Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Luca finds a puddle.

My first trip to Ottawa to visit our good friend Karin. Just Luca and I went. Ottawa is only 2 hours from Montreal - door to door (in good traffic). This picture is just outside the parliament buildings in front of the British Columbia plaque.

Luca in a shoe.

First shaving lesson.

Fabien, Luca and I went to Ottawa for Canada day. It was wonderful. Our good friend Karin put us up for the two nights (thanks again!) and lives about 2 blocks from the Parliament buildings so we were in the heart of it all. We "saw" the Queen, or more the top of the Mounties that around her car but I'm told she was wearing white! Ottawa on Canada day is a must do. It's full of fun things to do for all ages.

Looking over the Ottawa River, between Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec, July 2nd.

Luca being patriotic on Canada Day in Ottawa in front of the Parliament buildings!

There's the parliament buildings and the band stand where the Bare Naked Ladies played (we left before though, there were too many people!)

I nice man let Luca sit on his beautiful Motorbike! Luca loves Motorcycles and Vespa's more than anything else in the world (except anything else with wheels!)

The opening night of the Fifa world cup at our friend Tarik's house. Luca and Loic are playing with a sliding door. The France uniform turned out to be a big waste of money! Cute none the less though!

Luca is turning into a monkey, more and more everyday! He climbs everything. We are always turning around to find him scaling something he shouldn't be! His language skills are progressing and his potty training skills are regressing (sigh) as he becomes more and more attached to his diapers. Can't wait to be free of those! He seems to be getting more teeth which will bring the count up to somewhere between 15 and 20. Kids his age are only supposed to get 20. He's been a little whiny from time to time but mostly is a pleasure to be around - constant entertainment. On July 6th he'll be 18 months old.

We've been watching Fifa as much as possible. I have started the second half of my French class at Concordia University. The next 6 weeks of summer are going to be crazy busy before we head to France for 2 weeks to visit the family there. Fabien has quit smoking (!!!!) and replaced cigarettes with running. I have put a child seat on my bike and we all go up the mountain together. Luca enjoys the bike ride - especially patting my behind to make me go faster (which doesn't usually work when I'm going up hill!)

This video has some of Fabien and Luca playing together. You can see the new water park just a few blocks from our house. It's wonderful. Fab and I foresee many a' hour playing there in the summers! Luca, Steph, Julian (our neighbours whom we're lucky enough to see all the time) are playing on the bed and you can hear Luca's favourite word "Cow" which means car! I give a tour of our reno's (which are finally done!!!) but the battery on the camera cuts out. You can get the gist of the work that was done though, please excuse the messy house. I can never seem to get on top of it! I didn't get any footage of our semi-basement but it looks better than ever!

Monday, May 24

This photo was taken today . . . Luca riding the cat! (The cat my dad carved!)

Cool!

At a Glam-Rock wedding at the beginning of the month! It was our first night away from Luca!

Luca's newest trick . . . standing on top of things to get better access to stuff he shouldn't be able to get at!

Everything is going well here. I am getting lots of work as well as taking a French class at Concordia University. I'm hopping! Luca can say, Ba for Ball, Mama, Dada, Dodo for sleep, Nana for want, Nanan for Banana (which he ate 2 in a row today!) and an assortment of other sounds that are starting to get closer to words! He's climbing on everything, and is starting have a temper when he doesn't get what he wants. He has tons of teeth, not sure how many - not going to stick my fingers in there to find out! We are going to the park all the time to kick a ball around or go to the little play on the swings/slide/sand box! He's a happy little guy and is always making out life better.

April 17th, 2010

Ma famille. We're missing Jesse!

Juste apres diner! Faim encore!

Bizou chien!

Luca et Piper

I'm trying out this new template for my blog so that the whole video shows. I didn't realize it was being cut until just now.

This is the little park just in front of our house. It was Easter weekend and it was hot! 28 degrees hot!

Luca's cousin Piper and her Mom, Dana are in the background!

Luca and I took a last minute, week-long, trip out to BC to visit the family. We had a blast! The flights went really well. Luca is very social and loves his family very much. He learned how to turn around and sit on a little chair or a step. He ate banana's like they're going out of style. He opened the door and walked outside if we forgot to lock it!

He has another tooth which brings the count up to 13.

I'll try to get more pictures from BC on soon.

March 9th, 2010

My neighbour and I went the butterfly exhibit at the botanical gardens. It was beautiful. So nice to be surrounded by tropical conditions.

It was hard to believe these were real! They looked too cool to be true.

Luca cared more about holding onto the stroller handles than the butterflies! There was one that was trying to land on his bum! You can kinda see it just right of his head in this picture.

My little olympian!

The lady and the tramp!

My beloved neighbours made this cake for me for my birthday. My car had a loose wheel prompting me to finally go out and get another vehical. I now have a Toyota Matrix, named Mateo, that we love. I had Big Red fixed up and she'll go to another owner as soon as I can find one. The mechanic said he'd never seen a car that old in such good shape!

This is a pretty uninteresting video. Mostly Luca has been trucking around the house enjoying himself. In the week after my birthday (thanks for the birthday wishes!) he got 4 new molars bringing his tooth count up to 12. They took a while to come in but he toughed it out pretty well. He and I have also been sick a lot since the new year with every cold the daycare can throw at us. Other than that things have been plugging along like normal! We really enjoyed the Olympics! Wish we could have been there.

February 10th, 2010

All my pictures of Luca are fuzzy. He's getting faster and faster!

We went for a walk downtown last weekend. We've had lots of sun but it's be 10-15 degrees bellow zero most days. I'm ready for spring already.

Long lashes!

You can't tell from this video, but Luca's main form of transportation is now walking. He's a lot better at it than he is at standing on the bed. It's pretty cool to see him wandering around now! A mini person! He loves to open drawers and climb in. We'll have to look into bolting all our furniture to the walls. The bath part of the video was filmed last night. A new little game he was playing! Very funny stuff! Pretty soon we'll have to keep the naked stuff for ourselves!