Coline has no fear

Coline has been extremely busy lately. She is a happy, cheerful and easy going little girl, and quite a handful too. Coline loves dogs, "tchin-tchin" of course but all and every one that she sees or hears, and she has no fear.

She also loves cellphones and handbags. She has this new habit of grabing a handbag, putting it on her arm and heading for the stairs for us to take her for a walk, any time of the day, be it before breakfast and without a nappy. As I said she has no fear.

She has no fear but luckily she is cautious, what a great combination!

Summer holiday

I was surprised to find out that it was perfectly do-able to spend two months with Leila on holiday, at home, and in spite of a very rainy season. It seems that Leila says yes to most activities from painting, cooking, reading to playing on the "pirate boat" with daddy and she also comes up with a variety of her own. I thoroughly enjoyed Cristiano's ability to follow her games, whereas he found himself a lot more tired than usual during the holiday.

In spite of January's heavy rains and related landslides Mamie-Claire reached us with a suitcase full of presents, a bicycle for Leila, and enough energy to carry Leila up and down the streets of Ouro Preto and entertain her until she would crash into bed.

It is not easy to learn to ride a bike in Ouro Preto given the cobbled streets and absence of a flat surface and so we turned our house into a highway.

We spent a magical moment at the Cirque du Soleil in Belo Horizonte and Leila and I started rehearsing for the next show (until I realized that I had hurt my back and could hardly walk for a week - yet still had to carry Coline).

Les deux complices, in the making of one in a series of "Petits gateaux de Noel", so yummy!

Now that I see these pics I realize that Leila stopped wearing anything else than a dress since last December, preferably pink and sleeveless (just like her mum).