Annick - 5.5 weeks

Annick at four five 5.5 5.8 weeks Clearly not quite keeping on top of things here...  expect future instalments of 'Annick - 16.43 weeks', 'Annick - I think she's four months', 'Annick - is she 29 already?'

This week (or more):
- at four weeks, the sad moment where she sticks her legs out of the porte-bebe instead of staying all tucked in like a foetus.
- Annick started to smile on 12 June, started to 'talk' on 13 June (one word only - "ah").
- vomiting less - yay!
- really really hard to get her to sleep during the day

Her current nicknames:
- le paquet d'amour
- Kim Jong Il (Jason does her hair North Korean dictator stylee after a shower, and says to her in a tone usually used for "coochie coochie coo", "voudrais-tu lancer un missile?")
- mémé, because she is a little old lady
- madame poopy
- lady-girl, because she is

My current favourite photo of Annick.

Or this one (she spends a fair bit of time newborn cross-eyed)

Or this one!

Pretty good at tummy time.

Luca too!

A rare daytime nap.

A beautiful outfit from Bee Kuan Ee!

Full moon food!  We could have fit her inside the pig if we wanted.

Annick's awesome full moon cake - read more about it here!

I like to think of her as the gay madonna.

Luca - 2 ans part deux

Luca is already two - holy crap.  Two-year old Luca is highly entertaining, incredibly frustrating, adorably affectionate and a bit of a pain in the behind when he wants to be. 

He is also a beautiful, gentle big brother to Annick.


He talks a LOT, mostly in his own language, but uses real words when they are important (particularly involving butter).  And he is obsessed with counting.  He lives in an amazing world where the biggest number is 16, where numbers 1-6 are mostly in French and 7-16 are in English, where there is no English number 5, and only occasionally a number 8.

He likes to read with mama and papa, but has also started to 'read' to himself.

Papa has started him on the ice hockey too.

Luca has started to enjoy outings, like the aquarium.  Ooh - sharks!

At night before bed, Luca reads in his reading corner with papa, and sometimes they look at photos of people we love.

We've started him early on helping out in the kitchen.  We expect breakfast in bed for our birthdays by next year at least.

Little yellow bear gets a go in the swing!

Ah ma's shoes are very comfortable and make an awesome clicky sound on the floor.

OCD Luca.