Christmas time

Enjoy the Christmas tree 

Playing some sort of drums

Tonton

Looking for truffle as usual

Flying a helicopter was the main activity of the week

A bit more focused

Tongue out... playing with trains, quite standard as well.

Nandu, future big brother

I guess, I could have written this post a few weeks ago, but for some reasons I wanted to announce this new pregnancy to my family outside of blog/facebook.
But here it is, I am about 16 weeks pregnant and Nandu should become a big brother around June 27. There is not much to say yet, everything is going quite smoothly and apart from sleeping around 10 hours a night I am doing ok!

Nandu is really talking now and it is a lot of fun. Somehow over the Christmas break, he figured out that he can join words together to make "2-words" sentences. He now basically talks non-stop and it is hilarious most of the time. Since he has absolutely no shame in anything he says yet, it's just pure cuteness.

In Pechalifour, he enjoyed being with the family. He was a true sheep dog in the sense that he was always keeping track of who was there and who wasn't, and asking about the people who where not there for some reasons. Randomly he just start naming all the people in knows, and all the animals that are in the village. Leaving was rough on him, but I think he enjoys Alice (his daycare-mom) enough to make up for it.

I should post pictures soon, but I need to get some of my camera and ask around as well.

Happy new year everyone.

Piano boy

Not as funny as the one following, but I still enjoy it a lot.

Chaaaaaaat!

So Chaaaat in Punjabi is the equivalent of peak-a-boo or Coucou in French. Nandu loves to hides his rabbits eyes with their ears and then uncover them and shout "chaaat". Here is a little example.

Comment tu t'appelles?

So Nandu is able to tell his name now. He actually even answered a random stranger who was asking in the park. He counts to four and sometimes translate for Vishal or me ;) He kisses extremely well now and being woken up (even at 5am) by a big kiss on the cheek is not a bad thing. I lost track of how many words he actually says because it is now going up every day and he starts to make mini-sentences.

For the swiss out here, he absolutely loves cenovis (a kind of marmite) and have breakfast every day with toast with butter and cenovis.

He also played a little too much with balloons and discovered static electricity.

He sometimes drinks his water with a spoon and it his food with his fingers but we decided that was ok... so is the mess on the kitchen table!

Random facts

That was taken a week ago when Kathryn was visiting. Nandu enjoyed saying canard about as much as he enjoys looking at them!


Otherwise, here are a few random things that Nandu does and that we want to remember.

He is obsessed with trying to unbend the feet of the duplo people... we have at least 3 tantrums a day for that. Maybe he just want to make the "tippy toe"...

At circus, he finally started to enjoy everything. It was quite surprising. From one week to the next he went from not doing anything except throwing balls, to hanging from a bar, rolling on a mat and jumping on the trampoline!

He is speaking more and more, imitating words we say etc..

He plays a lot with his duplo figurines, he wants me to breastfeed them put them to sleep, make them sit and stand.

He says "un, deux" then starts running... and does it again about 200 times before stopping.. even more so when Eduardo (Alice's son, his "maman de jour") is around.

He also loves to stuff leaves down drains. I showed him that once at least 5 months ago and it just stuck.

Finally whenever he bangs his head on something high, like a table a fence etc, he then makes a point of mastering how to go under that object. He went below the fence on the picture at least 15 times before we could continue our walk home.

Smoothie

Vishal and Nandu are both super smoothie fan.. 

I don't have much pictures since the vacation but here is a few things that Nandu now does very well. He is learning new words everyday, in French and Punjabi. I am sure English with follow soon. Some words are expected like Non, encore, etc some are more fun, like "hati" (elephant in Punjabi), "canard" (Duck in French), or "attends" when he wants me to wait (I guess I tell him that a lot...)

He is also starting to play with duplos a lot, he gets the point of having people driving a train (dogs are good too) instead of just blocs. He tells stories (in his language) to his stuffed rabbit and even tried to have them suckle while I was feeding him ;)

He has some interests in drawing, and still loves dancing as much as before. Walking on the top of his toes is a good game and making me sing a stupid songs about 30 times in a raw is awesome...
We are very far from potty training but quite often in the morning he asks to go on the potty to pee and he does once in a while (ok that was more details that you cared about but I wanted to remember that...)

We started some baby circus lessons and even though Nandu is by far the smallest kid there I think he has some fun. I'll see if I continue once this serie of 10 sessions is done. It's great but it would be even nicer with kids his own age.