Remember last month,
when
Ambroise was almost doing his first steps?
Well, look who's
walking now.
Walking alone at the school fair:
Or at the bookstore
Practicing at home
Elizabeth found some extraordinary shoes, normally for late
walkers:
Ambroise's nickname is "shaggy" but it breaks my heart to have
to cut all that soft, silky baby hair. But we all got sick of
the "she's so pretty" comments.
Mom learned her lesson from his first trim and took him straight
to the experts Frank and Anita.
"Oh this is horrible"
"Um, maybe not so bad"
The cheering section
Looking good!
Helping hands
Mom entered the local pie contest....but didn't win :(
The pies weren't wasted, though....
The nap schedule totally changed! One nap! It has been so great to
switch from 2 naps. Before, he was taking the first nap from 9-11 and
another one from 2-4. Now we can go out in the morning, come home for
lunch and then take one long nap. He is up and ready for Madeline and
Theo to come home from school. In fact, we walk down the street and meet
them. Ambroise gets so excited when he sees his brother and sister.
Still his 2 favorite things: balls and balloons
Even though he gets into mischief; we love him
Getting our pumpkins ready
for Halloween.
A bit different this year.
A few nice pictures of Ambroise
A beautiful day at the beach.
Go fly a kite!
Nothing as wonderful as
a sleeping baby
Theo continues his love affair with sugar
A month late, but mom finishes Theo's
cork board
Look what happens when mommy gets distracted
during meal time.
That's right ladies, I'm
strutting in Burberry
Ready for cold weather
Madeline shows
Ambroise the joy of the slide
(the joy she discovered 10 years ago...)
Halloween parade! A giraffe, mummy, IPOD and .......
Guess who we are?
We have an "invitation" to the white
house
and a bottle of Oasis wine
Ambroise learns that if he makes a mess, he can also clean it!
Which makes a game he plays at regularly.
Drops of milk... all
clean!
Drops of milk... all clean!
Drops of milk... all clean!
...
Bon Papa and Emilie have arrived from France!
First- a trip to the beach to fly a
kite!
A corn maze / berry-picking expedition turns into a wine
tasting experience
Madeline and Theo take them to New York City.
Emilie and Bon Papa go back on their own another day.
Shopping trip
First fire of the season. Ambroise is impressed.
Building a spider web for
Halloween(but still missing a couple of skeletons stuck in it)
Mischief night.
M&T still had ammunition at curfew,
so they TP'ed our own trees!
The day before Halloween, Asbury Park organized a Zombie Walk,
which brought over 4000 zombies on the boardwalk.
We had great fun both preparing ourselves for it (over a game of
belote) and walking it - being entirely surrounded by the
living-dead, bloody brides, pirates, escaped patients and
murdered passers-by was completly eerie.
The big day is here!
Some people
change their minds regarding costumes.
My cute little giraffe
turns into a zombie at the hands of his sister and cousin.
Theo and Dad go zombie too.
Mom does a Chilean miner.
Bon Papa is a warewolf
Emilie is a wild cat
What a family!
Trick or treat!
Lots of candy, of course
Gontran takes the day off and takes the Frenchies back to
NYC,
Downtown, cheese fondue and Guggenheim