Make up

Another picture of Rita and friend - this time Maja. I don't know what happened. Maja and came to play and in a split second the two girls changed the living room in to a beauty parlor. Now, I worry about when Ellen comes back from her weekend school because - seriously- I don't know where they got the make up from :-)

Rap R.I.P.

Last night we witnessed a great tragedy. Rita's pet beettle "RAP" died. RAP was part of a school project where Rita became responsible for 3 mealworms. She immediately named them Rip, Rap and Rup - Danish for Huey, Dewey and Louie. And she took good care of them. Two of them made it to cocoons and one broke out as beetle. In fact, he broke out so much that he wandered out of his box. It caused a bit of panic because we didn't know where the beetle had gone. Could it be in the kitchen? But - alas - Rap ended up drowning in the aquarium.

Old maid

Obviously, it's not Rita I'm referring to. Rita and Axel enjoyed a good game old maid on our vacation. It was a bit unorthodox though because Rita did her best to get the maid and not to get rid of it.

Indoor camp

We have just returned from fall vacation in Sweden. We had five days in the "new" summerhouse. The weather was fantastic. We had the low hanging fall sun illuminating the multicolored leaves in the forrest. It was really spectacular. I don't know how much the kids appreciated the view but they sure enjoyed it when we let them roast marshmallows in the fireplace.

Get me a dentist

Rita and Cecilie made chocolate muffins. We caught then digging too much into the chocolate. They had fun.

Bearlet

We went to the first show at the Royal Theatre with our seasonal tickets. It was a ballet for kids. The "star" of the show was a huge yellow teddybear called "Bamse" - known from national public tv. The story was that Bamse was to learn "bearlet" as he called it. The performers were all children from the royal school of ballet. They were wonderful and so gifted. Erik was too old an audience, so instead we had invited one of Rita's friends, Cecilie. I wasn't able to get a picture of the the two of them in the theatre so here is one from before the performance.

According to the theatre a video should be available on the homepage. I can't find it, but you can see pictures of the performance here.

Doorstep

So this is the doorstep. Axel and I had fun figuring out the right exposure. We had a bit of false light from the living room. So Axel placed himself in the window to shade for the light.

Rita SFO

Rita's after school club had planned a concert this summer. It was cancelled due to the public strike over wages. The teachers at the club felt bad about the cancellation so the concert ended up just being postponed. It took place last week. Rita had looked so much forward to it. She was very happy and proud of the performance.