The Kwongs, or All About Amelia and Gabriel Too: June 2009

girl samurai

at the asian art museum:

running around, sans armor:

sea ranch

we spent the weekend up at sea ranch with annie yiyi, uncle paul, andrew, ryan, and poh-poh. no time to do captions right now, so here are some pics, in no particular order:

playing dress up

we don't encourage the princess stuff at all, and some might say we even discourage it, but we went over to jada's house and she had a box full of dress up clothes, tiaras, purses, and we certainly couldn't deny amelia the opportunity to play princess at someone else's house. check out how pleased amelia is with herself:

strawberry pickin' time

ian and amelia post-picnic, pre-picking:

inspectors #1 and 2 of strawberries:

tasting the strawberries:

playing hide and seek in the fields:

wagon races, by gender:

graduation

so here's what the kids were supposed to do: 1. form a line, 2. walk into the room with the traditional graduation theme song playing, 3. find a seat, and 4. sing three songs.

this is what happened instead:

1. kids loosely formed a line:

2. kids saw their parents and tried to make a break for them (see little boy wailing on the left, amelia in the middle pointing at us):

3. some kids made it to the chairs, only 3 or 4 actually sang (check out the little blond boy fourth from the left who is covering his ears because of the singing):

4. and here's how they ended up, most of them not in the seats, and maybe 1 singing:

all in all, hilarious! amelia managed to make it to the chairs and stayed there the whole time, though we didn't hear her singing at all. here she is, after the formal activities, face paint and all:

here she is chasing poppa around with her school friend:

and here she is with her school friend and one of her teachers:

congratulations amelia! onward and upward to pre-pre-k!

graduation

amelia is graduating from pre-pre-pre-k later this week, and moving on up to pre-pre-k. sniff, sniff. next thing you know, she'll be in college. here are some samples of artwork from her dissertation: