In his element

Sidney loves to eat. Eat, eat, eat.

It's Little Laney!

Now that we're all calm, let's land!

And we're off

The happy fireman

Nathan dressed up as a fireman this year for "pre-Halloween" (the Lycee is on vacance during the real Halloween, so they do a party the week before)

Le petit pompier

Le monstre de Nathan

I'll est beau!

Would you could you in a box?

Fog is coming in

N & T at Chrissy Fields

Nathan's Class Photos

"Boonga"

Boonga boonga boonga boonga...

Sidney's "swing support system"

Three little monkeys

Yummy Yummy

Alex and I decided to take the kids to Yummy Yummy for dinner.

Alex: "Nathan, what would you think about going to Yummy Yummy for dinner?"
Nathan: "Then momma says no!"

Alex: "Nathan, but I'm inviting you to go. Do you want go to Yummy Yummy for dinner?"
Nathan: "Yeah! But two more minutes in the house!" (playing)

Nathan: "We're gonna go to Yummy Yummy for dinner. There's arroz inside."

"This is not a big car...

It's a bus!"

Post-school comfort

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A garter snake in our lightwell!

Alex and I were working from home today because of the holiday. We heard the front doorbell (which is weird, because we have a sign on it saying "please don't ring the doorbell.")

Alex went downstairs and saw Ana (our nanny) freaking out in Spanish about a snake in the lightwell so I ran downstairs and found this little garter snake.

Scooped him into a bag and dropped him into my NEIGHBORS yard... heh heh heh.

Le chef

Rockin

Look who's talking, too!

Tonight at dinner, Sidney was making himself very well understood.

"Abwa" (agua) he said, pointing at Nathan's water glass.

"He's talking," said Nathan. It was great that Nathan was taking an interest, and was excited.

I was starting to feed Sidney another mouthful of food and said, "Do you want more? Mas?"

"Up!" said Sidney. It turns out that "up" in Sidney-speak means "more" because he repeated it everytime I said, "Mas?" "Up! up! up!"

The inevitable post-cake crash

First steps

After a couple of days of just standing by himself, not holding on to anything, Sidney took his first 3 steps...

"Let's drive to Mexico"

From the overjoyed stream of consciousness dept:

"The elephant and giraffe are here. We're going to Mexico!"

"We're going fast!"

"I can do like this... I can push the buttons."

Riding off into the (inner) sunset