Well, I finally was able to get one of the dances uploaded! This was Lauren's final dance of the year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfD3gnG1T2Q&feature=youtu.be Katherine did not have another dance because she took art this semester. The kids are allowed to choose an "elective" each semester. Dance is Lauren's thing. She is always dancing around the house and performing for us, so I was glad she chose the dance class at school. She was very focused on her routine :)
They did a very good job. Too cute...if you look closely, you can see the fake black hair that she is wearing in her hair! I guess the uniform store didn't have any blonde ;)
Katherine's teacher asked me to send a camera in her bag for the last day of school. Katherine and some of her classmates got an award for different things and then they had a class party. She was so excited! She chose her dress to wear and everything.
She brought home all of her artwork from school. She did very good on all of her projects, but she was especially fond of her totem pole drawing.
This was all of Lauren's artwork that came home. From top left: baskets, mushrooms, cats and her name, her house, more cats on a hill, four different animals, apples, mushrooms, porcupines, tomatoes, a bus with people, and strawberries.
One happy girl because her Ayi made her a scarf to take to America because "America is REALLY cold and she needs to stay warm!" :)
On the road with some friends to go pick pineapple and dragon fruit. Regan was telling on her daddy that he fell asleep in the car. Daddy says he wasn't sleeping...hmmmm.
Here is where we went to pick fruit.
We split in two groups because of time (we got lost finding the place) So, I took Regan and Katherine to pick dragon fruit and Jonathan took Lauren and Benjamin to pick pineapple. I had no idea how they grow. It is basically a big cactus plant. We actually picked out the fruit and had one of the farmers cut it down for us.
We each got one.
Here is Benjamin with his pick of the day. He actually picked out 3. I am really glad. They were excellent! A friend got two for us also, which was a good thing because we ended up eating two before we ever left the place.
Benjamin was also dodging prickles. I was surprised at how poky the pineapples were. When we buy them at the market, they already have the green tops cut off.
His two favorites...he doesn't want us to eat them. He is so proud of them. :)
So what do you do if you are a kid on a hot summer day, living in a city of 3 million? Just go onto your own balcony and fill up the mop bucket with water and plop yourself into it....clothes and all. She had so much fun and spent a couple hours just entertaining herself with a bucket of water.
Her own personal swimming pool :)
