Miss Afghanistan

Emerson's school celebrated multiculturalism last week. All the different rooms concentrated on a different county. The infant room was Afghanistan. At the end of the week, the multiculturalism festivities culminated in a parade. All the babies and kids at the school dressed up in the traditional dress of their "country" and treated all to a parade. Kinda of like the opening ceremonies of the Olympics or a mini UN meeting. Here is Emerson in her traditional Afghanistani dress. (Since it's not a burka, Rico and I are assuming it's pre-Taliban).



Here are some of the babies in Emerson's class in the "limo" that the school uses to take them all for walks in nice days. Notice Emerson isn't having as much fun as the others.


The lip gets bigger.



One very unhappy Afghani girl. She was upset because her father was there to assist with the parade and Emerson wanted to be with him and not in the limo with her classmates.


Of course he rescued her and she was carried through the parade in the arms of her slave boy like any deserving Afghani girl out there. No pix of that, as the slave boy was also the photographer.