It's Saturday morning, 9 a.m., and her highness slumbers on. This makes a 13 hour stretch of not one peep. As compared to the previous 4 nights that were, well, lets say, jet-lag adventure. Thank god for Papa, because yours truly is also in the slow-motion of post-travel muck.
Estelle has enjoyed getting back into her routine (during the daytime anyway!) of seeing NouNou Cathy and all her pals there like Carlo, Marie, Mila & Julien. She has also had 2 great afternoons at "The Butterfly" which is the name of the city-run afternoon day-care program she attends twice a week.
The director came up to me and said "Wow! She is REALLY talking a lot. She had a lot to say but we aren't sure we get it all!" Then this kind woman (I really like her) confirmed that "BEAR" meant "ours" in French. Estelle is now teaching English at the daycare, apparently!
Best of all, Estelle is so glad to be with her Papa.
We did have a quick visit with Elliot and his mom yesterday morning. A last-minute decision to head for the beach for an hour proved lots of chasing about for me and Fransiska. So much to explore! Estelle is not interested in going near the water - she just likes to stand and watch the "waves" - though yesterday it was just a slight ebb and flow - very mild.
These photos are of the one area of the entire Nice beach that has sand - in fact, it is the volleyball court! In "season" it will be cordoned off, but for now, you can find a lot of little kids enjoying digging around. Or Estelle, who thought it was funny to just lie right down. There was also some ingesting of the sand, which she thought was "yummy".
3 comments:
Great to see the new blog entry as we've been wondering how all of you have been doing! Jet lag stinks! Sounds like Estelle is settling back in to French time. Enjoyed to lovely pictures of Estelle on the beach. How nice for her to have sand to dig in. Sam Sr. says, "Really nice pictures of Estelle!"
we miss you all lots! It is so nice to see photos! It has been so warm and summery here, but tomorrow back to cold and maybe a little more snow this week. We have loved our Riveria weather, although sans le mere!
Estelle is teaching her day care friends English and she taught me some French while I visited her at Lisa & Dan's. I'm afraid that I still mix it up with some Spanish though!
Miss you!
xo la
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