Arthur Attlee Hadley-Ives

Springfield, Illinois

(Ai Deh-Li)

 
   
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My brother Sebastian and my dad are with me in the hospital shortly after I was born
(April 1999)

My mom is holding me in the hospital just hours after I was born (April 1999)

Shortly after arriving home in Richmond Heights (Saint Louis, Missouri) from the hospital. I'm just a few days old. (April 1999)
Arthur taking a nap while a baby Baby Arthur in Grandma Virginia's Arms
Taking a nap Baby Arthur yawns.

Arthur in the arms of his Grandmother Virginia at Sebastian's 4-year old birthday party, backyard of our home on Hoover Avenue
(June 1999)
Baby Arthur looking up Baby Arthur with Great Grandma Nel

Arthur with flowers in 2000

Arthur was a lively baby who loved to hear us read books to him. For the first two years of his life he would wake up crying just every every night, and only his mother could soothe him. (Summer 1999) Arthur in the arms of his Great-Grandmother Nel in Antioch, California (November 1999) Arthur checks out some tulips in the front yard of our home on Hoover Avenue in Richmond Heights, Missouri (April, 2000)
Arthur and Sebastian at Clearwater Beach Playing on white sand in Florida (2000) Arthur sees a snake in Chattanooga
Arthur with his brother Sebastian play on the white sand beach at Clearwater Beach, Florida in 2000. We went down to Florida on vacations in 1998 and 2000, and then we flew down for a third visit in 2001. The last two visits were in February while Eric attended a conference on mental health services research.

During road trips we like to stop to visit zoos, aquariums, museums, and historic sites. Here Arthur is pointing at a snake that caught his attention in the Chattanooga Tennessee Aquarium. That's his mom holding him.
Arthur as a baby Little Arthur First visit to Springfield, Illinois
Arthur contemplates the water in the Jacks Fork River in the Missouri Ozarks (April 2000)

Arthur's dad holds him during a walk in the Missouri Ozarks. This was either April 30 or May 1 in 2000. Sebastian and Arthur enjoy their first visit to the Illinois State Museum in Springfield.
(May 29, 2000)

The year 2000 was a busy year. We went to Taiwan for several weeks. Here we are visiting a cucumber field. Arthur and with his older cousin Jojo (Eldest Uncle's youngest daughter) in Grandma's room in Chiayi, Taiwan.

Chun-Chih holding Arthur in Taichung Park with the Japanese Colonial Era pavilions in the background. (2000)
Arthur in front of Mount Whitney Arthur
In the summer of 2001 we went to California. Here is Arthur standing in front of Mt. Whitney (August 2001)

Arthur visiting a pumpkin patch near Saint Louis, Missouri (October, 2002). We made a visit to the United Kingdom and Scandinavia in the summer of 2003. Here is Arthur standing on the tomb of his great-grandfather's great-grandfather's parents.
Arthur strolls along the Precipice Walk in Wales (June 2003). Arthur and Sebastian at the Centre for Altnerative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales (June 2003)

Arthur riding a tram on his way to the National Railway Museum in York.
Arthur enjoys a pantomime show in Friland Open Air Museum near Copenhagen (July 2003). Arthur stands near the cottage where Pontus would stay with his grandmother on Tjorn Island north of Gothenburg (Sweden).

Arthur makes a funny face as he stands on some rocks along the Swedish western coast (on Tjorn Island).
Little Arthur with Dad at Yankee Ridge
Arthur went to Taiwan in 2000, 2004, and 2007, 2010, and 2012. Here he rides a scooter with his mom and older brother on Green Island (July, 2004). Arthur rests on a sculpture in the San Francisco Zoo (Summer, 2004).


Arthur represented cucumber plants and cucumbers in a school performance in the spring of 2005.
Arthur in the Jewel Box at Uncle Thomas and Aunt Sonie's wedding
Arthur riding a hourse in Glacier National Park (July, 2005). Arthur looking back over his shoulder as his horse takes a break during our ride in the Montana Rocky Mountains in Glacier National Park.

Arthur in the Jewel Box in Forest Park (Saint Louis, Missouri). This was the occasion of the wedding of his uncle Thomas and aunt Sonie (December 19, 2009).
Arthur fishing off the coast of Oregon Arthur Arthur
Arthur in a boat about five miles off the Oregon coast fishing (successfully) in somewhat rough seas for salmon (July, 2009) Arthur walking out into the Atlantic Ocean on Grand Bahama Island (December, 2011)

Arthur in an ice cream shop on the campus of Heilongjiang University in Harbin, China (July, 2012)