Like every year, Steph came to visit us for few days. But this time, she brought with her her new digital camera reflex. Ouch, be aware of the flash.
I had problem to select her pictures!!
We spent a quite weekend at home where she was able to appreciate our everyday life.
Saturday evening, we had a girls night out, it was great: movie Inception, then Thai restaurant. Perfect!!

Pulling faces stage:

Park:

Cooking session:

Gardening session:

And at last, back to 3 years ago:

dimanche, août 8 2010
Steph's visiting
Par bloucox le dimanche, août 8 2010, 12:01 - Week-end
vendredi, août 6 2010
West Wittering: camping on the beach
Par bloucox le vendredi, août 6 2010, 12:01 - Week-end
We liked so much our first trip to the beach that we decided to try an other one.
We really don't choose our weekend well. After three weekend really hot, we decided to go when the sky is grey and the wind is up.
But this time, we took the tent with us and it was great.


The children had a bath anyway:


The weather got better when we left, but we were really tired by the wind. We will definitely come back.

mercredi, août 4 2010
Eric is in London
Par bloucox le mercredi, août 4 2010, 12:01 - Week-end
Éric lives in Switzerland, but he comes in London to party. Because we don't have a lot of occasion to see him, we met him for one afternoon.
The children had their nap in the car.

Then they had their snack in Hide Park!!
We had a really good walk into the park with Éric and it was good to see each other again.
Éric, as a single man, was a little bit jealous of Rémi's popularity with girls of all ages, but he took some notes 



What is sure, is that Éric is not scared of Arthur anymore:


lundi, août 2 2010
Rémi is not a baby anymore
Par bloucox le lundi, août 2 2010, 12:01
Rémi is a star:

Rémi helps:

Rémi is obsessed with cars:

Rémi like eating, but not everything (fruits, beurk like daddy):

Rémi is top model:

Rémi laughs all the time:

Rémi danses, plays, sings
Rémi loves giving cuddles:

Rémi is crazy about water:

He is also obsessed with foot ball, shoes and he is a ladyman. He is a little muchkin.
samedi, juillet 31 2010
Arthur loves...
Par bloucox le samedi, juillet 31 2010, 12:01
Arthur loves playing:

Arthur loves climbing everywhere, but even more the trees:

Arthur got a bike for his birthday. He loves riding it:

Arthur is learning how to write:

Arthur doesn't always like when we take picture of him:

Arthur is a great big brother:

Arthur loves giving a hand:

Arthur loves pulling faces:

Arthur loves the swimming pool:

Arthur knows how to dress himself:

Arthur loves eating, everything even salad:

The list is long. We are really pride to parent of the lively little boy.
jeudi, juillet 29 2010
Rémi is two years old
mardi, juillet 27 2010
It is too hot: playing with water.
Par bloucox le mardi, juillet 27 2010, 12:01 - Week-end
This year, summer is with us, so we are trying to keep it cool with some water.
We went to the seaside one day (it is only at 1h30 away from home!!), where the children loved paddle.
It was cooler when the clouds were out and the water was frozen cold, but we still felt like on holiday!!!!

Picture taken through the binoculars:

After tasting the water:

But we also can keep it cool near the house by going to the paddling pool. The water is filthy, but the children love it:


An other source of water nearby: Thames river where we went punting, twice. First with some of my colleagues from work and the second time with a former colleague from my temp job:


dimanche, juillet 25 2010
The parents are going out
Par bloucox le dimanche, juillet 25 2010, 12:01
vendredi, juillet 23 2010
Oxfordshire's playground
Par bloucox le vendredi, juillet 23 2010, 12:01
This is not that we don't like Wallingford, but from time to time we like trying different playground.
Marc tried one in Oxford which just has been renovated:

Apparentely, the children loved it.
Personaly, I have tried the one near the swimming pool in Didcot:

But I have to say thay it isthe one in Wallingford where we admire our sons' motor skills:
mercredi, juillet 21 2010
Visit from Nikki and Joshua
Par bloucox le mercredi, juillet 21 2010, 12:01
We had the pleasure to have Nikki and Joshua for a night.
It's great to see a friend from Bristol who now lives in Dallas. You know that it is a real friendship when you don't feel guilty of playing with your IPhone!!:

Tap tap revenge is a great game, there is no picture to prove it, but I was part of the game too!!
And thanks to the Volcano in Island, we had them again at the end of their holidays because they couldn't go home:


The two evening were short, but it is much better that a conversation on the web-cam!!! It's a shame that Steve couldn't take any holidays!
lundi, juillet 19 2010
Arthur goes on a merry-go-round
Par bloucox le lundi, juillet 19 2010, 12:01 - Week-end
Arthur went for the first on a merry-go-round (without crying!!)
The first time was for May Bank Holiday

For the video: go here
We also went on bumper car, but we were just the two of us, so there is no photos. But, a month and an half later, there was Wallingford carnival and then Marc took some pictures:

Rémi wasn't happy to join us so in the next ride we put him with Arthur. He cried when he started, but then was really happy to be with his brother:

samedi, juillet 17 2010
Birthday's parties Part 2
Par bloucox le samedi, juillet 17 2010, 12:01 - Week-end
This year is really the year of the birthday party and dressing up!!!
We are just back from our holidays and we already thinking of the outfit to wear at Elliot birthday party. Theme: superhero. Arthur wants to be in Batman and he wants Rémi to be in Superman (ok, no problem I can do that), but he also wants Mummy to be in Batman and Daddy in Superman. OK, I still can do that (fortunately I am a fan of Superman!!!)
Arthur and Mummy in Batman:

Rémi in Clark Kent (wink from Marc who was also dress-up in Clark Kent):


Then it was Riccardo's birthday party who is the son of my former Italian teacher:

Then it was Cora's birthday party (yes, Her again!!) in a Gym room:

And at last (for now), Jorja's birthday party, Elliot little sister:

jeudi, juillet 15 2010
Walks
Par bloucox le jeudi, juillet 15 2010, 12:01 - Week-end
Our children are really good walkers, so we are taking the opportunity to have long walk (under any weather)
It all started this winter with a friend of Marc from Squash:

With Arthur best friend, Cora:

But we know how to enjoy the good weather too:

The children enjoy playing lion in the high grass:

We also try to visit some national park with some friends:

And after exercise, pleasure:

mardi, juillet 13 2010
Our holidays to Strasbourg
Par bloucox le mardi, juillet 13 2010, 12:01
We're back! (at last would say some of you). We were pretty busy which explain our silence and to make sure I don't miss any detail (you know me by now), I am going to start from where I stopped: our Easter Holidays to Strasbourg.
It was over a year ago the last time we went and we had a lot of people to see and a lot of things to celebrate.
First of all, Arthur's birthday who for the first time celebrated with his family instead of his friends. As it was a last minute organised celebration, everybody couldn't come, but we were already quite a lot and he has been spoiled:
Then during Easter weekend, we had the Carlucci family party which consists to get the most Carlucci members from the same ancestor (Marc great-grand father). In total, we are 187 peoples and there were 87 at the party:

Arthur thought it was still his party as the name of the party was Carlucci party!!!
Then we saw our family in small group, our friends...(To see the pictures of our friend on the site, you have to ask me for a password by email)

After two weeks we were completely knackered, but pleased to see (almost) everybody. We travelled by train this time and it was fantastic:

vendredi, avril 2 2010
Arthur, 4 years old already
Par bloucox le vendredi, avril 2 2010, 21:08
lundi, mars 29 2010
Session: birthday's parties
Par bloucox le lundi, mars 29 2010, 18:04 - Week-end
Arthur has been invited to a birthday party this month every weekend.
It's started with the one of Charlotte, my colleague's daughter who turned 3:



Then, James one of his friend at nursery celebrated his 4 years with a theme knight and princesses. There was a Clown show that Arthur participated:




Then, the one of Sterling, an other friend of his from nursery. It took place in a fire station and the theme was caveman and dinosaurs:



Then the one of Olwen, his birth friend:



vendredi, mars 26 2010
5 years ago
Par bloucox le vendredi, mars 26 2010, 18:22
mardi, mars 23 2010
Permanent contract
Par bloucox le mardi, mars 23 2010, 21:34
Today, I signed my permanent contract which start right now. I am over the moon and celebrated it with cakes at work and a dinner at the restaurant with my boys!!!!!
mercredi, mars 17 2010
Meeting with archangel Raphaël
Par bloucox le mercredi, mars 17 2010, 17:50
The Dutschke family came all together exactly a year after their last visit and also our last meeting.
They added to their family: Raphaël.
We had the joy to have them for a week.
Samuel and Arthur played really well together from the beginning.
Rémi was jealous of us giving cuddles to Raphaël.
Great time, to do it again in less than a year.
After a long walk at the park, a little bit of TV:
Day at the dinosaurs museum:
Morning at Snake and Ladder:
Evening playing Scopa that the girls always won:
Walk between guys:
Visit of Portchester:

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