Dueling Harmonicas

Holiday

hey hey! nous revoila! de retour de vacances.
On a passe une tres jolie semaine avec mama zulu et on a vu Anne-Marie, Rene, Evelyne, Mamy et Tonton. Super!
Elias s'est beaucoup amuse. On a nage dans le lac, on a marche dans les fleurs et forets avec Mamy et Tonton, on a joue dans le jardin d'Anne Marie et Rene, on a pris le gros bateau avec mama Zulu, on a rencontre des autres petits enfants avec qui Elias s'acharnait a parler anglais (on a meme rencontre des petits anglais qui sont tres heureux de vivre en Suisse!), et plein d'autres jolis moment avec notre petit 'monkey', et Paul et moi on a meme eu plusieurs petits moments en soirees au bord du lac.
Elias va bientot avoir 3 ans! Pour son anniversaire il veut un velo avec des pedales.

40th Wedding Anniversary

We went to my folks for their 40th wedding anniversary this past weekend. From the moment we got their Elias was in the garden digging, running, swinging and playing. Despite the constant flow of strangers, numbering some 40 on Saturday, he wasn't phased and stuck to his busy schedule of hard play alone and with his cousins.

Baths were out of the question and he gradually became grubbier and grubbier. But who cares. Despite the increasing layers of dirt I received endless compliments from people about his sunny disposition.

Anyway, for Stef and I it was like time off where Eli could just find things that he wanted to do and do them with no prompting or guidance. Needless to say now we're back talk does oft times turn to whether we should move to the country where he can get his play in as much as he wishes.

Tadpoles

There is a pond nearby. It has tadpoles, baby frogs and, on sunny days, dragonflies. Elias likes to go up there as much as possible and scoop the poor beasts out, look at them and put them back.

Climbing trees today

Life in the 70s

It's been a while since posting. In that time I have been in California for a week during which time Eli pretended to speak to me on the phone over breakfast and when he did speak to me asked if I had my bike with me.

Anyway, I showed him this pic the other night. He thought it was a pic of me with him. It is in fact my Dad with me on his lap many moons ago.