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!

January 31st, 2010

This is at Luca's birthday party. Loic is the son of Fabien's co-worker. Loic is 3 months younger than Luca but he's a big boy and is bigger than Luca! They had a blast together! Lot's of stealing toys from each other!

We went for a walk to the top of the mountain (Mont Royal). It was a really cold day, something like 15 below and we were worried about Luca with the windchill. He's tough! Behind us is a view of the city.

About an hour west of Montreal is a town called Oka. In the summer there's a little ferry across the water (not sure if it's a lake or a river!). In the winter it's an ice bridge!!! We saw lots of cars and trucks drive across. Fab was too scared to try though!

In the town of Oka was a little winter fair with all sorts of games for kids. Skating, a tobaggan run, face painting, the works! This is a snow sculpture of the character from the animation "Up!" (Jess I thought you might like it!)

The beginning of this video was taken a couple days after his birthday so you can see some of his first consecutive steps. The end was taken yesterday. He can really get around on foot now but he still prefers to crawl! Will post more soon . . .