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Sunday, we went to the park in Benson, little village near us.
There were a lot of different activity and Arthur loved it.
He even managed to climb the slide by the slide instead of the ladder on his own without help. We were pretty surprised and chocked by his achievement!

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.

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!

I did a montage for my mum of all the video we had of Arthur until his 9 months. It's a 1 hour movie, but I cut it in small film that you can see in the French version of this post. Sorry the movies are in French, but we still can look at the pictures

I hope you will enjoy them. Now I know how to post videos and how to do a montage, I will try to do it more often.