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Freeing our butterflies. We mail ordered tiny larvae and raised these beautiful butterflies and set them free on San Bruno Mountain.

Trader Joe’s Coloring Competitions. TJ’s is Leilani’s favorite store, they treat kids really nicely, stickers, coloring pages, tasty treats, and balloons (which Leilani usually politely refuses for environmental reasons). I thought it was cute that she named the bugs, she wrote Otto and Lei by herself, and I suggested the other 2 names and spelled them for her.

JoJo

Ruwan left for a few months to Brazil. Goodbye dinner at the New Ganges restaurant

She chooses some strange motives


Notice the mirror writing…


She made a BD card for her friend Liliana


And last but not least… feet. This time with painted toenails

One hot day in June, on my workday we had a “carwash” – all tricycles, cars, ride-on toys and other vehicles were washed by the preschoolers.

And it wasn’t just that the kiddos loved it – everything was sparkly clean at the end.

To see more photos see Leilani’s school’s website

Leilani still takes riding lessons in HMB.

No stirrups. How are those heels doing?

No saddle…

Sometimes Olivia comes along.

The long weekend continues. Here’s our campsite, before taking down the tent and packing the car:

We’d heard there was snow farther up the forest road, so we sent looking for it because Leilani wanted to play. Andy even packed the snowball maker, and Leilani had lots of fun:

We went back to the same mushroom hunting grounds as Saturday, a closed road so we weren’t bothered by the motor-“sport” crowd. We found no more mushrooms, but enough flowers to make up for it. Dogwood in bloom:

Another unknown:

A wild rose:

Dark Mullein (Sonja is pretty certain, but not 100% unless she sees the flowers):

While Leilani played in a little stream and Andy looked for gold, Sonja found a pretty little meadow:

The purple flowers are lupines:

The white ones were some sort of Mallow:

And there were several yellow ones: a Golden Brodiaea:

A type of Mariposa Lily:

And Yellow Mountain Violet:

Well, these are not flowers. I think a millipede and a cricket. I looked into an earth mound and found a rotten mushroom and these two who thought it was still fresh and delicious. We left it to them…

Time to head back to the car for the drive home: