Dinner party menu

We had some people over yesterday for dinner, here's the menu:

Fried shrimp with lemon and stuffed tomato
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Fish 'en papillote' with white wine, served with a blue chees 'gratin dauphinois'
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Tiramisu

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

Wildlife

Some guys passed by this week trying to sell this little Crocodile they found in the Dodo, the river that crosses our plantation.

Sunday at Dawa

We had this beautiful beach all to ourselves!

Aini ate all of Françoises fruit salad! She's such an ogre!

Aini and Leila have become good friends over the past couple weeks. They actually start playing together, so cute!

A little peek of the 'hotel' in Dawa where we past that sunday. It's more of a ruin, the drinks are hot, so like regular Dutchmen, we arrive packed with our 'frigobox'. The advantage of going there is that there's some shade and you can get a chair.

Catch of the day: Françoises batch of Langouste

Enzo. Aini's little friend. THough he won't be little for long. He's a Beauceron and belongs to Françoise and Thierry.

Big love

Plantation life

Aini's favorite place

Some more home deco pics

Update

Having some more internet problems, resulting in no internet at the house since tuesday! So, here's a quick update.
David's superior from Brussels was here the past week... Sadly, we didn't get any security about where we're headed. We only know he's been included in next years budget, so we're all the lmess sure about when we'll be moving again. All the more reason to get the house in perfect condition! Gives us another excuse to have our new furniture made!!!
So yesterday we had a smallish party at the hubbies boss' house. We ended up dancing to 90s music until twelve! We had a jolly good time indeed! Haha!!
Aini has been sleeping in her own room since monday and she's doing really well. She only wakes up once at night now and she can even get herself to fall asleep every now and again.

On a sad note, our puppy (we had "reserved") was born on september 1st, but died shortly after. They should get another litter around the 28th so lets hope there's a male for us!

So sad...

We will be putting Aini in a seperate room tonight for the first time. It really makes me sad, but I think it is the way to go. When we just got back in Ivory Coast, things seemed to turn out for the good, but now, the past week, she's been waking up every hour or so, wanting to feed and I'm very tired and have a cold that just won't go away.
Every night, my hubby end up taking her out to the living room and walking her until she sleeps, because when she's close to me, she just wants to feed...
So maybe this wil bring relief to all of us... Fingers crossed!

La Baie des Sirenes

We went to La Baie des Sirenes again today. It had been a while since we'd been. Aini had a wonderful time again playing with the sand, so I think we'll make it a regular thing again. Sadly, it started to rain after about an hour, so we came back home.

Funny Bunny

In mommy's shoes

A Load of Crab

Sleep tight

Cuty fell asleep while eating again

Home and garden improvements

The guest bedroom with the new headboard and wall colour. Now it still needs some curtains (coming tonight) and a book cupboard.

our bedroom with new wallcolour, freshly painted furniture (they used to be cream) and newly uphulstered chairs

OPur hallway, thusfar the only area of the house that is completely renovated.

Aini's room, new wall colour and new curtains since yesterday... Our tailor did a real good job on these.

Replanting our brocoli. After his first planting experience, hubby has decided that gardening isn't really his thing (hard work and all) so I think I'll be doing the planting during the week from nopw on.

Our peas are coming out nicely.

New furniture paint and wall colour for the living room. I've also found the nmost wonderful fabric for my curtains at 38 euro for the 30 meters I needed, a real bargain. As soon as they get sewn, I'll put up some more pics.

I've also finished reuphulstering the chairs on the porch, but there's still quite some furniture reappointment to be done, and right now we're still debating with the carpenter, because he's really expensive!