little people

Mathilde turned 5 at the end of April. We had a cute tea party to celebrate with her friends. She loved her pres-school experience this year and she is looking forward to Kindergarten next year. She enjoys dancing, cooking, yoga and all kinds of learning projects... She is a great big sister to Lilou and she and Ethan are perfect friends for each other (most of the time).
Ethan is finishing 1st grade. School is all right but playing, inventing things and running around are still his favorites. The children built a gorilla nest in the tree in the back yard. They made it "cozy"with branches and leaves, it is a great spot for the children to stop and sit long enough to eat bananas.
One day Ethan brought back some trading cards from school that his classmates had given him. As he wanted to get more trading cards he simply drew a few inventing names and super powers for these new kinds of mutants. He was so excited at the prospect of trading his cards for the 'real' ones. We thought it would be all heart brake and hard reality when the other kids would categorically refuse any kind of trading with our new found artist. Our surprise was complete when Ethan returned home with new trading store bought cards. He had traded everyone of his home made cards...

This is Ethan's first suit. It is with much surprise that we have seen our boy, who lives for warmer days and shorts, really get into this new and fun item of clothing!

Linnea will be 3 next week. She is very mischievous, she is a tease and knows how to get great reactions from her siblings. You can hear her sing "it's raining, it's boring" and other grand renditions of children's classics. She loves princesses and thinks she is one.
If you are in our neighborhood and you feel like feeding bananas to 3 little monkeys please come and see us!