Tuesday, December 10, 2013
St. Nicholas
We saw St. Nicolas (and le Pére Fouettard) last Friday. St. Nicolas comes on December 6 to give presents to children that are good, and Pére Fouettard gives coals and whips children that are bad! Luckily my kids got presents this year.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Mom's visit
I know I know I've been lazy with the pictures....
Mom came to visit us for 2 weeks, and we got extremely lucky with the weather! So we were able to get out of the house for most of the visit. Saw some things we've seen before, and also some new stuff.
We ended up at a lot of parks, the lake a couple of times. Did the train ride through the vineyards. And went to Gruyere town, castle and the cheese museum.
Mom came to visit us for 2 weeks, and we got extremely lucky with the weather! So we were able to get out of the house for most of the visit. Saw some things we've seen before, and also some new stuff.
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| Julien's 2nd birthday |
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| Inside Gruyere castle |
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| View of Gruyere town, with the castle in the background |
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| Isabelle and Vincent, the cheese makers |
Monday, October 14, 2013
Julien's play group
I finally have the time on Wednesdays to go to a play group in the neighborhood. And his favorite toy is...
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| This is for little babies, but he got to play with it when Hugo was sleeping |
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| Playing with mom's mobile phone |
Going outside while the weather was still nice
Exactly as the title says, we tried to get out as much as possible while the weather was still nice. It's now October, and some places not too far already got snow last week! It might be a loooong winter.....
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| This is our house when we stay in... |
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| Vincent cutting his own hair (He did pretty good too) |
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Another day out
Before I post these pictures, I need to explain my daily barriers to becoming "swiss". I learned this week, after multiple attempts at translations, that children here are required to cover their notebooks from school. All the notebooks are provided by the school, and the its the parent's job to cover these flimsy notebooks (I have no idea how many, but apparently its a lot). I'm assuming its to cover them like we would cover hardback books from school. So I bought paper from the store, ready to cover these notebooks, and the next day, there is an article in the newspaper, that the state of Vaud, no longer requires children to cover these notebooks. So now I have nice skull and crossbones paper to wrap birthday presents!
Anyway, being the end of August in Switzerland, its not warm enough to go to the pool, so we all went to the park.
Anyway, being the end of August in Switzerland, its not warm enough to go to the pool, so we all went to the park.
Friday, August 16, 2013
End of summer
School starts in 1 week !!! Luckily the weather has been good enough to get to the pool at least twice a week. Vincent can swim by himself, he actually jumped into the diving pool today for the first time.
Hopefully next year I can get some more pictures, the last pool went went to had some really cool slides for Vincent.
Hopefully next year I can get some more pictures, the last pool went went to had some really cool slides for Vincent.
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| He started going down head first after he watched the big kids.... |
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| And one more of Julien eating spinach (with his hands) |
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Walk around the lake
We went to Lake Sauvabelin with Isabelle:
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| Some people had RC boats on the lake |
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| This one had lights, a whistle and music! |
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| (I had to add this picture!) |
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Finally pool weather
After a miserable spring lasting until June, we finally got to the pool! (And it's not easy to get pictures of these kids, hopefully will be easier when I have the grandmother with us!)
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| The new kiddie pool at Bellerive |
