Peekaboo!!!

Playing "peekaboo" while having lunch at a restaurant in Box Hill

Needless to say, lunch time took quite a while.....

X'mas dinner at Auntie Jean's house, Epping

Aunite Jean, Auntie Jo and a dog called wohwoh.....

Merry X'mas!!!

X'mas Eve at the Crown, Southbank

Dinner at Greco Restaurant with Grand Auntie Madeline and my uncles & aunties

My aunties Chen Yan and Chen Lynn

Ryan's First

Yes! Happy Birthday to me!!!

1 year old I am!

Happy Birthday Ryan!!!

Poll results in!!! I look more like ......

MY DAD!!!

That's the consensus I've got from my first poll : Do I look more like my mom or my dad?

The results are:

"More like my dad": 10 (40%)
"Equally": 9 (36%)
"More like my mom": 6 (24%)

25 people voted. Thank you to one and all who had participated!!!

Epilogue: Take heart mom, I voted for you!

Uncle Ken's graduation......

Uncle Ken's graduation
Bachelor of Commerce, University of Melbourne

Uncle Ken, me and mom

Front: Mom, me, Uncle Ken, Uncle Jay Re, Grandaunt Madeline
Back: Auntie Chen Yan, Uncle Jay Zern, Auntie Chen Lynn

Leave 6 babies on their own.....

and you'll get this.....

Totally out of control!!!
(so they say, but what do they know about playtime?)

The happy babies are Ava, Natasha, Jackson, Archie, Liam and yours truly!!!

Hello, hello......

This is how I seek attention! Irresistible, you say?

All dressed up for summer?

Yes, indeed! Here in Melbourne we are having very usually wet and cold summer with consecutive rainy days and flash flooding! This is likely the rudimentary effects of climatic change caused by global environmental deterioration and exploitation. Not good. They reckoned the earth has another 50 years if this kept pace and allowed to continue unabated. Really not good at all, folks!

Please think of the environment and our world, of my generation and of your children!!! Do your bit to ensure a save and secured future........

H.A.P.P.Y. B.I.R.T.H.D.A.Y. G.R.A.N.D.M.A. !!!

10 days to go.........

It is 10 days to the close of voting.

Have your say: do I look more like my mom or my dad, or equally between the two?

Thanks for voting!!!

I love swimming!!!

Lots of fun!!!

Nunawading Aqualink at Forest Hill

Lunch at Maling Road, Canterbury

Had a wonderful lunch at Cafe Eden with Auntie FeiFei and Auntie Pauline. Later we had drinks over at Xocolatl, where I downed a full cup of babycino!!!

Ha:P:Py Birthday to......

AUNTiiiE FONG!!!

Babycino at KoKo Black!!!

YUMMIE!!!

Lunch at Lygon St, Carlton, with the Abdoush Family....

Auntie Alissar and Tia....

Uncle Shady and Tia

Party Brawl!!!.....

.....A friendly "tussle" with Liam....!!!

Picnic at Jells Park, Wheelers Hill

This is our Mothers' Group X'mas Party in the park!

We all had fun, especially us babies!!!

....the gang, from left, Natasha, Emily, Jackson, me, Liam, Archie and Ava in front (absent: Hailey) ........

My X'mas present! A "talking" frog....

.......and a reindeer story book!!!

To the doctor........

Had to be brave, and I was (See my smiley sticker)

Cool, huh?

See you again, Japan!!!

Leaving Kyoto for Osaka on the shinkansen, and then to Kansai Airport

Alright! time for a nap on the plane. Mom, could you move your stuff?
Back to Melbourne!!!

The Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, Kyoto

Behind me, the kitsune (fox), a messenger with a key in its mouth for the rice granary

A torii (Japanese gate)-lined meandering footpath. We overcame this with my 3-wheeled pram no less!!!