Rosemary Molin Buchtel
Born 08 August 2006
[Name in Chinese means "Silent Forest"]
[Momo on TV]
[Momo's drawings]
[Henry's new business card]
[Cousin Adam]
[Cousin Isobel]
October 2024 (18 years old)
Attending a concert in Lima OH [Blue Oyster Cult]
August 2023 (17 years old)
Rosemary continues to work at Chipotle on weekends and is busy taking college
courses at the Early College Alliance high school located within Eastern Michigan
University. She is also busy being head of the props section of several EMU Theater
Productions; she spent some time shadowing an anesthesiologist at the VA Hospital;
and she is the Dungeon Master in a D&D game with friends. She has adopted a
beautiful
rescue kitten (
Tabby, with a classic "M" on its forehead
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close friend of Onyx. It's been a very busy year since August 2022.
Summer 2023 - Hosting cousins from Hong Kong.
Lunch at Bigalora with the cousins and family.
August 6, 2022 (16 years old in two days)
Rosemary has stopped working at Krogers and worked for a while at
Busches,
a grocery store similar to Krogers. Then she quit that job to become
a
Counselor in Training (CIT) at the Buhr Park Summer Camp.
Unfortunately,
she developed Covid and so had to stop for a brief interval, then her
friend
Valentina came for a visit, so she stopped there, at least temporarily.
July 2021 (almost 15 years old)
Rosemary has been working at Kroger's in order to acquire
a fancy gaming computer. She had to buy the components and
today she put everything together - it works!
August 2020 (14 years old!)
Rosemary was supposed to start high school at Pioneer in September.
Because of the pandemic, her classes will be all virtual.
March 2017 (basketball) and February 2018
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December 20, 2013 (Christmas)
September 2, 2013 (Labor Day - with Barbara Tacy)
UM Botanical Gardens
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August 31, 2013Visit to the Natural History Museum
[To see the difference between 1 and 7 years of age, click
HERE]
August 10, 2013
7th Birthday Party
County Farm Park
Ann Arbor
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Some pictures during the visit from Great Grandmother and namesake Rosemary Morton
July 3-18, 2013
Traverse City
(Images to come)
On Saturday July 6 we went to the Palio restaurant
For a mini pre-birthday celebration for Momo's 7th birthday.
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July 4, 2013
4th of July Celebration
Christmas Holidays - 2012
Visiting Ella, Jane and Stefan (making brownies) - January 4, 2013
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Ann Arbor - First Big Snowfall - December 31, 2012
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November 18, 2012
Ruth Ann's beautifully knitted sweater
October 3, 2012
Preparing for Halloween
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August 30, 2012
Meeting the 1st Grade Teacher (Mrs. Cole)
at Allen School (Meet and greet on the playground)
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August 14, 2012
ARRIVAL IN USA
Just past 6 years old!
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Momo- first bicycle riding without training wheels
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Momo at 5 years 7 months (March 2012)
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Momo on TV
Summer and fall, 2011
August 2011
Five Years Old
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The first three pictures were taken on an excursion to Wudang Mountain.
The last picture is a screen shot taken during a Skype conversation with
Henry, Jasmine and Momo while she was unwrapping some birthday presents from us.
She tried on a Veterinarian's attire and was trying out a drawing kit (pens and pencils).
June 2011
Four years and 10 months
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May 14, 2011
Note from Henry:
We had a bit of fun yesterday - we went to the local "Hunan Satellite TV Station" to film a promotional intro to one of their TV programs.
It involved Momo (I was kicked out
) dressing up in a little gown and lip-synching "Amazing Grace" with a little choir of foreigners in a church. It wasn't actually a real church - the filming was done in a theme park next to the tv station. Momo did a great job, even though the filming was at nap time and several other little kids fell asleep or couldn't stay focused.
Actually, after it was finished the director kept asking if Momo could be a host in another TV program for children that they put on. I'm not completely opposed to the idea, but am concerned about the amount of time it would take and any possible negative effects being a tv personality might have on her. . .
April 2, 2011 (4 years and 8 months old)
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Note from Jasmine: "I brought Momo to 2 great places the last two days.
One is at the riverside where there is a huge area of rapeseed plants,
and the other one is the botanic park where there are many kinds of
beautiful tulips and cherry blossoms. Hopefully you enjoy the view as we did!
January 20, 2011
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Note from Jasmine, January 22, 2011
We didn't send her back to her school after we got back for HK trip, because
the weather has been frozen cold. 3 days ago, a snowstorm attacked
Changsha, and the snow was 15 cm in depth, which I experienced when I was
little living in a banglow in Baojing. Momo was so excited of course! Now
she goes to Montessori school almost every afternoon, and goes to drawing
school in the morning every other day.
The [above] pictures attached here were taken in front of the building where
my parents live, and the snowman was made by somebody, and we contributed
the eyes (leaves). The reason Mono was so happy is just because her big bad
wolf friend (her favorite cartoon character, she got it from her drawing
school with her Accumulated Rewards Points for attending classes) was
standing on the snowman's head.
Hong Kong Visit
December 30, 2010 - January 5, 2011
Lots of other pictures at
Hong Kong Visit
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November 15, 2010
For the entire set of photos, click HERE
Jasmine's description of the day
"My sister and I brought Momo for the photo-shoot and photo-select
together. Momo was reluctant to go at the beginning, and then persisted in
wearing a tiger suit - apparently it was too small for her! It took quite a
while for Momo to adapt herself to her role, but it turned out that she asked
for more photo-shoot at the end![?] In the second set of clothing, Momo said
she looked like a handsome boy, she put her finger into the pocket in order
to get a candy I gave to her, then had that candy happily in the following
photos.
"I still can recall the moment when she took her first photo-shoot when she
was younger than 1: she was crying, so all the photos I have for that time
are with tears!"
Love, Jasmine
December 31, 2009
New Year's in Hong Kong with Aunt Emma and Uncle Wenwei
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August 6, 2009
Three Years Old
Trip to Yellowstone Park
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For other pictures, see http://gusb.org/Yellowstone-2009/
April 30, 2009
2 years, 8 months
"Today, we joined a very interesting activity: close contact with tiger cub
and lion cub, sponsored by a local newspaper. We were chosen randomly from
50 families who applied (10 out of 50). This photo was taken by a
photographer from the newspaper. This is also Momo and Henry's first time to
go to the zoo in Changsha. We had fun there in the morning, but soon there
were too many people because today is May day public holiday, then we went
to Martyr's park, which is next to the zoo, to meet Henry's Master and
friends and practise Taiji. It was a wonderful day!"
March 8, 2009
2 years 7 months
Skype Conversation
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February 18, 2009
2.5 years old
January 2009
Chinese New Year
[In bigger picture]
F: Joanna (11), Lao Lao, Momo, Lao Ye
B: Jasmine, Henry, Tony (13), Kevin, Carolyn, Avy (Jasmine's sisters)
December 2008 - 2 years and 4.5 months
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October 2008 - 2 years and 2 months
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(7 October 2008): Hello All, here are a few pictures from our recent trip to the nature
preserve "Zhangjiajie" (Zhang family area) in western Hunan.
In the first picture L>R Martin (fellow student), Mr. Zou (Taichi teacher),
Mr. Yang (friend of Mr. Zou), Momo and Henry.
August 2008 - 2 Years Old
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Click HERE for a short movie of Rosemary singing the ABCs song while looking at her English book birthday gift.
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June 25, 2008
Click here to see a brief movie of Henry being interviewed while holding Rosemary
(Hunan TV Program about Tai Chi - in which Henry was a demonstrator)
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Spring Festival 2008
About 18-19 months old
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February 2008
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December 2007
Christmas Eve
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November 6, 2007
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September 2007
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1. Peering around a chair at the Mid-Autumm
Festival at the "5-Diamond Restaurant" on September 25, 2007,
and 2. On stage with some of the
singers at the "Welcoming the New Students" Concert
at the Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
(September 27, 2007).
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Rosemary and the puma
at
the Natural History Museum in
Ann Arbor during the August 2007 visit (with Chris Evans,
Margaret's brother).
Visiting Charlie and Irene Butter
One Year Old
At Anderson Island (WA) Family Reunion
Pre-Birthday Gift Opening
August 4, 2007
(Penny's pull-toy from Scotland)
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Last week of July 2007
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At the Ann Arbor Art Fair
11.5 Months
(21 July, 2007)
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Sample of dancing (6.1MB) . . . Longer sample of dancing (11.4MB)
At almost 11 Months
Momo, my sister and I went to a beautiful place last weekend with my
sister's MBA classmates (Henry was busy translating). The resort place is
called Da1Wei2Shang1, 3 hours away by car. We climbed up the mountain and
did water drifting in the morning next day (of course Momo was waiting for us
offshore), and in the afternoon we went to the farm to pick up fresh plums
from the trees. Unfortunately we encountered a VERY VERY VERY heavy rain,
all of us were soaked including Momo -- we tried very hard not to fell down
while we went down the mountain because of slippery mud. It was fun! We got
a lot of sweet plums! None of us got sick afterwards!
Momo was a superstar and behaved very well all the way the trip!
At 10 months
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At 9 months
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At almost 9 months (23rd-28th April - four teeth so far)
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At 8 months (April 2007) Two teeth!
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At 7 months (March 2007)
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At 6 months (February 2007)
At almost 5 months (December 2006)
During Visit to Changsha
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At 100 days of age
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At 1-3 Days
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Early Days
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Last modified July 28, 2021
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