Even more Aini Photography

Aini's pic of the baby

Aini Photography

Little girl is becoming quite the photographer

Last two are pictures of the front of the flat house we're now living in

About ants and snakes

The little one is scared of ants... Yes, ants! And yes, I am talking about that same little one that once ate wasps and crickets. Whenever she sees an ant she runs away backwards and shouts "femie, femie, mie!, mie!" Which is   'fourmi' and 'mier' both meaning 'ant', respectively in French and Dutch. She's very apt in making things clear as possible, bilingually speaking. Than she also says they are dangerous. Now I have to admit that they are over a centimeter and when they bite, it hurts, and you have trouble getting them off.
She's, luckily, also scared of snakes. And we see a lot of them here! I personally have seen about five or so. But smallish one and the gardener have seen many many more. Just yesterday there was a viper eating a rog inches away from my door.
Cameroon is supposed to be the snake country of the world, yet I had only seen three snakes over there in the two years we lived there. And we did much more unattentive garden walking over there. In our defense, I have to add we had an enormous garden and only acces to a lawn mower once a week - if we were lucky. Here our garden is significantly smaller and we have bought our own lawnmower (that's so grown-up, don't you think?).
But the snakes here in Ivory Coast don't limit themselves to the garden, they crawl into small spaces at the factory, they are on the streets and dirtroads... It's like Cameroonian snakes were more afraid than the ones over here.

Little babysitter

Aini spoonfeeding her little friend at last night's dinner party

Swimsuit edition

Too cute in the little swimsuit she got from Nunna at the Côte d'Azur

Big love

Plantation life

Aini's favorite place

Funny Bunny

In mommy's shoes

Sleep tight

Cuty fell asleep while eating again

Real African baby

Aini was real exited when she could help Maryam making sauce graine. Wasn't really our cup of tea though... Not a lot of flavour. Aini did like the futu.

a thousand steps

We went for a little walk yesterday. Our sweety had a lot of fun playing in the puddles of lmud, running around, meeting other kids.

La fête nationale

On the 7th, two days after we arrived back in Ivory Coast, it was national holiday. We had to go to a soccer game (we did manage to sneak out after three quarters, because it was getting dark and our dear daughter got hungry and bored). Local entertainment
the women's league

The guards' parade

Some more pics from our stay in Cluny

Aini vandalizing my plants

fruitylicious

Aini really loves her mango!

And her pineapple juice too!

daddy torture

mango

Aini's birthday

Lounging at 'Sucree Salee'
I even got to taste mommy and daddys 'boterkoek'. Things are very different on your birthday!

We went to eat at 'La langouste' and I tasted mommy's langouste salad. I loved it! You can imagine I didn't want to touch my ready-made food!

I got to play with sand!

You see, nonkel Michael, I don't need a monkey to teach me to eat with a little stick!

Mommy and daddy got me a wooden giraffe and had my name written on it. I immediately adopted it and am giving it planty of kisses.

Mommy spent an entire day baking me a mango cream pie.

I love candles!

And yet another present!