Month: July 2006

Haena and Ke’e

Leilani reached the end of the road! We had been going further and further – Anahola, Kilauea, Anini, Lumahai, and last weekend (July 22/23) finally reached Haena and Ke’e.

Ke’e beach – crowded on a weekend
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Leilani can’t wait to get in – and I’d better shave my legs one of these days :-)
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Wave for the camera…
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Haena
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Leilani is fascinated with all kinds of animals
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Swimming lesson: underwater …
dunked

… and above water
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No more liver for the cats…

Yikes. No, it was only beets. And Leilani ate an entire beet in one sitting!

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And how did she chew it?

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New Toys…

Leilani got a chimpanzee and a dolphin puppet. She is fascinated by them, especially when they move “on ther own”. We named the dolphin Flipper, and the ape Judy (from the 60s series Daktari… I date myself now, but to my defense I got to say they aired it later in Austria, at that time it took them 10 years to figure out it was a good show and to translate it… )

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That’s a Chimpan-what?
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Does she bite?
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Leilani’s first meals

Leilani is eating much better by now, only getting real messy when she tries to feed herself, but in the beginnig – 6 to 8 weeks ago the food went all over her face, the chair, and sometimes the floor…

Not Leilani…

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No, that’s not Leilani. We would not have let George W. hold her. But we like to think that would have been her reaction to him as well!