New school year 2018-2019
Simply Theatre & Summer in Tuscany
Patrizia's Roman-themed 6th Birthday, dance performances & more
Action-packed Winter and Alessandra turns 8
The new school year 2017-2018 begins!
Summertime & Singapore holidays 2017
Tulips galore & Patrizia's 5th Birthday party!
Christmas and Alessandra's Super Hero 7th Birthday!
Autumn in shades of gold and orange
Printemps 2016 and Patrizia turns 4!
Happy 6th Birthday, Alessandra! Fun & Adventure in the snow
The preparations for Ale's birthday party begin! First, we decide on the theme: Papillon (Butterfly) 1 of 101 We start to prepare the goody bags for our party guests... 2 of 101 Meanwhile, the ski season opens, and Ale starts her 3rd year of ski lessons, now in Maxi Green. 3 of 101 Patrizia also starts ski lessons. Today is her very first lesson, as a Mini Champion in the first-timer's Blue Clown level 4 of 101 5 of 101 Patti looking all serious... 6 of 101 Patti listening intently and following the instructions of the ski instructor 7 of 101 8 of 101 9 of 101 End of lesson... Patti still with that serious look... 10 of 101 11 of 101 Hmm.. gloves falling off. I need proper gear! Patti gets new gloves. 12 of 101 Snowfall in our garden. Opportunity to construct a snow man! 13 of 101 And for Patti to test out her new gloves :-) 14 of 101 Second lesson of the season. And as with the 1st lesson, we meet up with Orianne :-) 15 of 101 16 of 101 17 of 101 18 of 101 19 of 101 20 of 101 At this 2nd lesson, Patti is more relaxed and starts to enjoy herself and smile :-) 21 of 101 Ale continues to make progress as she goes on the training slopes. She also goes onto the "real" blue (easy) slopes but parents don't get to follow and take pics 22 of 101 23 of 101 We stay in one cold weekend to work on this complex puzzle - history of the world in a spiral 24 of 101 Patti the competent puzzle assistant 25 of 101 26 of 101 27 of 101 This is not a black-and-white photo. It is the real world look 28 of 101 29 of 101 Lovely sisters with lovely mimosa 30 of 101 The big day arrives - Ale's birthday party! 31 of 101 Decorations start to go up...colorful butterflies galore! 32 of 101 Testing out the photo corner 33 of 101 Patti spontaneously transforms into mischievous fairy...yup, the birthday theme is butterfly and all things with wings - fairies included :-) 34 of 101 35 of 101 Kids and Papa blow the balloons and Mama is frantically putting them up: pink, green and yellow, polka dots included. 36 of 101 Ale happily poses next to our colorful home-made pompons. 37 of 101 38 of 101 The beautiful rainbow butterfly birthday cake arrives! 39 of 101 40 of 101 The early birds get tattoos on their arms from Tinkerbell herself 41 of 101 Morgane arrives with a present also for sister-of-the-birthday gal 42 of 101 Tinkerbell starts her story-telling session. Kids hurry to her... 43 of 101 44 of 101 Marie and Alison with their colorful garlands 45 of 101 Let the games begin... limbo rock, the challenge increases as the bar goes down 46 of 101 47 of 101 Ale, Lucie and Margaux 48 of 101 Marie, Sara and Elise 49 of 101 That's Camille, elder sister of Elise 50 of 101 Maxence flanked by sister Camille and Carlota 51 of 101 Nafisa as Little Mermaid and Orianne 52 of 101 Dancing train - Patti leads the pack with the guidance of Tinkerbell 53 of 101 Camille masters the lift-soap-up-board-full-of-holes challenge 54 of 101 Distribution of fairy wings to all, starting with the birthday girl 55 of 101 Ale shows off her fairy wings! 56 of 101 Patrizia transforms into a fairy 57 of 101 Fairy Nafisa 58 of 101 59 of 101 60 of 101 The wings take a break and are bounced around in a giant canvas 61 of 101 62 of 101 End of games amidst a display of colorful fairy wings 63 of 101 Time for some snacks and cake-cutting 64 of 101 65 of 101 66 of 101 67 of 101 Happy Birthday to ALESSANDRA!!! Happy Birthday to YOU!!! 68 of 101 69 of 101 70 of 101 71 of 101 After the cake, time for the opening of the presents :-) 72 of 101 73 of 101 74 of 101 75 of 101 76 of 101 Alessandra is all smiles. Thanks for all the lovely presents!!! 77 of 101 78 of 101 Time for fooling around... 79 of 101 ...and to work off all that cake and sweets by running around... 80 of 101 Ale and the birthday cake for her teachers 81 of 101 82 of 101 It's Mama's birthday! 83 of 101 84 of 101 85 of 101 86 of 101 87 of 101 A personalized version of Mama's favorite fruit bread 88 of 101 Off to ski lesson. Ale goes onto the next level after Maxi Champion Green, i.e. Maxi Champion Yellow :-) 89 of 101 90 of 101 Patti also starts in the next level: Mini Champion Clown Red 91 of 101 92 of 101 93 of 101 94 of 101 Our first fondue dinner for the winter 95 of 101 96 of 101 Patti goes onto the next level: Mini Orange 97 of 101 98 of 101 Ale gets her first medal for skiing on the real slopes, the Cristal 99 of 101 Our piano arrives! 100 of 101 The Duet sisters :-) 101 of 101
Summer vacation Singapore 2015
Spring, lovely Spring! And Patrizia turns 3 :-)
Alessandra turns 5! And other winter joys...
The preparations for the special day begins! Theme: "FROZEN". 1 of 100 Goodie bags for party guests and classmates 2 of 100 "Mandorle atterrate" - original Pugliese recipe 3 of 100 4 of 100 Home-made banner... 5 of 100 Party stuff for our little guests and their goodie bags 6 of 100 Edible marshmallow Olaf 7 of 100 Patti is recruited as Olaf maker... 8 of 100 ...so is Alessandra. 9 of 100 Day of our FROZEN party arrives! Banner goes up. 10 of 100 Balloon pumping committee 11 of 100 12 of 100 13 of 100 14 of 100 15 of 100 16 of 100 Princess Anna a.k.a. Patrizia 17 of 100 The spectacular birthday cake arrives! Smiles from Princesses Anna and Elsa :-) 18 of 100 19 of 100 The guests start to arrive. Here is Orianne! 20 of 100 The Snow Queen arrives...the story-telling, games and fun begin! 21 of 100 22 of 100 23 of 100 Balloon art: magical swords for the boys and enchanted flowers for the girls 24 of 100 The birthday girl with her enchanted flower 25 of 100 After all that activity, time for a snack 26 of 100 *All smiles*, Alessandra, Carlota and Gabriela 27 of 100 28 of 100 Nafisa arrives! 29 of 100 Happy Birthday to YOU!!! 30 of 100 31 of 100 Time to open the presents... 32 of 100 33 of 100 34 of 100 Thank you to all my dear friends for the thoughtful gifts!!! 35 of 100 Super parties can be tiring... zzzzz 36 of 100 Here is another superb birthday cake - this is to bring to school tomorrow to share with my teachers :-) 37 of 100 My first ski lesson of the season! After passing the blue and red levels last year, I start this year at the orange level :-) That's me on the far right... 38 of 100 39 of 100 40 of 100 While Ale spends 3 hours working the slopes, the rest of us chill (brrr!) out... 41 of 100 42 of 100 43 of 100 44 of 100 45 of 100 46 of 100 Phew, that was hard work, but lots of fun! My cheeks are all rosy from the cold 47 of 100 Some afternoon drink and snack (and goofing around) before we head back down the mountain 48 of 100 Decorating Mama's birthday cake with strawberries... yum! 49 of 100 50 of 100 Ale and one of the masks from her arts and craft project 51 of 100 And a tiara, too :-) 52 of 100 Goofing around with Mama's new bonnet 53 of 100 54 of 100 What to do while waiting for Ale to finish her ski lessons? Photo-shooting for Patti... 55 of 100 56 of 100 57 of 100 ...and sledding! 58 of 100 59 of 100 Yay, Ale's finished her ski lesson and can play (giant) snowball with me. 60 of 100 My first fondue! Actually we kids only posed for photos. We had hamburgers instead, fondue's for adults :-) 61 of 100 62 of 100 63 of 100 Strawberry tarts are for everyone! 64 of 100 65 of 100 Ale on skis - note that I've progressed to the light blue group 66 of 100 Patti's "need for speed" requires a helmet - a cool pinky one, of course. 67 of 100 I did well today, and the teacher says I can progress from the light blue level to medium blue at the next lesson. Yay! 68 of 100 69 of 100 70 of 100 I join the medium blue group 71 of 100 72 of 100 Patti on a French Fry binge 73 of 100 74 of 100 75 of 100 I did well today, and will progress to the dark blue group at the next lesson 76 of 100 We pick Ale up from ski class. The sisters clowning around 77 of 100 78 of 100 Ale is proud to show the jewelry box she has finished decorating 79 of 100 80 of 100 81 of 100 The sisters show off the Disney princesses they have decorated with shiny "precious stones" 82 of 100 Alessandra trains with the next level (dark blue group) on this snowy/rainy day 83 of 100 Our super heroine has passed both the Snowman and Green Mouse levels, and wins 2 medals! Next lesson: mini yellow, last level of the Mini Champions :-) 84 of 100 Ale with her Snowman medal 85 of 100 Ale with her Green Mouse medal 86 of 100 The sisters realize how many princess dolls they have (10!). They have switched their royal gowns around, just for fun :-) 87 of 100 Patti in Fairy costume! 88 of 100 Ale goes to her last ski lesson of the season, in mini yellow group... 89 of 100 ...after some minutes the instructors decided she should just join the "grown up" group mini green, and go to the real slopes :-) 90 of 100 Wow, Ale's in the same group as much older kids! 91 of 100 92 of 100 93 of 100 94 of 100 After the little slope, off they go to take the ski lift. 95 of 100 Ale's back from her class. Starting to get foggy... 96 of 100 ...but Ale is super pleased to see her good friend Orianne. 97 of 100 Orianne and Alessandra goofing around... 98 of 100 99 of 100 Happy smiles to end this year's ski season. Till next winter, then :-) 100 of 100
Summer vacation by the Tuscan seaside
Spring is here :-) and Happy 2nd Birthday, Patrizia!
Happy 4th Birthday, Alessandra! And other winter adventures...
Halloween and pumpkin season!
Summer vacation Singapore 2013
Happy 1st Birthday, Pati!
Winter Wonderland (Ale's 3rd birthday & Easter!)
Summer vacation in Singapore!
The happy baby continues her adventures
Alessandra Meiyan is born!
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