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Joy freed from the bond of earth's slumber

rushes into numberless leaves

and dances in the air for a day.

Rabindranath Tagore

Happy birthday to the sweet April child iza!

The artwork was inspired by Jessica Kerbawy's crayon art and 

was done in the summer of 2012 by iza ... 

It seems a nice match with Marie et Rose-Alice's robe Floria. 

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All these years, we have made quite a number of pictures in front of the grey wall. As a little present for her 10th birthday, I make a collage. When composing the images, i realize how significant the first horizontal line above the floor is.  It marks the relative heights of iza during different periods of time. The line, is 850mm above floor level. Measured this morning, she's now 1474mm H ... A little visual diary ... A little growing chart ...

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My baby girl is now 8.

Happy birthday my dear!

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Iza is 7 today.
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1M IZA

It was like yesterday.
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We spend some quiet time to do paper crafts. Beautiful time.
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These wonderful things are from here, discovered via here.

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This little series of daily count down is a birthday present to iza.

Secret codes are added to the end of posts from April 15, 2010 " COTTON TREE" to the last post. As may notice, pictures of baby iza (from 6M to 1M) are published in a backward order on the latest ones ... with an intention ... of bringing myself back to her day of birth. Also, I try to cover her artworks, little words, thoughts, and the pictures of her on a trolley are a record of our preparation of her party ... I feel SO difficult to put all related materials together ... but it worths, after all.

I have reorganized the labels under posts to make a better navigation. A section named "LABEL" is added to the bottom of the right column. What triggered me to do so was an email from a curious mama. Thanks Aisha.

I would never try to think other possibilities for browsing my own blog, which I do always flip through ... I would never imagine one may interest in searching information on how I raised iza, which I'm still searching my way ...

I wish, the labels could help a little ... but it may not answer directly to the question asked. I would try my best to do a sharing post on it.

Among all categories, I love the " little dialogue " most. Whenever I read iza's words and thoughts, they made me smile. Another highlight is the "little trip" which is the most fascinating collection of photos.

BIRTHDAY

It was already a month ago!
No longer do I insist to finish the trip photos first ...





Her teachers and classmates.

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Yesterday was iza's birthday.
She's now 6!

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We've been to London and Milan for the last 10 days. I thought I could manage to write something during the trip, however it's too rushed ... and tired ...

Lots of materials to organize ...

Iza & her birthday present.