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Amelie’s first trip to the park

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.

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Cute Cade on the swing next to her.

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Nadia and Eli – big kids doing big kid stuff. (amazed they posed for a photo)

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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.

1st trip to the park

1st trip to the park

1st trip to the park

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!

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Meeting new people

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!

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With Mike’s cousin Janis that the girls call “Yan Yan”

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With Mike’s Aunt Joy.

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With Louanne’s Aunt Paula.

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And Nadia with my Uncle Roger.

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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 🙂

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For your viewing pleasure

I realized pretty quickly that if I don’t keep up with the videos now that we have 2 kids, I may never catch up. So here is the first round that I had some time edit together; 3 from the China trip and one from home.

The first one is of Nadia at the Novotel Peace in Beijing. She said, “Stay at the bottom of the stairs mommy and watch my show.” It was SO FUNNY that Nadia did this in public. It’s so unlike her if people are watching.

This is the girls playing a little game in the hotel in Ningxia. Notice that Amelie is totally silent which is how she was for the first days with us.

Here is Nadia and the Hameloth girls on one of our sightseeing days in Guangzhou.

This is from last week, about 5 weeks after Amelie joined our family.