September Activities

Lots of birthday parties, a movie screening, Girl Scouts activities, the PTA's Pancake Breakfast at school, my UCLA Law School Reunion, and I am not even mentioning the usual (boring) stuff, like medical appointments, teacher meetings, tutoring and social skills sessions,...
We like to keep it busy (says the person who would much rather prefer a chill-out weekend at home)!

Here are some photos of (some of) our September activities.

Child of the Earth movie screening (September 9), a short documentary for which Marcus wrote the music. A very touching movie, definitely worth seeing! After having lunch with Claudio and his family, we went to see Pamela, who lives nearby, and had a fun afternoon with her and her little boy Jacob. He is such a cutie - Marcus took some great photos!

Marcus, Ennio and Lily with director Claudio Faeh and his daughter Maya

Wall paper at the restaurant! It was a 50's diner.

Girl Scouts Prep Work for Mount Washington Pancake Breakfast (September 22), the school's annual fundraising activity

Pancake Breakfast Day!

Lily and her friend Pearl. Lily volunteered at the breakfast as part of her Girl Scouts community engagement.

At the parking lot of our local library, Ennio saw this Tesla and was practically glued to it!!! He loves Tesla cars (even asked if he could have his next birthday party at the Tesla Store 😂), but for now he will have to do with our Prius Prime!

An electric car is certainly useful in L.A. traffic! I'm saving tons on gas!

UCLA Law Reunion (September 29). It was so good to reconnect with Carolina and Andres, who flew in from Chile to attend the reunion!!!

Just some nice shots of our favorite kitty Stella and the flowers in our neighborhood!

Queen Mary visit

Today we visited the Queen Mary with Ennio's friend Ford and his family. It was their birthday present for Ennio, and had taken us so long to find a date that would work for both our families!
We had brunch first at Restauration in Long Beach and then headed to the boat. Ennio was over-the-moon excited! What a fun day!

Een nieuw schooljaar, een nieuw bureau!

Althans voor Lily. Ik heb er genoeg van dat onze living tafel nooit of te nimmer opgeruimd is en altijd vol paperassen ligt (de meeste van de kinderen). Ook is het niet evident dat ze alletwee tegelijk huiswerk maken in de woonkamer. Bij Ennio moet er iemand bijzitten en hem constant bijsturen (anders houdt hij er de aandacht niet bij en doet hij niets) en als we dan luidop bezig zijn, kan Lily zich natuurlijk niet concentreren. Dus nu zal ze verhuizen naar onze "study" waar ze haar eigen bureautje heeft en er hopelijk in stilte kan lezen of werken :-) Niet zeker of het zal lukken, maar we kunnen het maar proberen. Ze is in elk geval enthousiast! (In haar eigen kamer kon er geen bureau bij, omdat ze die kamer met Ennio deelt. Misschien gebeurt dat op termijn wel, als ze elk een eigen kamer krijgen... maar voorlopig is dat nog niet aan de orde, omdat we dan geen logeerkamer meer zouden hebben!) We shall see!

Verder nog een aantal foto's van zaterdagnamiddag. In de tuin van vrienden in Agoura Hills:

Getting into the groove in the music studio!

Today, we had to be in  the Valley and took the opportunity to visit our friend Mark who has his music studio in Agoura Hills. We were only able to stay for about an hour, and the kids loved it! They got to try some of the instruments in the studio (drums, guitars, etc) and couldn't get enough of it. It was hard to drag them out! It's great to see them enjoy music so much, but NO, we are not getting them a drumkit :-)