Saturday, November 29, 2014

Party at home/ fete d anniversaire a la maison

The house feels so empty. We have had my friend's daughter for the last 3 days and the girls played nicely together.
Today we celebrated Rachel's birthday at home and she ad invited 8 friends. The girls baked and decorated their individual pizza, dipped marshmellows in melted chocolate, decorated their cupcakes, and finally - all in Rachel's order- painted canvas. Then at Rachel' s insistence, I let her open her presents. They all played beautifully for 3 hours. I am tired and ready to go to bed but not before posting a few pictures.

Les amies de Rachel se sont bien amusees de 4 a 7h a la maison. Elles ont prepare leur pate a pizza, l ont decore et ont ensuite passe aux choses plus serieuses: la fondue au chocolat, suivie par la decoration et degustation de cupackes, elles ont ensuite paint chacune une jolie toile. 




Thursday, November 27, 2014

Baking, patisserie






Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Les dents, ca bouge pour Natalie

Il y a de la competition a la maison maintenant que Rachel a perdu ses  deux dents de devant, Natalie n arrete pas de faire bougers ses dents de devant.

Natalie keeps moving her front teeth, hoping to get rid ofthem as Rachel just lost hers a few days ago.




Changement de temperature

Mi-novembre, un vent glacial pendant 3 jours
20 novembre, 20 degres
26 novembre, il neige!
Et si vous ne me crouez pas, voyez par vous-memes.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Bientot 9 --- almost nine

Rachel

Tu adores jouer a l ecole soit avec tes camarades, soit avec tes enfants a la maison. Tu leur prepares des problemes en math  - voir example.
You love to play teacher with your friends at daycare and at home with your teddy bears or your children as you call them.  You provide them with problems to resolve in math.

Tu vas avoir neuf ans deja. Tu viens de perdre tes deux dents de devant et tu es si mignone.
Tu n es jamais prete a aller au lit le soir et aime venir faire un gate quand ta soeur s est endormie, par contre les matins sont durs.
Tu es contente al idee d avoir bientot ta propre chambre et de pouvoir avec un bureau.
Tu aimes metre des leggins, tu n aimes guere les pantalons. Tu as quelques robes et c est toi qui les as choisies. En hiver, tu mets toujours tes tshirts a courtes manches et tu n as jamais froid.
Tu aimes ecrire des longues histoires et ton imagination est debordante et tu ne manques pas d humour.  Tu aimes jouer a l ecole avec tes enfants et leur compose des milliers de problemes a resoudre ou histoires a lire.
Tu aimerais porter des lunettes comme ta soeur.

Papa et maman qui t aiment beaucoup


You will be nine tomorrow and  are very excited about it.
You go to gymnastics twice a week and are great at it. You are talking about making the team and you will take the summer camps there, and we will see afterwards.
At school, you are at your level and love to write. You have a great imagination and a lovely sense of humor already.
The morning is not the best part of your day and you prefer be left alone to get ready at your own space.
In the evening, you are never tired and love to cuddle with me. We use this special time to talk about school or read a book together.

We are in the process of building an addition at the back of the house, which means that the current dining room will become Natalie's bedroom and that you will have your own bedroom. 
You are looking forward to having your own space and your own desk in your bedroom.

Recently you had some doubt about the tooth fairy having received two envelops the same day,  and recognizing papa 's handwriting on one. 

You are talking about going to Belgium alone in order to spend time alone with mami, we will see how feasible this is.

You complain about your sister but you are good buddies and play a lot together.

Happy birthday ma cherie.
Maman qui t aime beaucoup.

Voici la liste de  tes enfants:
Here is a list of some of your kids: Collar, Scratchy, Bethoven, Kit, Pluto, Ellie, Caroline, Titi, Tintin, Coyote, Rocky, Fluffy, Froggie.
Collar le chien, cadeau de Charlotte
Sratchy, le leopard, cadeau de Sue
Bethoven, le Saint Bernard, cadeau de Charlotte
Kit, le chat, cadeau de Mazarrine de traineau
Pluto c est un cadeau de papi
Ellie, chien aux gros yeux, cadeau de Camille
caroline c est ta poupee americaine, notre cadeau  d anniversaire pour tes 8 ans
Titi, le Husky,  cadeau de mami
Tintin, ton premier nounours, cadeau de Kay
Coyotte, chien loup, cadeau de mami
Rocky, embleme de l ecole, raton laveur, cadeau de tantine Faby
Fluffy, le tintin chanteur, cadeau de mami.
Et tous dorment avec toi (je faisais la meme chose quand j avais ton age. Chaque soir mami les retirait de mon lit pour me laisser plus de place et j allais les rechercher). 





Monday, November 24, 2014

Heidi


Liquid diet

For the last 24 hours, I have been on a clear liquid diet. I didit!

Sunday, November 23, 2014

si mami peut le faire, alors je pourrai surement le faire aussi

Mami Nicole n'aime pas boire de grandes quantites d'eau et poutant il y a quelques mois, elle a bien du avaler 4 litres avant de faire sa colonoscopie.
Lundi prochain, c'est mon tour.

Next Monday is the day of my colonoscopy and believe it or not, Yossi will have his the next day.
It is no fun but better be safe than sorry.

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Bon appetit,napkins prepared by Natalie


Toothless

 

Friday, November 21, 2014

encore une dent en moins

J'etais a peine rentree hier soir que Rachel voulait me montre quelque chose de super.

Elle etait tellement fiere de me montrer qu'elle avait perdu sa deuxieme dent de devant. Elle est bien mignone avec ce petit trou. Heureusement ca n'a pas cree un defaut de prononciation.
Ses 2 nouvelles dents ont deje fait une apparition et sont sorties.

La tooth fairy n'est pas passee, elle a du avoir trop de travail pendant la nuit (ou dormir trop fort), elle passera suremnet aujourd'hui.

Past halloween costumes


Thursday, November 20, 2014

wall came down at 4905 Druid Drive

This week, the builder knocked down the kitchen wall. They protected that side with sterophone. it is not very esthetic but we can live with it for a few extra days, till they install the French doors which arrived yesterday. Pictures to follow

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Bed time

Natalie used to fall asleep by 8pm, while Rachel used to play for another hour. Things have changed since Natalie is now falling asleep much later. Both of you tend to play together past 9pm. Evenings are rather short for me.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Pizza making

Tonight we test our skilld to bake home made pizza. Next week for Rachel 's birthday she would like to make that. I wanted to make sure that it could work.
Pizza was very god and we had a lot of fun.
Pictures to follow

Monday, November 17, 2014

Sisterhood (3)


Sunday, November 16, 2014

Sisterhood (2)







Saturday, November 15, 2014

Sisterhood

Rachel, since Natalie was born, you always have been there for her, feeding her with the spoon, teaching her sign language, calming her when she was crying, playing uno with her, getting the cereal box she could not reach, practising math with her, playing school together, dancing on the tune of Natalie by Gilbert Beceaud, sharing your bedroom with her, accepting to pass on some of your too too small clothes, ...
I hope you will alwyas bethere for one another.



Thursday, November 13, 2014

Front tooth coming out

You finally made it happen.  For the last few weeks, that tooth had been wiggling and even became crooked. Last evening, you decided that it was time. In less than 1hour, you had it twisted and ready to come out.


Wednesday, November 12, 2014

9 years old in less than 2 weeks

This year, you would like to make your own pizza and decorate the cupcakes. We will have a chocolate fondue in which cupcakes and marshmellows can be dipped and decorated with colorful sugar. We bought canvas As well as bright fluorescent and sparkling colors. If time allows, we can also have a Spa solon.
Your guests will be Lucia, Maya, Alaina, Brooke, Sonaya, Leora, Elie, and of course your sister Natalie.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Halloween pictures

This year I joined the school party. They had a parade in the neighborhood and had a lot of admirers.
Rachel was a devil and Natalie who wanted to be a witch, became a cat when she fell in love with an adorable cat costumeat the flee market.

For trick or treating Dunja joined us and you got way too many candies.