A Week of Stress and Celebration!

May 16/11

..... I love Jaymi's interest in cats.

Her favourite interest lately is definitely cats.

At a garage sale recently, Jaymi picked up a fact book about cats and has been studying it closely.

She is learning all about their body language, what's good and bad for cats, and she has also been studying about how to train a cat to use a harness and leash (so she can walk the cat).

She wants so badly to walk Cookie.  So we said, if she wants to train her the way the book says, she can try.

Today was the first day - Cookie is wearing a new harness and just getting used to it.

Jaymi is awesome.  She pets her, reassures her, and she is just so good with Cookie!

May 17/11

..... her giggles

She took her friend Connor to taekwondo for Bring a Buddy Day, and they giggled the whole car ride there, playing a car game that Jaymi made up.

May 18/11

..... her ability to live in the moment

Even though I know she has had a bit of stress this week, leading up to her first post-operative MRI to see if the tumour is regrowing again, she is usually able to live in a moment, like when we arrived at the Ronald McDonald House.

We stayed there for one night, and she was able to enjoy the playroom, as well as meeting another little girl.

She had so much fun there, that she actually didn't want to go home the next day!

May 19/11

..... how fantastic of a traveler she is!

Jaymi loves to travel and is so good at it (most of the time).

She has her moments, but she loves flying the best, loves the train, and although she wasn't thrilled about taking the ferry (the playroom is too young for her now and she says the ferry is boring), we were lucky enough to have a warm, sunny day to travel.  This meant that we could walk around the deck outside, enjoy the weather, and most of all, learn all about the ferry.

She looked at the waves below, learned about the suction and the propellors, loved the foam, learned about the buoys, counted the life boats, learned that it gets windy the higher you go, watched the boat leave the dock, learned her way around the ferry, met a HUGE dog, had fun balancing when the boat rocked, and had a lot of fun.

May 20/11

..... how she still likes to have fun with me.

After a week of stress, and some good news (MRI is clear for now), it was nice to have a day off (it was a no-school day) and have fun together.

We went to Booster Juice first and got a yummy smoothie.

Then we went next door to Cobs Bakery and got an apple scone. The lady also gave us a coupon for some free scones!

Then we sat on a curb to enjoy our smoothies and scones, and were given another coupon ($1 off of Cobs bread) and a free sample of a raspberry scone!

We bought a harness and leash for Cookie, then headed downtown.

Our destination was Value Village, and we found lots of treasures!

Jaymi chose 3 t-shirts, I chose 2 shirts and a dress, we found a cute stuffie that the kindergarten class at Jaymi's school would like, and I got a bathroom scale that we have been wanting.

Then we went to the book section, where we were thrilled to find something that is NEVER found second-hand - Warriors books!!!!!  Jaymi was so happy.  She actually got 6 Warriors books that she didn't have yet, and they were 99 cents each.  Actually, one was free, because when you buy 4 kids books you get the next one free.

Then we headed home and Jaymi had fun outside playing in the sprinkler and getting soaked, before going to a Dodgeball Tournament at her taekwondo school.