- The summer started off really badly. My almost 5 y.o. daughter got pneumonia and had to be hospitalized. After a few days she was discharged and things started to improve.
- My almost 3 y.o. son who was addicted to using the dummy got rid of it… with a little help from his parents who left it at home the day the whole family set off for the beach (breakthrough*).
- I taught my almost 5 y.o. daughter how to swim (milestone*). Well, she’s still getting the hang of it, but she swims like a fish with her armbands on.
- My 7 y.o. daughter watched a show in a language that she doesn’t understand (French) and she felt very disappointed. “This is such a bore! Now I understand how my friends feel when they come home and watch the telly”.
- We traveled to a land of princesses and pirates and got autographs from almost all of them. Well, from all of them and from everyone who was there. Even from Mary Poppins .
- They’ve watched Spiderman for the first time (milestone*). They’ve watched Superman for the first time (milestone*). They’ve watched both on the new projector
(milestone*). - The new projector is connected to the new satellite dish that we got as a present this summer from some very good friends of ours that we’re already missing. Make both work at the same time has really been a breakthrough(**).
- We made up the word “craughing” to describe what my almost 5 y.o. daughter does when she’s crying and we make her laugh. It refers to the precise moment when we are wondering if she’s crying or laughing. Craughing: to express pleasure, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air, immediately after or while crying.
- My 7 y.o. daughter who used to sleep half the night in a bunk bed and have the night in our bed, fell out of the top bunk. She’s always wanted to have a cast, and now, even though she’s allowed to watch as much TV as she wants to, she doesn’t want it anymore. Maybe because she’s realized that she cannot be the most popular girl at school during the holidays or perhaps because she cannot swim very well in daddy’s arms.
- We had an “Ibicenca BBQ” because dad wanted to have an excuse to wear a weird Moroccan white shirt, because he loves white Piña Colada and because the white cast was perfect for the occasion.
- We went crab hunting on the beach just for fun. Well, it was for fun in the beginning but afterwards we pulled off the crab’s claws to eat them… but we didn’t kill them. Eventually we took them back to the water because we knew that this fiddler crabs have the ability to ”release” their claws (to survive to certain predators such as humans)… and over the time the claws grow back.
- We watched a Pixar computer-animated short film called Presto.
Suerte!!!
(*) Milestone: a significant event or stage in the life, progress, development, or the like of a person, nation, etc. (dictionary.reference.com)
(**) Breakthrogh: any significant or sudden advance, development, achievement, or increase, as in scientific knowledge or diplomacy, that removes a barrier to progress.
(dictionary.reference.com)
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