Robyn turns 9

Robyn and I spent a quiet Sunday morning together on her birthday as she recovered from the swine flu. We cuddled up together and admired her baby scrapbook. She was an adorable baby! Her favorite present was the electric typewriter Angela and Lily bought for her at the neighborhood garage sale the previous day. She'd been dreaming of a typewriter ever since she watched the "Kit--An American Girl" movie and aspires herself to become a girl newspaper reporter.


She also received a deluxe magic kit. The key to magic tricks is good stage presence, quickness of the hand and distracting the eyes of the viewers. Robyn's a natural. She is preparing all her favorite tricks for a show when Pop-Pop comes to visit later this month.



Her birthday party was a "movie making" theme. In advance our girls painted sets, prepared costumes and wrote a "loose" script based on the classic story "The Basket of Flowers" by VonSchmidt. In 3 hours, they filmed what turned out to be a 15 min. movie which Angela edited and polished. (Countless times we have been grateful to the Zainea girls who first taughter Angela the fine art of movie making.)

The birthday celebration concluded with the annual date with Daddy. What a fine looking couple!