I needed a picture of a kid in their walk-a-thon t-shirt for my slide show. Dahlia is always there to be my model.
Category: dahlia
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Dahlia’s game
Instead of playing any of the many games they had at the coffee shop Dahlia created some game where chess pieces moved across the table on dominoes after you rolled dice. I never did get the underlying strategy behind her game but I think the object of the game was to let Dahlia win.
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Trying to recreate a album cover idea
I had found this image when I did a search on the term “sole man”. I wanted to see how feasible it would be for me to try and shoot students from IVE in the same way. I couldn’t think of where I would get the glass for people to walk on. I pulled into the driveway and it hit me… I could use the Prius sloped glass to try and shoot the kids from underneath. Monti and Dahlia were as usual excellent participants in one of their mom’s many crazy ideas.
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Cross-eyed hula hoop
Dahlia is really good at hula hooping. She can go close to five minutes without a problem. She could probably go a lot longer but she gets so bored just plain hula hooping. She keep trying to add things to make it more difficult like doing jumping jacks or dropping the hoop to her shins. Another one of her ideas included trying to hula hoop while being cross eyed. It just makes me laugh to think of her brain trying to make such a simple task for her a little more complicated.
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St Patrick’s Day
Naughty little leprechauns possessed my sweet Dahlia on St Patrick’s Day. She was so mad as Monti and I sang Danny Boy in the car. The huge fit started when I would not buy her a slice of pizza because we had dinner ready at home.
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Irish festival
We were looking for something to do on Sunday so we headed down to the Irish festival at Seattle Center. I’m not sure how balloon creatures are related to Ireland but they were a huge hit especially the highly requested octopus.
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Monti’s photo shoot
Monti set up the upstairs hall to be like a photo studio. She had paint cans for some of us to sit on. She was emulating the Disney Cruise photographer’s setup. She took about 20 pictures and I swear my Dad looks like he has his eyes closed in every one of them.
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Dahlia’s birthday week at school
This week Dahlia had a chance to celebrate her birthday at school. She wore her birthday crown and everybody sang Happy Birthday to her before eating their donuts. She made an “All about me…” poster this week to display in her classroom. It was very easy to tell who had helped her make her poster. All you needed to do was to read the responses written down on it. For example under the categories “my favorite people”, “my favorite things”, and “what I like” you could find the same answer for all three of them…Montserrat.
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Cookalicious party
Dahlia headed out to her second birthday party of the weekend. This
one was at a cooking class in town. They each made their own pizzas
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Katie’s birthday party
Monti watched a movie with her friend in their car out in the parking lot while Dahlia played inside the Kid’s Bounce. Dahlia is usually the one who has to sit on the sidelines while Monti goes to fun birthday parties.
