Happy Birthday Baby Abby

Amelia's cousin Baby Abby (Abigail Grace) arrived today at 8:06am weighing 8lbs 13oz. Here's Amelia's welcome.

Valentine's Day

Thanks Grandma Becky & Grandpa Jim for the Valentine's Day gift and Card. She's not quite up to Auntie Suzie's standards at the memory game yet, but I'm guessing it won't take her too long.

January and February Pictures

Here are a few pictures from January and February. Amelia has been wearing her sunglasses with the bright sun and snow combination. She also enjoys serving us cookies from her cookie sheet.

A few weeks ago we went bowling as a family. She beat Mummy.

We've been outside a few times to play in the snow.

Amelia Bowling

Hong Kong

I visited an island, Chang Chen, off Hong Kong. It was a little less developed than Hong Kong. In some of the pictures you can see the market where everyone went to buy goods. In one of the stores there are diapers and Colgate toothpaste. The hanging full chickens, ducks, etc were very common throughout the trip. Never could get myself to try to order one.

Towards the top is a picture of a picnic in a local mall in Hong Kong. I stumbled upon the mall and it looked more high end. In the middle, outdoor area, they were having a picnic along with some presentation. They were serving pork, and as you can see, there is no mistaken where the pork is coming from.

One morning I went to a local park in Hong Kong and found people exercising, or doing Tai Chi. That is shown in the picture of the ladies with swords (not real). The park was filled with people doing different exercises like this. Some people were learning and it was a 10-15 minute choreographed movement without instruction. Exercising mind and body.

Mainland China

These are pictures from Mainland China. The picture of farmland is interesting, because a different farmer owns each plot you see, so the areas are very small. No room for large farm equipment. The couple of traffic pictures try to show the chaos of traffic. Bicycles are on the interstate and nobody cares about lanes, even driving on the other side of the street to bypass traffic is not out of the norm.

Hong Kong

These are more pictures from Hong Kong. The top picture is a sampling of food, this happens to be lunch. Next is the Big Buddha we visited. The picture of skyscrapers are apartment buildings and that is referred to as the country side in Hong Kong. The picture at night is just of the Hong Kong business district and lastly a local market.