I'm not the typical, sharp-nosed girl who would wear shades...like mom my nose doesn't have that perfect bridge...but she keeps telling me that mine is a lot better now because when I was small, my nose was really flat. My oma would joke back then that she would save 1€ everyday so that when I'm grown I can have it done under the knife. :P

Mom got this from Claire's for a measly 4,50€!  Good thing they match my nose perfectly!

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This was a warm Friday morning on the way to the Kindergarten. The bag contains my flute which I was learning then at the Kiga. The photo was taken sometime in May and was printed for the November- December issue of Moms and Babies.

I enjoy wearing this dress-shirt, mom said I looked a bit fat because of the striped design... :D

Written as a caption "First school day high."

Meet my younger brothers, D & C. Mom says I look exactly like D when I was a baby but as I grew up and the boys too, C resembles me a lot more now. Both my brothers are naughty at times, and they tell me they aren't and that I am the one who's naughty, we'll ask mom!

I love going up on this hill...but I think my mom enjoys it more. She said she sweats a lot! This is the Gloriette found at the top of the hill in the Schönbrunn Grounds...a place where there are often lots of people visiting and picture-taking! (Mom said they are mostly tourists.) My brother (C) and I feed the duck with pieces of bread when it's allowed.

I don't know what mom's thinking she made me wore orange and maroon...

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Tip from mom: The eye-level portrait rule could sometimes be bent. I love doing that playing with angles where the kids would look up or down...

(Schönbrunn Palace)

Mom and I arrived in Vienna on October 14, 2002...4 years ago and the smell of dried leaves is very dominant in the air. Dad took us immediately here, the Schönbrunn grounds which is a famous place back then and now. The emperors and empresses of Austria lived here and there have been movies shot in this place.

Mom finally got hold of a digital camera, one that daddy bought when he first came to Vienna.

The dried leaves at the background really says it's autumn...the wind was also a little cool then.

This is mom and I a few steps up the hill of Schönbrunn...

January 2002

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I was born when mama still owns an SLR, no digicams yet for her. See, she scanned this, one of her favorite photos of mine which she herself took. Mama likes doing that a lot, and documenting how I grow up. See my photos here from when I was little until now that I am almost 5 years old.