Make-A-Wish

Something very interesting occurred when Amie was in the hospital to have her T&A's removed. The child life specialist asked if we minded her submitting Amie's name to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. At first we were taken a back about it -- because our understanding was that was for "final wishes" of dying children! But that is not the case. Here is a link to their website, they grant a wish to any child that is living with a life threatening illness (Amie's heart more than qualifies her for that).

http://www.wish.org/

So...we've been trying to figure out what a 3 year old might like for a wish.

So, here's where you come in!! Please send us some ideas to our email: zappak82@gmail.com

We haven't met with the "dream coordinator" (actually I can't remember what the name is of the person that comes out). They sent us a packet, and will call back to schedule a meeting in the near future.

So for now.....got any ideas?

Thoughts that have crossed our mind:

• Improvements on the back yard (like rubber under the play set or a riding path - since she really has no sidewalk in the area to ride a bike when she gets a little older)


• Maybe Disney - just not sure how much she would enjoy it yet though


• Maybe a Disney cruise -- we had been considering doing that in the next couple of years anyway -- they have great kid entertainment every day


• When we were in Hawaii last year, we kept talking about definitely wanting to bring Amie next time....but is she old enough to enjoy?


• Don't think her meeting Dora, or Curious George or anyone like that would be a good idea, because when Darwin took her to see Elmo -- she didn't like how big he was.

So -- think about what you know about her & send us some ideas!!

Til next time! I was looking through old pictures to put one on here -- then I found a folder I had forgotten about -- here are several pictures from last year (April through August 2007)!

These two were Amie trying to feed herself some yogurt. For several months we had tried different flavors of yogurt to help with her GI issues -- the red and blue one from Aldi she seemed to like the best -- but then she learned that she could "paint" with it!!

This was our little Miss trying to figure out how to turn the tractor on!!

Anything is a toy for a 2 year old!!

And here she is doing a scary face!!!