Vietnamese Language Learning

I bought a set of kids learning books from a company in California, designed for younger english readers to learn Vietnamese. I really could not get into this series. The first book seems designed for the K grade, with a letter-sized book(all the rest in the series is a smaller format, basically half-legal sized) and practice with letter writing (in print) and coloring. I'm not sure how the books correspond to grades, but since my plan was to do cursive first, the whole print thing was a deal breaker.

Couldn't find book 1 while I was taking pictures!

Found this book on Amazon, formerly from the Sacramento Library. It's obviously a bilingual book, while the ones above are mainly in Vietnamese.

Ducks in the neighborhood

There are lots of ducks, mainly Muscovy, in the neighborhood, our neighbor even feeds them. Hubby dislikes the mess they make, but they are fun to watch.

Staredown...

Seedlings half birthday celebration

Seedlings have a little celebration for the birthday kids, or for those kids with summer birthdays they celebrate the half birthday. They have a sweet little ceremony, with a candle made of pats of love.

Making the birthday candle.

With good friends

In the Valley

Monkey Girl

We were out geocaching and she found this palm tree.  What better thing to do than to climb it?

More geocaching and too cold for the iguanas!

We do more goecaching in the winter time, it's just nicer to get out, but it's been unusually cold for a longer period. We found one geocache, and not another but a dead iguana.

Putting the geocoin in another location.

Too cold!

Kids and tire changes

The neighbors grandkids were visiting and found hubby changing tires on his car fascinating. They all had to take a turn!

Geocaching at Fern Forest Nature Center

So we visited Fern Forest Nature Center and did some geocaching. We found a nice geocoin and saw birds and a soft shell turtle.

Geocoin!

Such a cute snout!

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