Winter!

Our little town FROZE OVER!  The RIVER froze!  Dad made this little ice hut out of slabs we pulled out of the river.  Too cool.  Get it?  Cool.

XMas 2013

Merry XMas everyone!

 Thank you everyone!  You are all the BEST!  And I love all the gifts!

[And thank you all, from the whole family!]

And now back...

 ... to our regularly schedule loopiness!

Back home

Whew!  What a trip! We're back home, now, and happily relaxing with our cups of tea and warm milk and some nice books.

Thanksgiving 8

Namma and Papa with the three cousins!

[Lela:  "Look!  I'm the big kid, now, so I sit politely and smile for the camera!"

Paulina:  "When's dinner?  Anyone else hungry?"

Sebastian:  "Oy vey!  Another photo??"]

And here we all are!  It was great to see everyone!  Happy Thanksgiving, all!

Thanksgiving 7

My cousin Lela, have you heard of sidewalk PAINT?? 

Love it!

Thanksgiving 6

Aaaaand, back to playing!

Nothing like a nice heap of cousins!

Thanksgiving 5

Time for a popsicle break!

 YUM!

Thanksgiving 4

My cousin Paulina and I had such a fun time playing!  Paulina said, "My cousin Lela caught me!"

 This is a great see-saw for kids...

...of all ages!

Thanksgiving 3

Uh-oh!  I hope I don't get in trouble for tasting a bit of the topping....

 I guess not!

Thanksgiving 2

 Good job, Paulina!

We make a good pie-making team, no? 

 And there's the master chef, herself!

And the master pie eater enters the frame!

Thanksgiving 1

 What's that?  Time for cooking?

No problem.  I'm ready to help.

 And TO EAT!!!

Backstroke

Would you look at that perfect form?

Science

We all went to the Science Center!  This is a giant sloth.  Which dad says is what I am, in the morning.

Turkeys

 In honor of Thanksgiving, Jess and I in our turkey hats!

I hear that next season, everyone will be wearing them...

Morning

A typical morning in Lela's house...

Painting the Walls!

Can you believe that Dad let me actually paint the walls of the living room?  It was GREAT!

Face painting!

Just Ella and me getting our faces painted!

MOLAR

I must be six!  I am getting a six-year molar!

Coffee

Just us girls, hanging out in the coffee shop...

Halloween at School

Ain't we a cute bunch?  And spooky?  (But mostly, cute?)

Halloween Kitty

Here's mom and me on Halloween!  This year, I stole her cat ears!

50th Day

 For the 50th day of school, we all dressed up and had our photos taken!

Just posing...

Worms!

 Ah, Chico!  A trip to the WORM FARM!  What could be better!

Strange Monkeys

Ella, Amaya and I were playing when we realized that Sophia was across the street!  We all ran (carefully) over and played in her great tree!

Henna

Ella and I went to the Saudi festival, and got henna tattoos!

Learning Chinese

 I'm learning Cantonese from this little MP3 player.  "Ne sic mn sic tang Guong Dong waaah-ah?"

Don't take a picture of me!

Ahhhhhh!

Ballet 4

 This is the best part!  I am really good with the ribbons.  Very graceful.

 Or, well, maybe I'm really best at just posing!

Ta-da!   (PS.  Happy birthday, Dad!)

Ballet 3

 I think I can do that...

 And up!

 And lift!

And JUMP!