La nouvelle appartement

The morning view.

I should probably have taken some better photos.  Here's an early one of the apartment from the balcony, a couple of days after moving in.  Yes, that's a bathmat posing as a doormat.

Check out my awesome pimped up Billy bookshelves!  The backing fabric is an IKEA bedspread, just to keep it all thematic.

Un souper sur le balcon - Jason est content.

How a chicken comes out after a roast in Jason's new weber BBQ.

Le palmier!!!

La chambre de Luca.

The river is about 200m from the apartment, so we can go for nice walks.

Pour Nonna

22 mois

22 mois - garcon content

This month:
- even more talking!  New words include en francais: riz, beurre, oeuf, l'eau, oui (finalement!), bebe, propre, en haut, en bas, beau, allo, huit, trois...  In English: wipes, rice, beef, pool, meat (even if he won't eat it), bib, baby, nice (he says this a lot), ice, lights, eight, nine... and many, many more.
- enjoying the swimming pool, even after falling in and going under for a second (several times)
- really into trucks - toy ones and real ones
- all about light switches
- still very interested in closing doors
- 'counts' and 'recites the alphabet' (or pretends to do both, in any case)
- dances to his favourite songs
- getting naughty - I think we are in for an early start to the terrible twos... just in time for a new baby and moving house!  Ace!

La Nina: still hyperactive and wiggly and really, really busy; finally turned from transverse to head down on Thursday 22 March, phew!

One of Luca's favourite things - watering plants in the nude.

Welcome to the Playboy Mansion...

It's sophistication all the way here.

Luca au zoo!  Un poisson...

Les phoques!

A different zoo.

Luca aime les camions!  Beep beep, vroum vroum!

"So then I sez to her, just you listen here missy..."

Erm... I'm not sure.

La nouvelle chambre de Luca!

Luca aide maman faire un gateau aux bananes.  Miam!

Appartement, pantalons

The view from our apartment now:

The view from our new apartment:

IKEA!  But a balcony!

Et la chambre de Luca (et oui, sa petite soeur):

Hey, Mr Wilson, check out my pants!

21 mois

21 mois - Luca et maman

This month - so much!
- lots of new words: en francais - main, poire, noix, pi-pi, ananas, pates, pied; in English - star, no more, up, down, bubbles; franglais: parc/k, bye-bye, bol/bowl - there are probably more but I've lost track
- blowing kisses (or, slapping self in face while saying 'mwah!')
- climbing on everything
- answering the phone, Ali-G stylee - 'aiii?'
- new favourite toys - jewellery box with twirly ballerina, duplo tractor

La Nina: does not stop moving.  Takes up a lot of room.  Really into startling mama.

"Aiii?"  The first person to have Luca answer the phone when they called - Leong koo.

Favourite word - "more" (OK, no - favourite word, "non", second favourite word, "more")

Coucou!

Bunnings Luca.

Fed Square Luca.

Luca est tres fier d'avoir une robe de chambre comme papa - merci Nonna!

Apres Luca citron, Luca limette - mais il aime beaucoup les limettes - juste comme papa.

3...2...1...

Luca bubbles!

Luca crayon.

Luca cheeky monkey.

Luca prawn dumpling (still)

20 mois

20 mois - keeping the faith alive.

This month:
- chatty chatty chatty.  Distinguishable words include: bas, no/non, mama, papa, nonna, more, mine, bye-bye, bleu, bouton/button but pretty much everything else comes out as 'peh-teh!' or klingon.
- Mr Pointy, pointing at everything.
- All shy with people he doesn't know that well
- drinking beautifully from a cup and doing really well feeding himself
- likes the slide very much
- favourite toys are his tea set, his duplo and mama's pyjama pants
- enjoys running his hand along fences and gates as he walks by
- laughs at others' misfortune, the cad!

This month for the Nina:
- kicky kicky kicky - a mostly afternoon and evening baby, but has morning bursts sometimes
- some massive growth spurt going on, just like Luca

Getting some early training in to help the Canadiens maybe actually win a game in 2030.

Nonna teaches Luca how to use an iPad.  No, wait... Luca teaches Nonna how to use an iPad.

Rrrrrarrrgh!

Luca is all about the pamplemousse - 6 kim poh's pamplemousses!

Miam!

Babycino connoisseur.

Cin cin papa!

Luca aime papa beaucoup beaucoup beaucoup.

Les nonna-bacis, les meilleurs!

Nonna fait le coui-coui.

Luca enjoys taking everything out of Ah Ma's cupboards and putting them on the floor.  Her noodles will never be the same again.

Luca stegosaurus doesn't get shampoo in his eyes.

Fardoche raconte l'histoire de hibou!

La plage!

Et oui, la premiere creme glacee!

Luca chachacha

Our little boy has many adorable and winning qualities, but rhythm is not one of them.