Family Reunion in Canada - June 2009 pt.3 The Cottage

Family Reunion in Canada -July 2009 pt.2

Marmora's Summer Festival Jamboree

Moose Pie!

Family Reunion in Canada -July 2009

En Route to Canada

At the mall, we went into a Disney store. She saw a Daisy Duck stuffed animal and said, "Look! McDonald's honey!"

At the airport she would call the airplanes long necks, and when she's see them take off she'd say, "Bye bye long neck!"

Whenever we'd take off in an airplane she'd say "Up, up, and away!"

When we were high up in the airplane she said, "We're up to God!"

May 2009- 3 and a half years old!

Showing off her art project wall.

Shishkabobs and swimming with friends.

Zoo outing. I will attach her dictated report on it below.

We have a large property in need of painting, so Alice went straight to work. Ha!

A place mat and simple snow globe we made. Snow globes are actually simple to make! Alice is great at cutting!

April does one special art project with the kids once a week. Alice really looks forward to them. Here is a super cool robot they made one week.

The Zoo
By Alice Desruisseaux (3)

First, we saw the peacocks.
Then we saw the hippos. They were out of the water. There was a mama and a baby. They were leaning forward on their short legs. Their bodies look like logs. They duck their heads under the water.
A crocodile was sleeping with his mouth open.
The ocelot was eating some meat.
The snakes were shaking off their old skin. That was my favorite part. One snake was like a statue, staying still on the wall.
There was a family of monkeys. They were green and brown and white. The baby had a white tummy.
We only saw the mommy lion.
We saw two camels, the mom and the dad. The mom was with two goats and two peacocks.
We saw water buffalo eating hay. The mommy was taking a bath and the father was watching over her. We saw a kangaroo lying down to have her babies.
A bird gave some poop on my arm and my dad’s arm.
Then we drove home.

She had a bad dream in the night and was crying. I woke her up and she was so afraid, crying, "My dad's feet were turning red. I tried to warn him! But I couldn't stop them!"

Recently Chad was on the computer, and Alice wanted to spend time with him. She said, "Turn it off, Dad! That'd be an easy job for ya!"

Bowen and Alice wanted to sit together on a chair to watch a video. Alice says, "Bowen, you are scrawny, so you can sit on the edge."

One night while putting her to bed, I said, "Alice, I'm so proud of you!" She said, "I'm proud of you too!"

I was on my way up the stairs with Alice, and I stopped for a couple of minutes to talk to someone. She starts poking me in the back, saying, "Move it prisoner, we're losing daylight!" I found out later she got it from some cartoon.

Zeph, Alice, and Bowen were playing that they were a family. Bowen was supposed to be the baby. Alice and Zeph started play wrestling, and fell on top of Bowen. He started crying. Alice says, "Yep, that's how a baby cries."

April 2009

My little Princess Alice recorded her very own song! I'm one proud mama!

Easter egg painting and coloring. We did have a great day at Fundidora park with activities, and all our friends from town, but, I forgot my camera.

March 2009

A couple of pages of Alice's recent school work.

Friends

More pets for our house

Eating out

Playmates

Party Time

While drawing suns: "I'm drawing the razors (rays) of the sun!"

While laying down for bed, "Alice passes gas (prrrrrr). She says "Excuse me! I did a lawnmower gas!"

At night, sometimes we let Alice watch some of a video while she's eating a snack. Tonight, while she was eating and watching her video, she cheerfully says, "Well, I don't want to waste a movie, so I'd better keep eating!"

Alice has learned to use the mouse on the computer, and is very much into little kid computer games right now, llike paint, dressing up dolls, designing rooms, and "baking" things.

February 2009

Hightlight of the month was a visit from U. Arthur, A. Priya, and cousin Jaime! She is the cutest, sweetest little thing. The girls had so much fun and loved being together! Here are pictures of just some of the things they did together.

Carousel

Pizza

Zoo trip

Underground tunnels

Picnic at the park

Ready to party Tolteca Park

Little house for Zan.

Here is a steamroller rolling and rolling...

They helped bake these cookies and wrote sweet little messages on a paper for everyone in the home to go with them for Valentines day. And a littleValentine for Alice

Homemade swing

Alice's first fish. She named it Pineapple.
One night Alice was fooling around in bed. Dad said, "Get to bed." She said in a whiney voice, "Papa!" He said, "Don't use that Papa line with me!" She said "Papa lion? didn't call you Papa Lion."

While doing an art project, Alice asked if Dad was going to make her name big. He said, "You bet you're bum it's big!" She said, "What! My bum's big?!"

Dec/January 2009

Christmas morning presents

It's not a good picture, but it's the only one I have of U. Vijay's visit for Christmas.

Dress up at a friend's house.

PJ party & sleep over!

Happy New Year! Alice had a great time! We invited over some families, and BBQ'd and let off fireworks, and made a bonfire to roast marshmallows over.

Fundidora FunAlice Desruisseaux draws a family portrait!Another party!

Buddha shot
Evan is 1 and a half. Alice loves him like a little brother. While having a picnic at a park one day, Evan kept going for her food, and she was feeling helpless to stop him. Once while I was looking the other way, she shouts, “He’s heading for my tomatoes!”
She has been having very sad nightmares where she’s crying and saying things like, “The house is burning!” and “My daddy doesn’t have legs anymore!”
Alice telling her dream: “There were all these bags falling down from heaven. God was sending all these bags down from heaven, and uncle Vijay was shooting the bags, and (claps hands together, like exploding), and then, they were gone.”
One night her foot kept itching, and she was scratching and scratching. Then she turns to me in frustration and says, “How do you un-itch this thing?!”
While praising the Lord for different things, she says, "Thank you Jesus for my shaking bottoms!"
I was singing a song about Mr. Gladstone, and Alice asked me what the song was about. So I told her the story about how Mr. Gladstone had a very important meeting, but a little boy who was dying, asked Mr. Gladstone to come get him into heaven. And he did. “So, the dying boy was singing that song?” I said yes. So, Alice’s mind was just thinking really hard about something, and she finally asked me, “So, was he a stone before?” I said I didn’t understand what she meant. “Was he a stone before? Mr. GladSTONE?”
“Can you scratch me? In my knee pit” (she meant arm pit).

We were going to lunch, and I said, "Go to the kitchen Alice. I just need to go to the bathroom real quick." After about a few seconds, I hear Alice at the door saying, "Mom! Are you ok alone here?

Alice's Dream: "There were lots of ghostes in the room, but some of them were bookmarks..."

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Sorry it's so late