J Family Day

2023:

 Mei Mei wasn't home for her Family Day but we had a celebration a few days later!

2022: red and blue jello this year! Gave her jump rope and award ribbon charms for her successful year on Carolina Jump Rope competition team.

2021: We found blue jello! Charms are a COVID ball, a schoolhouse for a year of remote school, a graduate cap and a Carolina banner for her upcoming college adventure.

 

2020:Couldn't get blue Jello so we went with red@ Charms are a driver's license for her permit, Poncho the octopus that she met in Georgia Aquarium, and dollar bill for her first, real paying job at Science in the Summer.

2019: Yun jello! Her last year to receive gifts, she has a pearl necklace, some jade, a chop with her name and the engraving done in Goungzhou. Her charms are: a ukulele [that she was actually supposed to get last year!], a pagoda and jade for China trip, a NYC trip charm, a smile for getting braces off and a volunteer charm for all her work with the teen council, for her jump rope team and at the aquarium.

2018: Yun jello, panda tapestry, charms were a converse hi-top sneaker, falcon for her high school, doodle dog, and art pallet:

2017: Yun jello cup! And stacking rings as a gift.

2016:

 She finally received the pearl necklace... it was much smaller than I remembered! And her new charms: cell phone, which she is now using, and a horse/sand dollar for her beach trip to see wild horses and collect shells.


2015:

 Yun dessert and new charm bracelet! Spartan (Middle School mascot), clarinet and music notes for MS band and first concert, and the house for our recent move.

2014:

 Whale from Acadia National Park in Maine, computer for her online computer class, a fancy tshirt for her picture landing on the field trip shirt, a pea pod and, somewhere in there, a tiny letter J. Her gift was bookmarks and her dessert was cloud jello, but with red jello instead of blue!

2013: A large fan from China and many, many charms!

 For her trip to Europe, an Eiffel Tower and a Dala horse, a dolphin for her new school's mascot, a giant squid as she loves to draw and build giant squids this year, and the scissors/comb for her recent hair donation.

2012: hair chopsticks and new charms: a jump roper and Harry Potter lightning bolt/eyeglasses:

2011: a silk handkerchief and a ballerina charm:


2010, China gift was a panda egg: New charms: a swimmer for learning to swim so well, a tooth since she lost several this year, and a long-overdue whale tail:

2009, new charms book for learning to read, salamander for starting "big kid" school: 2008: gift of bookmarks, new charm is an acorn for move to Raleigh and her love of collecting acorns:

2007: new charm is an Eastern dragon for her visit to China and becoming a big sister to another little dragon girl:

 

 

 2006: Her first family day!