Leilani stayed the whole day at the toddler school today! Alone!!! She did not cry or whine a single time, and neither did she ask for me. I left at 8:45 and sat 1/2 block away at the Lihue library “on call”, to about 12:15 and then went to picked her up, she was all happy and playing.
Leilani loves the circles
The kids have to raise their hand to request songs. Leilani still requests Heidi and is a little disappointed that Auntie Joy can’t yodel :-) But she is very happy to get her second choice of “Funny Clown”
Sometimes they dress up:
Three girls in a tent:
Joy’s daughter, Elsa, who is good friends with Leilani
Leilani’s vocabulary is incredible, her sentences get better and better, just the pronounciation needs improvement. Andy pulled up the blinds, and Leilani said: “Oh! I can see better now.” One of her favorite books is “Cat Heaven” – she asks for it “Mommy please read cat heaven.” because she can not pronounce it well, and heaven sounds like “…have” or “haben” I never understand, and she then translates for me “Katzen Himmel Buch” (with much better pronounciation). Andy got days mixed up and Thursday he told her she was going to Auntie Joy’s, and she replied “No daddy, going [to] Tutu and Me”. Another one “My hair needs washing” – then she poured a glass of water she was drinking from over her head, “My hair is all clean now. All done.”
When we let her taste a mango smoothie she said “Baah. Dump it out Daddy!” – She loves smoothies, but hates mangos. Usually she wants blueberry – banana, or strawberry. She likes mainland fruit now: apples, strawberries, grapes. Island fruits: bananas, passion fruit, starfruit, lychee and all similar fruit – rambutan, longan. She does not eat guava, hardly any papaya, no figs and oranges, but likes limes and lemons.
Recent hikes: Kuilau with Adam and Jaya
And Nounou with Aditi and Jaya:
Ruby’s Birthday party
Pillowfight
What if… Leilani grew a lot of hair…
…if it was orange…
…until then: hibiscus flowers!
