At the reno store:
E – I didn’t quite expect to have trouble finding a garden gazebo in June.
Clerk – Yeah. People all rushed in for those in spring – I guess they got sick of winter. The store has trouble re-stocking, so they’re pushing to get fireplaces in, now. Should be in soon.
E – You know what? I saw you had a fireplace I loved at half price in February, but I gave birth later that same day and, by the time I could get back to the store in March, BBQs were out and I missed my chance.
Clerk – Good thing those will be back soon then, eh?
E – Yeah. But I was hoping to get it on sale again, so I’ll have to wait for the end-of-season prices. When will that be: september or october, do you think?
Crazy commerce.

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Who would have thought a shade of taupe/beige would be the most difficult colour to pick? Jane should have a hotline.

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“You know all the pamphlets they give you at the hospital, that say your baby will die if you let him sleep on his tummy?”

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E – Xavier, eat some chicken, please. Yum, yum, chicken?
X – No.
E – Mmm, yummy chicken! … Taste it, at the least.
X – NO.
F – Here, Xav, a SCAL-LOP.
X – … A-LOP! (He tastes, then:) Mmmm!! More?
F – Here, more.
X – A-lop! (He chews.) More?
F – There you go. Another scallop (which is in fact chicken cut to the size of a scallop).
X – Yum, yum! (He swallows.) More?
F – It’s chicken, Xavier. See, there’s lots of chicken already in your plate.
X – Chi-kennnn!
He starts stuffing all the little pieces of chicken one by one in his mouth. Oy, the tricks we have to pull…

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It’s hard to determine which kid is learning the fastest these days. Xavier is absorbing language and concepts like a big noisy snowball, while Orly’s development – prehension, motor and social skills – is more subtle, but no less quick, because she’s starting from scratch, after all.

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X – Allô mamaaan.
E – Allô Xavier. Oh, you smell nice, Xavier. You just had a good bath?
X – Yes… (He thinks, then adds:) …water.
E – With water? Wow. To hell with expenses, eh?
X – Yes.

Someone’s having fun with Photoshop…

Transl. “Camera or not… we’re rolling!”

I rolled onto my tummy!!! It was on my mattress – softness helps! – but it still counts. I’m barely 4 months old… yay me!

I had started practising suddenly on Wenesday, but yesterday I wasn’t feeling like putting in the effort. Earlier, though, I was practising again with mommy in my crib and I was getting quite good, and fast; I tried to play a trick on her and get it done while she’d gone to fetch the camera, but she came back just in time to see me and say how proud she was! No movieclip, though, just a photo of the results.

Congratulations to me!

PS. My brother Xavier was 5 months when he rolled on his belly by himself. It’s not a competition, of course, but I just felt like mentionning it, you know… *whistles*