H1N1
Oct 20, 2009 Family life
This morning, our son has the sniffles big time. Just a cold, don’t worry. At least, I’m %99 sure, because he doesn’t have a fever or any other symptom. But life is complicated in this H1N1 era. If we go to playtime with a sick child, even if he has just a cold, other parents will look at us funny, like we’re trying to murder them. It could make life a lot more complicated if he’s sick for a while…
Now we have to hope he’s feeling better by the time the vaccine is out!
Happy Thanksgiving
Oct 13, 2009 Family life
I’m a little late, but I’ve been busy, as usual. This year, we didn’t have any plans for Thanksgiving, yet we received two last-minute invitations by neigbours who had bought too much food. I love living in a Co-op! Zak made some pumpkin-beer bread (very yummy, even for me who doesn’t like beer and doesn’t really like pumpkin either), some double-chocolate pudding and some yam puree, to complement the turkey our friends had made. We had a lot of fun, and our son ran around so much that he actually slept in this morning (until 6:45 instead of the usual 6).
Our 2-year-old is hilarious these days. Still stubborn, but oh! so funny! Yesterday afternoon he was repeating “Holy smokes!” after hearing his dad. And later, he was yelling “Oh my God!”. Not sure where he heard that, but he’s a real parrot these days. He also sings a lot, from Itsy-Bitsy Spider to Hand and Shoulder, Knees and Toes (in both French and English) to some folk songs we listen to a lot. He imitates older kids a lot in the courtyard. He wants to know where the moon (or grandpa and grandma, or the cat, or…) is 100 times a day.
Really, life is good these days. Now we have to focus on Halloween: our son saw some neighbours playing outside with dragon costumes and he has decided he wanted to be a dragon too. So we have to figure out how to do that. We would also like to find time to go to the pumpkin patch, but there is not much time left and a lot of things planned. We’ll see!
One more banana…
Oct 8, 2009 Family life
My son loves bananas. Until today, he would eat the peeled part, then call for help so we would peel a bit more. We didn’t want to peel too much at a time because then he would break the open part and lose it. But he couldn’t peel it by himself. So we would help him out when he needed it. Until today, when he managed to peel his first banana by himself.
A very small milestone, true… but a milestone nevertheless!