Keeping you in touch with our life in the Alps.
Eva sat at the table for dinner in the high chair for the first time today. A bit of a taste of things to come I think. Joe kept gooning about a Eva was having hysterics! She would laugh just looking at him!
Of course this meant that feeding her was rather challenging!
She Is a good eater so far though.
Eva had her first helping of mashed carrot this evening. She wasn’t entirley certain but ate a few spoons full! On our way to solids. She’s been having baby rice for a week now which she loves.
Well we haven’t been very prolific recently I’m afraid so I thought it was about time to write at leat something on this blog.
Lots has happened since the last post. Our daughter Eva was born in May so that has kept us fairly busy lately! She has just started to smile and take an interest in things around her. She likes mirrors and being on the play gym at the moment and also likes the ‘baby shapes’ books – black and White books with interesting shapes and patterns on them. We are also amazed how much she has grown since she was born. She was only 2.6kg at birth and is now over 4kg and fills out here cot quite well now.
In the meantime Joe has grown up so much. He is a real little boy now and seems so much bigger to us – just since Eva was born – I guess it’s just that she is so small ! He now uses the toilet so doesn’t need a nappy and his French is really coming on. His sleeping is still bad though – wakes at least once a night – oh well can’t have everything!
Till next time which hopefully won’t be so long!
Jo-Jo need Hammer, Jo-Jo hit dog, Dog Woof-Woof
He suddenly, rather excitedly came out with this one just after finishing his milk this morning ! Strange things kids come up with !
Every year in autumn St Gervais holds the Foire Agricole. The farmers bring down their Cows, Goats, Sheep, Donkey’s and even pigs this year and they are paraded through the main square – leaving a lot of sawdust an clearing up to be done on Monday !
Joe loves to see the animals, and Dad usually enjoys drinking the German beer (Which ran out before I got there this year!).
Here is a quick slide show with the sounds of the fair.
Well, Joseph has caught Chicken Pox (In his words “Jo-Jo has Chicken Pox, Same as Daddy”), which was inevitable given that I have just had it for 2 weeks. He has coped pretty well with it so far, definitely better than me! We are in a bit of a sorry state as a family – I’ve just recovered from, first a bad cold, then a stomach bug all around the Ultra-Trail, then tendonitis of the knee, then Chicken Pox, Trace now has a bad Gastro, and Joe has Chicken Pox. Then Sparticat (One of the Kittens) looked like he’d been run over – Luckily he seems to have recovered which is a relief.
Today Joe is still covered in spots but much more jolly and himself. He has even come out with some fairly comedy lines – “Mummy has hair, Jo-Jo has Hair, Daddy has hair, James no hair” ! No idea where this came from, well ok, the James bit might have been slightly prompted!
His speaking is much more confident now. He copies most things you say so we have to watch our more colourful language! His French is also coming on from going to the Creche and the Child Minder.
We went on out first camping trip with the 3 of us to see how it would go. 2 Nights in the Vercors with our friends Pete & Helen and their 2 little ‘ns Thomas and Anna.
Joe loved camping, as it meant he was outside all the time. He tore around the campsite, playing on the “Slide-a” and making lots of new friends, including quite a few Girl friends !
Pictures here:
There was a really bright double rainbow yesterday evening which we took Joe out to see and he was really impressed – Isn’t it amazing we said – he replied “Mazing”! Now when we say rainbow he says “Mazing” with a big sweep of his arms to indicate the rainbow.
This week we got the new stairs built and installed by a friend who is a carpenter. A Brilliant job by Barrie in just 5 days ! Even batter than we had hoped for. It Would have taken me about 5 months and would have looked like a Homer Simpson spice rack ! Here are some photos’s
Original Stairs:
The Old Stairs Removed:
New Stairs being Built
New Stairs Installed
Boois is what Joe calls his Orange waterproof jacket ! I have no idea why he calls it Boois or what it means, but he is quite definite about what Boois is ! It’s funny that he seems to make up words for things, but I guess it’s all part of learning language – it’s also quite ingenious – maybe I should try that with French !
Another word is “Tinny” which is anything round, or things that go round, including flashing lights, and cable cars.
