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| Ragu settled in more and more with us. 12-year-old dogs sleep a LOT! |
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| Chalk painting our road- should fill a few hours! |
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| Gioia being very naughty with her best friend Pepper. |
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| That is me out in the middle of the bog searching for tennis balls. My fishing waders have come in very handy this rainy season! |
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| The 4 Stooges (from left: Gioia, Yellow Pepper, Apollo & Jagger) |
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| Always great excitement here when we find one of these in our garden (a chameleon)! |
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| Apollo is eagerly waiting for me to throw a ball. Gioia is just waiting (she is decidedly NOT a retriever!). |
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| Bruno meeting with his subjects. Gioia practicing social distancing. |
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| Some of Maria's Seesaw assignments are as much fun for me as they are for her. Can you guess which one each of us drew? |
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| Gioia never turns down a tummy rub. |
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| Gioia turned 1 on May 6th! 2 weeks later she started her first season (heat). Hard to believe our "little" girl is all grown up! |
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| Best friends. Jagger's tightest bond on our family is with Maria. He now sleeps with her every night. |
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| This is Gioia's brother Jimmy who lives in Cape Town. He is 12 kgs bigger than Gioia! |
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| Sweet Ragu. |
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| We needed a picture of Gio in his graduation outfit for their virtual ceremony which will take place June 10th. |
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| Official Elementary School graduation pose! |
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| Girlfriends. |
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| The challenge of cooking dinner in a minefield. |
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| Virtual learning assistants. Listen to how far she has come in reading! |
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| A glimpse of the kind of math Maria is doing for virtual learning (using Seesaw). She has really enjoyed this unit on data. |
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| More virtual learning. |
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| We decided this month to allow each child to have one friend they can see for playdates. They are both thrilled. Maria and Amelie enjoyed a few sleepovers. The change we saw in the children once they were allowed to see a friend again was remarkable. |
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| It has been over 2 months since we have had water from the city- the reasons are complicated but they involve a historically heavy rainy season that caused a landslide at the damn that supplies our water, a lack of water treatment capacity and diverting water to slums to help with Covid response. Every week we have to buy water from one of these trucks. |
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| Patiently waiting while I take a shower.... |
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| Gioia likes to "walk" Ragu.
I expect June's post will look a lot like this one. Only thing coming up is the end of school and Gio's graduation from Elementary School....
xoxo. Clara
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