Message for my friend Emma

Here's a video of me from a few months ago. I am looking at photos of my friend Emma, who lives in Seattle, and saying I miss her.

Anja in Hawaii

Here is a video of me in Hawaii last summer

Anja Dress Up

Here is a video from February of Baby Anja wearing a little fairy costume. The next video is of Baby Anja playing in her "house"

New photos

Here are some new photos from the month of March. A lot of the photos are of my parents in Thailand. They went on their first trip without me for 4 days while I stayed with grandma in Taiwan. I was a very good girl the whole time and played with grandma and my uncle and aunt a lot.
march photos

More videos of Anja

Here are some old videos of me from last summer. This one is of me at a playground in Bonn, Germany. I am singing parts of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"


This one is a collection of videos of me in England

Anja little monkey

I'm a little climbing monkey. Here's a video of me climbing at the riverside park and also at the museum of archeology.

Lantern Festival

Here is a video we took of the hundreds of lanterns being sent into the sky at a lantern festival celebration in February 2008

Pop Pop Weasel

I like playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" where I spin around my parents until I get really dizzy and collapse. I request the game by saying, "Pop pop weasel!"

Story time!

Today we went to a children's bookstore for their Story Time. I liked singing "Bingo", and reading "There Once Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"

didgeridoo

Yesterday we went to the museum of archeology, a place that had a lot of pieces of things archaeologists dug up in an area near here. I had a lot of fun running around the museum, climbing up on benches and looking at thousand-year old artifacts. There was also a didgeridoo performance by an Austrailian aboriginal performer. I liked the funny sounds it was making and was clapping my hands to the music.


After the museum, we took a walk along the Tamsui river and saw a Taiwanese opera performance in front of an old temple. This is an art form that is slowly dying because young people aren't as interested in it anymore. It was really cool for us though.

Chocolate! (chiao ke li)

I am so amazing that I can say words my parents have never taught me. Yesterday, I saw a small piece of dark brown sugar cube and said, "Chiao ke li" which means chocolate in Chinese. My parents were stunned because they had never given me chocolate before. Then today, I saw a small piece of candy at the front desk of our apartment building and said, "Tang guo", which means candy in Chinese. Again, this is something my parents have never given me, and they have never taught me to say the word. They didn't learn until later today that at my daycare, other older kids (my new best friends) have been giving my candy and chocolates. My mean parents then told the teachers to put a stop to it.

Boo Boo Belly!

I am growing well here. So much so that I am getting a big Buddha belly. I can't say Buddha belly very well yet. Instead, I point to my tummy and say, "Boo boo belly!"

Ballerinas!

On Sunday we went to a Ballerina birthday party. All the girls had tutus on. I loved dressing up in the pink frilly dresses and especially loved all the dress up shoes. At one point, I was wearing 2 different pairs of high heeled princess shoes. How is a girl to decide on which shoes go with the tutu?

Sunday was also my dad's birthday. We went out to dinner at a restaurant located historical building in Danshui. The food was very good. I ate a lot. People now say I am becoming a chubby little girl. But I am still an angel.

Happy 23rd Month Birthday to Me!

I am almost 2 years old! It's been over a year since I've started recording my everyday life. Boy, what a year it has been! We have had a fantastic Chinese New Year and lots of things have happened in the past month. Check out photos of me from this past month at my photo albums

The most amazing thing that we did this month was we went to a Lantern Festival celebration in a place called Pingsi in Taipei County. There we were able to see lanterns filled with New Years wishes set off into the sky like colorful hot air balloons. Lantern Festival is celebrated differently in different areas of Taiwan. This one was breathtakingly beautiful. The photos don't do it justice.