Thanksgiving pictures at Christmas? That's right. Santa came early delivering a new card reader and battery for our camera. I (strike that, Santa) stood in a line of 30 people at Best Buy with Amelia in tow. The nice people in front and back of me kindly let me re-enter the line each time I had to go off and catch Amelia. She doesn't run away on purpose yet but she sure does wander.
Never shy in giving directions. Amelia directs Sasha where to put the tracks.
Amelia and Sarah. Notice Amelia holding onto Thomas the Tank Engine. This was never far from her site.
Anna and Olya were very nice to Amelia during our visit. We were also very excited to see Olya!!
Vanya helping Amelia with some building blocks. When this was taken we had just gone to our first parent conference. On the form there was a check box for "can stack blocks." It was not checked off so we made sure to take lots of pictures and videos of her stacking. We plan to go through a formal appeal process to get Amelia's report card changed. Many colleges now are asking for first report cards so we want to make sure that Amelia's is good. We will go to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Vanya videotaped the entire weekend and stayed up all night Saturday making a tape of all of us. It was hilarious. I just wonder about all the video on the cutting room floor. When will that come back to haunt me?
Amelia sleeping. It is a a little hard to tell but in this one she mounded up all of her blankets and Ookies and then laid down on top.
The old picturers do not stop at Thanksgiving. Here is Amelia in her ladybug costume on Halloween.
A little iced cream with Grammie.
Looking around to make sure Yoda isn't coming to steal her food.
Here is Amelia eating a munchkin from Dunkin Donuts. We don't take her there often but she still knows what the store looks like and calls out "doany, doany" (her word for donut) every time we drive by a store. For those of you not from New England--there are Dunkin Donuts spaced about 3 miles apart on every road in the region--so she calls out a lot.
More Thanksgiving. Vanya was not limited to video art. He also took lots of pictures too.
Four generations of Perkins women. And Champ.
Olya and Sergei play with Amelia at the local bar. (That's right we are not afraid to take our own baby and several underage children to the local dive bar.)
Becky and Sergei--very serious.
Amelia set this all up herself. She puts her Ookie in the backpack, straps it in, then waddles around with the back pack. If you try and help she screams.
Tomorrow--back to the present--Christmas pictures.
Never shy in giving directions. Amelia directs Sasha where to put the tracks.
Anna and Olya were very nice to Amelia during our visit. We were also very excited to see Olya!!
Vanya helping Amelia with some building blocks. When this was taken we had just gone to our first parent conference. On the form there was a check box for "can stack blocks." It was not checked off so we made sure to take lots of pictures and videos of her stacking. We plan to go through a formal appeal process to get Amelia's report card changed. Many colleges now are asking for first report cards so we want to make sure that Amelia's is good. We will go to the Supreme Court if necessary. 
Vanya videotaped the entire weekend and stayed up all night Saturday making a tape of all of us. It was hilarious. I just wonder about all the video on the cutting room floor. When will that come back to haunt me?
Amelia sleeping. It is a a little hard to tell but in this one she mounded up all of her blankets and Ookies and then laid down on top.
The old picturers do not stop at Thanksgiving. Here is Amelia in her ladybug costume on Halloween.
A little iced cream with Grammie.
Looking around to make sure Yoda isn't coming to steal her food.
Here is Amelia eating a munchkin from Dunkin Donuts. We don't take her there often but she still knows what the store looks like and calls out "doany, doany" (her word for donut) every time we drive by a store. For those of you not from New England--there are Dunkin Donuts spaced about 3 miles apart on every road in the region--so she calls out a lot.
More Thanksgiving. Vanya was not limited to video art. He also took lots of pictures too.
Four generations of Perkins women. And Champ.
Olya and Sergei play with Amelia at the local bar. (That's right we are not afraid to take our own baby and several underage children to the local dive bar.)
Amelia set this all up herself. She puts her Ookie in the backpack, straps it in, then waddles around with the back pack. If you try and help she screams.
