shrimp fishing

on the atlantic, we have high and low tide. Low tide this week is in the middle of the afternoon which allows us to go shrimp fishing....The teacher was Mamie Christine!Sophie was wearing some special shoes to allow her to walk on the rocks without hurting her feet....but falling still hurts!

We got 10 shrimps, 2 crabs and a lot of seaweeds. All of them were back into the sea at the end of the afternoon...don't know how well they were unfortunately since Max were adding sand on the top of their head over and over again...

B-DAY#3 , #4 etc

Last week end, we spent the saturday with my brother and we celebrate Sophie's birthday with everybody 2 days in advance. Sophie had her first birthday cake and first candles to blow...thanks Maeva and Auxanne for the help


She got a set of dishes and a basket of fruits...
Then the next day (B-day#4), Sophie got a package from Aunt Susie : a Barbie Doll on a bike!
That totally made her day. She 's taking her everywhere, plays with her while she should nap....
Barbie has a nice set of clothes but spend most of her time naked....Easier to take the clothes off than to put them back.....!!!

Finally, came june 28, last monday and we celebrate her birthday at La Baule. She got a kitchen (pictures to come), a blackboard/white board, and some books

next B-DAY in Paris with tata Laure....

B-DAY Sophie#2

the next set of gift Sophie received was from MamiePat and GrandPa Rick. Dress, shirts, pans and a very very lovely set of pans! The best gift ever according to Sophie (and Max loves it as well). They played at least a full hour with it making some herbal soups, leak ice-cream (hummm!) and a lot of pizza!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sophie

Today is Sophie's birthday...maybe I should say, the past week was Sophie's birthday since she probably got a gift everyday, thanks to Mamie Pat and GrandPa Rick, Aunt Cathy, Aunt Susie and then my family here in France.
She obviously LOVED all the gifts and I will give you a peek for each of them, everyday starting now.

B-DAY#1
First gift arrived from Aunt Cathy, Uncle Tim, Henry and JamesSwimsuit, stickers and electric toothbrush! She took her first "bath" in the ocean with this swim suit (she fell in the water while she was running).
Max was at the beginning a little bit scared by the toothbrush but now loves it!

Fete de l'ecole....

Today was the end of the school year in France....To celebrate this day, Maeva and Auxanne's school was having a party including a show, some games and food.

Sophie had a lot of fun during this day, first by watching her cousins' show (she was dancing on the side while Maxime was clapping) , playing fisherman (you try to catch some wrapped gifts with a fishing rod - she got a diadem, a bracelet which end up in the trash by (my) mistake, some playing cards and some stickers -) and tasting some "old-fashioned" candies (fraise tagada, frite, crocodile.... brought a lot of memories back!!!).
She also got her face painted and spent a lot of time with her cousins.
What a good day!

Max and the carrousel

2 days ago, Sophie and Max went on the carrousel and as usually they wanted to go on the motos. However, this time Max wanted to go on the frontseat and not behind Sophie....Ok, let's try! well, 30 seconds later, he started checking out his foot, then the lights below him and then thought it was not as fun as he thought and tried to get down!!!
the carrousel had to stop for him - does not happen that often if you listen to the manager (a VERY good friend of Sophie by the way!!!!)
Sophie was pretty happy about the whole story since she thought she had an extra tour

Sophie and Max playing by the water

When the sun is out, it is a lot of fun to play with the water. Mamie Christine dug a small pool for the kids - very exciting to see the water filling it and even more exciting to discover that this water was even warm!