scootin'

Adding!!!!

 

Snowy Lake Ohrid

I think my mommies are a little crazy. They drove us to Lake Ohrid, Macedonia two weeks ago through a crazy snowstorm!!!

Getting there was pretty hard, but we had a lot of fun once we were there. It snowed the whole day while we were driving, but it was nice and sunny the next day. I got to play in a lot of snow, which was great!! I think my mommies even had a little bit of fun. :-)

My dinosaur parade!!

My buddy Dylan

Love him!!! :-)

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Chocolate croissant!!!

Phones, stories, and Bubby!!

My Bubby sent a fun e-mail about me to my moms....and they decided that they wanted to share it with you!!!  See how cute I am?

Dear Mindy and Melissa,

Just to let you know I had such a fun conversation with Levi today!  I have really noticed how much his conversational skills have been developing the last several months.

 

I was telling him a story about a little boy in India who wears brightly-colored garments  ( I named all the colors), and how he encounters tigers in the jungle who agree not to eat him if he gives each of them a piece of his clothing for them to wear.  Then the tigers all get into a big fight over which of them is the most handsome tiger in the jungle, so they take off the garments to protect them while they get in the fight.  Then the little boy steals back his clothing and runs safely home.  ( I was trying to improvise on an Indian folktale I read.)

 

So while I was telling him the story, I asked him what colors he was wearing.  He began telling me, and that's why he ran to Mindy to help him take off his outer shirt so he could see what colors he had underneath.  And when he came back I asked him what color his shoes were, he was on the point of going to find them because he was barefoot so he could tell me, but luckily I was able to keep him on the phone for that part.  Too funny!

 

I also mentioned I could only tell him one story because I was going to get a haircut, so he mentioned that he doesn't get haircuts anymore.  Is he turning into Sampson?

 

He seems insatiable about hearing stories.  I have trouble keeping up with him because he doesn't want to hear a story twice.  I only know so many stories, and making them up is often problematic because he wants to hear them on unusual topics, like sea urchins---naturally I don't have many sea urchin stories in my repertoire, so I make up weird stories as I go.  But he remembers every detail, and if I tell any story twice or repeat something in the story, he is quick to remind me that I remembered it wrong or that I already told him that one (it might have even been months ago, but he remembers!)  Once I thought I could get away with telling him a dinosaur story with a giraffe in it, but he immediately told me that giraffes didn't live at the same time as dinosaurs!  You guys must have to be quick-witted many times with his sharpness!

 

I am sure you could regale me with many of the amusing things he says and does, so I hope you will remember some of them to tell me on the phone or put in an email.

 

Love, Mom  (aka Bubby)

Gazeta Shqiptare, 09 Feb 2010. Dy Lesbike Americane ne Tirane.

My mommies are in Gazeta Shqiptare, one of the major Albanian daily papers!! Check it out!!!

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Gazeta Shqiptare
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Gazeta Shqiptare
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I love birthday parties!!

And speaking of sitting on exotic animals...

Our taxi to the Dead Sea.... Or maybe we just got to walk around in a circle for 5 minutes near the sign for sea level. But it sounds so much more romantic that we went through the Judean Desert on a camel...

A few pics of my life...

I know I have been hanging out on my blog recently, but I've been busy going to circuses, sitting on elephants, and playing with my friends. Hope all of you are having fun!! :-)

Working out...

I may be a little guy, but I still need to get my exercise!!

Loving Tel Aviv!

 

1st night of Hanukah!

Happy to be home...

Sadly, I had to leave Sicily, where I got to eat gourmet food (spaghetti with sea urchins!!!) every day...and I got chocolate and gelato all the time!  But, I'm happy to be home in Albania with all of my toys and all of my friends!!



And, my mommies got me a fun new 'hat' to wear so that I can always remember all the yummy seafood in Sicily!

A trip to the fish (and more!) market in Ortigia, Sicily

I can't believe how many kinds of fish that we saw at this market.  Swordfish and tuna and octopus and shrimp and mussels and sea bass and eels and....

I love fish!  Okay, they're not all fish, but I love everything that comes out of the sea!!!  And, did I tell you that I ate spaghetti with sea urchins?  Yep, I loved it!!!  I told you, I love everything that comes out of the sea...I love to look at it, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE to eat it!!  :-)

Fish market with a cameo by Levi and Melissa.

We got lunch from this market!  Yum...my mommies bought a tuna steak and made it at home...along with cheese, grapes, sun dried tomatoes, bread and olives!  :-)  They had wine, but I only got water.  Not fair.

A few videos from Sicily

Steps in Modica, Sicily


7, 8, 9 in Ragusa, Sicily


Playground in the gardens of Ragusa, Sicily

Modica, Sicily

My mommies take me to the best places!!  And they give me great food and chocolate.  Yum!  And I climbed up 100 thousand steps today. Really. I counted!