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19 mars 2008

horse riding - a cheval

He looks so natural already on a horse. That's great, in a few years, we'll be able to send him on vacation at his aunt Lois and his cousin Megan can teach him to horse-ride! Nathan a deja l'air tres comfortable sur un cheval. C'est super, comme ca, dans...

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9 mars 2008

camera - appareil photo

I was telling my mum this morning on the phone how Nathan often looks up at the camera when I take pictures. Well, he must have heard me, as when I tried taking a pic of him today, he decided to look down and wouldn't look up at me! You can see that it's...

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4 janvier 2008

Storm in California - tempete en Californie

I know, it can be hard to believe, but we had a pretty bad storm that left us with no electricity for the whole day. It didn't prevent us from playing cards though! (What else can be done with no electricity in a bad weather anyways). Nathan slept thru...

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22 février 2008

Welcome to Nathan's blog - bienvenus sur le blog de Nathan

A special welcome to Nathan's blog to my parents, Martine and Jean-Pierre. They bought a computer just after they came back home from visiting us and have been online now for a week or so. It's amazing how quickly they learnt how to surf the web and send...

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21 février 2008

how did that happen ? - comment est-ce possible ?

On the left, this is the position I found Nathan in, the other morning, when I went to pick him up. I don't know how he was able to scoop himself down like that. The picture below, from a different day, is just to show how we put him down at night. Ci-dessus,...

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16 février 2008

Nathan and daddy

This pic is already a couple of weeks old. The cardigan and hat have been knitted for Nathan by one of my parents' friend, Monique. So nice of her Cette photo date deja de quelques semaines. Le gilet et le bonnet ont ete tricotes pour Nathan par Monique,...

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14 février 2008

Day out

On wednesday, we drove up to Danville to meet with Veronica and Angelina (who is already 9 months old). We had a really good time, so lucky as both are kids are easy ones. We did go to an english pub for lunch and then had a nice walk downtown. Angelina...

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6 janvier 2008

The Golden Gate Bridge

Despite the t-storms forecast, we decided to go to San Francisco on Sunday with my parents, as they haven't been on the Golden Gate Bridge yet. We first drove thru the Presidio and stopped at Fort Point to take a few pictures. We then drove over the bridge...

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7 novembre 2007

First day at the hospital - premier jour a l'hopital

Nathan joined our family thru adoption and, after receiving a call from our adoption agency on Wednesday, November 7th at 3 PM PST to let us know that a little boy was born in the San Francisco General Hospital on November 6th, we got to meet him on the...

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25 juillet 2008

it's just not big enough - ce n'est vraiment pas assez grand

We bought a rug for the living-room for Nathan to play on, but, as soon as we lay him on it, he goes for the hardwood floors, especially the area under the dining table. His upper teeth are coming down and the process has been more painful than for the...

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23 décembre 2007

The aunties are here! - les tatas sont la!

The french aunties and the uncle arrived yesterday and met with Nathan at the airport. They are amazed on how sweet and easy going he is. Pierre-Yves alreday gave Nathan a bottle, while being supervised by my dad Jean-Pierre. We went to the farmer's market...

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10 octobre 2008

fall - l'automne

After some really warm weeks, the weather is now cooler, especially at night. Nathan is ready for the fall with this nice outfit, with his little shoes from Veronica and Luis. He really likes standing up latley and he is gettin better at keeping his balance....

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29 janvier 2008

Thank you - Merci

A posting to send a big thank you to everyone for all the presents we received from Nathan (and all the hand-me down (sp?). Nathan is for sure a lucky little boy. He is starting to 'play' with the little toys, which he can hold for a couple of minutes....

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6 mars 2008

and the winner is .. - et le gagnant est ..

Russell! Nathan is indeed 12 lbs 8oz, as guessed by Russell. He is 2'.5'' tall. You can click on the link below to see a short video of Nathan practicing his vowels ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCx89XeFTI Russell ! Nathan pese en effet 5.7 kgs pour...

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14 mars 2009

A Saturday morning with Nathan #2 - un samedi matin avec Nathan #2

After the nap, we are getting ready to go out for breakfast (first time since we arrived in Austin, we wanted to check our local coffee shop, which is at least 2 miles from the house, and that's the closest!). Before we go, Nathan has to brush his hair...

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8 août 2009

The bats - les chauves souris

There is a big bat colonie in Austin and at dusk, we can see them coming out of the bridge where they spend their day. We went their on Saturday night with Betty and Pierre-Yves. Betty was not too sure about it all (Nathan was at the YMCA dayacre for...

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12 juillet 2009

Our European trip - notre voyage en Europe

We had a great time in Europe (if a little too cold !). I'll sort thru the pictures later one and will do a slide show, as there are too many to post. Nous avons passe de bonnes vacanaces en Europe (dur a croire qu'on est deja rentre depuis 3 semaines)....

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Tags: England, France, travelling

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9 décembre 2008

Trip to France - Visite en France

I haven't been too good at posting the pictures from our trip to Europe back in April/May 2008. As we just bought an editing software, I was able to quickly put the photos into a slideshow mode. Enjoy (turn the volume on and seat back, the video is over...

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Tags: France, travelling, family

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5 décembre 2008

Our coming roadtrip - notre grand voyage

Click on the link to see where we'll be going during the Holiday break. We'll spend a couple of nights in Grand Canyon and we'll spend Christmas in Santa Fe. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=201+Thompson+Square,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043&daddr=barstow,+ca+to:grand+canyon,az+to:flagstaff,+az+to:santa+fe,+nm+to:carlsbad,+nm+to:austin,tx&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=34.867905,-113.027344&sspn=16.751118,26.71875&ie=UTF8&ll=34.307144,-108.259277&spn=16.862948,35.068359&z=6...

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Tags: travelling

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23 mai 2009

New daycare - nouvelle creche

There is nothing wrong per say with Nathan's curent daycare, but, we just don't get the warm feeling we were having with the one in CA, so, we decided to look for a new one. There is one in our neighborhood that opened a few months ago, so, after visiting...

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Tags: daycare

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25 mars 2008

big step - grande etape

To our big surprise, Nathan rolled over today from his tummy to his back. To make sure it was not a one off, we tried it over 10 times and sure enough, he did it each time he was placed on his tummy. We even managed to film him. This came out of nowhere,...

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8 novembre 2007

First day back home - Premier jour a la maison

After a sleepless night (the first of many to come !) and a stop by the local Target to buy a car seat and stroller combo, we were back at the Hospital on Thursday morning to see Nathan, meet with our adoption social worker and take Nathan back home with...

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22 novembre 2008

The things Nathan likes #1 - les choses que Nathan aime #1

It's not in any order, but the first video is of Nathan and Chance, Veronica's dog. Nathan just loves dog, doesn't get scared of them at all and gets really excited when he sees them. See by yourself ! Nathan and Chance Cette serie n'est pas dans un orde...

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29 août 2008

Latest moving technic - derniere decouverte

Nathan is now moving backward on his back, by pushing on his feet and lifting his but up. That's how he was able to get under the side table. Click here to see how he does it - cliquer ici pour voir comment il fait Nathan se deplace maintenant en arriere...

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22 janvier 2008

Update on Nathan's head shape - la tete de Nathan

Nathan has been sleeping on his side for a couple of weeks now and we are really seeing big improvements on the side of his head that was flat. I also asked the coach at the mums' group on Tuesday and she said that the shape of the head can change until...

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