Well, since it has been over a MONTH since I posted any pictures, this is going to be a long one!

On Monday it rained!  You can see more pictures of the rain on the Lemuel Blog.  Ani was so excited and spent over an hour running around outside.  Poor Josiane had to run around with her!

 

Yes, it was pouring down rain when I took this picture.

Oops!  Her whole leg went right down into the mud!

Ok, going backwards now, on April 11 we headed over to our land for a group of workers to begin digging out the day-basement for our house! 

Can you see little Ani walking with the men, acting like she is one of the crew?

Figuring out the plan of attack.

 Marking the outside borders...

 ...on each side.

And the digging begins!

Back to April 8, Easter Sunday!  She looked so cute in her outfit from Tati Bonita, but she almost drove me to insanity trying to get any good pictures.  There are many more photos of closed eyes, crazy grins and strange poses that fall between these seemingly simple shots but here are some of the most choice of the day...

 

Being silly with Tati Josiane.

Hugging my legs
(in other words not standing and smiling like I told her to).

Tati Krichou trying to get her to calm down and smile nicely (by bribing with chocolate ;)).

"If I smile like this will you finally leave me alone mom?!" 

No, she didn't say that exactly but that is what she was going for.

 

Aww, trying to be sweet as I am losing patience.

Then, when I ask her, just to one time stand nicely and smile I get this...

The only thing this picture can't capture is the ghetto bum shake she was actually doing when I took it.  I almost didn't post this one, but yes, this is my crazy child.  Where does she learn these things???

Finally, I got this. 
Not what I was going for as a pretty Easter picture but pure ANI.

We ended the day as friends, despite the exasperation on both our parts.

Going back now to April 5, when we laid out our house!  Dad and Ed Leid were here and along with Sam, Gilbert and Manis, laid out where our house will be and where the digging should begin.

 

With her dear Papi.

Putting in the stakes. 

The ground was so hard there were some places we couldn't get the wooden stakes in!

Being a big help and carrying the stakes.

Going back now to March 23...  What a week that was!  We had a wonderful team of four here, whom we thoroughly enjoyed having, but all of us got sick!  It was crazy!

I had been ok until toward the end of the week.  I was feeling nauseous and just overall horrible so Manis put the lounge chair in the gazebo for me so I could be outside but still lay down.  Ani crawled under the covers with me to comfort me.  

Finally, back to March 21 when Ani get her new Disney Princess comforter that Mema had sent her with Tati Bonita...

She was SOOOOOOO excited!

 She covered her whole head so we had to pick up the bottom to get a picture:) 

Well, that's all for now!  I will try not to wait another month before posting again!