Princess Lauren.

Lauren the Bear.

This is Amelia's recital video. I will post the others as well.

Amelia's Birthday Party! Listen for what she wishes for. What a great girl!

A friend pointed out that you can load videos now and I thought that this one is cool.

This was the Australian Sway Pole performance that was at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival this year.

Lauren really likes dolls. She hugs them and drags them around with her. It is so interesting how she and Amelia are quite different in this regard. However they both love bread as can be seen below. Go wheat bread!

It has taken me a year and 1/2, but I was finally able to bring myself to make Jiaozi. We had the young men over to help roll them out and stuff them. Everyone tried, but they didn't think they did a very good job. Unfortunately I didn't think to take a picture until the very end and these were ones that I did. Amelia's favorite part was the skin and Lauren liked it all. After I ate a couple I declared that it was still too soon for me and will happily wait until Chinese new year to make them again. They were good though so I don't understand why I get so nauseated still.

Here are some photos from Amelia's Birthday party.

As you can see Lauren also enjoyed the cake. I posted the picture that is on top because I thought is was remarkable how much Lauren and Amelia look alike when they are both making the same face. The chin of course helps since they both have clefts like me.