New Year Party in Chicago

crazy hats - a new year tradition from the Ruby family

Lily: swing me!

Anne and Jessica

Keven and Antoine

Anne's parents from Germany

Max, Helen and baby Hugo dancing

Oscar dancing

going back home

Happy New Year from Alexandre and Ming Ming

 

Happy New Year!
For a wonderful 2012!

family pics for grandmere!

hiking and .. no ski

hiking in the morninga

a nice family pic

arriving at the ski station too late, MM was disappointed not be able to ski. We did not expect that she would be so interested. Well, next time we will surely make time to try out!

3 days in the mountain

MM playing a card game with papou, papa, and tonton... everyone tried their best to cheat... it was outrageous!

me disguised as Fatima, MM turning her back thinking that it was very funny.

papou teaching MM how to make salad sauce

me reading a story in Chinese. Alexandre goes to a at-home day care run by a Chinese lady, so his parents are really curious how much Chinese he understands, and I decided that I would speak Chinese to him.

Antoine and Nico swinging Alexandre

another salad sauce making section, with another young apprentice added

morning yoga with Mamiecath

a gift from the Canadian Santa

the Canadian Santa got ballet tickets for Ming Ming to go to the Nutcracker show with tonton and tatie.

Ming Ming and tonton in the metro

the complicit smile

according to tonton and tatie, MM was very attentive during the first hour, and began to move during the second part of the show. She must be so excited!

playing in the snow again

look at the huge snowballs I made.

Alexandre and MM waiting for papou to come home with some snowball ammunition ready.