The Stories of our Lives

This is our family blog. We use it to share glimpses of our family life, everyday anecdotes and reflexions, and we archive the kids' growth. In Québec, Canada.

Orléane Orléane is now...
10 months!

Xavier Xavier is now...
2.4 years!

...and there's also their parents. Émilie writes most posts (including the children's) and handles the design, while François makes sure all the blog clockwork is running smoothly. To contact us: EMAIL.

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Archive for the month of July, 2007

Bonne fête Xavier

Last Saturday was Xavier’s first birthday party. We did a burger lunch party in the yard with family and friends. It rained!! but we did ok with a couple shelters, and luckily the rain only started after lunch.
We didn’t take many pictures ourselves, but happily grandma Lucie shot over 200, so I drew from her […]


Artiste

Xavier made his first drawing today at Jinny’s. He is quite the artist isn’t he ? I really like how he matched the colors, and the lines, they are so straights and curved at the same time. Xavier also tasted most crayons while drawing his chef d’oeuvre.


Daemons

Daemons are cool. I’m talking about those little animal-shaped exteriorised souls of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. I just finished the first tome, and so tonight’s web surfing brought me to the upcoming movie adaptation’s website, which has the neat feature of creating one’s very own daemon, through a set of 20 questions. My […]