Natallie's first 5K: follow up

A couple weeks ago, I (Natallie) asked for you to help bring clean water to kids who are less fortunate than me and I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who donated because together we have raised $40,000 to bring clean water to a Mayan community in rural Guatemala! And I ran as much as I could!

my mommy, auntie rainbee and me before the race

 

me and my daddy before the race

ready to go!

 

look at me run!

that's me running as fast as I can

daddy carrying me across the finish line

yay I did it!

Natallie's first 5K.

Hi! I am Natallie, I am 22 months old. I have been walking for about 7 months now and I am going to run my first 5K! Its called the Run for H20. My mom is bringing the stroller but she knows that I only sit in the stroller for about 5 minutes before I can’t stand being buckled in anymore. I know 5K is a long way to go for a wee sprout like me but it’s for a really, really good cause. My auntie Rainbee, work for Hope International and she really loves this place called Guatemala. I have no idea where that is but I think far away and I would never be able to sit long enough in a car to get there. She has been there lots of time and it makes her sad when she sees toddlers just like me who are sick because they don’t have clean water to drink. I have a cool button on fridge that squirts out clean, cold water. When I am thirsty, I can say “wa-wa” or sign “milk” and my mom gets it for me right away. These kids have mommies that love them just as much as mine does but they can’t just get clean water. Sometimes they walk for a really, really, really long time to go to a pond or lake but it has yucky stuff in it and it gives  everyone tummy aches after. I want to help kids like me have good, clean water so they can grow up healthy and strong like me. And if these people have water, they can also grow yummy foods! My favourite is raspberries!

 

I love water. I splish-splash in my bath every night, I love the water table at play school and I have so much fun at the spray park and at the pool. And my daddy just taught me how to use the hose to water our plants. I would be so sad if there was no water. I want other kids to have water too.

 

 

 

 

I’ve got two weeks until the big race day, it’s on June 22^nd at Riverfront Park. My mommy and daddy take me there all the time to feed the ducks but on race day, I will have to try not get distracted by the ducks and focus on running my little legs as fast as I can. Will you sponsor me in my first 5K??

Click here and you can make an online donation or if I see you in the next two weeks at the playground or on a playdate you can also give my mom the cash and she will get it to the right place.(You can also click  here  and search under my mommy's name if the other link isn't working) 

$100 provides 1 person with clean water for life.

$600 provides clean water for a whole family for life.

You can donate whatever you can, I promise I will try my best to run as much as I can!

Hats off Parade. Take Two.

last year intently watching the parade

scraped and bruised but OK after falling out of her stroller

Every year on the first weekend of June, there is a big parade and street festival in Burnaby. Last year, I had high hopes of taking Natallie (10 months old back then) and enjoying a family fun day. Natallie was so excited about the parade and wanted to stand up that I unbuckled her out of her stroller and let her get a better view. All was well, until she got so excited she fell head first out of her stroller and hit her face on the pavement. We had to leave the parade and find a doctor right away. It was a relief that Natallie was just scraped up and a bit bruised but all in all, she was OK.

This year was much better, we got a good spot and Simon held Natallie up so she could see everything. The parade was fun and lots of freebies (yay!). There was also a Show n Shine which Simon liked but we couldn't spend too much time looking at the cars because Natallie kept on signing "driving" and was really upset when we didn't let her climb into any of the collector cars. Good thing there were lots of people with dogs to distract her!

who wouldn't want a free doggy hat?

a cat balloon animal that lasted 5 minutes because Natallie tried to eat it

even managed to bump into her friend, Emily

so excited to meet a stilt-walker

excited but kind of freaked out by the life-size bee walking around

Simon said he never did stuff like this when he was a kid but he is glad that we are with our little family.
I'm glad too.

I think the next parade is Canada Day in July...yay...only one more month til the next parade!