Sharp-dressed flower boy

Ivo may not know he was the flower boy - but he sure knew something was up! He loved his fancy shirt and bowtie. He kept checking himself out in the mirror and making faces. He didn't end up carrying his basket for most of the procession, but he did walk where he was supposed to go!

A band called the soilers played and Ivo n Jade (flower girl) loved the drums. He also lovd the balloons and the whole scene!

Rainy Wednesday Round-up

Pictures from AJ and Sian's wedding. 23 April


Did I mention that Ivo says "hot"? His version involves fanning his chest briefly, a shocked look and sounds sort of like, "haaaa!"

He chats and sings and really seems to have an amazing sense of rhythm.

He loves to eat yogurt, pineapple, rice, noodles and sweet potatoes.

Yesterday, we got the 69Across keyboard - Ivo loves it!

Amnesty International: the US ranks only behind China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia in carrying out state executions. 94 percent of the estimated 2100 executions worldwide took place in those four countries alone.

Hu Jintao is in Washington. His visit is not considered an official state visit by the US - but is by China. I wonder why the semantics - and how a 21 gun salute and full military welcome and review don't constitute official.

I saw a bit of CNN - how I wish we had BBC instead - CNN SUCKS - All the coverage was about Hu's visit and Nepal - but nothing on the ongoing shake-up/change-up in the Bush administration - resignations etc.

I hope we don't get hoodwinked into starting a war in Iran.

MMR vaccination pt 2

And life goes on - Ivo has to go back for the 2nd dose of his MMR vaccination. It is admninistered at 15 months here.

In other Ivo-news,

+he makes funny faces on purpose and to make us laugh. You can tell him to show someone a face and he usually will.

+if he wants you to get up and go do something for Pete's sake, he pulls on the sleeve of your shirt and tries to drag you!

+he love kids and tries to hug them - works well with bigger ones, not so well with smaller ones.

+he loves to read books and has developed a keen interest in reading books without pictures.

+he still says "wow" and has added "what dat?" as well as "yi er yi er" which is Chinese "1, 2, 1, 2"

+he loves to sing

+he just woke up!

A bit about Melissa's visit

So much is and has been happening! We haven't had much time to post.

Where is the account of Rock n Roll weekend pt 2? -
good question. Coming soon with stories of beach and friends.

The night before Phil and Genevieve went back to Japan and then home to Anacortes, a surprise visitor showed up - Melissa! It's been almost 3 years since she left Taiwan and 69Across for Toronto and an M.Ed.

She stayed through the 2nd weekend of Spring Scream Dog and left Tuesday, 17 April - also for Japan and then home to T-town.

Ivo LOVES her!

Ivo's first ice-cream of his own

Ivo's first ice-cream of his own

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We went to hot-pot with Melissa and Sho. It was Melissa's last night in town - Sunday 16 April.

Ivo plays kazoo - he's gonna be a flower boy!

The first picture is Ivo with the basket that Sian made. He is gonna be a flower boy at Sian and AJ's wedding whiv=ch is this Sunday, April 23rd. Very Exciting! Can Ivo walk and throw stuff? Yes Yes Yes!!!! Bret and Hannah's daughter is gonna be the flower girl. Also - Taiwanese weddings have both flower girl and boy so that the couple will bear both girl and boy. That's what I'm told - I'm not sure if there's anything sinister beneath the seemingly balanced plan - I'm choosing to think not.

The other pic is Ivo playing the kazoo - he can do it! He's so awesome!

Ivo loves the beach!

Even though it doesn't look like it!