here they are

Grace and Kevin rode the bus after dinner tonight (which they often do for fun) to go pick up Trinity's 100 day photos. Grace was sweaty and panting with excitement when she came home and told me how Trinity was dressed up like a strawberry in her pictures. I wasn't quite as thrilled as Grace was about how they turned out, but we did get a few cute ones nonetheless. I couldn't tell if they had edited the photos at all, and they messed up the book I ordered with it (more on that below). But hey, here's my baby girl in all her strawberry cuteness.

I had a little battle going on with the photographer about where Trinity's bow should be. She kept pulling it up on her head and I kept pulling it down. She won.

Grace had an apple in one of her 100 day photos, too. I guess it's a common prop here!

In her traditional Chinese bib.

As I've done before, I ordered the little hard-back book that the studio puts together and usually comes with the pre-paid package. The books tend to have cartoon characters and are a bit cutesy/over-the-top, but I like them for some reason. Because there's no where in the States I could go and get something so "distinct." Someday these books will make me smile as I remember how they do things here.

Grace's 100 day book is on the right. It says "BABY, you are my super star." Cheesy, but very Asian. No blatant Chinglish. In fact, we had asked for no English written in the book because we didn't want anything written that made absolutely no sense. When we picked it up, it still had a little bit of English written in, but nothing weird. Now Trinity's book (on the left) is another story. I also asked for NO ENGLISH to be written in the book, except for her English name. I was assured it wouldn't have any English writing on it. But, here's what it says:

Happy Baby, intelligent, clever, lovable, joyful, supreme headquarters

Yep, it says supreme headquarters

Why? I have no idea. But just like those NBA players often don't know what it the world their Chinese-character tattoo says, well, that happens over here too.

Here's a page from Grace's book. Pretty well-done.

And this one of Trinity's I can live with. It has her Chinese and English names, blood type(!), birthday, etc.

But I have no idea what this page says because it happens to be written in Korean!

And this one might just take the cake. Above "Childhood recollection" is written: "You don't want me no more. But I'm gonna change your mind. Some way somehow." Wow.

I've debated taking it back and seeing about getting a different book, but honestly, I've been here long enough that I'm just skeptical a new book would be any better. Plus, this one makes me laugh.

Oh, and don't worry. We bought the right to all these pictures so we're not breaking any copyright laws by showing you our books. Well, that, and over here copyright usually means "right to copy."