A day in September

Can you believe it? It's already the end of September! Is this school thing over yet? I mean, I like playing and recess, and having fun with my friend B. but this "following directions and doing what I am told to do", not too much fun. But my teacher seems as stubborn as I am and he mainly wins the arguments. I seem to be doing a lot of reflecting time on the chair. Although my friend B. and I , we think that going on the chair is fun. There are 5 trouble makers in my class; that's what the teacher said to the Ps. And I am one of them.
Right now I like week-ends better and I also sleep better in my bed at nap time and thus, I am in a better mood.
This week-end we had one nice day and after swimming in the morning I grabbed my bike for a ride and some fun at the playground. Maman will take her bike next time too since she had to run after me most of the way.
At the pool, I am with two older girls who are towering over me. I try to impress them but they seem to think I am mainly goofy. Oh, I finally rolled over on my own in the pool so I am getting closer to moving up to the next level.
Ok, Maman is tired of typing and apparently tired of getting too little sleep for the past month so she is making me sign off.
Enjoy the video!

C'est la rentrée!

September 8, 2010 was my first day of school. Boy, was I tired by the end of the day! Let's see for the recap:
- 6:30am, Papa woke me up and helped me get dressed
- 6:40am, Papa held me down while Maman put drops in my ears. See, two days prior ( during the labor day week-end, I was at the doctor and was diagnosed with an outer ear infection and I really, really do NOT like the drops).
- 7:10am, after breakfast Maman and I drove to the school
- 7:35am, Maman dropped me in the early arrival room with teachers Nadia and Rosario
- 8:15am, I am escorted to my classroom with my teachers Gilles and Edith.
- 11:45am, I had lunch with teachers Edith and Roxanne.
- 12:30pm to 2:00pm, nap time. I got maybe an hour of sleep.
- 3:15pm, end of class; I am escorted to after school care with teachers Jennifer and Rosa.
Seven, yes, seven adults in 9 hours.
Rinse and repeat for the next 10 months of this school year.
If I am lucky, Maman comes and gets me before 5:00pm. But I think I will not get lucky too often.
Those are looooooooooooong days. But I am happy to go, I have fun and I am already making friends. Jacob and I played ghosts with our blankets during nap time and it did not go too well with our teacher Gilles. The guy has no humor or what?

More school stories later... I need a good nap now. It's Saturday and I just came back from swimming. I missed it during the Summer and was a happy fish today!
Enjoy the cool, oh so cool September weather,
Noah

Summer is ending

It looks like from now on, postings on my blog are going to go way down. See, as of last Monday, Maman is back at work and she seems to be running in circles ever since.

As for me, I spent the week with friends and I am getting ready to begin preschool in 5 more days. I mainly like the idea that I have my own kid size back pack to bring all my important things over there. Raccoon will of course make the trip to school every day with me. I was told that I will have to share two adults with 17 other kids. Not sure how's that going to work because when I will need them to read me a story, the other ones will have to wait, right?

We got to enjoy the Ocean when we went to Seaside to get Papa who had just finished the Hood to Coast race. His team finished 19 over all, out of over 1000 teams. Way to go Papa!

So, here it is, snapshots from the end of Summer on the beach. Breathe...Relax...

Fun filled week

It's August already and the fun keeps on coming. I wonder why adults need to work: they are wasting precious time when there are so many opportunities for play and fun out there.
I mean, just take a look at the past week;
On Monday, I went to a water park with my friend Juliette and we ran around so fast through those water fountains that Maman could not even get a decent picture.

On Tuesday we met with Juliette again and we had a blast at a park that has rides and rides and more rides. You can see the pics of the ones I rode on alone but, to the chagrin of Maman, I am a thrill seeker and LOVED the fast and crazy rides; she had to ride with me on those though.

On Wednesday we left for a 3 day camping trip at Lost Lake. Do you like camping? I love it and so does Papa. Maman? Not such a great fan but she made it despite being the only one bitten by all the flies and bugs. The weather was great so it helped...her!
As for me, I was dirty from head to toe after 5 minutes out of the tent but it showed I had fun right?
I learned all kinds of things too: we found crayfish, salamanders and a lot of chipmunks. And what about those butterfly-shaped flowers? Beautiful.
Since I am an avid reader of signs, any signs, the campground's posts were great and I had to stop at each of them and I would exclaim out loud: "It's number 3 and it can have 5 people and 1 car". Bike riding around the A Loop took us quite a while since I had to stop at each sign but hey, I got to review my numbers.
I also wanted to help, all the time; but you'll see that on the video.

Next week, it's music camp! The fun never stops!

It's a birthday party!

What a day it was and I got really spoiled! You'll see some on the video but the last picture shows all my loot and all my new great books.
And what about the cake? Exactly what I asked for and every thing was eatable.. well, "is" eatable since Maman did not like my idea of eating the locomotive and the 3 train cars in one setting. I am telling you, the tracks were yummy too and so was the gravel that Maman put in my cereal this morning.

I also decided to try some singing that day and created a piano piece. You can hear all that and more on the video.
Merci to all for the cool cards, wishes and gifts!

Three years... through the eyes of Noah

There are different ways to celebrate one's birthday; I chose to celebrate mine by going to the dentist for my first x-rays and cleaning. And you can ask the radiologist, the dental hygienist and the dentist, I definitely behaved like I had grown today: yep, I am 3!
The day finally came and it was a lot of fun; you will get to see part of it tomorrow but first, here is me, growing in front of your eyes during this 3 minute slide show.
Thanks a bunch for the great birthday wishes I received today. I will write later but right now, I decided to snooze since tomorrow is another exciting day at the zoo!

A week in Grand Teton National Park

After a week in Montana, we headed to Wyoming for yet another road trip. Shorter certainly but whow, the thunderstorms were impressive. What? Oh, Maman said that I actually slept through all of it but I still remember the thunder.
After a first chilly day, we had great weather at our 6100 feet destination. So many fun things. Maman and Papa seemed really excited about seeing the mountains every day; sure they are impressive but what about all that water every where, and the sticks, and the rocks. Way more cool.
I did enjoy the rides in the backpack again but it seems that Papa's shoulders and back did not quite appreciate them as much.
I really, really, really wanted to ride the tram, so when the day finally came, I was very excited. It's breathtaking. Of course the parents had to do a 10 miles hike from up there at 10 000 feet when all I wanted to do was go up and down: hey, it's free for kids under 5 so they could have left me there. On the plus side, there was a lot of snow on the trail and I got to throw some pretty good snowballs! Splash!

Two videos of that trip for you; the second one has all the good pics in a slide show.



The pictures: