We finally had enough internet connection (wednesday we’ll get our own) to upload some photos
Month: October 2008
Our weekend was good, but today Leilani was … well … I was … thinking about boarding school. Fantasizing about 7 days 6am – 9pm childcare. Working for Sun Microsystems again… anyway. Andy is back, and reading more books to her. That was he only way today to keep her quiet today. Read. More books…
We also went to the park. She took one look at the toddler and preschooler equipment and went right over to the big kids play structure and climbed a 3 meter wall, that’s 9 feet. She climbed really well, every climbing thing or ladder they had, climbed over the top bar of a 7-foot play ladder, and the handholds were set for much bigger kids. She also climbed down, fearlessly, and and ran well but was highly unsocial with other kids (growling “Go away…”). We played there for an hour and a half and walked 1/2 mile there and back, so she got some exercise.
She also didn’t have any accidents – not peeing (like the past week or so) nor others, but it seemed to me that today was one of the hardest days with her – if I took my attention off her (answering the phone) she screamed at the top of her lungs – followed by the inevitable timeout and more screaming. When she was happy she talked – without a break. Nonstop. Except when I read…
Why do I have the time to write this? She watches another snake-eating movie
We just spent the first night in our new home. Leilani and Andy are still sleeping, 5 of our 6 huge suitcases are unpacked. It is nice here, really feels like home. Not too cold either.
After a last packing session that lasted until 2am, Andy finally closed the container and we slept 4 hours in the office where we put the guest bed. In the morning, I picked up Leilani who’d spent the night at Joy’s, and we watched Terminix start to tent the house. Andy and Leilani set of to meet A’alapua’s new owner and Sandy, the cats and I went directly to the airport. Sandy who had helped us with packing and cleaning gave us moral support and fed us camomille – which worked surprisingly well on the cats and me. Leilani is used to the stuff already, but she was good enough anyway, just very excited. We got compliments on her being the best in-flight kid again!
The flight was thankfully uneventful, the cats were quiet and Leilani and I slept for a little while. We all played with Andy’s new iPhone, Leilani watched the Jungle Book and got read the Aristocats over and over, and some of her National Geographics magazines. We loaded our stuff onto 2 (!!) luggage carts that were hopelessly overloaded, a nice traffic controller policeman helped us pull it to the taxi stands and we got it all into a minivan and went home–one advantage of living close to the airport.
The cats went hiding under the bed, and Leilani ran around wanted to see everything and had 3 times as much energy as Andy and I together, she loves her new playhouse and her big bed – she has a really nice bed this time, we left her ugly one. First thing I had to set up was my Mac, especially since Leilani tripped over a cable in the final packing stages and pulled the 2 external harddrives over and both of them hit pretty hard–I am happy to say all is working perfectly!
This morning the cats are already out, walking around with their tails up, and I can hear Leilani waking up…
“Too Late. I already got it,” was her reply, but a few more threats made her put it down again :-)
We went to Lydgate Friday afternoon and met Jaya andher parents there. Leilani and Jaya were so cute on the rock, and I had a hard time selecting which photos were best…
Leilani has just recently learned to climb the biggest of the boulders separating the two pools at Lydgate.
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