For Halloween

This year I decided to use a nice Poodle skirt that a friend gave me.  And then another friend gave me one, so I had two. So I gave one to my friend Lucy so we both could be 50's vampires.  I don't have a picture with Lucy, but here's me.  See the blood?

See my kitty in the background?  Kona trick or treated with us. It was really cute.  She followed us to every house that we went to in our complex.  No one gave her any treat though - poor Kona.

Sycamore Springs Photographs

We got to take pictures by our friend Mariah. She let me take some with just me. I wanted to sit inside the labyrinth. It is really peaceful there.

My anime art

I got to take my first art class this month.  I am really interested in art.  The class was on Arts of Japan.  We learned 4 kinds of art: origami, masks, print-making and anime. I loved the anime the best.  We learned how to do the different features like eyes, hair and stuff. Here's a girl that I did, I was just practicing.  My mom can't make it scan the whole picture. It keeps on chopping her hair off.

My Award from School

I got this award from school on Friday at the 1st assembly of the year.  The funny thing was my sister Kawai got the same award too.  But the even funnier thing is that last year we both got this same award on the 1st assembly last year.  I also got some gift certificates and a pencil and a Panther pin.

Almost all better

My dad had to act as my nurse for 3 more days at home. He had to give me i.v. infusions every 4 hours.  He was really good at it.  I didn't like it though. It took about an hour each time he did one.

I read some books that Ms. Elsea let me borrow

I love my new brother

Finally I Came Home!

I finally got to come home after being in the hospital for 9 nights.  My dad stayed with me the whole time.  I was so happy to come home and see my baby brother again.

They pulled me out of the pediatric unit in a red wagon.  That big bear is from my friend Laura.  She got the bear when she had surgery as a kid.

Here I am just coming out of the van. I hadn't been home for 10 days!

I got to hold Koa that day even though I still had to have the i.v. in my arm.

The first thing I ate when I got home was Jamba Juice!  My friends Laura, Sarah and Jane gave me a gift card to Jamba Juice.

I loved the visitors

It wasn't fun to spend so long in the hospital. They wouldn't let me eat anything for many days and they always asked me how much pain I was in.  But it was nice when my friends and teachers came to see me.

Mr. Mayfield, the principal at my school and Mrs. Robles came to visit.

This card was brought by Sister Olson from church.

This was the pediatrician Dr. Raja that checked on me when my Dr. or the Surgeon weren't there.

This is my Spanish teacher Maestra Ajanel.

Ms. Elsea, my English teacher, came to visit me again.

Dad borrowed Uncle Dave's laptop so mom and my siblings could skype to us at the hospital.

One day a lot of my school friends came to visit me after school.  I really couldn't wait to go back to school.