Le papa bricoleur a beaucoup de jeunes et jolies assistantes pour construire la nouvelle balançoire-glissoire qui a pour but de créer une diversion à l'heure du souper afin que la cuisinière et le marmiton n'aient pas trop de fillettes dans les pattes...
Excusez la brume dans la lentille de la caméra et dommage aussi pour le cinquième maladie qui lui rendait les joues trop rouges, mais je ne peux m'empêcher de bloguer quelques photos d'Alice entourée de fleurs lors de notre shopping printanier chez W.H. Perron, le magasin préféré de ma blonde — et de ma mère...! :-)
Mommy came back from her 9-day tour in Mexico last night. And this morning we get lots of snuggles from her, plus we can wear the great Mexican clothes she brought back for us. My sister Lily looks wonderful again in this new dress...
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...
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 !)
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 !
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.
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...)
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?!)
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... ;-)
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.
Mummy, I don't really like chocolate... but can I still hunt for Easter eggs?
Louis avait des grandes choses à nous raconter et Flor en a toujours aussi beaucoup à dire... :-)
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!!
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...
Tout le monde est très concentré, très à son affaire: une qui découpe, une qui colle, une qui dessine... et une qui remet les capuchons sur les crayons feutre.
... avec leur chère Meo bien-aimée (et, bien sûr, leur maman vénérée qui tient l'appareil photo) au Jardin Botanique lors de l'événement "Papillons en liberté".
