I am trying so hard to wrap my little head around everything that I want to share. We have big things planned for Aaliyah's Journey this year. A few nights ago I sat down and tried to map out exactly what I wanted to achieve this year for Aaliyah's Journey. Putting pen to paper was daunting. The task ahead seems so overwhelming and there is so much work to be done. But we are prepared. We will work and we will get Aaliyah to the states!!!
Firstly, I sat down and did a month by month breakdown of what I want to achieve or the fundraising activities that we have planned. We have enough fundraisers for the next year. We were hoping to get Aaliyah to California this June/July/August (we need to go during summer due to Aaliyah's asthma). However even though she is now 3 years old she still is yet to meet the weight requirement.
Which bought me to How can you fatten up a fussy 3 year old WITHOUT using junk food. We have restarted her on sustagen and have added an iron supplement to her multivitamin. We are trying to offer her more high (good) fat foods such as yogurt. We have been using ice blocks as a reward for eating her dinner. Aaliyah is extremely active however so even though we fill her up, she will probably just burn it of, but we are trying none the less to get her weight up. She needs to be 15 kgs for the operation and she is only 13. So it looks like it will be May/June/July/August next year. But thats ok. It gives us time to fundraise and get more prepared (none of us have passports that are in date!!).
I am also taking time to write to the local newspaper etc as well as contact rotary and the lions. We are continuing to sell our Cadbury fundraiser chocolates and hold our monthly garage sales. We have 2 trivia nights planned and a big auction dinner. Like I said, its going to be busy and its going to be tiring but its going to be worth it.
Enough words for now. Here are some photos of the beautiful little lady herself. We have enjoyed having a break from our usual activities as everything stops over summer and I have had a wonderful six weeks of work. But we are more than ready to get back into the swing of things now (well the girls activities, I could quite happily stay away from work!!!)
Aaliyah and her sister at Seaworld - We had to chose between a hearing aid and a hat - it was such a hot day that the hat won. (We have also had terrible troubles with her hearing aid and the one we have at the moment is a loaner from Australian Hearing whilst hers is being fixed!!)
Aaliyah turns 3!!! We celebrated with a small tinkerbell party (her request), family and her best friend Olivia!!
She was so happy to meet Dorothy the Dinosaur at Dreamworld a few weeks back!!!
Aaliyah and Hadassah enjoying their Christmas Present from us and the extended family (a 15ft Trampoline) (no wonder she wont put on weight, she wont stop bouncing!!!)
If you have made it to the end of this post well done.
Next up more about Aaliyahs speech and language plus more details on our fundraising and how you can help!!!
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