Thursday, October 2, 2014

Moon Festival

Playing catch up. Here are a few pictures of the Moon Festival organized by Families Blessed a couple of weeks ago.

More lanterns for our collection

I like to drum

Me too!

Chinese yoyo

Is the magician going to cut my arm?!?

I better close my eyes. What a neat trick!

Chinese story-telling

Running around with my friends

Look at the balloon I got!

Lion dance

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Papa

Samedi, 6 septembre, papa nous a quitté pour aller explorer de nouveaux horizons. Je sais qu’il continue à veiller sur nous, entre deux jeux de mots-croisés et le Meccano. L’immense tristesse est peu à peu remplacée par de bons souvenirs dont voici quelques photos.

Resto en famille - 2004

Ballade dans les Vosges - 2004

Première petite fille : Chloé - 2005

Câlin à l’Orangerie

Oui, c’est cela, tiens !

Les quatre frères Dalton Metz - 2008

Alex – 2009, encore une cuillère pour papy

Tu m’en diras tant…

Papy a installé une balançoire pour Alex l’acrobate

Première rencontre avec Sophie – Septembre 2010

Qui est-ce qui veut de la mousse à raser ici ?

Monsieur Bricolage - 2010

Gabriel - 2012

Sixième petit fils : Nicolas – Mars 2014

Photo de famille - Mars 2014

Gaël – Juillet 2014

Portrait par Olga

Ah, les Meccano de ton enfance...

Au revoir, papa. Nous t’aimons tous très fort !

Monday, September 22, 2014

Gotcha Day

6 years ago today, a little boy came into our lives to shake things up a bit. Happy Gotcha Day, Alex! We all love you dearly.

the Alex man

best friends

celebrating at Pho Good

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Dance

Sophie had her very first dance class on Tuesday at Beller. She had been talking about dancing all summer and was so excited to finally get started. For her girl who loves pink & purple, pretty outfits and shoes, that was a match made in heaven.

Papa bought Sophie her first ballet and tap dancing shoes. She loved to try them out throughout the day. Maman had to get her new tights and matching barrettes of course. Sophie is now all set!

Now the hardest part is to wait until Tuesdays for the next classes...

Ballerina Sophie at the barre

practicing somersaults at home

tap dancing (claquettes) shoes

ballet slippers

I can't wait to learn how to dance!
Stay tuned!

Monday, September 1, 2014

Labor Day

We walked the Fox Hollow Trail at the Lakeside Nature Center. What a surprise to see a turtle waiting for us on the trail! We continued our walk at the zoo and got onto the Sky Safari. Very cool!

box turtle named Stripy

who needs toys when you can throw rocks in a river!

The sky safari is a neat way to check out animals from the top

Sophie wasn't scared of heights at all

Prairie Fire

We took maman to the new exhibit at the Prairie Fire museum. Sophie and Alex enjoyed the dragons, unicorns, pegazus, and the discovery room.

creating my own dinosaur named Bigtooth

What a pretty unicorn!

Bigfoot is in the house

Pegazus

checking out insects in the discovery room

here is corn snake for aunt Linda again!

pretty butterflies

giant coackroaches rock!

digging up dinosaur bones

I wish I could take my sister flying on a dragon