using scissors to cut open the plastic package that contains the jewelry that accompanied the Disney Princess' dresses.

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Attired in a yellow dress, Lydia is touching her necklace.

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Disney Princess dresses, Disney Princess trunk, and Lydia

Jiu-Li Song, one of SiowFong's coworkers and friends, gave this nice present to Lydia.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on December 27, 2008 in the living room of our home.

Photos: Camera Gift

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Lydia is examining her pink Canon SD 1100 ultracompact digital point and shoot camera.

This gift is actually Lydia's second camera. Her first was given to her in January 2007 by her mom's coworkers, but that one was not a functional camera.

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Dad is looking at the battery compartment of the camera.

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Lydia is looking through the camera's optical viewfinder at her mom.

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Lydia is gazing at image on the LCD screen after she took that picture.

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Lydia and her mom are reviewing another picture that Lydia just made.

Note: SiowFong took the first four of these pictures, and I took the last one. All of these occurred on December 26, 2008 in the living room of our home.

Photos: Christmas with PoYing

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After lunch, PoYing Chan, one of Lydia's mom's friends whom we had not seen for nearly a year, is helping Lydia change the diaper for Isabelle.

Due to the snow and ice, our other guests, the Chews, were not able to come to our home today for Christmas lunch.

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PoYing is placing baby Isabelle on the potty.

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Group picture that was taken shortly before PoYing departed

(left to right): dad, mom, Lydia (holding Isabelle, whom she refers to as her baby), and PoYing

Note: All of these pictures were taken on Christmas Day, December 25, 2008, in the living room of our home.