Day: May 9, 2007

We went hiking on the Kulm, a nearby mountain. My grandparents had a country home on the Kulm, and I spend many week ends with family and later vacation weeks with friends in this area, and enjoy it a lot to come back.

These photos were taken in my mom’s garden in Gleisdorf: Leilani likes to play among the colorful flowers.

Leilani, Trude and Gerd with Lara the dog and Pauli the cat. Unfortunatelly I noticed the finger print on the lens too late…

One of my mom’s prettiest flowers, a peonie (Pfingstrose).

Mimi, Leilani’s favorite cat likes to hide in the bushes.

We went to Kaernten to see Klaus and his family: Here Lilith introduces her little cousin to icecream

The whole family: Klaus and Inge with their son Kiron and daughter Lilith:

Leilani likes all horsies, big, small, real or mechanical

even the ones whose ears are a little longer …

Andy left Austria today in the morning and Leilani is completely surrounded by – German speaking – Austrians. It was extremely surprising to me that she came up with a new English phrase today in the afternoon – “No like it!” She repeated it several times for a movie that was on and later said it again to decline to use the potty.

I shouldn’t even call it English – it sounded more Pidgin to me, but I suppose it is probably easier for a Baby to come up with the phrase that way, than to use a word like “don’t”, or a longer sentence, but it sure reminded me of the way the “locals” in Hawaii speak.