

Another lovely day of skating in the old port with Meo and Marie-Claude.
Naguère baptisé "Alice & Lily", le blogue s'élargit pour inclure les deux parents et la famille au complet!
Welcome to our family blog!
We were all thrilled to have Molly with us for two nights without her papa and one with. (We were very pleased to have her papa here too!) Most of the time was spent very hard at play in the girl's room but we did manage a splendid visit to the Biodome which is Montreal's version of the Vancouver aquarium. The photographer was most taken with three little two legged creatures that seemed to follow her through all the ecosystems!
A beautiful sunny day for the first full day of school for the three Kindergarden groups at Paul-Bruchési, Alice and Lily's school. As is the tradition, parents were invited to stay around in the schoolyard this morning for a "haie d'honneur" ritual of welcoming the new five-year-olds. Lily was there of course, with her classmates of 1ère année B.
Louise, with the funny grin and nice French accent, is a good friend from last year who is again in Lily's class this year.
All the older children are in place, two-by-two holding hands high up and ready to let the new ones come running through in the "passageway"... and here they come !! (some appear a little shy, I must say ;-)
Alice finishes her run around the yard as she passes under her proud sister's raised arms...
... and emerges at the end under her proud mother's watchful eye.
La météo annonçait un weekend splendide... ensoleillé samedi et dimanche, 30 degrés - vite, on saute dans la Communauto et on va visiter Taitai et Papi ! Même Gabriela a pu venir :-)
Alice et Lily ont beaucoup joué autour du jardin de Taitai, dont la moitié est complètement occupée par les potirons, avec quelques nicotianas volontaires éparpillés ici et là.
Taitai a compté 18 potirons en tout ! De quoi garnir les maisons de ses trois fils et brus à l'Halloween prochain...
... et de quoi donner de l'inspiration à Cole pour son potager à New Denver ! ;-))
Alice a attaqué l'ascension de sa première véritable montagne cet été, comme une vaillante petite membre de la famille Harris qu'elle est.
La voici presque en haut mais prête à poursuivre pour rejoindre les plus vieux qui cavalent en avant...
... jusqu'à ce que son papa (et sa maman) décide qu'elle en a sans doute assez fait pour la journée.
Here is Lily proudly showing the exhibition she and her classmates created in hommage of four of the best known Québécois painters: Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Paul-Émile Borduas, Jean-Paul Riopelle... (and a fourth one that I don't remember.)
Some (larger) pieces were collaborations of all the children...
... whereas others were replicated by each pupil in his or her own fashion.
The exhibition was held in the large hall for parents to visit and for their children to walk them through.