Archive for April, 2009
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Dans la chronique développement du langage de fiston, voici la nouvelle phrase ajoutée à son répertoire, qu'il décline de plusieurs façons, les principales étant "c'est l'heure du dodo" et "c'est l'heure du souper".
Hier soir, quand je lui ai demandé s'il voulait du "lait de maman" (dernière étape avant les préparatifs ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
This morning, Zak was busy trying to finish a contract. He gave our son the cat food, asking him to feed the cat, which is a task he really likes to do (what could be funner than dumping food from a scoop into a bowl?). He got distracted by his ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Sunday morning, we headed to Stanley Park for Earth Run. The turn out was quite disappointing, but not unexpected when you consider that the race started at 8 am (registration was at 7, although we got there at 7:50 and barely made it before the start of the race). I ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
In the category "Annoying things my son learned to say and shouldn't have", the first one was "Mine!", what seems like eons ago. Fortunately, it didn't last. The new one, which surprised us this weekend, is "I need that!", accompanied by some pointing to an object that you or someone ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
We just came back from a 6 day trip to the West coast of Vancouver Island which transformed DS into a lean, mean, rock-climbing machine. Or a mountain goat, I'm not sure... The beaches there are very rocky, and he decided that rocks were meant to be climbed. So we ...
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
...why DS will not wear his mittens outside when he's playing, even when it's cold enough to make his hands turn red (ok, that part I can understand: it makes it harder for him to handle stuff)...
But when we're home, he spends half of his day with socks on his ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
That was the view Sunday afternoon from the top of Dog Mountain...
We snowshoed for about an hour from Mount Seymour to get to this viewpoint, from which you can see Stanley Park (the big patch of green mostly surrounded by water on the top right of the photo) and Vancouver ...
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