Recent Updates
Photos
There's usually always some recent photos of Vivi on our flickr page
Chinese New Year
Vivi's class at Washington Yu Ying PCS performed at the Chinese New Year assembly at ther school. Here's video of them singing "Gonx Xi, Gong Xi." Sorry about the WMV file, but "the MPEG" was about 5 times larger.
Vivi's World
This is basically the section of the site where I, as a parent, blather on about how my kid is the coolest in the world, what an amazing experience it is to watch them grow and how it's changing my life, bringing me enlightenment, etc. I know.. there's a million pages like this on the web. But this one is different. Really..
Because Vivi really does ROCK! Blah ha ha ha!!!!
Graduation
Vivi 'graduated' from the DC JCC pre-school in June 2008. Here's video (very large file) of the song her class performed at the graduation. Video Here
Musicianship
Vivi's musical interests include guitar, harmonica, piano, and zen chimes. Simultaneously. Video Here
Art de la Viv
Vivi really loves Art. This is due in no small part to the efforts of her mom, who enrolled her in the Urban Childrens Studio when she was not yet 3, and has contiued to nurture her creativity.
Here's her three year-old self-portrait..
By the way, Paula Zimmerman of UCS is an amazing teacher.
Vivienne's Lifebook.
Here's a link to the online version of Vivi's Lifebook. A lifebook is an adopted child's own life story written especially for them. Carmen gave me the mission of creating one for Vivi. I originally posted it for the benefit of some friends in our adoption cohort who've asked for tips on the topic. I created this with Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 3.0, which Carmen acquired when she assigned me the mission. If I had it to do over again I might have just built the document with Word or Open Office, but it provided templates and graphics, and gave me a framework to work in. It also provided the Publish to HTML feature I used here, as well as the ability to publish PDFs. Here's the PDF version of the lifebook. These are fairly massive PDF files (they're about 6 MB each):
