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Sunday, May 30, 2010

MAY

65o baths...
3610 diapers...
9 colds...
3000 stories....
Countless smiles.....
And here we are...
our 2nd Adoption Day Anniversary.

May 26th, 2010


May 26, 2008

I can never fully express how happy Aimée has made me. I love my life with her. She is my greatest joy and my deepest love. I am incredibly blessed to have her as a daughter.


Hannah and Aimée playing in the backyard.
I have dreamed for so long to have a backyard cluttered with kids' toys.

Aimée's two buddies.
Making a mess in Mémère's tub!

Bubbles


Swimsuit Edition




Mémère, Pépère and Aimée

Child genius?




Mémère and Aimée

"Hey, Aimée..."


"What are you looking at?"

"BUGS!!"

Love you!

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Catching Up

Well, I kind of dropped the ball as far as blogging goes these last few weeks. I could give you a list of excuses, but I won't. Instead, I will just give you what you really want... pictures.
Aimée's first dance class.


Aimée seems to be really growing up fast these days. The other day when I looked at her I could already imagine what she would look like at 18.

Yikes!!!!!


Easter

"Look it... Look it!!! Eggs!!!!"

So much fun!




"I just love the that Easter Bunny!!!"



Learning how to blow bubbles


Feeling a little discouragedChilling with Mommy
Aimée met up with Hannah on Good Friday for Valley View Farm's annual Easter egg hunt.
Aimée treasured her Easter cookie prize and would not eat it or let it go for all the tea in China.






Aimée is into rock collecting these days!

My sister Denise and her family came for a visit in March. We got to meet Bébé Devlin for the first time.



Denise, David and Devlin.

Kael, Aimée and me

Bath time
Aimée not impressed

Saturday, February 27, 2010

This and That

Life with Aimée is incredible. Incredibly messy, incredibly busy, incredibly exhausting and most of all INCREDIBLY SWEET! Everything seems so much clearer and authentic. When I look at my life before Aimée, it was like watching regular television. Today, my life is in high definition.
One of the things we have been working on lately is Aimée's speech. She is slow to pick up on the language thing. I am now only speaking English to her. It was suggested/ strongly encouraged to me by her pediatrician and specialists at CHEO. With the help of a speech therapist we are already seeing great improvement. Aimée is adding new words to her vocabulary almost every day.We are also teaching Aimée some sign language to help reduce any frustration she may have at not being able to communicate. If you look at Aimée's left hand in this next photo you will see she is trying to sign "I love you".
Her favourite thing to do these days, thanks to her daycare, is identify and name letters. She has even become a little obsessed over letters and yells and points them out everywhere we go. We nearly got into a car accident the other day when she screamed at the top of her lungs. She wanted me to stop because she saw and "O" (her absolute favourite letter of all) on a billboard (Joey's Restauraunt).

She is also into Playdough these days. Recently, she has learnt to roll the Playdough between her two hands. It can keep her busy for a very very long time. ;)
Can you see the concentration in her face?

Good job, Aimée!


Go, Canada go!



Sunday, February 14, 2010

Let's Celebrate!!!

Happy Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year, Olympics, Family Day, and for my teacher friends, One Hundredth Day of School. Yoohoo!!!!! I must confess, my head felt a little dizzy by the end of this week! We have celebrated it all and can now just chill and relax tomorrow for Family Day.


2009
2010
Cheeky Monkey!

"Is that good, Aimée?"

Yummy!!