papa tu me fait cuir? 爸爸你煮我好不好?

MM's recent obsession is to cook... not cooking chicken or veges, she wants to cook all her babies in the bilibo, and most of all, wants to cook herself.

the typical exchange with antoine was like this lately:
MM: papa tu me fait cuir? (papa can u cook me?)
Antoine: grumbled that it was barbaric, and suggested to play doctor.
and MM would insist until papa abides.

the passion to cook in the bilibo comes from a cooking drama developed collectively by mama, tatie, papou and MM. first MM was a snail or some sort of shelled animal. then mama caught her and started cooking her in the bilibo, tatie suggested recipes and things to add into. next thing was that we needed wine but did not have any. MM went to the wine merchant (papou) to buy some. Papou first picked MM's identity card issue (too young to drink wine), I gave MM my card, and papou decided to charge her double the normal price because he was selling to a minor. MM negotiated without success and paid, and when she come back with a bottle of wine to cook herself, we discovered that it was not wine but water. then we started complaning that Papou was such a reckless wine merchant.

au revoir

Finally it was time to go home, and say goodbye to mamie, papou, tonton, tatie, and Alexandre. Mamie accompanied us until the security check point. MM was nice until the last minute. She did not want to say good bye and did not want her to go...

the most amazing thing during papou and mamie's visit this time was that MM started to talk to herself in French one week after papou and mamie arrived. She used to speak to herself in English but this time the change was really impressive. everthing she said to herself was in French during the whole time. and she would repeat everything people said around her.

one funny episode was that one time Nicolas and papou was talking about marseille (the city), and MM started singing "La Marseillaise" (she knows the first few lines). everyone laughed.

restaurant on our last day

today we went to a restaurant close to tonton's work BY BUS... MM loves public transportation... "the wheels on the bus go round and round" is one of her favorite song, and at one time the most annoying song for papa antoine, because MM kept singing it. ;P

and for her, a small thing like riding the bus can be really exciting, once she finds a connection to her books and songs and pictures. These days, sometimes out of nowhere she would ask me suddenly: you want to stay in the jungle do you? (from Jungle Book), and she would laugh hysterically no matter i say yes, or, no, i want to go back to the man village.

tonton arrived with serious work clothes

MM prends la parole

Alexandre prends son bibon

she starts to develop her mannersim / 小女兒情態

listenning

MM and Virus

touching virus' feet and nipples

MM really loves the cat!

the one thing she always wants to do is sleeping on it like on her stuffed animals.
seeing her this happy makes me feel like getting her a cat... hmm...

small but essential actvities in the Cadoux (montreal) household

helping papa build a high tower, or helping destory it...

butter her own bread... usually it is papou who prepares MM's breakfast

helping Mamie making a pie dough

imitaing Mama's gesture

teaching her baby how to walk

she decided that she wanted to nap on papou and mamie's bed today.. does not like that she was napping in the photo at all though..

Science museum

Today we woke up to a house a lot colder than usual. The heating system was not working, everyone flocked to our room for refuge because there was an electric heater. (it was -10C outside, and 14 inside)

we still managed to get out after solving the heating problem and having a quick lunch. MM got very excited taking the subway.

finally we got to the museum, both babies down for nap.

woke up

Mamiecath told MM that these were wolf tails. MM hold on to them and did not want to leave, in order not to set the wolves free again.

nail chair

bubble!

water electricity generator, we had a lot of fun

MM looking into a funny mirror

Alexandre played too

so did papa antoine!!

1 2 3 play

winter sport!!

MM happily carrying her biblibo - le petit chien - we thought it could serve as a sled, did not really work

Christmas lunch that lasted till 7pm

chez Fatima

It was the photo album for tonton and tati's wedding back in 2006, MM kept asking papa: where am I in the photo? Why am I not here?

Merci Pere Noel!

MM woke up before Alexandre, she was only allowed to take a peek at the tree.

luckily it did not take too long before tonton and tati got up.

growing impatient

dressed up as papa

Finally!

Les matrioskas!!

super present from tonton and tati, they printed MM's blog into a book!!

like her book, the matrioska have to stand in front of the window to keep an eye on papa's return

Alexandre openning his presents

Merci Tatan Nana et Tonton Andre pour les super cadeaux!

calling France!