Wednesday 24th June, 2009
Mummy's friend Carla came from America to live in Switzerland, with her husband Jonathan and two little boys - David and Rafael - so we went to see them at aunty Lori's house and say hello. They were staying there until they could move into their rented house. David is 6 (nearly 7) and Rafael is only just 5. We had great fund running around in the garden.
We wanted to get Alexander's rabbit and guinea pig out of their cages but couldn't get the cages open, so I grabbed a baseball bat to take a swing at them, and Carla shouted at me. Eventually we got the animals out and took them up into the tree house, but mummy made us give them back and put them back in the cages. Little bunny was very scared and went all stiff. Mummy put it back in the wrong cage with the big rabbit and when Alexander got back he was very cross because he said the big bunny could have attacked the little one. We were a bit surprised as the bunnies next door to us live in happy harmony and do not attack each other, even though there are big ones and little ones mixed together.
Lori came back late and mum had to wait to have dinner with her or else she would have been angry. So all the other children went to bed and I had to wait until mummy had had dinner to leave so it was 10.30 when I got to bed at the studio we hired in Divonne. Mummy said she didn't sleep well as I turned upside down and kicked her in the face.
The next morning we went back to see Carla and the boys. We grabbed the animals again and took them up the slide. I was just about to put the little bunny down the slide when mummy arrived and took it off me and told us all off again. Alexander said we weren't supposed to touch the animals.
Then we put a ladder up the cherry tree and Rafael wouldn't let me go up there with him. Instead he threw all the unripe cherries on the ground until mummy told him not to because Eddie would prefer them to ripen on the tree and not get trodden on on the ground. So we got into trouble a lot. Then Rafael and I played hiding and whispering games.
Yes I like David and Rafael very much. they are my kind of guys.
Mummy took Jonathan to the airport so he could pick up a hired car, then raced home from Cessy to get me to school but school was closed and she was cross because she had driven too fast for nothing. Went to lego club later. Mark is nice to the children and lets us make whatever we want and build tracks for the electric lego trains.
Last Friday we had our school outing to Estavayer. We were very excited about going on the school bus. In Estavayer we went to the frog museum where real frogs are stuffed with sand!
On Saturday we went to a mini steam locomotive festival in Bouveret. we got the boat from Montreux to Bouveret. I hoped that David and Rafael would show up but they went later. The place was like a mini Switzerland with castles and villages with shops and restaurants - but all dead small. We had a few rides on the trains and ate pancakes in the village. It was great.
On Sunday we went cycling with tall Tim and Heidi and their baby Evie. She is very sweet and good.It was good cycling until it rained on the way home and that was a bit yukky but not cold. Daddy said I didn't cycle very much on my back bike, which attaches to his bike, so he was quite tired out. Mummy was slower than us.
On Tuesday at school lots of people had birthdays so they got presents from the maîtresse and we had a fun afternoon but I can't remember what we did.
Today we had our garderie outing to the woods. Valerie drove us in a bus. The place where we went in the woods had two swings and a slide and we had our snack at picnic tables under a big wooden roof. Then I came home and bounced on my trampoline but a bee was trapped under the blue flap and I was worried about getting stung. I told mummy I rescued it and put it in a flower, but in fact it died with a slow shaking of the legs.
Mummy read me a story about a giant who had a pet worm and could do divining with two sticks but I wasn't really sure what the divining was all about. Couldn't get to sleep. I'm sure there were monsters in the room. Then I saw a spider. Well I thought I did.
Tomorrow mummy is off and she said she'd take me to the Märli Pinta for lunch in Kerzers (where you can eat and play a lot) but when I couldn't get to sleep and kept getting out of bed she got cross and said she wasn't going to take me to the MP after all and I said I didn't want to go anyway! Daddy is away in Stans. He rings to talk to me every day and I ask him when he is coming home and he says in 20 days, which is a long time and we get sad together but he always makes me laugh again.
Now where's that monster?
We wanted to get Alexander's rabbit and guinea pig out of their cages but couldn't get the cages open, so I grabbed a baseball bat to take a swing at them, and Carla shouted at me. Eventually we got the animals out and took them up into the tree house, but mummy made us give them back and put them back in the cages. Little bunny was very scared and went all stiff. Mummy put it back in the wrong cage with the big rabbit and when Alexander got back he was very cross because he said the big bunny could have attacked the little one. We were a bit surprised as the bunnies next door to us live in happy harmony and do not attack each other, even though there are big ones and little ones mixed together.
Lori came back late and mum had to wait to have dinner with her or else she would have been angry. So all the other children went to bed and I had to wait until mummy had had dinner to leave so it was 10.30 when I got to bed at the studio we hired in Divonne. Mummy said she didn't sleep well as I turned upside down and kicked her in the face.
The next morning we went back to see Carla and the boys. We grabbed the animals again and took them up the slide. I was just about to put the little bunny down the slide when mummy arrived and took it off me and told us all off again. Alexander said we weren't supposed to touch the animals.
Then we put a ladder up the cherry tree and Rafael wouldn't let me go up there with him. Instead he threw all the unripe cherries on the ground until mummy told him not to because Eddie would prefer them to ripen on the tree and not get trodden on on the ground. So we got into trouble a lot. Then Rafael and I played hiding and whispering games.
Yes I like David and Rafael very much. they are my kind of guys.
Mummy took Jonathan to the airport so he could pick up a hired car, then raced home from Cessy to get me to school but school was closed and she was cross because she had driven too fast for nothing. Went to lego club later. Mark is nice to the children and lets us make whatever we want and build tracks for the electric lego trains.
Last Friday we had our school outing to Estavayer. We were very excited about going on the school bus. In Estavayer we went to the frog museum where real frogs are stuffed with sand!
On Saturday we went to a mini steam locomotive festival in Bouveret. we got the boat from Montreux to Bouveret. I hoped that David and Rafael would show up but they went later. The place was like a mini Switzerland with castles and villages with shops and restaurants - but all dead small. We had a few rides on the trains and ate pancakes in the village. It was great.
On Sunday we went cycling with tall Tim and Heidi and their baby Evie. She is very sweet and good.It was good cycling until it rained on the way home and that was a bit yukky but not cold. Daddy said I didn't cycle very much on my back bike, which attaches to his bike, so he was quite tired out. Mummy was slower than us.
On Tuesday at school lots of people had birthdays so they got presents from the maîtresse and we had a fun afternoon but I can't remember what we did.
Today we had our garderie outing to the woods. Valerie drove us in a bus. The place where we went in the woods had two swings and a slide and we had our snack at picnic tables under a big wooden roof. Then I came home and bounced on my trampoline but a bee was trapped under the blue flap and I was worried about getting stung. I told mummy I rescued it and put it in a flower, but in fact it died with a slow shaking of the legs.
Mummy read me a story about a giant who had a pet worm and could do divining with two sticks but I wasn't really sure what the divining was all about. Couldn't get to sleep. I'm sure there were monsters in the room. Then I saw a spider. Well I thought I did.
Tomorrow mummy is off and she said she'd take me to the Märli Pinta for lunch in Kerzers (where you can eat and play a lot) but when I couldn't get to sleep and kept getting out of bed she got cross and said she wasn't going to take me to the MP after all and I said I didn't want to go anyway! Daddy is away in Stans. He rings to talk to me every day and I ask him when he is coming home and he says in 20 days, which is a long time and we get sad together but he always makes me laugh again.
Now where's that monster?
darwin - 24. Jun, 22:12
