December 15, 2009 by Dad.

Morning are a busy time in this house. Getting up, getting dressed, packing away washing and just cleaning up toys keep us busy and sometimes we need to just put Etienne down. In this case we put him down in Cezanne’s bed and he was not very happy about it, but Cezanne did a great job of calming him down. He really loves to watch his big sister…

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December 12, 2009 by Dad.

Yeah, yeah, get used to it my boy… We went to the annual playgroup Christmas party and of course Etienne while part of the group - really not able to play or join in yet… At least he will be able to say that he did bring home a nice big box of toys. Thanks secret Santa…

Just look how well dressed the boy is…

One of these days he will be sitting all by himself and hard to imagine, next year this time he should be walking and climbing all over the place !!

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December 12, 2009 by Dad.

Well now that we have 2 kids, and everybody really only wants to see them on the Christmas card, we figured we would try get a nice cute photo of the two of them at home in front of the tree. Cezanne is very loving and the trick was to get her to not love poor Etienne to death, a light grip around the body was all that was needed…

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December 6, 2009 by Dad.

This little boy is growing and as a result is now in the biggest of our inflatable baths. He is so tall that he does not even fit in this bath. Lying him down diagonally he still can not stretch out his legs. He is now already in many of his 3-6 month outfits and is not too small for even some 9 month outfits. He does love the bath though, I think part of it is being naked and feeling of freedom. He is beginning to kick his feet in the water and this reminds me of how Cezanne would kick and how completely soaked I would get at bath time. Etienne is also becoming aware of his reflection, not sure that he knows what or even who it is, just that there is something there.

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December 6, 2009 by Dad.

Poor Etienne, he gets pulled into all sorts of things that he has no idea about and we subject him to things that he really need no be exposed to - but that is part of the burden of having a big sister… We ventured out to take a ride on the Polar Express and Etienne came along for the ride. He was such a sweety, not fussing at all. I think he knew Santa was on the train and wanted to be sure he seen being a “good boy”. Santa did stop by to say hello !

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December 1, 2009 by Dad.

For the record, Etienne has finally found his thumb, either yesterday or today…

We are not sure we are happy about this.

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