So we were in a restaurant this weekend. A cute little place with a fire in the fireplace, only about 10 tables in the place, very cosy, mostly "older" blue haired crowd. I was thorougly enjoying my salmon and rice and it was only out of "gourmandise" as the french say that I decided to ... horror of horrors... swipe a french fry off my 2 year olds plate.  OH THE HOROR of it! Kristof stuck out his lower lip, his whole mouth turned down in a perfect upside down U of a frown, tears welled in his eyes and his hand raised to point one little finger at mommy. He did not put the finger down. He just kept pointing at mommy. A man at another table noticed and said "oh what's wrong with the little guy?". Daddy explained that mommy had stolen a fry. within about 5 minutes the whole restaurant was crowded around our table to see the 2 year old point out the guilty party... me. Well, basically, Kristof did not budge, tears rolled down, his finger pointed and he sat there completely overwhelmed with sadness. I was bright red and nearly crying myself partly because it was so funny but partly because I was feeling so guilty to have upset him so much. Someone from another table gave us one of his fries and Kristof without letting down his pointing finger, stuffed all at once the new fry and 3 others in his tiny little mouth in a frantic attempt to protect his fries.

Wow it has been a long long time.  So obviously much has happened since my last post in July. The cousins came to visit, the russians came to visit and I got pregnant! Pretty busy.

So, I have been feeling really nauseous pretty much from the beginning. But atleast no vommiting. Food cravings and food aversions have been very strong. Went through a grilled cheese and pickle week, a chinese food week, a potatoe chip week, a tuna fish month, a salad week and now a salad and sandwich week.

 Kristof has been talking more and more especially since the cousins visit. He was not a big fan of disneyland but that may be because mommy and papa were not that into it. too hot, too many people, lines too long.

Well it has been quite a while since I posted. I have to admit I have been taking fewer and fewer photos. For one, the super duper iphone that I love does not take pictures as well as my old phone. But, I don't care, I love it. I've been gradually installing my new computer and that takes a lot lot of time.  The weather has been pretty great. At this point we are hoping for rain if only to save our lawn. The kitchen has started to move forward. The pool is almost covered, as in we are covering it with a wood terrace until we can figure out what to do with it. Our dressing rooms are installed (kind of) and Kristof has moved to a new room.  I am ready to start buying furniture for the house, but alas, remi is not... he is still in ikea mode and does not appreciate the midcentury modern danish design I want... "if you are going to buy scandinavian why not just get ikea" he says. grrr. So, I am fed up with having to "ask daddy" in order to buy things and so i want more money so I am going to work full time for a while starting in the fall. It will be a real hassle with the nanny situation. And it puts baby 2 on hold just a leeeetle bit longer.

heavy jackets one evening, 80 degrees the next. crazy storms with hail and wind and lightening so bright it wakes me up. But today was beeeeauuutimous! Sunny and very breezy. Thank GAWD cuz me no can do the hot weather we had for 2 days even though it meant kristof got to romp around in his birthday suit.

Well we are back from a fun but exhausting trip to the UK. Lucie Rose is now officially baptised and I have sworn to keep her away from the devil... most of the time.

Lucie Rose was so sweet the whole time, Kristof was ... well ya know how there is always one obnoxious child in churches that must run around, scream at inapropriate moments and constantly whine for mommy. Well, yes, you guessed it, that was our little kristof. Grrr. He was pretty cranky the whole first 2 days and went to sleep at 1am and was up at 5am. Take that and the long car rides, we were wiped out. But we also got to visit London, do a little shopping and see Yulia!

Here's little Lucie Rose eating her baptism certificate.

We had Three great birthday parties for Kristof this year. The first one was with his little friends and their mommies, the second with mommy and papa and the third with mommy and papa's friends. All were great fun and all resulting in tons of presents! yay fun!

So our neighbor's horse has been wandering loose around the neighborhood all week. He goes back into his paddock when he feels like it (generally when Oscar chases him there). He likes hanging out next to our yard at our fence until Oscar scares the bejeesez out of him and he takes off in a gallop. Ahhh life in the country. Its so fun!