Oh! we are social!!

The summer is really starting here. It is very humid and it doesn't cool off in the night. In the winter all the Americans were sitting home because it was too cold, now they are sitting at home with their airco on. Well, the local pool is quite crowded too. We managed to hardly use the airco, I don't want us to get too used to it.

Last Sunday the 13th, we were invited for a b-day party on the beach. A classmate of A, Peri turned two. It was quite nice to be there, to meet people. The beach was great - it's not our regular beach and of course it was much better than our beach. The kids played, we had a real American breakfast. It was very nice for F. She was starting to get a little bored being with me and A all the time. Well, my patience to play princess games was at its lowest lately, too. After the party we stayed a little longer to enjoy the beach. F was really trying to communicate and play with other kids. She was a little more outgoing and she was even answering questions as 'how old are you?' - mostly coming from grown-ups.

Last Thursday, we arranged a play date with one of her classmates, Rowan. F was talking about Rowan since the first day of school. She was so excited that Rowan was actually coming to play at our house. Wednesday night, F couldn't fall asleep because of excitement. It was already after 10p.m when she called P and asked "how do you say 'do you want to play hide and seek in English?'". P had to go upstairs later to tell it to her again. Thursday morning, we went to do some shopping. I thought F would go crazy if we stayed home. When Rowan arrived around 3p.m., F got a little shy but It didn't take too long. We played all 4 of us hide and seek and afterwards, I left them alone. They played together for almost 2 hours. P, who arrived home early (because he was going to sixflags with his colleagues) said that F was talking English with Rowan. She was saying: "this is the prince, this is the princess...". Could this be my retirement of playing princess?

Yesterday, we had the colleague of P and his family for dinner. It is Tim and Amanda, we visited them couple weeks ago. They have two boys, 2 and almost 4 year old. Last time the children played so nicely and Amanda is very nice, I thought she can come with the boys early, we can go to the beach and meet the working man later at home - and let them cook the meat. Unfortunately, the plan didn't work. Amanda had to wait for someone who had a doctors appointment till late in the afternoon. She was babysitting this person's child. They arrived almost at 6p.m. I have to say I was not very pleased. I had said the girls that we would go to the beach after they arrived. It was very hot and F kept on asking me to go to swim. Around 5, I left for the beach and left a note on the front door for Amanda. They came (all 4 of them) to the beach and the kids played a while, not with each other though. By the way, F was swimming alone with her inflated arm bands. She is so excited about it, I think she might learn swimming as she learned biking. Anyway, we went home around 6.30p.m and the rest of the evening was very nice. The kids got on the trampoline, played in the yard, they had their own table for dinner, they just enjoyed it all. We did too, it was a lovely evening. We said we should meet again soon.