Archive for August, 2009
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
I'm reading a French magazine with my son. It's made for toddlers and has a big picture on which we like to play "can you find the...?" or "do you know what that is?". I point to a little boy riding a bike and ask:
- What is this boy doing?
- ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
All in all, we had a great time camping, except...
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Friday night I was dehydrated. That happens to me way too often: I get a headache, I'm a bit nauseous and I need to go lie down so I can ...
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
You should see our son in his brand new sleeping bag! We figured we had to get him a real one for this trip, as it is not supposed to be overly warm: it could go down to 11 at night. MEC makes a nice kid's down sleeping bag, with ...
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Yesterday, after much debate, Zak convinced our son to "chose" the dinosaur rain boots we liked better by telling him they were iguanas - you do what you have to do. Our toddler fell asleep in the bike trailer on the way home, with the boots on his feet. When ...
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
On Saturday we invited our son's friends (well, at that age it's more our friends who have kids his age) to the park for some fun at the playground, a picnic and some cake to celebrate our toddler's birthday. We had a great time: it was cloudy and cool, but ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Zak gave me a call at work today. He was trying to buy some rubber boots for our son to wear in the rain, and he wanted to know my opinion on a delicate matter. Our son had picked some red boots with ladybugs all over them. They are very ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Our son is turning two today. It's pretty amazing how fast babies grow. I know, it's cliché. But two years and nine months ago, two tiny cells collided so that today, a toddler with his very own personality can tell me what he does and does not want. Two years ...
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