Posts under ‘Joy of parenting’

At the hospital in Strasbourg one day after Boy Blue was born.

The girls were in love at first sight.

A very blue Boy Blue.

Angel Girl age four being silly.

Petite Clown and Sweet Bear last summer.

My French lover and I in Paris some years ago.

My Frenchman.

My Frenchman on our honeymoon.

Sweet Bear and Angel Girl this past summer.

Boy [...]

We were in Strasbourg last week and on these streets near the U.S. Consulate, the workers were cutting the limbs on the trees. I still think the trees look strange cut so that they form balls on the ends of the branches.
Last year, Sweet Bear would say over and over, “Poor baby tees…tey hurt.” Last [...]

Boy Blue is better.
He had four chest massage sessions. It was horrible each time. The look on his face during these sessions reminded me of when I was in labor with him. I think he felt like I did…helpless.
He cried and struggled against her. But, all he could really do was wait until she finished. [...]

Upper left hand corner is Sweet Bear
Upper right hand corner is Angel Girl
Bottom left hand corner is Boy Blue
Bottom right hand corner is Petite Clown
I officially have no more newborns in the house. Boy Blue is almost seven months old. I had a dream the other night that he just got up and started walking [...]

I just wanted to see Sweet Bears reaction to my speaking in French with no English whatsoever. All other times I speak to her only in English or say one or two words in French. Never more than one sentence in French. Even then I follow with the same sentence said again in English.
Lately, she [...]

Last week we had made a visit to a park while running errands in Strasbourg. Parks in France are typically very child friendly. The colors and design of the playground are functional and cute. There is almost always a gate completely surrounding the playground area securing any wanna be runaways from doing just that.
While there [...]

Boy Blue has been…well, kinda blue lately. He hasn’t been feeling up to his smiling, cooing ways. He has not even pulled his sisters hair in the last three days.
Boy Blue has caught a bug that is keeping him down. Bronchiolitis is the culprit!
I took his temperature the other night at around one in the [...]

Every time Sweet Bear says frog it sounds just like she is saying another much more famous four letter word!
On those days when I needed a good laugh I prompt her comme ca.
Me: “Say frog.”
Sweet Bear: “Fruck.”
Me: “Say frog again.”
Sweet Bear: “FRUCK”
This continues until I am dying from laughter and she is saying fruck over [...]

Even if she is my third round with the terrible twos, why is it that I am still ill prepared to deal with the disappearance of my sweet tempered baby? I do not want to face up to the fact that a completely irrational stinker child has replaced her. Where is my smiling Petite Clown?
I [...]

Sweet Bear and Petite Clown have learned how to make the Hh sound at the same time. I am so Hhh, Hhh - happy!
I have been correcting Sweet Bear for half a year and the other day she finally got it! I was going through the ususal drill of Hh, Hh like Hh-house, Hh-happy, Hh-horse, [...]