Pooks loves her teacher so much that every night before she has school she asks to make her a card to bring her. Last night she said she wanted to write “You are the best teacher. I love you” and asked me how to spell it. I shouted out the letters to her and she wrote all this by herself. Ugh. So proud of the little nutball. She is writing letters like a champ and starting to read and recognize a bunch of sight words already!! Ashley said she couldn’t believe it the other day and all the kids tried to trick her to see if it was a fluke with all the words she knew but it wasn’t. She is awesome!

Ashley also sent me this pic yesterday saying Sophie killed it in math. Cutie pie.

Peanut had her first play date with Gaia yesterday after school. Gaia is 8 yrs old and speaks 3 or 4 languages…it is insane. Anyway, they had a blast. They played dollhouse, ate homemade ices, walked to the carambola tree and picked carambolas together (with the help of a super nice Tico since the good ones were all really high this time), walked to sunset beach and looked inside an abandoned hotel, and finally walked over to the beach across the street and played in the river for over an hour.

They were building boats from logs, sliding down sand mountains, creating some house with computers and what not out of big boulders, finding pipes for telescopes and who knows what else. I was watching Sabsy most of the time to stay out of their way. I tried to sneak some pics but didnt want to be the creepy parent so most are from behind (which might be even creepier).

Anyway, at the end of the play date Gaia was insisting on staying at our house and showering here, then wanted to stay and eat dinner over. I told her maybe next time b/c her dad was on the way and we didnt even have dinner ready yet b/c we’ve been out playing. She said her parents always say next time, and then next time they say next time. Hahaha, kinda had a point, but nonetheless i was sticking with next time. She wasn’t.

Her dad came and she started yelling down that she wanted to stay and a bunch of other nonsense in hebrew. She then threw a fit Sabsy style and thankfully it was all in hebrew b/c i have no clue what she was saying. He said she was basically cursing him out in hebrew. It was intense. Sophie was staring like what the hell is going on. She didnt get it at all. She was still confused as to why Gaia wanted to shower or have dinner at her house. Then they left and Will said, “Sophie what is the appropriate thing to do when you are leaving a play date?”. Sophie looked at him and said “Ummm. just say bye”. I imagine she is going to talk about this today in school. Hahahaha. Well, they had a blast and kids will be kids :).

My phone died after these two pics so I didnt have many others. Will came and met us at sunset so i snuck some pics with his phone though for some reason they are really small?

Today the little kiddos had a potluck TG at school to celebrate the Canadian holiday. Sophie’s awesome teacher is canadian and so are two of the kiddos. We made cookies and biscuits. Pooks had a blast decorating and cutting out the cookies. She was so super duper excited to show all the kids that she could hardly sleep. She also made each one of them a little thankful card. Such a sweet peanut!! Below is a pic from school that her teacher sent me 🙂

Here are some pics from when we took Sophie back to the river we found. There was a big Tico family hanging with us and they had about 4 little girls so they all played together.

This black lab came for a visit (it is not Flower) and we would throw a coconut into the river and he would go get it and swim back. Sophie would hold on to his butt and go for a ride on the way back. It was adorable. He was one cool dog and hung with us all day.

The family bbq’d for lunch and came over to give us some food. It was pork wrapped in a corn tortilla. We had to eat it because they were sitting right next to us. Sophie was so disturbed that we were eating pork. She said Ugh mama i thought you were vegetarian. I said yes i am but sometimes you just do something to be respectful and this is one of those times. She said ugh gross you are eating a pig. Do you like it? hahahaha….don’t think she will be eating meat in her near future. Thankfully it was quite good and a small little taco ;).

The other day our friend Eller stopped by because his daughter is getting married. He wanted to drop off this invitation for our family :). Looks like we’ll be heading to our first Tico wedding in town!

This is how I found her. She opened the fridge, pulled over her stool, stepped up and climbed right in. Nutball. Of course her partner in crime is waiting at the bottom for her to throw something down.

Lately during sunset we have been walking down to the beach by our house. The river is flowing good there now so we all swim in that and the kids love climbing the rocks, sliding down the sand mountains, collecting hermit crabs and playing with Jadyel. Three amigos.

The other morning after we dropped Sophie off at school we decided to go for a quad ride to Cabuya (another town over the mountain about 20 min away). Along the way we say some horses roaming on the road and pulled over to say hello. Sabsy is obsessed with “horseys”. I love rainy season for many reasons (the rivers, the greenery, the quiet town, the awesome storms) and the free roaming beautiful horses are just one of them.

When we made it to Cabuya we found the most amazing river that flowed right into the ocean. Sometimes when i look around i feel like im in a page of “Where the Wild things are”. This was one of those times. The backdrop was insanely beautiful and there were so many different birds flying around us it was straight out of a storybook. We loved it so much that we took Sophie back the next day when she was off from school. She was geeking out jumping in the river and the girls made a little crew of friends. I have pics from that after this.

This was the amazing river we swam in and the moment i looked up and felt like i was in a storybook. That is Will swimming.

Sabs having a wee in the river…thankfully it was flowing.