Le Bal en blanc à la garderie

Tous les enfants et les parents de notre chère garderie Les Ateliers regardent le spectacle des super-percussionnistes avant les grandes boustifailles communes pour célébrer l'arrivée prochaine du solstice d'été.

Lilybelly

Lily the belly-dancer checking that her outfit and her belly are still in place...

Baby Bazaar

The girls at the Baby Bazaar organised by the CRTD (Center for Dancers in Transition) - the toes on the right belong to little Galilea (daughter of Maya and Martin).

Martin et Galilée

Martin with young Galilée at the bazaar waiting for mommy Maya to make up her mind about that foldable changing table.

Playtime on the new plaything

Lily et Alice envahissent le nouveau module de glissade et balançoires...

Girls rule over the new swing set...

Alice making Fofo faces

Toujours aussi douée pour amuser les enfants, Flor peut réussir à faire faire une multitude de faces différentes à sa petite soeur... dans ce cas-ci lors d'un souper en plein air en famille.

Et Lily, elle, est toujours aussi douée pour faire sortir le maximum d'impact d'une jupe rose! :-)

Summer supper in the yard - take 2

Alice is enjoying one of the first garden suppers of the summer... in very much the same chair and position as last year, but sitting a whole lot bigger !

MAY 24, 2006:

Garden update

For Rachel's eyes only... just to let her know how her garden is doing :-)

Garden update #2

Une balançoire-glissoire dans le jardin

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...

Alice au marché aux fleurs

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...! :-)

Youpi, mommy is back !

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...

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... ;-)