Donnerstag, 24. April 2008

Our little DJ




Ella knows the button to hop from one song to the next and back and forward and back and forward again and again and again very well! Luckily sometimes there are power cuts in Tanzania!

Malaykas second visit to Kimweri





Malayka and Elisabeth have been visiting us again, and Francesca and Katharina both got two precious hours off to take care of themselves! Wonderful and to be repeated!

Papa is back!!!





After 78 days of separation, H4 is reunited! Obviously Ella does not leave Papa's side and assists in all his activities, from bycicly mechanics to chefing! Also, since Papa is back, little Ella sleeps through the nigths!

Montag, 14. April 2008

The small and the big ladies in the Bean


I might be wrong, but it seemed to me that this week end in the Bean high above the Indian Ocean was mainly about eating, the ladies prepared food all the time and then sat on the table chatting and drinking coffee for ever - but I did not so much mind as long as I was allowed to taste a bit of everything, including chocolate muffin with Debora! It was very tasty, and much better than baby food.

Then this turtle visited us, it is said to be more than 50 years old, and it wanted to eat as well! So I gave her some salad, and I would also have wanted to pull her leg, as I do with Castor, but Mama did not like it, because there were ticks sitting on her! Maybe this was right, because the next day I had bed bug bites on my belly! They were itching! I would not have wanted tick bites as well!



Then we went to the beach, and I had to stay in the shady cave while the ladies went for bikini fashion shows and long chats in the water! I did not like this, but at least they had shifts in looking after me, and I could build my first sand castles!

Also I had to taste some sand - it was awful, but now I know!


And then Mama left me all alone on the beach between the rocks, because she wanted to take pictures of this fishing net! I managed well, as you can see, Papa, and had come some fishermen to ask me what I was doing, I would have told him that this is not his business!




However the very best thing of this week end was flying with Ulrike, as everybody easily can see! Papa we have to do a lot more of this, I love it!

Reading with Ulrike was not too bad either, but as you can see...


... I soon had other things in my mind again!




Sonntag, 6. April 2008

How to descend from bed

Well, first I take a little drink to give me courage, and you obviously see, I can separate good from very good...(by the way Mama thought I should take milk to give me strength, but this I have a lot already)
Then I throw the small pillow off the bed...
... and dive on it!
Yes, here we are, and now it is easy...
... just down the final little step. Any body said it is difficult? Not for a little big girl as me! And then we do it all over again!