Mmh, strawberries…
Watching the Bellydancer
Myriam, Anna and Oliver
Delfina swinging
Ahmos, Joshua, his mom and Anna.
The main attraction – a bouncycastle
Cake! The girl standing up is Ariel from the previous post.
Month: September 2008
Our rental application was accepted and I will pay the deposit tomorrow. Here are some photos of our new house near San Francisco.
Living room with working fireplace—you need it here:
Dining area:
Kitchen:
Breakfast area next to kitchen, looking out onto the deck:
Big deck out back with a decent view, or at least some greenery:
Back bedroom, probably for Leilani:
Nicely remodeled bathroom:
Big front bedroom for the parents:
City park and playground —every town in the Bay Area has one like this now:
Every town also has a stretch of El Camino Real—at least it is not rundown in this town:
Mosaic mural at stores in the neighborhood—Safeway and Trader Joe’s!!!!!!!!!!
L: Hi. My name is Leilani, and what is your name?
A: I am Ariel.
L: Oh like the Nixe (Leilani used the correct word but in German an I could really see that she was trying to find the correct english word mermaid)
[no answer]
L: Look I have turtles on my dress.
[Ariel is starting to warm up]
A: Oh, nice. Look I have an octopus.
L: Beautiful. I like this dress to go and dance in.
A: You like to dance?
L: Yes, very much. This dress dances nicely. (means it swings great when she spinns) Does yours dance?
A: It is a very pretty dress.
(2 hour long break)
L: Oh like the mermaid (The background job had finished processing and found the correct english word). Ariel, Ariel like the mermaid.
(I think Arial had heard that a few times before but she forgave Leilani and they played a little)
L: Would you like to come to my house and play (the party had turned a bit stale, the bouncy castle had been picked up and most of the bigger kids were gone)
A: Yes
S: Ahhhm, Leilani we will invite Ariel to our Goodbye party…
L: Noooo! I want her to come to my house now.
S: We really need to get going…
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Ariel is 7 or 8 btw, and I thanked her a few times for being so nice to Leilani.
A few weeks ago I realized Leilani had surpassed my mom in computer skills (sorry mom) but now I realize she has surpassed Andy and me in smalltalk abilities…
In the morning we went to Gaylords on a trainride – Leilani promissed to be good at the nursery afterwards where we picked out new plants to replace the hard to maintain Bouganvilla and passion fruit vines (and she really was good.)
The highlight of the day was to feed the wild piggies
Leilani is showing off her Halloween spider
The Gaylords train. We rode on the waggon called Wailua… Leilani kept telling me how much she wanted daddy to ride with us, and today she finally talked nicely to hime on the phone again.
After the nursery and lunch we went briefly to the museum. The dead otter has been surpassed in popularity by the great plantation playhouse.
Watering the Ti plant
Would you like some tea?
I am serving rice now
