Mom's Daemon

Suzanne's Daemon

My Daemon is a snow leopard. His name is Pereus

My daemon

Her name is Haythia and she's a tiger. She's modest, shy, a leader, assertive and responsible. She's with me all the time, but I am the one who sees her mostly in this world. The Golden Compass is appearing in theaters December 9th. It's Harry Potter for adults. If all goes well it will be Suzanne and I's first child free date together in three years.

-Martin

Addictions

This morning Suzanne told Sabrina everything they were going to do, and everywhere they were going to go. She wanted to do something (you'll find out later) so she started to cry. Eventually Suzanne got her excited in the day's plan.

I went upstairs to make a coffee and Suzanne ask Sabrina to tell me what they were going to do today. To which she reply "I am going to play on the computer?".

Sabrina is another word for persistence.

Nice weekend

Saturday night, Nathalie and Dan came to have supper at our place. Since Dan is becoming an inspector, he evaluated our house. Let's just say there were some interesting findings but a lot of it is OK. The bathroom however could make Mike Holmes cry.



Today was a busy day as we went to visit the "Fort Chambly". As you can see from the pictures the kids had a lot of fun. We would have liked to stay a bit more and read everything that was in the museum but with Sabrina yelling "Let's go there" non-stop, it's quite hard. She was stopped short on the second floor where they have a few scenes with appropriately dressed mannequins. It looks a bit ghostly and it scared Sabrina so much she was trying to get inside of me, yelling, crying, that she wanted to go home. I feel for her, she's probably having nightmares as I write this.




Next I took 1/2 hour to clean the pool and we <<>> took a dip. Mathieu is already a pro, enjoying it so much he was trying to jump out of Sue's arms into mine (a rare occurrence) to swim with me. Sabrina didn't want to go at first, but she had a great time afterwards as well.


All in all a pretty good day. The kids were sleeping by 7:00pm

Matt a World Wonder ...

"WONDERS OF THE WORLD Peru's Machu Picchu was chosen as one of the new seven wonders of the world in a worldwide online poll, it was announced."

We call Mathieu "Machu Picchu" all the time. He is one of my three wonders of the world.

A trip to La Ferme Angrignon

Martin worked from home today. Since I had the car, I decided to take the kids to La Ferme Angrignon. Sabrina was so excited! She kept asking "Are we at the farm yet?" Sabrina's favorite animal was the pig. She saw two pigs, a pink one and a spotted one. They're names were Spot and Spok. Mathieu's favorite animal was the rabbit. He loved watching this cute black and white baby rabbit hop around it's mommy rabbit. We only had one "incident". The llamas are kept with the sheep. The sheep were very hungry and they kept going baahhhh baahhhh through the gate to get our attention. It's interesting to note that different sheep have different tones. The baahhh's kept getting louder as the sheep were trying desperately to get our attention. This frightened Mathieu like I've never seen him frightened before. He screamed and clung to me with such a grip that I don't think I would have been able to pry him off me even if I had wanted to. We had to leave the sheep area to get him to stop crying. Sabrina thought this was quite interesting. When we talked to grandpapa, through video conference on MSN, she immediate said "Mathieu was afraid of the sheep, grandpapa" when he asked her how she enjoyed her visit to the farm. We can't wait for Brome Fair!

Mathieu the shrieker / Sabrina the master negotiator

We had a good first day to our long weekend. Max cleaned the pool (we're getting there!!!). We also did something we haven't done in a long time... we ate in restaurants. We had breakfast at IKEA and then bought a few things and we had supper at St-Hubert. It was actually quite pleasant with the kids. Sabrina is really good in restaurant settings. We were not sure how Mathieu would act. He was good, except that he was so excited that he started shrieking at the top of his lungs. Imagine the highest pitch shriek you've ever heard, such as in a horror movie. It was quite embarrassing but what are you going to do?

Sabrina was also quite sweet over the weekend. We went to the park to play and Sabrina brought back home a collection of branches. When we got home I told her that the sticks stay outside. I then proceed to take Mathieu out of the stroller and open the front door. I turn around, once inside the house, to make sure that Sabrina is following me. She has this peculiar look on her face (a little guilty? a little shy? a little cute?), her hands are behind her back and there's these branches sticking out. I say "Sabrina, what do you have behind your back?" She doesn't say anything. "Are they sticks?". She smiles. I say "Okay, you can bring 1 stick into the house." She starts sorting the sticks and then looks at me and asks "Can I bring 2 sticks in?". How can I resist such cuteness?!? Of course she can bring in 2 sticks.