Playin’ in the Ball Pit, and sayin’ HI

Lisa February 12, 2010 2Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

One year ago, my love letters to you and daddy began…. and with each and every letter, Nana has hoped to brighten your days when you felt alone, or make you smile when you felt the next day would never be done….

Our next goal is to make it to spring… and once we have done that… we will have climbed the last hurdle in this challenge we have had. I came early to the world, my heart in JUST THE RIGHT PLACE, we have had to separate for far too long, yet have been able to stay connected each and every day. You two face a war, and I have had blessings beyond measure at camp with Mommies sisters and brother. It has been quite a year for us all and each in our our own way. But we are approaching the new beginning. We can all be so proud.

Here I am playing this evening… and talking a bit for you… I hope you like seeing the video and wave to me!

At the end of the day, we have so much fun, the campers and I….

The campers took me on my favorite carousel today…

This is a photo taken with a camera phone, but look I am on a HORSE!

How cute am I?

TOO CUTE, AND SO HAPPY

I love when I get to ride this carousel.   I usually sit in a seat but before I got off, Aunt Arri let me sit on a HORSE! 

I had an awesome day!

I had another GUGE-A-RIFFIC day, playing and being played with… hope your day was full and fast like mine.   I will write you tomorrow and let you know how the weekend is progressing, but since it is A WEEKEND, AND THE CAMPERS DON’T HAVE SCHOOL (except Aunt Allyssa   so sad….    🙁   well, I am sure to have lot’s of Mitten State Fun, and maybe, if there is still snow out there, a snowperson!  We will see?    Until tomorrow, I am as always, your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

P.S.  GREAT AUNT IDA, YES, NANA IS WONDERING TOO… WHAT TO DO WITH HERSELF …. We hope Mommy and Daddy will send her photos …. at least for a while… each day and maybe Nana can still at least put them up for ALL OF US TO SEE…. AND IF YOU CHECK OUT MY LATEST MAP PAGE, YOU WILL SEE, THERE IS QUITE A FEW WHO WILL MISS SEEING THE GUGE!   Who knows, maybe I will share my page with the big campers… I AM SURE THEY WILL LOVE THE BEAST ALL OVER EVERYTHING THEY DO AND NANA BUGGING THEM…..’NOT!’   We could call it ALL ABOUT GUILLIANNA’S FRIENDS!   You are lovin’ me even more and more huh guys!   Hee hee….

Love to all…. Guillianna!

Nana and I … trippin’ to GREAT GREATNESS!

Lisa February 11, 2010 3Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,   CAN YOU SAY     ‘F I E L D   T R I P!’     Well I can’t yet, but I HAD ONE!  YEA!

How are you?   I am just GREAT!   Today I went on a field trip to see GREAT GREAT AUNT IDA, AND THIRD CUZ NANC!  I went to lunch, and I was so good.   I had some potato soup with bacon and cheese.   Nana brought some puffs, and GREAT GREAT Aunt Ida, gave me chicken!  I loved drinking water like a little birdie from a straw, and said ‘Hi’ to anyone and everyone I met.  Thank you so much for having a GREAT LUNCH together and being  GREAT TO ME !

GREAT GREAT AUNT IDA & I

HERE I AM OUT TO LUNCH IN THE PRESENCE OF true GREATNESS and I don’t mean OLD, I mean great in the kind of person she is!

AND I SAY THIS CAUSE SHE IS “PRETTY GREAT!”

SHE AND CUZ NANCY HAVE MADE MY STAY AT CAMP EXTRA SPECIAL.

THEY KEEP TABS ON ME, AND WELL I JUST CAN’T TELL YOU WHAT IT MEANS HAVING FAMILY EVERYWHERE I GO, AND IN ALL I DO and caring enough to care about me!

Do I look happy?

NOT ONLY IS IT ‘GREAT’ FOR ME, IT IS GREAT FOR NANA AND POPPY AND ALL THE CAMPERS!

Now I am hopeful they don’t make me take these photos away… because it the beast just follows me everywhere documents my every move, so that you and Daddy,  can see, just how loved I have been, and how lucky we all are that our family is supporting you and daddy in all you do.  

I am so adorable, that every little thing I do, Nana and the beast are perched waiting a photo op!   This weekend is Valentine’s Day, and yesterday, Great Aunt Pam, she gave me a Valentine, Nana is going to make me a box and I can’t wait to see if anyone here at camp drops a Valentine inside of it…. I am so excited to make my box tomorrow.   It will be fun.   I hope Nana makes the hole in my box big enough to fit CUPCAKES FOR MY ARRIVAL AT CAMP ANNIVERSARY, (she said hinting to her Nana!)  

I then went back to camp, and ran an errand with Nana to pick up a repair she had done, and well it was a full and fun day for me.   I had a lavendar tubby time, and played quite a bit today so I am resting now, and hoping you enjoyed seeing me… I love you both, and yes, I am as always, YOUR LITTLE MISS ADORABLE, Little Miss FIELDTRIP, your duaghter,

Guillianna!

THIS IS LOVE LETTER #364! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

Lisa February 10, 2010 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

SO HERE I AM IN MY BIRTHDAY PARTY DRESS, AND MY NANA ASKED ME FOR A PATRIOTIC POSE…. SHE TRIED TO CAPTURE YOU AND DADDY IN UNIFORM WHEN YOU CAME, BUT I FILLED IN FOR YOU, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

To all my loyal readers, IF you like my “Patriotic Stick” pose, leave me a comment…. the colors washed out a bit in tranferring the photos, but the face is all me, and in person they are just GORGEOUS! I am taking care of things here at camp while you and dad are away…. Uncle Nick coined the phrase ‘Patriotic Stick’… and Nana… has carried the torch FOR SOME TIME… BUT Now I am 🙂 What do you think? Here are some more to choose from… I LOOK FABULOUS!

This is my 364th entry… now my anniversary for coming to camp is actually FEB 15, 2oo9, but Nana started my love letters in the few days before as we prepared for my journey…. I AM SO PREPARED FOR A CUPCAKE CELEBRATION! I can hardly wait…. SUNDAY IS VALENTINE’S DAY, AND THE FOURTEETH IS CERTAINLY CLOSE ENOUGH TO CELEBRATE WITH ALL MY FELLOW CAMPERS…. So I look forward to CUPCAKE SUNDAY!

I am such a great personality when it comes to getting my photo taken… look even more cute shots!

And how about this shot?

Here I am playing today, fEBRUARY 10, 2010 at Camp Nana… feeling like such a big girl. Happy and having a blast!

So today the snow storm made it possible for all the campers to see me swim. All classes at every school in the county were cancelled, but swim school open, go figure? It was really fine though by the class at night the roads were perfectly cleared and we had no difficulty getting there. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS… Poppy, Nana, and Aunt Mikayla, Aunt Allyssa, Aunt Alyx and Aunt Arri… I had cuz Brit, and Great Aunt Pam there… I think it may have been the largest group of spectators ever at a GOLDFISH MINI SWIM CLASS. I know all the other Mini Parents come just to see me too…. (just kidding, I am sure they want to see my fellow minis swim too) but I really had fun. I love the water, and want you to see what PROUD looks like again, I am one proud little MINI.

Here I am sliding down the slide into Poppy’s arms, I go under water, and actually today, I LOVED IT EVEN MORE THAN USUAL.

Not only was I brave, but, if you look at my next photos, I LOOK PROUD!

WE SHOULD TITLE THE NEXT PHOTOS…

GUILLIANNA FEELS ‘ACCOMPLISHED’!

I hope you enjoyed my one year old photos…. I know I had fun taking them. I hope you also enjoyed my photos of the day…. some playing and some swimming! THIS LOVE LETTER IS JAM PACKED WITH GUGE – A – RIFFIC STUFF JUST FOR YOU AND DADDY! Hoping all is well in the land of sand. I have grown so much in 300 plus days…. and cannot wait to spend at least seventeen more YEARS with you and daddy. Wow 17 YEARS IS WELL…. HMMM that is lot’s and lot’s of days, but once you get to be eighteen, I hear college and stuff like that will start taking me away a while… and one day, I too – will come back to you and dad, and hopefully I will have carried on with the patriotic stick Nana has given me, carry on with all you and daddy teach me, and bring to the world …. something that was not here before I came…..make it just a little bit nicer, a little bit sweeter, and bring a little bit of COMPASSION to someone in in need…. until tomorrow, I love you both, and as always, I am your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter, and Nana’s sweet little patritotic stick….

Guillianna!

I met a “Geek Squad” Guy today and he saved photos of The Guge!

Lisa February 9, 2010 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Yes, it is true….Nana called the Geek Squad – to see if we can salvage some of the THOUSANDS  and THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS OF ME THAT were on her computer that is currently infected with that nasty virus… more nasty than H1N1 and well it killed her computer so we can call it lethal.   Nana had to buy a new computer as you know and is learning all about VISTA BUSINESS, but would have preferred something different.   It is not easy for Nana to learn new things, something about being an OLD DOG.   But I don’t really get that…

Today was our appointment, (with the Geek Squad)  and Mr. Scott was so nice, he saved every picture of the Guge for Mommy and Daddy’s book ALL ABOUT ME… Nana is sure going to back up these photos this time  – in case a pesky virus comes looking to eat her files again!   

We didn’t get much snow here at camp, but places around us did.   One of Aunt Allyssa’s school’s cancelled, but all the other campers had class.   Speaking of storms….I had a great Tuesday.   I am talking up a storm!  I am able to mimic some sounds and laugh when Nana mimics me.   I really have been cruisin’ along vocally and I have an amazing ability to show my adorable personality in all I do.   I also have this new trick where I ride my little red car, and I know that Nana doesn’t want me to go into the food pantry with it… but  you see, I try anyway, I like to try and reach for things on the shelf and in particular anything stacked on the floor, like soda pop cans, and I want to open the little tabs… (THANKS AUNT ARRI FOR SHOWING ME THAT LITTLE TRICK)  but Nana won’t let me… SHE IS AFTERALL NO FUN.   so if I make it there, I want to see if Nana is coming…and then I peek my head out around the corner to see if she is looking WHICH SHE IS!   I THEN SMILE REALLY CUTE, HOLD UP MY INDEX FINGER AND SHAKE IT FROM SIDE TO SIDE, BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS NOT ALLOWED….  I am soooooo funny when I do this, it makes Nana laugh!

I hope you and dad are well.   I got a text message from Momma today!  Can you believe that… all the way from Iraq to Nana’s phone…. a message!  What an amazing world we live in.

My one year anniversary at camp is fast approaching… and I am excited because it is an excuse for Nana to make me a cup cake don’t you think?   I think after 365 days at camp, being not only LITTLE MISS ADORABLE, and Little Miss Sweet and so many other amazing adjectives, I think A GOOD CUPCAKE FOR GUILLIANNA’S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY AT CAMP IS AN EXCEELENT IDEA!   I better get deciding on what flavor I want, and let Nana know soon…

Until tomorrow, Mom and Dad, I am as always your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!