Vive l'hiver (mid-February 2010)

It has been a very nice winter so far!!!


I really enjoy skating and I am good at it!


Thanks to tante Caro and Marc-André, her boyfriend, I get to go skating at least once a week.

Mommy needs help when daddy is working to take us out of the house.

Shadow had a blast running as fast as he could on the ice path. He would make a decent sled dog. He pulled Marc-André a lot on that day!

Mommy and I got to race. I fell a few times but got back up right away to finish first!

Gabriel got to join us again in spite of the chilly wind as he was shielded in Marc-André's super stroller. He cooed the whole time, a sign that he was enjoying himself.

Kiran and Carmen are in town while their town is busy with Olympic fever.

We went to the Musée pour les enfants. We got to pretend during a few hours that we were adults in the work force. We spent a lot of time as firefighters, as cops, as paramedics, race car drivers, fishermen, pilots, etc...

Tante Caro will like these pictures, will I be a police officer when I grow up? I would certainly love to catch the villains like Batman and Spiderman.

It was great, I would love to go back when Gabriel is a bit bigger.

It was fun but loud with hundred of kids from daycare going nuts away from their parents! We went nuts even in the presence of our mothers, you can only imagine for the others!


We got to wear costumes, climb in and out of so many motorized vehicules and touch every thing in sight.
Here are a few clips from the week.

Godfather Dan is in town (early February 2010)


It was Super Bowl weekend at our house!!! Daddy was so excited, he calls it the best day of the year. The cherry on top of the sundae was that Dan and his girlfriend Sinnova were there with us. They flew from Cranbrook just to see me, his Goddaughter!!!


I had a lot of fun playing with Dan, he is really a hands on type of guy.


It was super nice to sepnd time with Daddy as he had 4 days off. We are proud of our local teams, past present and future!!!

Dan got me a Bateman costume, not Batman as everyone else says it! We ran around the house playing good guys and vilains. The vilains are Doc Oc and the Green Goblin while Spiderman and Bateman are the good ones, saving the world.


Daddy really wanted to keep Dan's sunglasses, but he didn't. I would have told on him if he had anyways! Stealing is bad I know that!


Usually Gabriel is all smiles, but not for a fraction of a second with my other Godfather Nilesh. We all have a little cold that I brought in as a gift for everybody!


Mommy and I escaped for two hours and left Daddy with Gabriel to go to a winter festival.

We were supposed to go with Charlotte, but she went to see Avatar instead. That's OK because I only skated for 5 minutes. I was not liking the loop there compare to the one close to home.

I ate several roasted marshmellows. It was so yummy and we watched Abeille Beausoleil perform. I was mesmorized, she is a good singer and dancer! We got to meet her after the show and it was hard for me to find the courage to speak with her! I made sure to tell her that next year we will bring Gabriel, my baby brother to watch her show again. Mommy filmed a portion of the show, I was really quiet and I listen with care to the whole thing!

We played a lot with Mr. Potato head.

I really enjoyed playing with Sinnova, she talks like Mr Maker and she is super nice.

We even went to the Aquadôme together.

It was Gabriel's first time in a pool!

He loved it, just like I did when I was a baby.

I am looking forward to Dan's next visit. Carmen and Kiran are coming soon as well during the Vancouver Olympics. Exciting!!!

Ginormous Baby (Late January 2010)


We are surviving without grand-maman and grand-papa around. They are living the life in Florida for a few months.

We are actually doing pretty well considering that daddy is working a lot as well. Gabriel loves jumping in his Jolly Jumper! It is his favorite toy for now!


I spend a lot of time with ginormous baby Gabriel. Daddy calls him this way for a good reason (giant and enormous fused together by the way...) at only 4 months old he weighs a whopping 17.3 pounds and measures 66.5 cm. It puts him in the 90th percentile!


Only 10% of the babies his age are bigger than him! We have not met one of those yet! Here is cousine Élodie (7 months) that is almost the same size as Gabriel(4 months)! Both of them are tall for their age!
He is super strong and healthy and I cannot wait to go roller skating with him.

Mommy is keeping super busy during the day when I am at daycare.


She has been seeing her friends and her cousins with babies. She has been to the doctor's office for a regular check-up and vaccination for Gabriel. She is volunteering with a breastfeeding support group and she just started teaching Baby Signs classes at the public library! She is also trying to cook more meals that I keep on rejecting after tasting them with aprehension!


It has been really cold lately, so we mostly play indoors. Except for the times daddy can go play outside with me. Gabriel is not old enough to enjoy playing in the snow.

I cannot wait for the spring to see leaves, flowers, ladybugs, caterpillars and much more.


My new joy is to be a clown to hear my brother laugh. I am so happy, he laughs a lot more with me than anyone else!

Hello Juliette (end of January 2010)


Daddy was home for a few days and oh boy did we take advantage of it! On the same day we went skating and swimming! Daddy walked with Gabriel while mommy and I were skating.

The winter is really mild so far and Gabriel was able to come outside with us for a long stretch for the first time. I think he enjoyed it very much.

While I was swimming with daddy, mommy, tante Caro and Gabriel got to meet Juliette. Juliette is only 4 days old and she is my new cousin. Mommy told me that she is gorgeous and sleeping all the time!

There were so many visitors that Ariane and Mathieu, Juliette's proud parents, had their arms free to hold my little brother for a while. I am really looking forward to meet this little princess.

Tante Caro enjoyed holding all the babies in the room, especially her nephew.

It's my blog and no one took a picture of me this week! Mommy was able to film my car race with Justin, my new friend, at least.

Gabriel is growing so fast and so am I! (mid-January 2010)


Shadow is still one of my best friend. I got to played with him when we met tante Caro's new boyfriend, Marc-André and his son Antoine. Mommy did not take any pictures!!!! You'll all have to wait to see how good looking he is. Most importantly he is super nice.

I also played outside with tante Caro's little neighbours; Paul and my two cousins (Juliette and ? mommy does not know them but we are related!).

I am having so much fun being a big sister! I got to pretend I was a pirate and then a firefighter, mommy was a princess in her wedding dress and Gabriel was Minnie Mouse and later I turned him into a bear! I am a great actress and I practice hard every day. I am especially good at crying on cue!
I used my hook to capture Gabriel the bear.



I even agreed to be a princess for a whole 2 minutes! This is the only picture where I wasn't screaming and trying to rip it off. Good luck next time mommy!

Ho Gabriel, you will be angry at me later in the future when you see yourself as Minnie Mouse! You are so big, this costume was fitting me when I was one year-old. You are a giant baby.


Giant but oh so beautiful!!!


You look like you are 9 months old, but you're only 3 months old!



Gabriel met Sophie the giraffe and fell in love with her right away like most babies.



Daddy is working a lot with Haiti's earthquake. We get to hang out early in the morning as he takes us out of our beds.We met Bradon and it allowed Gabriel to try the exersaucer for the first time. Gabriel finally met another boy his age.


He is surrounded by lady friends otherwise like his cousin Élodie. She is the happiest baby ever!