Lastest news from the Amelian Galaxy...

Amélie is making some pretty hilarious jokes these days:

In the car, coming back from 'Planet 51':
a: mommy, Chuck Backer doesn't have the right stuff!
M: really, why?
a: He is not a space ranger!!

When we got parked in our driveway:
M: OK big kid, time to get out of the car, where are we??
a: Hong Kong! (uh?!!)
D: Why did you say 'Hong Kong'?
a: Just to be funny!!!

Reading the little engine that could:
M: The little engine wanted to help. She said...
a: No mommy, you have to say 'HE', not 'SHE', so that I can say you are wrong and tell you how to say it!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had fun today, hanging out at home and then going to our favorite restaurant, FARM, for dinner! Delicious food and wine, but the best gift was Amélie that collaborated with us in the restaurant for one and a half hours!

Lazies on the sofa!

Today, all three of us felt pretty lazy, not sick or anything, just wanting to effortlessly hang out, like a big family of hibernators! So most of our afternoon was spend snuggling on the sofa, watching 'Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs', eating grapes and relaxing as a family (exhibit A - although the younger member of the plot did not want a picture of her face to be taken):



That is something Amélie had never been willing to do in the past, so we were really happy that she is more and more able to sometimes relax and hang out with us, as compared to constantly jumping and climbing on walls :)...

Another big win today... In the past, if we negotiated with her that she would be able to see one more clip after brushing her teeth before going to bed, she would go crazy trying to get us to show her two clips instead of one.

Well tonight, she surprised us, and at the end of the allowed clip, she asked 'mommy, can I watch this other clip after I am done sleeping?'... Getting good at this negotiating thing our little one...

Halloween!

Amélie was a white kitty for Halloween, we successfully convinced her that pricesses were not cool at all, but that kitties ROCK! We'll take these victories for as long as we can :)!

Amélie went trick-or-treating with Merf, who in pure coincidence was a kitty too! They had a great time, and did a wonderful job going from houses to houses, stating the required 'trick or treat?', and the no less required 'Thank you and Happy Halloween' before leaving. They had a blast!





Our little one had her basket filled with different tooth decay inducing candy... Apart from the candy her daddy could not resist eating while our little one is asleep, we have convinced Amélie to trade her candy loot against fruit she likes (we are patenting our approach and we will make it available to our faithful readers soon)!