This was a beautiful party, but the occasion was sad – Derrek and Amaya with Eden and Devon are the 2nd of 3 of our friends to move to the Big Island, Jilda is already there and Chris and Chris will follow soon.
Thursday was the last day at Tutu and Me, there was a big celebration with a waterslide, facepaints, bubbles and pizza.
Playing in the birdseed
Ian has grown a lot too.
Jaya and Leilani love to chase bubbles.
Pizza!!!
There was even shaving cream to play with
Leinai’s hair is finally long enough to make the tiniest of pigtails
Snacktime
Trude, Inge and Lilith at a campfire (Leilani is afraid of fires, and first played far away with my mom, then with Kiron and then told me she had to go to bed right away, only to ask for book after book to be read later)
Kiron took a lot of unusual photos with his new camera. Lilith entering the trampoline.
Walk to the horse pasture
Directly underneath the house there is a beautiful flower meadow
Walk in the forest that starts right next to the waterfall
Leilani is getting pretty good at crossing the little streams – big jump here…
…but needs a lot of help for the big crossings
She had to take all her clothes off and play and wade in the ice cold stream.
Pool with a view…
3 on the trampoline (up to 4 kids were jumping at once, 12-35kg, nobody got hurt)
The kids had so much fun in this hammock
And on the swings
while others were working hard…
I messed up most the photos – Andy has the still camera, and my video camera is not that great for stills – but I took a nice movie, Leilani met 2 big dogs at Helmut’s friend’s Barbara’s house, one 8 months old golden retriever and another one the same size and played with them for a long time. Only once one knocked her over, but Leilani totally understood it was an accident and went right back to the game. Maybe I’ll post the video here later.
The walk was interupted for a long time when Leilani met this cat.
Helmut in his living room
Leilani really likes to cut, glue, draw, paint and do crafts in general.
This painting she called: The sun shines on the big fish”
I drew a sun and asked Leilani to draw the face
Lake monster (or frog?) in lake
