Bonjour! I’m going to skip ahead from the photo barrage for a minute here to give you an update on last week.

Last Tuesday, mommy and daddy and I went for a long drive. Daddy’s car was full of stuff, and I got to ride in a new, big-boy carseat (still facing backward) that was a gift from great Uncle Dave and Great Aunt Denise. I fell asleep and woke up in a strange place. daddy said we were in the mountains, in New Hampshire. There were lots of trees all around. Then, we went to a place called Vermont. We stopped for lunch at a nice rest area and I played in the grass. We kept driving until we stopped at a building that stretched across the road. A man who talked funny asked us where we were going and how long we were going to be there, and daddy had to show the man some paper so the man would believe I was me. Then we kept on driving. Finally, daddy said we were in Montreal, in Canada – a whole other country. This was my first time in Montreal, and my first time in a foreign country – even if it is just America’s hat.

We stayed for four days. We stayed in a hotel. I had a new crib that wasn’t mine. The hotel had a bedroom, a bathroom, a living room, and a kitchen, like at home. During the time there, mommy and daddy pushed me all around the city in my streamlined stroller. One part of the city had a lot of people who looked different. The stores there were filled with cartoon characters and weird foods. Another part of the city had really narrow sidewalks and bumpy, stone roads, and big stone buildings that daddy said were old. There were a lot of people in that part of the city. We went there a few times. We ate breakfast and dinner outside in that part of town, too. We also went to a big park with lots and lots of plants that I have never seen before. It was like the front garden at home, only waaaay bigger. We walked around there for hours and I played in the grass there, too. Mommy and daddy had to pay to get in, but it was free for me. They must like little boys. They had a whole building about bugs there, too. Mommy said it made her feel squirmy. Then we went to a building that had different kinds of outsides in it. There was woods like at home, and a cold place with funny birds, and a biiig fish tank, and some other places that I didn’t recognize. They all had plants and animals that live in that kind of place. There were a lot of kids there. That day I went on my first ride on a subway. They get a lot of people in those things.  I tried something called guacamole, too, for the first time. It was strange.  I’m not sure if I like it.

The people in that city talked funny. Sometimes, daddy would talk funny to them.

Then, one day, we left the city and drove and went back through the building that stretched across the road. Again, they made daddy prove I was me. I guess they are keeping tabs on me.

We drove back into that place called Vermont. We stopped in a town where daddy used to live. We went to a place that makes special french fries. Daddy said we had to go there. Mommy let me try a little peice of one of her fries. I liked it. Daddy seemed to really enjoy them, too. He wouldn’t give me one of his fries.

We drove some more then stopped to go on a tour of a place where they make ice cream, and we went to a store that sells things made out of apples, and one that has free cheese for mommy and daddy (I don’t eat cheese, but it looks good). We got another hotel room , and I had another crib. We went swimming there, too. That was fun. I like the water. The next day, we drove back home. I slept in the car again, but we were in there for a long time. I got fussy and mommy and daddy stopped to let me play on the grass somewhere for a while, then we finished the ride.

It was nice to spend a bunch of whole days with mommy and daddy. We had fun, and I played in the grass, and got to go for a lot of walks.

Daddy took some pictures and he’s going to try to get some up here soon. We’ll see.

Au revoir, mes amis!

-CPE