Dress Up

Aminah loves to dress up. Mostly she likes to be a "princess" but she also likes to wear a sheet over her head and run around in the front yard, or just putting a lamp shade on her head will work also. Hmmm.

Aminah takes to swimming

Although she was a little reluctant in large pools Aminah enjoyed playing in the little 1 foot pool in Bear Valley and also staying on the steps of larger pools. We went to play with Luke and Linsey a few times this summer. One day we went to pick up our church's China mission team from the LAX airport and we were waiting at the hotel and Aminah went for a dip in their pool. Next year she will hopefully take swimming lessons.

My China Doll

We are very lucky to have friends that travel to China and pick up dresses for Aminah. "Guncle Sing" and "Auntie Nette" went to Hong Kong and bought Aminah this gorgous lavender dress. When my friend "Aunt Libby" went to China to pick up her second china baby she got a parasol for Aminah. I try to keep some of Aminah's first heritage in her life so that she will appreciate where she came from.

Aminah's 3rd Birthday

Disneyland - July 2007

5 Minutes For Mom

I've just discovered a new website that I think is pretty cool. http://www.5minutesformom.com/ It seems they have contests and this weeks contest is giving away a Flat Panel LCD HDTV. Wow I'm not even sure what all that means but I'm sure I NEED it as Aminah would say. She always NEEDS things (hmmmm does she get that from her mommy?). Anyway if you go to that site you could also sign up to win. Best Buy is sponsering the give away and although I would hate to have a bunch of people sign up to win, because that means that I might not win it. If I can't win it though it would be cool to know that someone won because I told them about it. (OK who am I fooling, I WANT to win)

Aminah goes to her first big screen movie.

Aminah went to her very first big screen movie. I decided to give it a try and see if she could handle a movie at a movie theater. Our friends were going and I thought maybe there would be safty in numbers. We met Terri, Keli, Brenda, Kaitlin, Pat, Kaitlin's two cousins, and Jackie at the theater for the showing of Ratatouille. It was a success! She sat through the movie and just got a little restless towards the end, but nothing popcorn and Rice Krispie snacks couldn't help. Since her first movie was such a success a few days later we decided to take a trip to Disneyland to see how that went.
You will need to view our slide show of that. We ended up getting to Disneyland around 10:30 am and stayed until lunch. We then went to Terri's Aunt Glenna's house for a little rest. Silly me had hoped she would take a nap, I easily could have, but at least she was able to rest. Then we went back to Disneyland and ended up staying until almost midnight. By the time we made it to the car it was officially midnight. She did great. She is offically a Disney girl!

4th of July 2007

Tashia Visits

My niece, Tashia came to visit one warm summer day. So we took off for Tehachapi where it is about 10 degrees cooler. It was a great visit and Aminah was able to play with Luke and Linsey for a little while also. Tashia lives in Texas so we don't get to see her too often. It was nice to be able to catch up.