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I have no idea either... whenever I pointed my camera at Little Monkey he started to shake his head and grinned like mad.


I caught him unaware on this one. He started shaking his head the moment he noticed my a second later.


And in case you're wondering, yes I do have a very cute water melon die for the Bigshot but they really like water melons. Or water lemons as Little Monkey insists on calling them.

Things we did during the summer holidays 2

We went to the park and had lunch


We went to the park and had ice cream


Little Monkey took lots of pictures of his thumb

Things we did during the summer holidays

Little Monkey took pictures of Big Monkey reading.


I took pictures of Little Monkey playing with his tractor.

Pick your own farm

We took our surprise visitor to the Pick your own farm. I want to make red currant jam which is really hard to get by here.


Everybody helped picking, even little monkey. He was very pleased that he could reach the berries. Last year we didn't pick currants, I only remembered that I like them when we reached the parking lot again. The strawberries are grown it troughs high up so little monkey can't reach them. He has to resort to picking them out of the baskets. However, this year there weren't any more left so we only had raspberries and the currants. When I tried to make the raspberry jam the next day half of them had miraculously disappeared...





PS: Jam is made and very nice, just the way I like it. No pips and not too sweet.

Another week gone...

gosh, how did that happen?

Schools have broken up for summer and it's been "quiet" but frantic. Little Monkey is a big monkey now, don't you know. Not only does he have a proper bed he will also use the potty - when he remembers and isn't too preoccupied with other things. We've been scooped up in the house for the week with nothing much happening other than flowerpots getting a bit more watering than we all envisioned. The biggest excitement has been to find the potty and get it to wherever it is needed.

The weekend, however, was a different story. Very exciting indeed. We had a surprise visitor from America! Big Monkey's bestest friend came to stay for a few days.


There was face painting resulting in some wild eyebrows and pink hairlines that didn't wash off for all our trying. Of course there was dressing up



and some wild dancing



and giggling little girls until oh 10 at night.

Could there be a better start to the summer break?