Waiting for the internet

I sincerely apologize to our faithful followers for the LONG delay in pictures and updates. We have been without internet for three weeks, and I'm still waiting to get a new service set up...I'm hopeful that it will be this week? In the meantime, we are all doing well...Andre is done with school for a few months and has been putting lots of hours in the garden. Things are finally starting to sprout up!! Sierra loves to play with her stuffed animals and run around the yard, or go to the "pak" (park). New words are emerging every day it seems, though some are still only clear to us. Andre's sister Eleanor moved in with us for the summer and we are enjoying having her around (and her extra helping hands with gardening, dishes, childcare...and Sierra loves her "ann yat"--Aunt Yad is the nickname from the kiddos).