Monday, December 29, 2008

Les Fêtes

Et bien les amis, on est bien occupés durant ces fêtes de fin d'année!

Comme papa devait travailer, on est allées au Musée des enfants à Indy, super cool activités pour les jours d'hiver, ils ont même un vrai manège! Amélie et son copain Yang Yang de la garderie ont adoré!



Aussi ils ont bien aimé la Formule 1:



Le 24 au soir, nous sommes allés chez sa copine de garderie, Rena. Comme la famille de Rena est juive, on a fêté la 4e nuit de Hanukkah avec eux. Amélie a été sage comme une image, a allumé ses 4 bougies et a bien aimé les chansons!

Au lieu d'un jour de déballage de cadeaux à Noël, on a distillé les cadeaux sur quatre jours, comme ça Amélie a été tous les jours occupée avec un nouveau cadeau à découvrir:





Amélie aime toujours autant faire des grimaces, spécialement quand elle a la bouche pleine de yogourt qui est de couleur douteuse, et sûrement radioactif:







Après tout, ce n'est pas si nouveau...

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Animal games

While playing our new game... Telling animal names in our respective languages...

M: Cochon
D: Porco
a: Pig!

D: Gato
M: Chat
a: Cat!

M: Tortue
D: Tartaruga
a: Master Oogway (from Kung Fu Panda of course)!



Good point!

Friday, December 19, 2008

Merry Festivus!

Joyeux Noel tout le monde! Happy Holidays! Feliz Natal!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Brazilian Portuguese lesson for mommy

Today in the car:

D: Hey Amélie, diz para mamae que voce gosta da musica da Bebel!
a: Mommy, I really like the music with BEBEL (with the Brazilian pronunciation - which to novices like her mom, sounds like BEBE-OU)
M: Ah tu aimes bien la musique de BEBE-OU?
D: No, not BEBE-OU, BEBEOU, like BRAZIOU (that in fact is written BRAZIL but pronounced in a strange way to my novice ears...)
M (totally making fun now): Oh, BEBE-OU (with accentuated French Accent on the 'OU')!
a: no mommy, BEBEOU!
D: see mommy, BEBEOU!
M: oh, ok, BEBEOU (more or less)!
a: yeah, GREAT JOB Mommy (with of course the over excitement that her parents display when saying this to her)!

Keeping in mind that she is only 2 and a bit years, I guess that means many more pronunciation lessons are ahead for all of us!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Potty training...

Amélie is in the process of deciding whether she still wants to wear diapers or not... Some days she absolutely wants one, some days, she claims being a big girl and wants to wear undies... We oblige and tell her how proud we are that she is now a big girl when she wants to wear undies without diapers, and go completely overboard with expressions of joys when she uses the potty for #1 or #2! Of course, some days, we have a lot more stinky laundry as a result...

One day this week, Amélie asked me to put a diaper and an undie on in the morning, so I did. When we went to pick her up at the end of the day, her teacher told us that when she had her diaper changed in the morning, she said to him: "No more diapers for me!"... So her teacher obliged. Back in her classroom, Amélie proclaimed: "I am a big girl now, no more diapers for me!"

All the kids in her class apparently cheered and each of the kids went to give Amélie a big hug... Her teacher said he had never seen this happen before! That day, Amélie used the potty 4 times during the day, and had no accident, so there is hope...

She is still going back and forth with the diaper thing, and having accidents, but hopefully she will be potty trained before she has to write her college essays... On Friday, her teacher told us that she spent 45 minutes on the potty, which is the longest time Amélie has been in one spot since she was able to roll over at 5 months, so we consider that a great step in the right direction!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Week in Review

We are happy to report that since we have been back home, Amélie has been sleeping like a brick... She is definitely a little one that loves routines and her own bed!

This week has been filled with fun activities:

Hanging out with friends in our house while the mommys went out to stimulate the economy on Black Friday:


Asking my mom to give me a haircut (she asked twice today to have her hair cut again, mommy only pretended to cut, not wanting to make the disaster worse...):


(FYI - the little white things around her mouth are not rabies symptoms, just a little of the yogourt she was then eating)

Playing with mom and dad to build towers:





And also getting into the Holiday spirit: