Counting

Over the past few weeks, Sylvie has been working on her counting. It begin mostly as oscillating back and forth- "one, two, one, two...". The next step was including "six", which she used to fill in the gaps between 2 and 6. Then she was only replacing five with six.

Here's Sylvie now counting from 1 to 10. She does throw us for a curveball at 7 this time, but she's basically got it.

In case you didn't know, "Daddy's awesome"...

Museum of Science & Play-Doh

A couple weekends ago we headed down the road to the Museum of Science, this time moving beyond the children's discovery center and exploring the museum as a whole.

Ooh. Dinosaurs.

Some of the MOS wildlife: a tortoise hanging out on top of a turtle

Examining an aquatic turtle more closely.

Checking out the baby chicks

And now for some Play-Doh fun at home:

New uses for Play-Doh: jewelry!

Serious grooves with the Play-Doh necklace

...and a Play-Doh moustache

Ride that pony

Here's Sylvie taking a ride, rodeo-style...

Arts & Crafts

So, I don't know if it's cheating by putting pictures on of Sylvie that someone else took, but Kaniz always has great photos of Sylvie and the other kids from her house. This series mainly highlights her crafty endeavors.

Making a number picture

Painting a mask before Halloween

...and a baby pumpkin

Stamps galore!

Intense concentration

Playing with the boys and her baby, Luna.

On an unrelated note, I am officially in my third trimester. We talk about Baby Henri a lot with Sylvie, and she likes to pat my tummy, say hello, and give her brother kisses. She totally adores "Baby Cassius" at her daycare, whom she talks about all the time (here he is).Hopefully she'll be as jazzed about...no, even MORE jazzed about her new baby brother as she is about him. Hard to believe there's only 2-2 1/2 months left to go!

And finally, some pictures Sylvie and I took together this morning with the ever-addictive "PhotoBooth" application on our laptop:

Halloween '09

This year, like last year for Halloween, we went to Dudley Street in North Cambridge for some "trick-or-treating" (not really, but at least to see what the theme on the street was this year and hang out a little bit.) Joc, Amine, Bibi and Iman met us on the "Lost Vegas" strip. Here are some pictures.

Bibi as Tigger. So cute.

Sylvie the monkey (having her hood on didn't last long).

Iman as Eyore. This is the only semi-clear
shot I got of her outside...she was a girl on the move.

One of the houses for the "Lost Vegas" theme.

Outside of Elvis' house. Notice Iman enjoying the shiny tassles in
the background. Ooooh. Cool.

Sylvie, Mommy and the King.

Sylvie, playing toss the brain in the bucket.

On the way home, we stopped by Jen and Franz's house, where some boogieing ensued.

Jen and Iman.

Finally, videos. I tried to keep them short in order to capture certain moments. I think I could have let them run longer. They all kind of seemed to miss the "meat" of the moments I was trying to get. Oh well. At least they shows some aspects of the evening.

The kids at a duck pond game moments before Iman took
off running. That seemed to be another theme of the night.
Give the girl a street without cars, and she can't help it.

I took a few videos of the kids dancing. This first one doesn't show much of the dancing, but I'm putting it on here to show you a brief view of a couple of the houses.

Dancing to "Thriller" in the background.

And finally, more dancing at Jen and Franz's house sans costume.