Annick - 3 semaines

First two three weeks of Annick have been lovely - she is pretty easygoing, sleeps a lot, feeds well (maybe too well) and smiles a lot too.

Not real smiles yet, but hopefully when they are real, they will be as frequent!

She is strong for a little one, just like Luca - lifting her head already during tummy time and has an impressive set of lungs on her.  Both she and Luca got comments from the maternity ward midwives on their bellowing abilities, apparently it's a family trait.

She has a good head of hair on her - dark like Luca when he was born and mama, but this will probably change - she has a weird outcrop of blonde hairs at her left temple.  Grey eyes too - but they may change also.

Skinny little chicken legs and long feet, long fingers and thumbs too.

She is a little water baby and likes baths but particularly showers.

She likes going out in the porte-bebe - here she is at Myer!

Meerkat.

Gorilla.

She often looks a bit suspicious - for good reason, probably.

She likes to sleep.  So does papa.

La famille.

Luca - 2 ANS!!

 Luca a 2 ans!!  DEJA.  C'est impossible!!!

Nous avons fait un party pour le petit garcon, avec Ah Ma, Ah Kong (aka Ah Nong), Ah Koo (aka Ah Dooooo), Mei Ling Ee, oncle Jerome, aunty Jenny et aunty Katie.  Yay!

Papa a fait un bon escalope de veau pour son petit fils.  Et le fettucine alfredo!

Les BALLONS.

Un bon gateau et un garcon chanceux!

Les cadeaux - un livre de Spot en francais - hourrah!

Un ang pao de Ah Koo.

Une belle tuque et un livre de Anna au marche.

Un grand camion de Kee en Angleterre!

Le prochain matin - encore les ballons.

Annick Days 7-11

Annick va bien.

Les visites!  Flandy!

Aunty Sara!

Aunty Grace!

Bee Kuan Ee!

Ah Koo!!!

Annick has grey eyes.  "Like a husky!" says Jason.

Annick also has gigantic feet.

Annick's second cafe - Gypsey & Musquito on Bridge Road.  The third one - Demitri's Feast on Swan Street.  Dear lord, we are raising a babycino-swilling hipster baby.

Annick's fourth cafe - Bread and Jam for Frances, Luca's old baby stomping ground when J was working in Hawthorn.

Luca gives special coco-bongs to Annick.

Annick likes to sleep arms up, just like Luca.

Lucanese

Luca talks A LOT.  Mostly in some unidentifiable language that is somewhere between Swedish Chef and ex-Yugoslav dictator, but he's clearly having a real conversation.  A common word in his language is 'bi-yau' (I may not have spelled that right), as used in the following sentence: "bi-yau bi-yau bi-yau".  We are still to find the Rosetta Stone on this, but it seems to mean something relatively benign:



He does say a lot in both English and French though and has started in the last two weeks to put words together - "big truck", "bib wet yes?" and the perennial favourite, food words with "more" in the front - "more lait", "more beurre", "more eggs", "more l'eau".  And recently, the new concept of "no more", particularly when it comes to eggs:



Other favourite and much used words include "bebe", "pomme" (still pronounced "momme"), "wet", "hot", and rather adorably, "happy" which is chanted over and over again, when, we guess, he is happy, such as here, walking with papa and mama and Annick, and then using another favourite word ("WOW") when a big truck goes past:

A couple of videos

Luca's favourite past-time in the new apartment:



Et les enfants:

Annick Day 6

 

A quiet day, but we went out for breakfast!  Annick's first cafe - The Abbotsford Club for a superlative double ristretto from El Salvador with avocado toast.

Compare this to two years ago, and Luca's first cafe - Laikon Delicatessen for an excellent short mac and a biscuit.

Annick... or Luca?

Luca... or Annick?

Also compare prawn dumplingness.

Luca 22 May 2010

Annick 6 May 2012

And newborn parental self-portraits.

After breakfast, a quiet day at home although Jason had to pop into work for half an hour.  But got to come home and do this:

La Nina - premiere semaine

Inside.

Outside.

Upside down.

DAY 1

Avec papa le soir (5 mai)

Avec papa le matin (6 mai)

Avec maman.

Getting her ears checked.  Passed!

La famille.

Papa et fille.

On part l'hopital - yay!  La chanson sur le radio dans le taxi - Roxane par the Police.  On a pas un nom pour le petit encore... peut-etre?

DAY 2

Deux jours - belle belle belle.

Un bon grand frere.

Luca ko ko.

Papa aime sa fillette.

Les visites!  Mei Ling ee!

Et le premier bain.

Et ce soir, finalement, un nom!  Annick Xue Li.

DAY 3

Le premier petit dej comme famille.  Hee hee!

Luca est tres doux avec sa soeur.

Meme si elle n'est pas tres interessant.  Pas comme Hairy McLairy et Zachary Quack.

Luca donne les coco bongs speciaux a Annick.

On sort!

Papa et ses enfants.

DAY 4

Deja en rose.

Une journee tranquille.

Un autre petit prawn dumpling!

DAY 5

Les anges.

Nyah!

Already with the attitude.

And the insouciance.