May 14th/11

..... her endurance

She participated in a kickathon at taekwondo. It was awesome! Everyone did as many kicks as they could do in one hour, to raise money for BC Children's Hospital. Jaymi & Gina together, did over 2,000 kicks.  She was so exhausted afterwards.

The kickathon raised over $900!

May 16th/11

..... her dedication to her interests

Jaymi has been learning about cats (her favourite thing right now) by reading lots of cat fact books. She has read about how to train your cat to be walked with a harness and leash, and is determined to teach Cookie (our Savannah cat).

May 17th/11

..... her friends

It was Bring a Buddy Day at taekwondo class, so Jaymi brought Connor :)

May 18th/11

..... her ability to have fun in the midst of not-so-happy times

We stayed at the Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver, for our one-night stay in Vancouver this week (Jaymi's first post-op MRI this year). She LOVED the house!

May 19th/11

..... her enthusiasm

Jaymi is such a great traveller. She loved walking around on the ferry deck (coming home from Victoria) and looking at the anchor, the ocean foam, the waves, and the dock. She was fascinated by everything.

May 20th/11

..... her carefree-ness

We had a fun downtown day (after a week of stress!) - Booster Juice & a Cobs treat, Value Village, and some playing outside in the sprinkler for the first time this season!

May 21st/11

..... her ideas

She has been doing a lot of reading up on how to train a cat to be walked on a leash, and we agreed that she could try to train Cookie. This picture is Cookie's first walk - she didn't do too badly!

May 22nd/11

..... her influence on me

Going for a walk with friends, from church to a restaurant for lunch. Jaymi suggested that we walk instead of drive.

I love it when she pushes me to do something that is good for me.

May 24th/11

..... her fitness

Practicing a form at taekwondo.

She is so strong and fit right now - I love seeing it.

May 25th/11

..... her unique tastes

Making a snack of graham crackers and almond butter.

May 26th/11

..... her generosity (sometimes)

We gave away some Canucks Jeans Day posters that were leftover from our fundraiser. The kids were thrilled to win these, especially with the Canucks doing so well in the Playoffs!

She is still learning to be generous, but sometimes it just pops out of her.  She was glad to make some kids at the school happy, by giving these away.

May 28th/11

..... how she's not afraid of healthy things in treats.

Jaymi loved these zucchini cupcakes with maple cream cheese frosting and sprinkles :)

May 29th/11

..... her love for animals

We went to the Pet Expo on the weekend. It was so fun! Tons of cute pets to see (we SOOOO wanted to adopt a cute little Abysinnian kitten or a teeny Sphinx kitten), free stuff to get, draws to enter, and fun!

Jaymi's big love right now is animals...cats especially.  She just loves everything about them, and plans to work at an animal shelter when she grows up.

 

May 30th/11

..... her resilience

I have no idea (and neither does Jaymi) where she got this black eye. It's obviously half-healed by now, and it's funny - it looks like she has makeup on when I look at her.

Taekwondo, reading, and lots of clubs.

Apr. 5/11

..... her collections

Although this isn't one of her better collections (the books are way too easy for her).

She also collects eyeballs (yes, eyeballs), PVC pipe corners & joints, gems, t-shirts with talking inanimate objects, airplanes, and ...

more book sets like:

the Warrior series

Garfield books

Magic Unicorn series

Animal Rescue books

and the Frog Princess series.

Oh yeah, and reading medals.

And stuffies, of course - especially Webkinz and cats.

Apr. 6/11

..... her ability to overcome her shyness.

Apr. 7/11

...... her healing speed

It's truly amazing how fast she heals.  Whether it is recovering from a brain tumour or a bruise/cut healing - she heals fast!

Apr. 8/11

..... her comedy

Apr. 9/11

..... her thoughtfulness

She wrote these notes to us, so that we would see them the next morning when getting our coffee.

Apr. 11/11

..... her strength

Her physical strength has definitely improved since beginning taekwondo.

Apr. 12/11

..... her love for the earth.

Ever since she was about 3 or 4 years old, Jaymi has loved the earth.  She used to hug every tree we came across.  She used to yell at people who didn't shut their cars off while chatting.

Now, she is in the school ECO Club, and is constantly picking up garbage off of the sidewalk to throw out properly, making sure things are recycled, shutting off as many lights as she can, and pushing us to become better, more earth-friendly people.

I love that about her.

Apr. 13/11

..... her ability to push through difficult things.

When she really wants to, she can do that.

She was having so much trouble with the taekwondo nunchucks, and was getting so frustrated, until an instructor helped her practice for a few minutes in a private lesson.

Ever since then, she has been practicing and practicing, and has improved soooo much!

I love that she is learning that practice makes perfect.

Apr. 14/11

..... her faith

Jaymi is in a club at school called Faith Girls.

Faith Girls teaches the girls to be strong, kind girls who are happy with themselves and care about other people.

Last week, they were lucky enough to meet Mrs. Canada.  She spoke to them about the false reality of what we see on tv and in magazines, and what it means to be beautiful on the inside.