Dogtooth Violet

Here it is... our first spotted leaf. Actually there are three of them and quite a few smaller green ones. Perhaps we will have a flower next year!!

End of the snow... finally!

This may not seem particularly remarkable to you but it is a big day... the 24th of April and the first day that our yard is completely snow free!! Now it just needs to grow.

 

Alice and Lily are making up for the general state of grey outside. They are off to school in full canary colours.

Ground work

Funny how Rachel and Alice share a tendency to gravitate downwards when it's time to think :-)

Rachel planning her next run of rehearsals

Alice getting drilled on her geography studies... hmm what was the third largest city in Nouvelle-France around 1745... Trois-Rivières !

Jeux de Montréal

Alice competed today in the Jeux de Montréal for the second time - her second ever competition. And she came away with a gold placement... gold in all her elements!  She was very pleased with herself not to mention her proud Ma and Pa!!!

On request from Meo and Doco - The remaining videos of Alice skating.

Easter eggs

A cross cultural Easter this year. We invited my two jewish friends Maya and Hélène and their families as well as Owen and Marc. None of them had ever decorated easter eggs before. We got to try some passover bread (matzah) along with lots of other goodies. 

From left to right: Hanah, Jonas, galilée, Alice, Moi, Lily, Owen (looks like he is doing some dishes in the back ground), Maya, and Blaise

Our creations

Butterflies

A glorious day at the Jardins Botanique along with a few other people and about 1500 butterflies! After waking up to yet another white morning we decided to forget the winter that doesn't seem to want to leave us and go for that warmth and the greenery in the greenhouses at the botanical gardens. A taste of things to come??

Alice's barrette served it's purpose in attracting a friendly visitor. 

coco concours

The annual neighbourhood 'coco concours' took place again this year. Lily and her friends, Annaelle and Marilou made a collective creation - Coco Système. They won second prize in the children's category... the second time that Lily has made it on to the podium!!