Spring 2015

Things to remember for now:
- How when they hear something they like, they say "yoo hoo!" to celebrate.  "We're going to eat some cake?  Yoo hoo!"
- How Annick is all about her doudou mouton these days.
- How Luca pretends to be a little motorboat who is tired after a long day before going to bed, and has to turn off his motor (his tired little legs)
- How Luca makes up convoluted and often baffling narrations to his play
- How Annick sets her ridiculous narration to song
- How we thought the crazy tantrum phase had passed, but really, it hadn't.  And how Annick spends a lot of any supermarket visit wailing in self-pity on the floor.
- How Luca loves to wear runners because they make him "so fast!"
- How Annick teaches mama songs from daycare - "Mini, mini, mini, big red bus!  Ferrari Ferrari."
- How Annick is all about the casual nudity
- Conversations as we walk the back streets of Richmond and pass a company called Rocket Catering, who have a rocket in their window:
  - Luca: Look, there is a rocket!  Why is there a rocket??
  - Annick: Well, a long long time ago, around here there were no houses.  Only wocket ships."
- How Annick is full of good advice: "Mama, if you eat honey and then you brush your teeth, that's more good."  "Mama, if you do this," *makes fist, punches wall* "then it will hurt."
- How Luca is all about the ships right now, seriously, so many boats.
- How Luca has his little ritual dance that has to be done just right when we read Tralalire and say, "Bienvenue chez Cacahouete, Pouet Pouet et Patatras!"
- How their concept of time is still off - if they have never done something before, they have not done it "for a long long time" and if they did something at any point in the past, it always happened "the other day".
- How Annick calls dessert "second clourse" and how one of her friends at daycare is "Claitlin" and her swim teacher is "Grabbi".
- How Luca is all about numbers and counting, although "after nointeen mama is twenty-two".  But he has grasped basic concepts of addition and subtraction and can count several hundreds up in both languages with only minimal assistance.
- How they will talk and talk and talk in the dark in their little beds (or sometimes hop in together) when they have been apart for the day, because there is so much to catch up on.  (and sometimes, if you tell them to go to sleep, Annick will tell you, "I am telling Luca about my day!")  I think Luca going to school next year is going to be a big deal.
- How for Annick, 'any' means 'none', as in "there is anything in this box mama" or "there is anyone who wants that"