Nathan prend l'autobus

Nathan aime faire des courses

Nathan on the big boy manege...

Nathan was very afraid of le manege in La Baule... but he was fascinated by it.  He would ask to go there every day, "just to see."

He finally go the courage to go on a few of the more "scary" merry-go-rounds at the Jardin d'acclimatation in Paris.

Nathan conquers his fear

At the jardin d'acclimatation, Nathan took his first step towards conquering his fear of the "big boy" maneges.

Manege au Trocadero

(That blur? Oui, c'est Nathan!)

Nathan enjoys Square Lamartine

Semaine a La Baule

C'etait notre premiere fois a La Baule. Nous sommes arrives le 16 novembre, Mamie, Nathan, Sidney en TGV, Sam et Papie, en voiture. Ses kilometres de plages de sables nous ont conquis tout de suite. Notre location etait tres bien situee, sur la plage et en face du port du Pouliguen.

Notre cure de Thalasso (a Mamie et moi) a demarre le lundi. Mardi, je me tordais la cheville en allant voir Sidney au Baby Club. Apres radio, etc. il fut conclu qu'il vallait mieux utiliser des bequilles le reste de la semaine... Bien que estropiee et franchement epuisee par tout ce "trempage" dans l'eau de mer (au point de vouloir aller se coucher sans diner!), j'ai adore les soins et espere y retourner une autre annee... toute seule avec Maman!

Pendant que nous etions a la cure, Papie, Sam et Nathan allaient se ballader. Une des sorties favorites de Nathan etait d'aller aux tobogans sur la plage. Le mercredi et samedi, nous etions de visite obligatoire aux maneges du Pouliguen mais pour regarder seuleument. Nathan ne voulait absolument pas y monter!


Quant a Sam, il n'avait jamais eu autant de travail et il se souviendra sans doute toujours de son onterminable quete d'une connection Wifi. Apres plusieurs jours bredouille, il decouvrit enfin le Jam'z, un bar offrant une connection a ses clients. C'est alors au Jam'z ou assis devant le Jam'z que Sam a passe sa semaine a La Baule.

Puis, ce fut le retour en TGV. Tata et Ruben etaient venus nous chercher a la gare Montparnasse.

Square Lamartine

I have no idea what Nathan was saying.  But he kept saying it.  And running.

"Tobogan Roja papa!"

On our walk today, Nathan loudly exclaimed "Tobogan roja, Papa!" and pointed excitedly at the red tobogan. Linda and Alex later pointed out that it should be rojo. But hey, I was still impressed.

Nathan is starting to master his colors...

Coupe Parisienne

One of our missions on this trip was to get a nice kids haircut. So we went to the incredible Bruno Lienard to achieve the impossible: a cute cut without screams and tears. The salon had a Alice aux Pays des Merveilles decor and Bruno cut Nathan's hair in record time and the result is very pleasing (in our opinion). Fun experience that Nathan actually enjoyed.

Anniversaire de Mamie

Tonight we celebrated Mamili's birthday at home, so Nathan and Sidney discovered the rest of their French family: Tata, Jordan, Ruben, Grand-mamie, and Tonton. Nathan spent his evening playing with Ruben and hugging him: he loves "bigger kids". Dinner was delicious and desert was outstanding with Lenotre's new Devotion cake. However, Ruben had a Feuilles d'Automne and Jordan a Schuss...

Dodo

After our long, long flight to Paris, Sidney couldn't help but sleep some more in a comfy bed this time... wide enough so he can extend his limbs!

"Do you know the muffin down"

Nathan likes the song "The muffin man," so when he got a muffin for breakfast on the airplane he burst into song...

"Do you know the muffin down"

Sidney's first flight..

Second dental visit

This went much better than the first time. Nathan really enjoyed the Chocolate tasting toothpaste.

Jack's 2nd Birthday Party

Nathan was invited to his friend Jack's second birthday party up in Mill Valley.

It was right after Nathan's swim class at 3, and he didn't take a nap earlier in the day so on the drive up he fell asleep in the back seat.

Once we got there, I hung out with Nathan in the car for a good half-an-hour while he took a snooze, but at 4P we had to wake him up to go party-party-party.

Upon waking up I said, "don't you want to go inside to the party."

"No party," he said, in a tired and sort of aggravated ("why'd you wake me up!") tone...

"There will be cake and ice cream," I continued.

He looked at me and said, in a very small voice completely devoid of enthusiasm, "yay.... a party."

If you're happy and your know it...

Nathan the cool dude

Histoire Papa

Watching Nathan figure out the logic behind who reads what with whom is pretty cool.

For those who don't recognize the book title, he wants one of the many "T'choupi" books that he has... but I'm not very good at reading them so Alex usually handles those.

It's comfortable

Google... in there

Nathan associates the "Yo Baby" logo with the Google logo.

He likes them both so much that he made up a song.

Google is everywhere. Even in there.

Down Low... too slow!

Nathan and I like to do high-fives. Sometimes, I'll tell him to give me one "down low," and then pull my hand away and say... "too slow!"

Original? No. But it always gets a laugh.

Oh my gosh

Pre-Halloween Party at Julius Kahn Park

For Sidney's first halloween and Nathan's second, we participated to the Golden Gate Mothers Group Halloween Party.

There was a puppet show, multiple jumpy houses (for kids of all sizes), face painters, balloon twisters and a DJ with jazzytunes. All the littles ones were dressed up in their costumes -- it was too cute.

The cutest (and warmest) was Nathan the Fire Chief, and the cutest and sleepiest was Sidney the iPoop.