Nandry's Pictures and Stories

Holes in My Head

2011-09-28T14:37:00.001-04:00

Three weeks ago I got my ears pierced. It was kind of scary when I first went into the pharmacy (it's different than the US, you can get your ears pierced here at a pharmacy or at a hospital) because before when we had tried to have my ears pierced the nurse was going push the earring through with his bare hands. So, before he did it, we decided that we would try to get it done at another place that actually had a piercing gun.

It was kind of painful. There was a guy that kept telling me (in French) that it didn't hurt. But I was feeling the pain and I wanted to tell him it DID hurt. He never had his ears pierced, so he didn't know how much it hurt.

After a while, I figured out that the earrings I chose were actually almost the same color as my birth stone. And I have a necklace from Disney World that is my birth stone, so I can wear them together.

After I got my ears pierced I was sad because I thought that I didn't have any other earrings. But then, my mom reminded me that Aunt Cynthia had given me a few pairs this summer. Just a few days ago, I got 2 more pairs of earrings from my friend Ysabelle and then I got a pair from Janet Bales who was one of the teachers at our kids program in Bamenda. So now I'm very happy because I have many options to chose from for when I take my earrings out for the first time, which will be around 2 weeks from today.

Snowballs During the Summer

2011-07-08T13:21:00.003-04:00

This picture was taken when I turned into a giant a few weeks ago and touched the top of the Swiss Alps. Just kidding! I was really hiking up a mountain opposite of the Alps and that's how I got the picture.

We were hiking and went up to the first snow spot that we found. We threw a few snowballs and both of my brothers slid down the icy spot. When I was climbing down the snow it was so cold my fingers almost felt numb. I forget the last time I felt snow before, but it was probably over 2 years ago.

It was fun hiking up the mountain because I could see the huge, beautiful Alps across the valley.

Nandry's New Fashions

2011-06-17T09:54:00.002-04:00

Now that I'm finished school for the year, I have time to sit around and crochet. So, I decided that I'd make some Barbie clothes. One of the outfits looks more like a Christmas outfit, and the other one is more of a summer outfit. I didn't really have a pattern, I just started to crochet and it came out like it is. The shoes with the summer outfit, after I tried to take them off and put them back on a few times, they fell apart because I had cut too close to the knots and so now she goes barefoot!

Karate

2011-01-12T10:13:00.002-05:00

This is during my Dad's karate class that he's teaching Boaz, Asher, Brianna, Brendan and me. He's helping me practice my punches. Karate class is cool because we get to exercise and learn new skills and practice our coordination.

My Bunny

2010-11-13T03:06:00.003-05:00

This is my beautiful, lovable bunny. Her name is Flopsy and she eats country brooms and every plant she can find or that I give her. She lives in my veranda with a mama cat named Mixie, her kitten named Tiger and Buttercup the big German Shepherd. Buttercup is a bit scared of the bunny even though she's over 5 times her size. Tiger likes the bunny, espeically for a playmate, but the bunny just ignores him. Tiger also tries to eat her food, but he doesn't usually like it because it's mostly leaves. Mixie just ignores the bunny.

If people come into the veranda and they don't look too scary, the bunny runs right up to them. But if they are a little scary, she runs and hides behind her cage.

Nandry's Castle of Cards

2009-12-23T01:22:00.002-05:00

Hey Grandpa, check out this cool castle I made one night after dinner. Thanks for giving me the deck of cards. To make this castle I used up ALL the cards in the whole deck! Sometime I'll try building with layers and make it 2 or 3 stories tall.

2009-08-31T11:54:00.000-04:00

Philadelphia Fun

2009-02-27T19:24:00.003-05:00

This is my Dad. It looks like he's falling in the air. He's really jumping down from a big hat. It's an extra large monopoly piece. I took that picture because my Dad couldn't take the picture because he is in the picture.

In this picture, I am saving my Daddy from big domino that's falling on him. I'm so strong that I can lift anything. Not really, that's just a joke! But I am getting stronger from massaging my Dad's back and practicing on the pull-up bar. My Dad is good at making scared faces. When I look at the picture, it looks like he's going to trip over the domino on the ground.

KK Montana

2009-02-27T19:19:00.002-05:00

KK is my cousin. KK is good at doing cool poses. I'm good at things like drawing, painting and art and she does good at fashion and performing. I like things like practicing stretches but not really sports.

Sparkly Shoes and the Sunglass Kid

2009-02-27T18:48:00.002-05:00

My Granny got me a beautiful pair of shoes and she got me a blue necklace to go with it. She's actually my Dad's grandma (so that makes her my great grandma). I really like the shoes because they are super sparkly. I could barely look at them in the sunlight because they are so bright, because the sun reflects off of them. I feel like a princess when I wear those sparkly shoes.
This is my brother Boaz when he's trying to be cool. I think he looks kind of silly. He was going to a 1st grade play and he wore his cool sunglasses. I thought his play was pretty neat, he sung about all kinds of holidays. His class did a song about Christopher Columbus and they wore little boat hats. But I don't think Columbus wore sunglasses.

Thanksgiving at Grandmom's

2008-12-01T15:43:00.004-05:00

I gave my Grandmom some really silly earrings. My Grandmom said, "If you let me curl your hair, then I'll wear these earrings to church." I didn't let her curl my hair. So, she didn't go to church with the silly earrings. I love my Grandmom because she is silly sometimes.

In this picture it looks like my Grandpop is going to run my Grandmom over with the car. Grandmom pretended to look scared because she thought it would be a silly idea to make a picture like that. My Grandpop wouldn't really run my Grandmom over, but I like this picture because my Grandmom is silly and this picture is silly too.

2008-10-04T15:21:00.001-04:00

This is me, Nandry, riding my bike. I can ride really fast and really slow. I learned how to ride just a couple weeks ago at our house in VA. This is my small, starter bike but now I have a new big one that my grandma brought home for me. My new bike is hard to ride because it has hand brakes and they are hard to pull so I can't stop as fast. I ride bikes with my friends from school and with Boaz.

Going to School

2008-09-23T18:41:00.003-04:00

Here's me and my brother Boaz on our first day of school. We were waiting for the bus.

2008-08-06T16:24:00.008-04:00

Nandry at the eye doctor's office.

I was trying on silly glasses before my eye exam. The doctor put drops in my eyes that made the pupils really really big. He said that my eyes were a gift from God because I can see really well.

This is a picture of me using an iron. You can see my new sewing machine in the background. I'm making a new dress and I'm using fabric that looks like African fabric but I got it at the store here in the United States. I have done almost all of it by myself.

My Grandmom is reading Junie B. Jones to us before we go to bed. Junie B. Jones is a book about a naughty little girl. One of the funny things she said was that a crib is a bed with bars on the sides sort of like a cage at the zoo except the baby doesn't pull you in and kill you!

Dutch Wonderland

2008-08-04T09:29:00.007-04:00

This picture is of some of my favorite flowers at Dutch Wonderland. I like them because they are pink and white and red. But I don't know if they smell good or not because I haven't smelled them.

This is me, Nandry, with my cousin Chloe. Aunt Christina, Chloe's mom, couldn't go down the slide with Chloe so she asked me to do it. I went down the slide with her 2 times, then I went one time all by myself. It was sort of fun.

This picture is of me, Cameron, Alyssa and Boaz on the monster cars. Since I had never gone to Dutch Wonderland before, I told Cameron that he could drive me, so he did! It was fun.

This is a picture of me, Aunt Christina and Chloe and we are going on the log ride. My Grandmom is taking my picture because I didn't want to take my camera and get it wet! Thanks Grandmom and Grandpop for taking us to Dutch Wonderland.

Ladybug Lamp

2008-07-25T13:01:00.001-04:00

This is my best picture I have taken with my new camera. It's the ladybug lamp over the table at my Grandmom's house.