Pool Party (at the Farese House)

Pool cupcakes for the Pool Party

Dejeuner sur les marches
Lunch on the stairs

Saucisse a la fourchette et au couteau, style Benjamin
Eating the sausage with a fork and a knife, Benjamin style

Deepak remercie nos hotes avec un haut parleur
Deepak thanks our guests with a bullhorn

La plongee aux fruits et legumes: Lancee des fruits dans la piscine
The vegetable dive: throwing the veggies in the pool

Et les contestants sautent a l'eau
And the contestants jump in the water

Bruce cherche les legumes tombes au fond
Bruce is looking for the veggies on the bottom

Deepak ramene du celeri (1 point)
Deepak brings back some celery (1 point)

La strategie de Bruce: Carottes et pommes de terre: 2 points chacun
Bruce strategy: Carrot and Potato (2 points each)

Deepak 11 points

Benjamin mourrait d'envie d'aller dans la fountain
Benjamin absolutely wanted to go in the fountain

Dans la piscine avec Charlie
In the pool with Charlie

L'eau: un vrai bonheur
Happy like a fish in the water

Fortune Cookie

Benjamin's first Fortune Cookie:

"People find it difficult to resist your persuasive manners"

How did they know?

Barbapapa

Got Food?

Regardez le tee-shirt!
Check out the tee shirt!

Ete Californien: Mais...
California summer: Corn...

...et pasteque
...and watermelon

Baker's Beach et Palace of Fine Arts

Baker's beach

Maitre Yoda et son baton
Master Yoda and his stick
Vu dans le Sunset
Seen in the Sunset
Palace of Fine Arts

Un vrai petit americain

4 mois / 4 months old

1 an plus tard.../ 1 year later...

Weekend ensoleille

Finalement, apres un mois de juillet tres froid, venteux et brouillardeux, voici venir les beaux jours. On saute dans les shorts et on en profite au maximum pendant que ca dure.

After a very cold and foggy month of July, the nice weather is finaly showing up. Let's put our shorts on and enjoy it while it lasts.

On va au parc

Going to the playground

Benjamin descend le toboggan tout seul
Benjamin goes down the slide on his own

Le moulin a sable
The sand mill

On va cueillir (manger) des mures
Picking (eating) blackberries

Le petit gourmand

Le bonheur
Happiness

La tarte aux prunes de Steve et aux mures de l'autre cote de la rue
The tart with Steve's plums and blackberries from across the street

Premier puzzle (maman a seulement mis le lion et l'autruche et Benjamin a fait le reste)
First puzzle (Mum only showed the lion and the ostricht and Benjamin did the rest)

Comme un grand!

Manger des raviolis
Eating raviolis

Nettoyer le salon
Swiffing the living room

Coiffer les cheveux de Daddy
Brushing Daddy's hair