Notes to some of the titles of these fotos of my daughter from various points of her first year:
Jani is a Latvian term for Summer Solstice. . .
Skandinieki is a Latvian folk choir in Latvia. . .
Julija used to sleep with her fist in the position pictured below, which is a symbolic way of telling someone off in most Eastern European cultures, but which is not quite as strong as the American middle finger. . .
"Vow-vow," though being the sound Latvian dogs make, is Julija's current word for all animals. She currently lives in a 4th floor apartment in Riga, across the courtyard from which lives the vow-vow (in this case, a cat) pictured in the photo below. Julija is constantly talking to and screeching in joy about this vow-vow.
