J'aime le traineau - I love sleds!

We're up in Quebec, listening to the snow and eating poutine chez Ashton.

We flew to Montreal to stay with friends and arrived for a wonderful dinner party, then N's parents picked us up for the drive to Quebec City. We completely missed the storm that hit the East Coast of the US, as you can see, the weather has been great up here, if a little cold!

la neige!

Finally, the firefighter

Alec got home yesterday from a busy day at school, and decided that he was finally ready to be a firefighter. It was his Halloween costume, but he was vehemently opposed to dressing up on October 31st.

Even better, once his fire hat and boots were on, he wanted to go out the door, "to work".

Au travail!

Alec and the ladies

So we had our annual family photo shoot on Thanksgiving, which resulted in lots of silly pictures, like these:

but going over recent photos focusing on Alec, the theme that stood out is his girl friends. Friends who are girls, that is. We've been enjoying getting together with friends the past few weekends for burrito lunches,

excursions down to the 'burbs,

and another trip to Rossotti's. With a beer,

And Miss E.

Rock a bye baby

Many of you know about Alec's propensity to climb; here's another example. He has a wonderful rocking horse that was designed and made by Auntie Ceevah. The technique for riding it has changed over time, here are the latest ones!

And of course, while A. is singing "rock a bye baby". Very appropriate, we just hope that he doesn't fall!

Gilligan adventure

Last Sunday we decided to go on a hike in China Camp. Figured out a small loop, and figured that we'd be back in SF by around 1:30 or so.

It took a little bit longer, however, and instead of a "3 hour tour," we ended up getting back to the car at 3:30. Some of this was due to Alec's valiant "climbing up" the hill. I think that he walked about a mile, all the uphill part.

But some was also due to our taking a wrong turn, somewhere, which put us on a much longer loop. No problem, it was a great sunny day. And we were especially grateful for the leftover pizza waiting for us in the car.

Au parc

Nous nous attendions à une journée de pluie, mais il fait un beau soleil, alors nous sommes allés au parc.

Les longues phrases

Récemment Alec fait des phrases de plus en plus longues: par example "grand-papa grand-maman partis avion"



Il est 7 heures du matin et vous dormez. Où est votre fils?



Il lit son livre, bien sûr.