Youpi, maman Rachel revient dans 2 dodos !

Lily just got off the phone speaking with her mommy in Mexico and is starting to believe that "soon" means "soon". She has been very good so far, living her life without that most important being around her. If anything, she seems to have an easier time dealing with everything when the one person who can really understand her little daily traumas is not around to get them off her chest. But one senses that this momentary suspension of her kid angst is only going to last for a short while. We are cruising along on borrowed time, as it were...

Un beau bricolage à trois

Alice enfile patiemment les petites perles de bois sur les bâtonnets une par une pour créer cette belle forêt de totems, avec l'aide de Lily qui choisit les perles de couleur et papa qui s'assure que personne ne se fait mal... (et Gabriela qui prend les photos, merci Gabi !)

Alice la minutieuse

Is it just me being the "gaga" father again, or is my little Alice really impressive for her age? She handled all these tiny little wooden beads one by one to fill the plastic compartments; first with her fingers, then with a spoon, then with her whole hand and finally with the full plate... and she hardly spilled any beads !

Moi, j'aimerais avoir deux mamans !

Comme ça il en resterait une à la maison quand l'autre est en tournée au Mexique...!

Petit poussin s'éveille le matin

This little chick wakes up every morning around 7:09 and starts chirping for her daddy or mommy to come and fetch her out of her snuggy nest. She is always happy, rain or shine, to be alive and kicking. Every day is full of promise and adventure and fun.

From listening to Lily waking up half an hour later on the other side of that wall, I guess existential questions arise only later in life, around 2 or 2 1/2...

A splendor and a half

The lovely tulips that Carolyn brought for our belated Easter supper with Doco and uncle Owen are starting to fade but boy that Lily girl sure looks great in that satin dress Meo gave her on her pre-Easter visit! The trouble now is how to get her out of it...! (she insists on going to bed with it, playing in the sandbox in it, drinking grape juice while dancing in it, aah...)

Tackling those stairs

At last, my parents let me walk up and down the stairs! These stairs that lead to the yard are perfect because I can hold on to a low railing... I've been praticing for hours, up and down and up and down, and now I have total confidence in myself! (I always did, really, but who could tell, with these parents never letting me a chance to prove it on the indoors stairs?!)

Youpi c'est le printemps!

First day of real sun, and all my earthy girls are out in the garden!(the other two, somewhat less earthy, are probably still sleeping... ;-)

Big spoonfuls

Alice sometimes eats with an enormous appetite, these days, swallowing big mouthfuls in rapid succession. The fact that she now has mastered the handling of the spoon certainly helps. And the fact that we're having rice for supper really fires her up her appetite as well.

Chocolate eyes but no chocolate tongue

Mummy, I don't really like chocolate... but can I still hunt for Easter eggs?

Du bon stock pas cher, man!

Tiens, goûte à ça et donne-moi z'en des nouvelles, mon homme!

Souper de Pâques chez Taitai et Papi

Louis avait des grandes choses à nous raconter et Flor en a toujours aussi beaucoup à dire... :-)

Matin de Pâques

Les cocottes de Pâques ouvrent leurs cocos de Pâques...

Easter bunny

Le petit lapin de Pâques arbore fièrement les belles oreilles que lui a fabriquées sa grande soeur Flor et dévore goulûment ses carottes... et ses boulettes de viande!!

Quiet sculptor

Daddy showed me how to do trees and snakes with playdough, today... and everything is quiet in the house because Lily is not there... I prefer it when my sister Lily is home because everything becomes very excited and exciting, but I do get to play a little longer with things when she's at her daycare...