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 'RT&CC' Category

RT&CC 7: Ants, TV & languages

Orly has now grown an inch of soft thin and pale hair, which stands straight up on the top of her head. She’s my sweet little chick!
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E - Xavier, what are you doing there?
X (gets out from behind the bookcase).
E - Get out of there, little man.
X (without a word, slips back into the small […]


RT&CC 6 : En voiture

F - Don’t eat all the cookies, leave some for your son.
E - I’m only eating the parts with chocolate chips, because the heat in the car melted them all, and I don’t want him to get chocolate all over himself.
F - Ah… So, then, you’re really sacrificing yourself to eat all this chocolate.
E - […]


RT&CC 5 : Grass, water, fruit

I’ll bring Xavier to the St.Lawrence river this summer, at the scenic lookout near here, and I will let him wet his feet in the water. And I will have to teach him “yuck, river water, bad” when he’ll want to taste it; it sucks.
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Xavier (who was just comforted after falling down the stairs) - […]