sleeping with teddy bears/ je dors avec nounours dans mes bras

When I was a child, I used to take at night time all my teddy bears to my bed and align them. There was no more space for me.
Last night after coming home from my yoga class, I was surprised and happy to see that my daughter had the same idea.

maman, tu te souviens quand on habitait a Couvin je sortais tous les soirs tous mes nounours du placard et dormais avec. Ils prenaient toute la place dans mon lit.

rebellion, stubbourness

I prefer to think that Rachel has simply been trying to assert herself recently.
She is a very loving, gentle and caring 6th year old girl and a wonderful big sister to Natalie.

But recently she has been kind of cranky: "I do not want take a bath tonight (her hair needs to be washed, her tush is red and her hands are nails need to see the water..), I do not want to brush my hair, I don't want to wear that dress (eventough that's what she had agreed on the night before), I do not like this or I hate that" (we do not accept that word in the house). Some stuff I can let go, such as picking up other clothes or not wanting to brush her hair (I would rather like her to look great when she goes to school but ...). If I force her, she starts crying and that can last for 30 minutes. Yossi tends to think that I should not sweat the little things and I do agree, the battle sometimes is not worth it. But when it comes to being clean, it is a no no in my book.

Another example: On valentine's night, she had a big party at school and I guess too much sugar, she was tired and cranky. She had just told me that she did not care for a girl in her class and ripped off her valentine card (will have to ask her more about Katie). When Yossi bought flowers and ballons for everyone, she decided that she did not like hers and put it in the trash. We were not pleased and I talked to her and asked her to apologize, which took awhile and a lot of crying for her to do.

I do not want of course to bend her strong will but it worries us a little bit I have to say.

Le jour de la Saint valentin

Les filles ont bien sur fete la Saint Valentin a l'ecole hier.
Tous les enfants s'echangent des cartes et ajoutent leur nom et le nom de chacun d'eux et les filles y ajoutent bien sur une tonne de petits coeurs et auto-collants de princesses. A ces cartes sont ajoutees bien souvent quelques friandises. Hier soir elles ont compare leurs cartes et leurs bonbons - trop mignon

maman, why did you want babies?

Natalie: maman, when you married papa, why did you want to have babies?
I: to have adorables girls like both of you

my sister told me that the next series of question would be: where do babies come from and how do you make them?
First question, easy to reply as they do know I had a c-section; 2nd one not too sure how to explain it to them yet

maman, quand tu as marie papa, pourquoi voulais-tu avoir des enfants - question de Natalie qui vient d'avoir 4 ans
je lui ai repondu que l'on desirait avoir des enfants aussi gentils et mignons qu'elles deux.

Prochaines questions m'a dit Faby: "et les enfants ils viennent d'ou et comment on les fait?"

our friends' baby is here

Leslie and Sachins' little boy Kiran was born on Yossi's b-day. They came over last week-end and it was so sweet to hold a 3-week old baby again.
Le petit garcon de Leslie et Sachin Kiran est ne le 4 janvier, le meme jour que Yossi mais 56 ans plus tard!

bye bye Natalie's car seat

In Yossi's car, we took away Natalie's car seat and gave her Rachel's. We got Rachel a booster seat - she is so happy.

latest pictures/ dernieres photos

maman
voici les derniere photos prises. Comme tu vois, les filles ont bien grandi depuis que tu les as vues en aout dernier
Mom and Vincent are coming this spring, here are some of the last pictures we took of the girls.




We have finally a faster internet connection at home and I can now download pictures from home.
Nous avons maintenant une connection d'internet beaucoup plus rapide et c'est plus facile de mettre des photos sur le blog de la maison que d'essayer de les mettre au travail.

papa et ses filles/ dad and his daughters

I like these pictures