Friday, February 19, 2010

Funny faces

Lucie likes to mimic the expressions of the characters in her books and she agreed to let me take a few photos of her favorite expressions.
Here is Lucie's surprised face.
Her sad face.
And her happy face.
Julie and Lucie can now both climb into Lucie's bed. It's not very safe which is why Lucie's new bed should be arriving next week. In the meantime, here's the two of them playing in the her crib.

No dinosaurs

Palais de la Découverte currently has an exhibition on dinosaurs and we thought it would be fun to take Lucie to see it. Lucie's cousin, Fanny and, her mom, Isabelle even agreed to come with us. As you will notice below, we don't have a single photo of Lucie and the dinosaurs. As soon as we walked in she screamed, Nooooo lizards! and started trembling in fear. Lucie preferred the physics exhibit.

It was one of those rare sunny winter days and so we took the girls to the little park near the museum afterwards.



The two girls sharing a snack.

Paris Merry-go-round

Most parks and a lot of metro stations in Paris have merry-go-rounds. Some are old and some are modern. On cold or drizzly weekends, we often walk-up to the merry-go-round at one of the metro stops near our apartment. Its about a 15 min walk there and back and Lucie usually gets 3 turns on the merry-go-round. On particularly cold afternoons, this is the perfect amount of time to be outside.
Every turn, Lucie chooses a different vehicle to ride on. The helicopter is particularly popular since it goes up and down.
As the kids go around, the parents stand along the edge, waving, making faces at their kids, and looking generally silly.