Shekina's 2nd birthday - October 16, 2006

Shekina shared her birthday (a few weeks early) with her cribmate, Karlie and her family. A second family we travelled with to China was also suppose to join us but their children were sick. We had a pool party.....


We received a lovely cookie basket with all the children's name on it from Gwen, Bob and Jane's daugher (who are in Michigan) and they would have loved to join us, but they were with us in spirit! :)
Karlie(left); her older sister, Myellie (center) and Shekina Joy (right)










Here the girls are taste testing the meringue before we put it on top of the baked Alaska as their birthday cake!! They think this is the greatest!! We dressed Shekina in the same outfit that she was wearing on her "Gotcha Day" as we reminisced and looked at our China pictures. Actually birthday cake pics are on video! :)




This was a few weeks later..which was actually a day after her 2nd birthday!


Shekina Joy, you have changed so much in one year!!
Boy, oh boy, do we ever love you!! :)