Menu plan

Quick plan since this week started out crazy with a sick, constantly nursing or attached to mama baby boy. This morning Daniel had to skip class to go with us to the doctor, which thankfully went well despite the language barrier (althoughttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifh the barrier is getting smaller...we understood and spoke some!). Here's the slammed together menu plan for this week:)

Monday: Spaghetti with meatsauce (over zucchini for me), buttered toast
Tuesday: Taco Soup or another soup?
Wednesday: Crockpot curry over rice
Thursday: Tacos
Friday: Cheeseburgers, homefries
Saturday: clean out the fridge, popcorn, banana cocoa icecream

Our weekend in pictures

We've been learning "Go Fish". Tonight Liv joined in (not in these pictures) and it was the cutest thing.

So happy to be getting some fun daddy time in!

Livvie and Louis (louis looking a little out of sorts...he's been sick a ton)

Marianna and Daddy and the Raclette (a huge chunk o cheese daniel bought...he got an entire Kilo because he was thinking you had to buy it that way....!) Its pretty tasty though.

Daddy snuggling his girls

Daniel and Louis having some guy time trying to catch part of a rugby game (in French of course:)

Okay, so I asked Daniel to take a picture of this because this is seriously how I have to study. This is just to illustrate why I end up each week asking myself when I ever studied?! But going to class is the best way for me to learn anyway.:) And I love those kids of mine.

Chasing the Carnaval

I was holding Louis so the video is bad, but you can get a little idea that we were walking through the streets of Chambery following the fire-juggling and music. It was good even though it was a challenge to keep everyone safe and happy;)

More school-house rocks (or school in the bathroom?)

They were pretty stinkin' cute playing school together in the bathroom. This is our "bath" room (also a sink) that doubles as a playroom and Louis' naptime room (we move his pack n play in there a lot).

School time in the salle de bain

Not sure who is the teacher here. But either way, Louis is surely going to know his ABC's (in french and english) soon.;)

French pre-carnaval

In class I heard about the "carnaval" coming to town tomorrow. There was also a pre-carnaval happening within 20 minutes (by foot) of our apartment that sounded like fun. The kids are usually bouncing off the walls at night anyway so I thought I would brave it while Daniel did part 1 of our weekly shopping trip(we go to two stores by bike each week). It was fun, a little crazy but good to "do something" with the kids. Getting out to do something just for fun has been very rare since we arrived for various reasons. And it was FREE!

There was lots of fire-juggling and lots of walking through the city (they kept moving the "parade" to draw more attention I think.)




The girls had a lot of fun dancing around at one of the stops. They had plenty of energy so I was glad we went. Louis however did not and was very cranky. I had to hold him and push a double stroller...not awesome. On the way home he screamed for a few minutes but then fell asleep (thank goodness). The girls had a good time though and we had popcorn and read books when we got home. That's about as fun as it gets around here!:)

Playing on the deck and enjoying le soleil!