Young Lily dressed up as young Rachel

Oh, what a joy! A present has arrived in the mail, from Meo! Lily has really taken a liking to receiving and opening presents since this past Christmas+birthday blitz. And imagine opening one that contains pink clothes! She responds very much to pink, for some reason, always pointing to other kids' pink clothes and claiming them as "Lily's"... Now she can genuinely claim these pink clothes from another little girl from far gone days, a cute little girl named Rachel :-) Thank you Meo!

Le crawl de Lily

Big sister Gabriela kept going on and on about going to the Aquadome, but daddy was lazy — "it's too far, let's go to the neighborhood pool instead". Gabriela won. Good thing she did, cause I got to discover this amazing place where dozens and dozens of kids and babies and grown-ups float around in nice lukewarm water, surrounded by huge windows full of the winter and snow and ice and cold outside. I swam for the first time. I really did. I developed my own style by moving around the shallow end using my two hands and letting the rest of my body and legs float behind. Was I ever moving. I called my style "crawl", cause that's exactly what it was.

Hey, bird — I'm talkin' to you

Alice always squeals and cackles a great deal — between naps of course — and all of us encourage her by squealing and cackling back... or at least most of us.

Queen Lily the first

Look at me in the eye and tell me: who do you suppose rules this place?
On a mangé une bonne galette des Rois fournie par le Fromentier, mais avec cinq femmes dans la maison on a décidé de renommer toute l'affaire "la Fête des Reines" ! :-)