Day 153 / 44 To Go: Toy Story in Spanish

Posted by: Cris The last 24 hours was eventful in the ocean just out from our lanai. Just about this time last night while I was down reading a bedtime story to the girls, a CH-53D helicopter carrying 4 Marines crashed into the ocean about 4000 feet offshore onto the sand bar. My neighbor was out on his lanai and actually heard it go down. I didn't know anything about it until I took the dogs out for a walk and he was out watching the rescue helicopters. The next 3 hours I think every helicopter in Hawaii was flying over my house - Coast Guard, Police, TV News Crews. Even though it was pitch black, I was able to get this pretty cool picture of the rescue helicopter with my telephoto lens: This is the type of helicopter that went down: Come daybreak, you could finally see the wreckage out on the sandbar. Unfortunately, during the late morning the news reported that 1 of the members of the crew had not survived the crash. The rest of the day was a flurry of activity out there but at sun down, the wreckage was still there and now in the dark, I can still see the flashing blue light of the patrol boat that will sit out there again tonight making sure everyone keeps their distance.

Onto happier topics:

The girls have kind of been ridiculous the last couple days. Lots of free entertainment for me... A mischievous pair... Lunchtime - check Juneau with the casual legs crossed look sitting their like she's a little adult. Junean was very proud of the Shrek she made with her "Scarf" (this is what she calls her Flarp) Nova informed me she was holding her crayon the way grandma taught her to... The girls had been asking forever to eat these spiral Minnie Mouse lollipops that came in a care package a while back...tonight we finally cracked them open. In our nightly routine, we headed downstairs to read a Toy Story book story. I was tired of the girls picking the same stories every night and arguing about who's turn it was to pick so recently we decided to read the stories from the beginning of the book to the end. So, we still end up coming across stories we've already read 5 times...like tonight.

So, when we opened the book and saw the story the girls already knew, Nova said "Read it in Spanish!" - This is what I'll call the "Dora Effect".

When I told her I couldn't read it in Spanish she said "No, I'LL read it in Spanish" to which Juneau quickly followed with "And I'll tell you what she said".

So, Nova started into "reading" each page in Spanish which amounted to her sticking her tongue partially out of her mouth and doing a combination of talking and spouting gibberish that sounded like a lot of "blah bluuu blih bloo bwaaa" and Juneau would follow with a summary of what that page said in the story.

I think I nearly broke a rib trying to hold in my laughter as I sat there and turned pages and they continued their Spanish with English translation of the story until it was over. Probably the funniest thing they have ever done.