A warm new year

Lucie's grandparents invited her to a nice warm place over new year's, and so her parents went along for the ride.



She got to swim in the warm sea, with the help of her private undefined flotation device.

She liked to go see the fish that live off a little rocky point


She got to see the full moon rise over the bay.


It wasn't all that exciting...
On New Year's eve, she got to sleep on the beach under a coconut tree. Some people would think that's special, others would wonder what awful parents would do this.
It really wasn't that sad.

Of course, she got lots of kisses from her grandparents.
And they tried to take her swimming in the waves.
Lucie celebrated her grandmother's birthday with some balloons.
For a short while, Lucie's parents got to escape and go for a romantic walk.

The weather wasn't nice every day, but it was still a beautiful vacation for everyone.

Christmas, Part 2

We celebrated our second Christmas with about twenty of Greg's Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins.
Greg's Aunt Sabine and Uncle Patrick kindly organized everything.
Christmas day involved opening more presents... This time Lucie was joined by her cousins Camille and Simon.





Morgane and one of Lucie's newer cousins, Gaston.
The little cousins received scooters and bikes from Santa Claus.






And lots of long walks...

Christmas, Part 1

We celebrated Christmas twice this year. Santa first brought Lucie presents to her home and she opened them in the morning with her great-grandmother who stayed with us for a few days.
We had Greg's sister and his father over for "Christmas dinner," which to keep it simple was take-out couscous.

Decorating the Tree

We put up our tree in early December, but have gotten behind downloading photos from our camera. Lucie really enjoyed decorating the tree.





Oddly enough, French Christmas lights are not in strands, but are one large loop. I don't know why they do this, but it makes the task of untangling the lights even harder. Putting them on is also challenging. It requires lassoing the tree.