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.

Everything Orléane

All about Xavier

Random thoughts and conversation crumbs

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Archive for the 'Funs & Games' Category

Ho ho ho… yo-ho-ho?

For fun, I drew (on the computer) a coloring page for Xavier, who is big on fish/Nemo/waves right now (and who still loves pirates… especially since we’ve started watching Peter Pan - the 2003 movie - together). If you like it, print it out for your own little mateys! The PDF is here: pirates.pdf
I hope […]


Xmas Quiz

In the spirit of the holiday season, blog filler! in the form of the Christmas Quiz Tal put up.
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping if the gift allows. Admit it: it’s more fun to tear some paper wrapping than just remove silk paper and uncover the surprise right away. Bags for the small odd shapes.
2. […]


Happy Halloween 2007

Secret’s up! Here are our costumes for this year’s Halloween costume contest at work:

We’re Mr. and Mrs Pacman, in pixels!!
There was also a jack-o-lantern contest, and here are our entries :

The tree is mine, and Frank did the other one from an image I pulled from the web. He later drew a terrified face on […]