Day: June 14, 2009

My collection of gemstones and stuff. I need to take a better photo…

Leilani loves to play with the little Nativity scene my dad made years ago

I got a new fogger:

Leilani’s highly decorated door. Most of the art was co-created.

Does Leilani have too much stuff?

We got an awesome deal on our new lead crystal hallway lamp

Here is my workplace. It used to be the dining room, now we call it the office

Well, one of us tries to pose…

Leilani was really sick. This was taken on the first day she was on antibiotics. Her sinuses were so bad, she had discharge from her eyes when she blew her nose.

Some old photos that don’t fit in here (and not anywhere else either… )

They love being pulled around in the waggon – round and round in the yard.

We went to a sports field and shot air rockets

I wish I could heve heard what Shay was proposing to Andy….

Megan, Ethan’s little sister is very cute:

I’ll win, I’ll win

Leilani sometimes does not know an English term, pantyhose is one of them. She always calls them “Strumpfhosen”, [shtroomp-f-hosen] (strumpf=stocking and hosen=pants) which is the correct German term. She asked one of her teachers for one (it’s often cold), and was not able to describe what she meant. The teacher walked over to a little boy who speaks German as well, and repeated what she understood Leilani had said – it came out as “Strom-Haus” [shtrom-hows] (strom=(electrical )current haus=house). The little boy explained it was an electrical house, on a cord (which is a good guess for a 5 yo, an adult would probably have guessed a transformer substation or power plant). The teacher was even more confused.

When I came to pick up Leilani I was able to explain the difference, and had to pronounce each word a few times until she really heard the difference (Leilani did not hear the conversation).

Later I told the whole story to Andy and Leilani listened – Andy did not know what a “Strom-Haus” was, so Leilani helped him: “It is a gasoline house!”

Leilani had her new friend Seyon over, and she was doing a puzzle and he and I played a number game – recognize the number on a little tray and count the correct number of marbles onto it. He did really well up to 7, recognized 8 and then decided that was too much work. Leilani looked up from her puzzle briefly, and said: “Just find the black ball in there. It has the number 8 on it, put it on that tray, then you don’t have to count.” I was speechless, for one thing that she was completely listening and doing the puzzle – multitasking is not something preschoolers do well – and even more so because of the train of thought.