Hoi An orphanage.....

Hoi An is the city where Jasmine's orphanage is located. Apparently it is under about 3-4 feet of water. These are photos just a block from where the orphanage is located. I was going to send a letter to Jasmine's biological family, along with the photos, but I doubt they have electricity right now... let alone postal service.

new Luna clothes.....

Today, after swimming lessons, we drove to Scottsdale to Capezio dance store to get some new ballet clothes... otherwise known as "luna dresses". Luckily, there was a little kids play area there so she couldn't see what I was buying.... so it will be a surprise. Jasmine now has enough "luna dresses" to last for a couple of years.

The other day, she was feeding her doll "cookies"... which are little magnetic letters. She dropped the cookies all over the floor.

Today....

Today we drove all the way to Queen Creek where there was supposed to be a "Pumpkin Party".... but absolutely nothing was going on. It looked like it would have been a fun place to be at night, but nothing was open, so we went shopping instead.


Jazzy standing in front of the train which wasn't running.

New Semester....

Yesterday was our first day of gymnastics and today we started "Songs for Tots" which is a singing, dancing, craft kind of class. I forgot the camera yesterday.. so no photos, but I was surprised that Jazzy is now able to "skin the cat" on the bar by herself. Just a few months ago, she couldn't even hold onto the bar. Today we did singing, dancing and crafts.

Jasmine making her name tag
Listening to a poem

Yet another kid's fair....

Today we went to a fair at the Arizona Cardinals Stadium.... about a 1 1/2 hour drive on a Sunday morning. The first thing we did was a "Meet and Greet" with Dora the Explorer and Spongebob. We waited in the long line, got up to the front, and Jazzy was afraid to go up to Dora!! So, I just carried her up and she was fine. She wouldn't go near Spongebob. He was much too big. There were lots of other characters there like the Backyardigan, Dr. Suess, The Veggies, etc. There were a few other things she didn't want to do like ride the ponies, and a very large assisted trampoline, which was surprising because she is fearless at gymnastics. They had camels there too, but we didn't even attempt that. Next we went to the rides. They sold tickets in pages of 20 for 20.00.... so we bought one page and couldn't even use them all because Jazzy was too little to go on most of the rides. I had to go on all of the other ones with her which I'm sure looked ridiculous. We watched a few live shows, went to the Princess area and painted our nails, then made some crafts. Jazzy slept all the way home.

Kid's fair....

Yesterday we went to the Casa Grande kid's fair. They had all kinds of games sponsored by various businesses in Casa Grande... parachute game, tricycle races, bean bag tosses, crafts and other games. She still can't reach the pedals of any tricycle yet, but we did some of the other games. Today we went to Panda Express for lunch... Gee, we go to all the really nice places.


Eating a granola bar. Our community pool where we had swimming lessons this summer is in the background.
Playing with bubbles.

Tire woes....

Luckily, we hadn't planned on going anywhere this weekend because our tires keep going flat even though the dufuses (plural dufi?) at Tire Pro said they fixed them. We have to keep driving to the closest gas station 10 miles away twice a day to keep the tires filled until tomorrow when we can go back to the "pros" at Tire Pros. On the way, we had lunch at Mimi's Cafe.... since we didn't have anything else to do:)