Best Passport Photo Ever...

...for a refugee child of the revolution

Big creepy bunny is funny

Picking blueberries

Gorillas at the zoo are amazing

The black "scarf" is really mama's old nursing bra

I put it on all by myself

Playin at the park

Getting dressed all by myself

The Joy of Spinning

\m/

Excercizin

My favorite bear is as big as I am!

Riding a horse

Look daddy, I made a sandwich

Catherine Bear is supporting me

In my potty adventures

I peed in the potty

Twice yesterday and again just now--so daddy is letting me run around
in my birthday suit.

Re: potty - I'll give you a hint

Making friends at ZooTunes

Driving with Bear

 There's a bear driving this car!

So sleepy

We're gardening

I'm growin strawberries

I'm floored by the number of books here

Daddy, can I sleep here?

Ilya's first painting

My first painting

For sale $50,000 -- college tuition ;)

See mama, this side is orange

We picked blackberries

Collecting treasures

Swimmingly

Improvisational Dance Technique #3

Don't fall over.

The mess is ON!

Would you like a cherry?

Eating blueberries with Clara

It's really hot out today

But we picked a bunch of blackberries and now we are rocking out to
Ladytron

I picked me a plum

Daddy, a plum tree!

This 'blackberry' looks yummy!

I'm wearing 'purple' like grandma 'TuTu'

TiGerrrrrrr!

Illy and Elle

Vocabulary: 14 Months

Ilya is now 14 months old and she's building a vocabulary. At the behest of her Grandma Tutu, we have comprised a list.

This is her current repertoire, although, she's learning new ones every day:

ant
apple
baby
backpack
bag
ball
banana
bear
belt
block
blue
boo
book
bunny
bye-bye
cat
cat food
dada/daddy
dog!
down
duck
ear
eye
eye brow
flower
hat
help
hi
hiding
hippo
hot
knee
lion
mama/mommy
meow
moo (the sound a cow makes)
more
mouth
nose
O (as in the cereal)
off
on
plum
purple
salad
set
stack
thank you
tickle-tickle
tongue
tree
uh-oh!
up!
water

Looks like we need to work on Z, Y, X, V, R, Q, J, I, G

Grandma TuTu at the fountain

Get ready daddy; we're gonna get soaked

I just walked backward into a chair :)

Halp! I'm been tikles!

Photos

Just an update to let everyone know that if you are painstakingly saving all of the Ilya photos that come through here, you can also find all of them here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ilyaeivy/AGirlNamedIlya

and here:

http://ilyaeivy.blogspot.com

:)

// Ilya Eivy

Exploring the childrens museum

"wow!" she says

Are there any bugs in there?

'hot', she says

Not yet baby girl

Setting a Domino

Seting a domino upright: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1772429

Ilya will be broadcasting live tomorrow (Thurs. July 9th) at 9am (PST) on her daddy's UStream channel:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/atomantic

We'll post a twitter update on Ilya's Twitter stream when we go live (which will have the direct link to the live stream):

http://twitter.com/ilyaeivy

I'm learning so many new words

This doll has an 'eye'

Dogpile on daddy... Nap time

Carseat->plane->carseat->carseat->food->carseat

I give up