More wildflowers in Carmel Valley
Year: 2009
We spent the Easter weekend camping in King City, and the Easterbunny came twice, once to our house and once to the campground!
Ferrero Rocher made it to the top of Leilani’s candylist and is now used as the bribe of choice
Counting the loot
Leilani is wearing her Wabi Sabi dress – we recently read a kids book that explained a Japanese concept – Wabi Sabi – to kids. We named Leilani’s favorite, and to her very beautiful, comfortable and totally loved, but also old, worn and a little stained dress the “Wabi Sabi dress
We saw a beautiful swallowtails (many actually, but most were not as photogenic)
Leilani is so helpful, she loved taking down the tent, folding poles and putting the stakes back in the bags
Friday 4/10 we drove down to King City to go hiking with Ray and Carol the next morning. We camped at the county campground, with and integrated farm museum. We were late but finally arrived at the trailhead
Leilani had lots of energy the first part of the hike
All in front of a lupine bush
Blue Dick
Goldfields
The lighter one is either a dark Tincture Plant, or very light China House
Larkspur
Phaceliadistans (they had a lot of different English names)
Ray and Carol
Ray is the butterfly whisperer
Poppies
If you look so serious I will tickle you!
On Andy’s last day we dropped Leilani off at the Little Sprouts Playhouse – a great and much needed addition to Kauai’s childcare
George and Jaddah really did an awesome job. Leilani liked it so much, she did not want to leave
In the meantime we kayaked the Wailua river
Andy built the tent in Anahola,
Papayas for breakfast
We dropped Leilani off at the playhouse again, packed and I brought Andy to the airport. In the afternoon Leilani and I picked up trash on the beach
We made the trash into art: Leilani’s piece
And mine
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Leilani still loves to take photos, but since she treats the camera roughly, we don’t let her as often now.
Leilani found a great exercising bench right in front of our tent
There was a water park in Kapaa for the weekend, with lots of bounce houses and slides, Leilani loved it. They also had mechanical rides, when they opened we ran over so we wouldn’t have to stand in line for long – Leilani was immediately drawn to the revolving and rotating teacups – the attendant looked at her and asked me to go with her, but she wanted to go alone. She rode with a 7 or 8 year old, and had a lot of fun. As the next ride I suggested a much slower moving chain carousel – Leilani took a look at the line and said: “No, that’s just for the little kids…” I looked again, and most children there were 4-6 – in her own mental picture she sees herself as older I think. I still talked her into going on the other ride.
In the evening we went to visit Jaya – Leilani stayed with Jaya and Adam, while Aditi and I went to see the Taylor camp movie. I wish I had been there. Well maybe not, because then I’d be even older today (they burned it down in 76)
2 Princesses
Saturday we went to Samantha’s house for an easter egg hunt, before we went for a little walk
What – this is a real egg, where is the chocolate?
The egg hunt was followed by a playdate
Miriam and Delfi visited us at the campsite, and we read books together
We also visited Sandy, and Leilani got to see the Lilo and Stitch movie
She looks like a little angel when she sleeps (I think)
On our last day we visited Kika and Tristan in Kilauea. For lunch we had raw chocolate and fruit from their orchard, I have never eaten so many star apples, and it was really a pain to get the sticky sap off my face.
In the morning on the 30th Karla had a party – a birthday party for Ingrid and me, the kids loved to play: Justin, Ian and Jonathan
Riding a horse with Nova
Happy birthday!
The second party started in the early afternoon at Lydgate. The first game was pin the fairy on the flower.
Adults had to play too…
I loved all the beautiful leis. A few of them I returned to nature, flower by flower, each with a blesssing or a good wish, and one i dried.
