H/J and Kai drove to Canmore to spend a few days with us. My parents were in Ottawa so it was just the Chows.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Olimpico 1
I wanted to post these earlier - we live in car honking central. Parc Avenue is generally filled with Greek restaurants (when they won the Euro Cup the street was mayhem), then there is St. Urbain (generally Portugese and failing that, Brazilian), two blocks over is St. Laurent (where the Italians parade up to LIttle Italy a few blocks to our north), and then a few blocks over is St. Denis where the French patriots congregate. Now that the WC is over everytime LL sees a flag he says "beep beep."
Back in the fields
A couple of weeks ago (before I exceeded my flickr account allowance) we went to St. Eustache to pick some strawberries. It was such a hit we plan on going back when rasberries are ready.
A and M arrive
This is Ali Yi Yi and Mike before "the scolding."
LL gave his best cold shoulder to Yi Yi after being told not to throw strawberries.
LL gave his best cold shoulder to Yi Yi after being told not to throw strawberries.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
KK
Ok I appear to have used up my quota of space on flickr so i'll have to wait a week to post more photos. Here are a couple of videos instead from today. It was a long weekend here in Quebec, yesterday being St. Jean Baptiste day so there was plenty of stuff going on around town. This morning we went strawberry picking with the gang and then we stopped off at Outremont park for a lil' picnic.
I dunno if you'll be able to see the people in the background that clearly once this gets formatted for the web but I'll post it anyways.
I dunno if you'll be able to see the people in the background that clearly once this gets formatted for the web but I'll post it anyways.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Garderie concert # 2
Today was the second of the year end concerts- the kids put on a cirque.
One of these days I'll have to get a real video camera- because these vids are pretty grainy when you view it at a decent size.
Anyways, apparently LL won't just roll over for anyone.
One of these days I'll have to get a real video camera- because these vids are pretty grainy when you view it at a decent size.
Anyways, apparently LL won't just roll over for anyone.
Lise
This is LL's teacher at the garderie- she's got a heart of gold and LL seems to obey everything she tells him. Don't know what her trick is.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
ducks
For father's day we headed back to Cap St. Jaqcues to take LL to the farm there. (We were at Cap St. Jaqcues on Friday too for some time at the beach).
Friday, June 16, 2006
Frogger
Thursday Ann started a string of days off- so she decided to keep LL home from daycare and spend some good old bonding time with him. As she was preparing to take him to the park she followed standard Plateau procedure and first brought down the stroller and then came up the stairs to collect LL. As she was coming up, I noticed through the window that the stroller was rolling down the sidewalk and out of sight. I mentioned something like "um,...the stroller is leaving without you" so she turned and bounded (bound?) down the stairs after the stroller. Meanwhile, the stroller tooka sharp left turn and was heading across three lanes of St. Urbain traffic (we live on one of the major thoroughfares into downtown), complete with cars veering and honking and all. Anyways good thing LL wasn't in the stroller. Tip of the day: Lock your stroller wheels, St. Urbain is sloped.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
daycare concert 1
The garderie had the first of two year end concerts today. This is a pic of the kids getting ready - they're supposed to be eggs hatching, but LL doesn't like hats of any kind.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
I want your hands on me
So Friday I noticed that the skin on my hands and arms was tingling- so I thought it was from sitting at the computer with my arm chafing against the table. (It being t-shirt weather now). So I made the necessary adjustments to my work area and figured that was that.
Saturday we went to a colleague of Ann's for an afternoon party- when I got there we realized that they had cats, so I thought- 'ok I'll see how long I last here'. Everything seemed fine, then later that night at home I felt like I was having a slow heart attack. That, I decided, was the last straw in my game of chicken with cats. In the meantime, LL seemed to have bit his tongue and wasn't feeling too hot either. Then came the spots.
Anyways, it's now Wednesday and it has become apparent that LL has contracted hand, foot mouth disease from another kid at garderie and as luck would have it, so have I. It will be nice when this chest tightening is over with and my abdomen doesn't feel like someone is wringing it out. Anyways, apologies to the cats (THIS time......* but i'm watching you CAT *).
Saturday we went to a colleague of Ann's for an afternoon party- when I got there we realized that they had cats, so I thought- 'ok I'll see how long I last here'. Everything seemed fine, then later that night at home I felt like I was having a slow heart attack. That, I decided, was the last straw in my game of chicken with cats. In the meantime, LL seemed to have bit his tongue and wasn't feeling too hot either. Then came the spots.
Anyways, it's now Wednesday and it has become apparent that LL has contracted hand, foot mouth disease from another kid at garderie and as luck would have it, so have I. It will be nice when this chest tightening is over with and my abdomen doesn't feel like someone is wringing it out. Anyways, apologies to the cats (THIS time......* but i'm watching you CAT *).
Monday, May 29, 2006
taipopo
Went to Toronto for the weekend- and visited both great grandmothers- yun yun on friday night and po po on saturday morning- unfortunately we forgot to bring our camera on friday night.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Update on firm name
Well after much soul-searching and creative thinking we have settled on a name for our soon-to-be firm.....(drumroll please):
Stewart + Tsai Architects Inc. Whoa. Yes. It's a doozie. A few of the other names that were in the running were: S tewart T sai D esign, S tewart T sai U rban D esign and, my favourite, T sai S tewart A rchitects I nc. Pending approval from the Provincial Association we hope to be up and running soon.
Stewart + Tsai Architects Inc. Whoa. Yes. It's a doozie. A few of the other names that were in the running were: S tewart T sai D esign, S tewart T sai U rban D esign and, my favourite, T sai S tewart A rchitects I nc. Pending approval from the Provincial Association we hope to be up and running soon.
Monday, May 08, 2006
birthday
Yesterday was Ann's birthday- we had a nice lunch courtesy of Ali and Mike. We topped that off with some cake from Gascogne- once we put the munchkin down for his nap. Yum.
regimen
While we were gone Ann's parents took over LL's training regimen- here are some of their pictures...
swinger with grin
LL is a regular at this park- we always see the same kids and the same parents there and have pretty much learned everyone's name there.
spidey
Somehow LL has learned the melody for that old Spiderman cartoon- the one I used to watch when I came home for lunch during elementary school. I have no idea where he's picked that up.
metro
Ann's parents took LL to the Library- which satiated LL's thirst for all things relating to busses and trains.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
tour
This past week, the OSM went to Paris for a concert at the Chatelet. We left LL at home with Ann's parents and enjoyed a week off to ourselves. I think we ended up missing him more than he missed us. It was such a great trip and nice to see that our french has somehow miraculously improved since our last visit.
ann rehearsal
I wasn't going to go to the concert so instead I sat in on the rehearsal. Here's my un-blurriest picture since I didn't want to use the flash.
chatelet
On our first day in Paris we went to pick up Ann's instrument from the hall and took this picture of the empty hall.
seine
Here Ann and I are waiting for the river cruise and enjoying some shade as the temperatures were starting to rise.
sacre coeur
After going to Sacre Coeur we looked at some paintings in Montmartre and saw one we were interested in, but were unable to make a decision so we left it for another tour.
hanny
On our second last night in Paris we called up my friend Phil's fiance who has been studying in Paris for the past five years and just finished her program and is on her way back to Indonesia. We went for Vietnamese in Chinatown and then sat around the Louvre while the sun was setting. Hanny, Phil and I were in China at the same time years ago, but I never crossed paths with Hanny for some reason.
galleries lafayette
We didn't sample these particular treats from Galleries Lafayette, but I thought J2 would appreciate a photo like this. We did manage to try out some other tasty treats, though I have to say Montreal isn't far behind in the culinary department.
smart
One of the coolest things about going to Europe is seeing all the compact cars- so much more variety than here. Here 's a picture we took on the way to St. Sulpice.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)