When the Little One was Littler (LV)--w/Mama and Baba
Mama and Baby (LV)
Julija's Skandinieki Family (LV)
Winter Solstice 2005 in Wisconsin with Mama
Vienna Wedding with Lana and Me
Blue Eyes 2 (LV)
Julija's Vow-Vow Friend in Riga
Vienna Wedding w/Tato
Caught! (Vienna)
Cute (Island in Budapest)
Julija Still Cooking (LV)
When the Little One was Littler (LV)
Littler Little One (LV)
Julija Scoping the Scene in Jurmala (LV)
Lookin' Cool with Uncle Mark in Budapest Train Station
Notes to some of the titles of these fotos of my daughter from various points of her first year:
Jani is a Latvian term for Summer Solstice. . .
Skandinieki is a Latvian folk choir in Latvia. . .
Julija used to sleep with her fist in the position pictured below, which is a symbolic way of telling someone off in most Eastern European cultures, but which is not quite as strong as the American middle finger. . .
"Vow-vow," though being the sound Latvian dogs make, is Julija's current word for all animals. She currently lives in a 4th floor apartment in Riga, across the courtyard from which lives the vow-vow (in this case, a cat) pictured in the photo below. Julija is constantly talking to and screeching in joy about this vow-vow.
