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mardi, janvier 15 2008

The return of the Carlucci

Par bloucox le mardi, janvier 15 2008, 22:16

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.

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jeudi, juin 7 2007

Find the differences

Par bloucox le jeudi, juin 7 2007, 00:10 - DIY

Here we go, Arthur's bedroom in done (wait a minute Marie, there is still the window to change in double glazing, but we don't have the money for now as we want to change all the windows in the house at once!)
So I was saying, Arthur's bedroom decoration is done, now you have to find the changes (toys moving around on the floor don't count, Arthur starts to be like is parents, really messy ;) ):
Christelle, as you have been here all the time to look after Arthur, you can't play ;) . By the way, thank you very much to help us, I don't know what we would have done without you.
So give your answer in a comment and the winner(s) will win a week end at Wallingford!!! (little help, there are 7 changes)
Before:


After:


You can look at the latest video of the house I did to help you.

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samedi, mai 5 2007

Visiting our house

Par bloucox le samedi, mai 5 2007, 08:00 - Videos

When we visited the house, Marc took a video of it, here it is:



But here is the new one that I diid myself, French version, English subtitle!

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jeudi, mai 3 2007

New resolution

Par bloucox le jeudi, mai 3 2007, 08:30

Marc and I took a new resolution (it's never too late!): we are going to start improving our house.
I explain: one of my colleague who moved house in February of this year and who has three children, already finish to improve her three children bedroom and the au pair's one. I asked her to tell me her secret to do some DIY with three children. She said that they decided to have only one day during the week end for DIY and the other one to child out. When they are doing DIY, their au pair is playing with the children.
I suddenly remembered Christelle complaining about the fact she never has time to play with Arthur because he goes directly in bed when she baby-sits him.
I talked to Marc, I talked to Christelle and we decided that from now, Christelle will look after Arthur while we are doing some DIY at home. We moved more than a year ago now and we did little to improve our house: Marc painted his office (necessary as one of the wall was black!), Arthur's bedroom (also necessary to avoid having a child with epileptic crisis because of the bright colours!), the bathroom (we were in an aquarium before!), Marc's father fitted the laminated floor, Marc's grand father dig the garden and Marc removed the wallpaper in the corridors. There is still some much to do.
Next week end we starting with Arthur's bedroom to finish some details and this way he can have a beautiful bedroom.
Little by little we should progress and not being disgusted of DIY!

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vendredi, décembre 1 2006

Back from the dust

Par Marc le vendredi, décembre 1 2006, 20:46

Hello, all of you.
We are back, the past two weeks have been pretty chaotic for us and the house.

My dad came Monday the 20th to stay with us for a week, not for vacation but to put the laminate floor because he had forbidden us to put it. Because putting laminate floor wasn't challenging enough we ended up with a wall down and three doors opening exchanged (which really increased the size of the bedrooms), and dust everywhere . You might call it collateral damages, try to explain that to Marie who cleaned the first floor all day :) We still need to tidy some "bits and pieces" like the stairs, skirting board and door bars, but the big thing is done.
The house looks great, it's so much better than the carpet (that's where French people think "of course" and English one "well it depends") and now we have a real living room (before it was more like a dump-everything-in room). I'm looking forward to setup the home cinema back :)
Sunday evening 1:30am (or Monday morning if you like) I put my dad in the bus to Stansted airport, thanking him for the work he did, again Thank you very much dad!

Monday, Tuesday I was in London for a conference about Agile Development, it was very good. I really like this approach to manage project, which I think put the Human back into the equation.
Tuesday evening, it was good to come back home, Arthur even woke up to welcome me :) Marie was happy to, the past few days were not easy.
The rest of the week has been hard work wise, trying to work the amount of 5 days in 3, but at the end everything is good.

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