Amy's first experimentation with cutting her own hair

Amy is over the Coxsacki virus! Yesterday at a certain point, I realized Don and I were having an uninterrupted conversation. This being out of the ordinary, I chose to check on the sugarplum. I found her very silent and unresponsive in the office. The only remarkable finding was a chunk of hair hanging down the middle of her forehead. She would not admit to cutting her hair, but I'm quite sure she was the snipper. We were overdue for a haircut so we had an angled cut, using her snip as the starting point.

Our cherub

Birthdays are a time to reflect on joy. I sure have an abundance of it. Forty eight years ago, Goldie and Herb Shapiro celebrated the birth of their baby, Janet.

Check out the Cherub! We love her so much our hearts are as big as the universe.

I would like to have a roll call. I am grateful to anyone reading this blog, and would like to honor the people who have an interest in our lives. If you are hitting this blog posting, please leave a comment. I will increase my annual donation by at least $2 for every comment left on this post, to my mother's prized organization, AMC Cancer Research Center.

Love and light to Melanie M. and Louise C., who deserve nothing but the best.

Peas in a Pod and Portsmouth Children's Museum

Amy and "Toria" (Victoria) were like peas in a pod today at the Children's Museum of Portsmouth. Yesterday we enjoyed Dim Sum and Glazenfyre. We went to Glazenfyre to pick up the mug Amy painted pre-Colorado. It was fired the week we traveled. She was too excited to even look at it. She selected her pumpkin and her paint colors and quickly got to work/play. Now we have a $26 pumpkin being fired. At the end of the painting session, she was receptive to look at the previously painted and now fired mug. When she saw it, she gasped in glee at the beauty of her artistic expression.

Lovely HRFCC, Lovely Moon Festival

Don and I have always enjoyed the Azalea Gardens, but not as much as we did today. Today Hampton Roads Children from China held the Moon Festival Celebration there. It was so much fun with a bunch of adoptive families and the cherubs running around. You gotta love Virginia Beach and running around in a swimming suit in the fountains in October! There was a storyteller, telling the classic tales of the moon festival. We ate moon cakes. They were yummy this year. Amy was able to have her face painted twice! She had a total blast, and now we are enjoying the peace and quiet of her nap.