Archive for January, 2009
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Pour mes lectrices montréalaises et anciennes montréalaises... Vous vous demandez à quoi ça ressemble, à Vancouver, un avertissement de neige?
Ça ressemble à ça (et je suis tout à fait sérieuse) :
Température maximum : 2.6 °C
Température minimum : -6.5 °C
Précipitations : 0 mm
Autrement dit, dès qu'il est possible qu'il neige, ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Can you?
That Dr. Seuss book is our boy's favorite right now, but the most interesting thing is how he's starting to remember the story and tell it too us when we're reading it. When Zak reads the first part of the title: "Mr Brown can Moo...", our son says the ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Today, Zak is playing daddy daycare.
Neighbors called a little panicked a few days ago because they had no daycare today and they couldn't get out of some work obligations. They were wondering if Zak could take care of their daughter, who's 2 1/2 years old, for a few hours this ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Yesterday, for the first time, our boy said "Je t'aime" (I love you, in French).
Ok, to be fair, I don't think he actually understands what it means - love is, after all, a very complicated abstract concept. In the same way he learned to say "You're welcome" instead of "Thank ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
I was going to write about how our son kept us up most of Thursday night because of his cold: he would cough and wake up, start crying, which would make him cough some more, until he was barely able to breathe, and of course we would run to his ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Our son's favorite books these days are anything written by Dr. Zeuss and a collection of wonderful French books compiled by Henriette major. They each come with a CD, but he's quite happy to just look at the amazing illustrations while I sing the songs that I know. So Saturday ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Mon fils et moi faisons semblant de faire à manger en versant des aliments imaginaires dans un contenant vide. Il décide que c'est du lait de poule, son nouvel aliment préféré qu'il a découvert à Noël et dont il s'ennuye depuis que les magasins n'en vendent plus. Je nomme donc ...
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