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mardi, janvier 15 2008

The return of the Carlucci

Happy New Year to all of you:

As you can see from this picture, a forth person has been added to our family. For now, it is in my belly, but in June it will be wild alive.

Everything started, one day in June 2007, when Marc asked me a strange question:



Translation: “when are we making a little sister or little brother? I don't know, when I saw him, I wanted to.” So, without hesitation, before he changed his mind, we started in this new project and two months later, here we go:




I am all right, the baby too. Since Christmas, I can feel it moving, but unfortunately not Marc yet.
Arthur doesn't understand what is going on, he is kissing my belly as his daddy showed him and he found out on his own how to blow raspberry on it.
The first 3 months have been pretty difficult, I was really tired and nauseous 24h a day, 7 days a week for 3 months. Nothing to compare with Arthur's pregnancy. So I already imagine few of you who might say that it is a girl, but I know a lot of women who had different pregnancy for babies of the same sex. So it doesn't mean anything. Anyway, we want to keep the sex of the baby a surprise until the birth!
Here we go, done with that news

Now, in my 2008 new resolution list, I decided to write more post on this blog. We have been pretty quiet for the past few months, nevertheless we were quite busy:
- Arthur grow up:
Arthur in September
Arthur in October
Arthur in November
Arthur in December
During his Christmas holidays, his language skill improved a lot in French. It is still baby talk, but he can make himself understand better and better. He asks for drinks, he calls Réglisse "Eglisse", Winnie the pooh "ouioui" and Noddy too (it is called Oui-Oui in French)!! He loves a French cartoon called Little Brown Bear, tractors, aeroplanes, everything with an engine which makes noise. Obviously, he has his own character and it is not easy every day. Is there one thing he took from his mother, it is his stubbornness!
He loves cooking with Daddy and play with his new pens.
- We celebrated  Halloween, Bomb Fire, and Christmas with our Post Natal group.
- We went to visit my Italian teacher's baby, had a pub walk with the Miskin Family, at dinner at Christelle's house and for me I went to celebrate Christmas with my work.
- Arthur spent a week, in November, alone in Strasbourg, three days with Papie et Mamie (Marc's parents) and three days with Grand-Pierre et Maminouche (my parents). I dropped him and Marc picked him up. That way, Marc managed to start sanding our stairs (as Arthur is asthmatic, it is better to make a lot of dust while he is away).
- And of course we went to celebrate Christmas in Strasbourg.
Even with some car problems (which cost us a fortune) and sickness for Arthur and I, we had a good time.
Since we came back, we celebrated twice Epiphany (which in France, consists on eating an almond pie) and I can say that Arthur loves the pie (pictures to come).

In my new resolution list, I will try to put more up-to-date video of Arthur on the website, but that will depend on our montage software which makes me crazy.
Here we go for the first post of 2008, not bad. I think I didn't forget anything. You are up-to-date now.

mardi, décembre 26 2006

Arthur's first Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of you!
Arthur had a lot of present despite the fact we were staying in Wallingford this year. He received:

Thank you to all of you, he loved the wraping paper :)

Also he had his 8 months check up last Wednesday, he weight 9,340 kg (20 lb 9 oz) , he has 4 teeth coming through at the same time (the 4 at the top), his bottom and his cheecks are red, but he is smiling all the time!!!

At last, and it's not related to Arthur or Christmas, while I was in France for my grand-mother's funeral, one of my really nice cousin cut my hair and last Thursday I did some cupper and golden-brown high light, but it can't be seen properly on the pictures ;)

lundi, décembre 25 2006

Merry Christmas !!

Here things are very well, my sister Sabrina and her boyfriend Alexandre arrived well, Saturday instead of Friday due to a very thick fog.

Yesterday we went to the swimming pool with Arthur, he enjoyed swimming and playing with toys. Marie stayed at home to clean it.
Back home we cooked dinner, Sabrina the dessert, Alex and I the Christmas turkey and vegetables, following a Jamie Oliver recipe.

Around 18:30 we had a drink in the living room and watched helped Arthur to open his 11 presents !! To all of you : Thank you very much !!
After Arthur went to bed and we started our Christmas dinner, "Foie Gras" on toasted bread, I had butter. Then the turkey with the vegetables, it was full of flavour, very very good !
We started playing a game that was in one of the cracker and laughed a lot. At the same time we had chocolate cake with ice Cream.

While waiting midnight we watched "The Russians Dolls", in french "Les poupées Russes", it's the sequel of "Pot Luck", in french "L'auberge espagnol", both very good movies.

At one o'clock we opened our presents. We were all very impressed by Marie's mother present to Marie, a photo album telling Marie's story since she was born, Alexandre even had a car, a 407 coupé.