Our Family Blog – Mike, Louanne, Nadia, Amelie, & Dani
Nadia’s good buddy Eli turned four and we were invited to a “camping” birthday party. His mom Brooke set up the back yard SO CUTE! Click the photo below to see the whole album.
Nadia loves to play in the dirt with Eli.
Elliott captured Eli with the bug net.
Playing in the tent.
Amelie having fun.
Sweet birthday boy!
Happy Birthday Eli!
Amelie loves to spin, be thrown in the air, dance, shake and anything else that involves motion – so I knew she was going to love the park. We were able to arrange a play date with our friends Brooke, Eli and Cade and headed out for some fun. First the swing; there is a chance she would have let me push her until my arm fell off.
Cute Cade on the swing next to her.
Nadia and Eli – big kids doing big kid stuff. (amazed they posed for a photo)
Next up she tried the merry go round (or whatever it’s called) . She really had a great time on this and the funny thing was watching Nadia and Eli compete for who was the fastest pusher.
Here is a video:
Then we headed over to a new Chick Fil A for lunch. It was such a nice morning with friends we had not seen since January. We are going to miss you guys so much when you move!
I want to start my saying that we don’t have a photo for all the new people Amelie has met, but we did have some. In between the sickness and what-not we have had a chance to introduce Amelie to many new people.
Her Great Grammie is continuing the weekly playdate tradition, but now with 2 girls!
With Mike’s cousin Janis that the girls call “Yan Yan”
With Mike’s Aunt Joy.
With Louanne’s Aunt Paula.
And Nadia with my Uncle Roger.
She has also met Mike’s sister Sharon and her cousin Gwen who were here last week for Sharon’s work trip. She met Mike’s mom right away when we took stuff to the Assisted Living place. Plus a whole bunch of people from church. I am sure the list is longer and I am forgetting others so please forgive me. I really wanted to get these cute photos up though 🙂
This was so fun to get in the mail, just like Nadia’s. About two weeks ago we also got the flag that we had flown over the Capital on 2.26.2011 and a very nice letter from our Congressman.
One thing that disappointed me about Amelie’s COC is that there was no letter from the President welcoming the new citizen. I have heard this from other people that once President Obama took office that this ended. You can request a letter from his office and that’s all fine and good, but why not just do it automatically like President Bush did? It’s not like he actually signs it, it’s really just a formality. Seems like such a strange thing to have ended since I think it would mean something to all new citizens – not just the adopted ones.