I just read a cool post about doing a New Year’s Journal for your kids, and I love the idea. Since this blog is our family’s digital journal, I decided to do it here. Someday, I will print these out for Gigi and give them to her. I guess I’ll need to go back and add one for ’08 and ’07, too. Good thing she’s still young. 
Gianna Brianne: 2009
Vitals
- Height: ~34 inches
- Weight: ~27 pounds
Places Visited {deep breath, this will be a long list!}
- Arizona (Spring Training) (March)
- Legoland, CA (March)
- Sacramento (Chase & Carly’s wedding) (March)
- Portland, OR (March/April)
- Bend, OR (April)
- Sebsastopol/Santa Rosa, CA (April)
- Camping in Carlsbad (April)
- Camping in Huntington Beach (April)
- Simi Valley, CA (Jordan & Jazmin’s wedding) (May)
- Ladoga, IN (the Leonards’ house) (May & June)
- Milwaukee, WI (May)
- Chicago, IL (May-June)
- Fair Oaks Farms, IN (June)
- Detroit, MI (June)
- Toronto, Canada (June)
- Niagara Falls (NY side) (June)
- Williamsport, Gettysburg, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh, PA (June)
- Washington, D.C (June)
- Alexandria, VA (June)
- New York & Poughkeepskie, NY (June)
- Cleveland & Cinncinatti, OH + a short drive to Kentuncky! (June)
- Camping in Carlsbad (November)
- + more baseball games at Petco Park, Dodger Stadium, and Angel stadium
Favorite Things
- Reading the Bible and “My Goodnight Book”
- Playing with friends
- Going to the beach or the playground
- “Swimming”
- Sydney and Lacy
- Cheering on sports teams
- color: Dodger Blue
- food: macaroni & cheese, “cuties” (oranges)
Things She’s Learned
- Numbers (she can count to 10)
- Colors (mostly, if you count her version of green being “it’s like philly ‘phanagit’ color“)
- A few Bible verses
- The letter A (recognition)
- Riding a scooter
- Pedaling a bike
- Singing the ABCs
Goals For 2010
- Potty Train
- Learn to swim
- Learn to recognize letters
- Learn more Bible verses
- Meet Manny
Other Special Memories:
- We started the adoption process, and Gigi can’t wait to get “our baby” as she says. She’s always asking questions about what “our baby” will be like.
In the last year, Gigi has matured a lot in her looks! Here’s a glance at how she has changed throughout the year.
Here’s to 2010!
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She’s a beauty! Love it. Wishing u well on the baby! Can’t wait to see what God does.
Great idea — I write Cassia a letter on each birthday telling her all about her year, and put it away in a box along with her birthday cards… something to open when she is 21.
I also put together a DVD of all her little video’s and a slideshow of her best pics through the year – that goes to the Grandparents, and in the box.
It makes me feel better about the fact that in her scrapbook she is still about 6 months old…