Fun at the park!

We had a fabulous weather this weekend, so we went to the park with Rena:

Amélie and Rena went on a bee ride to New Jersey, Geneva and Rio:


They opened a restaurant:


But Amélie did not have any of the foods I was asking for in her restaurant, which led Amélie to learn more about patiently dealing with tough customers:


After they sold the restaurant they went on to play in the rest of the playground:


Overall a day filled with sun and fun!

Le printemps joue a cache-cache

Ces jours, les temperatures vont dans tous les sens, un jour on est a 20C, le jour suivant on se reveille avec 0C dehors, brrr!

Amélie s'impatiente de pouvoir aller jouer dehors sans jacquette! Un jour ou le soleil brillait, on a pu prendre les premieres photos de printemps:





Ce qui nous a rappele combien Amélie a grandi depuis que nous sommes arrives en Indiana (cliquez ici pour voir notre post du printemps 2007 au meme endroit)...

Full of empathy, Amélie also tries walking in our shoes... literally:

Week in review

Amélie this week was experimenting with markers... You might think that this means she was really learning how to draw on paper...

Nope, in fact she used different surfaces as canevas to create unique pieces of avant-garde art...

This one I call 'All I want is to be a kitty':


After tough negotiations (ie if you don't paint or draw on your body, mommy will paint your toe nails with purple nail polish) and a number of conversations with her teachers at day care, we are hoping that we can have the joy of collecting paper-based creations instead of having to scrub this kid's skin for days to make these works of art a memory...

On another front, here is her initiation to THE CURE (acoustic version):


That brought me many years back when I was young and energetic enough to pogo at their concert!

Who do you think you are?

Amélie did not take a nap today, and therefore was very very tired tonight...

She nonetheless insisted on putting together a floor puzzle tonight, while talking non-sense things all the way!

M: You are so tired, you are delirious!
a: No mommy, I am Amélie!

OK, she was making some sense, but trust me, she went to bed very happily tonight!

Visit to Sesame Street

We all went to Indy to see a Sesame Street show with Rena and her family today.

The show was all about what the Sesame Street characters will do when they grow up... Fun for the whole family, and mommy definitely had a lot of fun thinking the whole time about students she worked with over the years!

A few highlights:

Amélie insisted on wearing her ELMO t-shirt (she also had Sesame Street undies on, but fortunately she was ok wearing pants on top of them):



She was super excited and posed for the camera, before being literally still for the entire show, mesmarized by the performance:





The show was fabulous, and her favorite parts included Oscar and the itsy-bitsy spider song and Elmo's World:





But the best parts of the trip were the pop corn she earned for good behavior (I HEART PAVLOV+SKINNER)...


and the headphones she got to use to watch her DVD in the car on the way back home:

What's your favorite word?

M: What is your favorite word Dato?

D: I don't know, I have two, I can't decide, it would be either tartaruga (i.e. turtle) and tubarão (i.e. shark).

a: Mine is 'SHARK' (no priming effect there for sure!)

M: Cool, mine is 'shenanigans'!

a: But mommy shenanigans is so far away!