one crazy estonian

Liisa’s design and pattern, David cut out and I sewed. All in a short hour after dinner.

Mõte selline karu õmmelda tuli raamatust ¨Suur Karuraamat¨. Seal oli nimelt pilt vedrujalgadega karust ja Liisa hakkas kohe endale sellist karu tahtma. Mina olin algul skeptiline, et ega sellist ma vist küll teha ei oska. Aga Liisa teadis kuidas saab ja näitas ja õpetas. Ja nii ta valmis saigi!

Friday is the only day of the week that we have no planned activities. Instead there is lazing in the bed, late breakfast and something crafty.

Today I called my dad and he told Liisa that he had a small teddy bear. As I was hanging up (is it still called hanging up if you use skype?) she told me that we NEED to make another bear for him. So for the next two hours we were busy making this

Liisa picked colors, I cut and sewed most, she added nose and muzzle and beads to the dress; and stuffed with plastic pellets. Often it is mostly her sewing, today she knocked over a container of seed bead and after we had spent half an hour picking them out of the carpet the interest was more or less gone.

But later when I dealt with such mundane things as dishes she drew a book

and letter.

All already in the mail to my parents

And in case you are wondering, all the spelling was correct, it is just in Estonian. I am quite proud of her, she spelled most by herself, sounding words out, we only had small discussion about k versus g and omission of one letter from one word.