Saturday, 22 March 2014

The 2014 update

Lauren came to visit in April 2013. It was a very short visit, but certainly made me happy! AND I finally made it to the musée d'orsay! Since 2006, I have planned many times to go, and had never made it until then.

There were many grey days last spring, but we still managed to have some fun in the sand at the park! (April 16, 2013)

  
This was one of the first sunny days last spring, April 21. I couldn't resist the balloon man at the gate to the park. I got Arthur a red helicopter. We gave it to another boy before we got home (no extra space in our apartment for a big helium balloon helicopter! Hopefully he enjoyed it too!

Another sunny Sunday! May 2nd 2013. We all went to place des vosges and enjoyed the rays! 

 
We escaped the city with Séverine and Amaël for a week. It was bliss and green grass! (May 7, 2013)

 
Arthur was pretty open to trying most things, including a number of playground elements. (June 8, 2013)

We went to the Louvre. It was Arthur's first visit and he did a stand up job, but his second visit was SO much more gratifying for me at least... he ran into the first room and said in a pretty loud voice... "WOOOOOOOOWWWWW" I will admit to being a little embarrassed at the time because of the volume, but my pride went through the roof... he liked it, he really liked it! (June 9, 2013)

We had a lovely visit to Canada during the summer, it was kicked off, however with an insufferable delay... about 5 hours if memory serves. So that's 5 hours plus the 2 hours that we arrived before the initial flight. (June 29, 2013)

 
Our Boogie Woogie weekend was fantastic and Arthur found the love of his life, STRINGS! Stringed instruments, that is. Enamored by Jon and Liam's sweet serenades he is now a sucker for a guitar, a bass, ANYTHING with strings! (July 14, 2013)

We did lots of fun things in the "Great White" including camping with Mab, Mary, Ange and Keelor and swimming at the dog beach (for Keelor's sake). It was a little grey, but we had a blast in the sand! (July 22, 2013)

While we were home we enjoyed (as much as we could) fresh Ontario sweetcorn from Gillespie's. We also enjoyed their corn maze... well, I think I enjoyed it more than Arthur, but he humored me for a little! (July 24, 2013)

Although I had thought, based on our flight time, that he would sleep for the majority of our flight back to Paris, it took him a very long time to get over his excitement of being in the plane. We had the three seats in the middle to ourselves, so he did have one of the most comfortable spots in economy class. It still took a while! (July 31, 2013)

By the time we got back to Paris, they had finished the renovation work on Place de la République. We very much enjoyed the "mirroir d'eau" --the water mirror. (August 2nd, 2013)

 
Arthur attacked a little girl in the park one day while he was there with his father. In fact, it was only her boots that he was attacking. So we went to the sports store and bought him some rubber boots. He LOVES them! He wouldn't take them off for anything, and puddles became his new best friends!

The catch up will be continued shortly!