Hugging my baby. Ridiculous but true.
Lots of cuddling and in return, you get this:
On Sunday morning Léna went to the beach for the first time ever in her little life:
This is her new anti-UV beach tent, courtesy of Uncle Riri (grandfather to Annaelle whom you saw playing with Estelle in my last post). It took us one hour the night before to figure out how it folds up. It unfolds at lightning speed, almost took my eye out the first time.
We never had one of these tents for Estelle since she was way too young during the heatwave summer of 2006 (having been born mid-July) to even consider the Rivieria beaches. But Léna, born at the end of April, is robust enough to take it for an hour.
We arrived at 8:30 a.m. and an hour later we started packing up to leave at 9:30. But we did takes turns in the water, which was like heaven. Though there were fish around my feet which wigged me out - like Léna's onesie that day - one fish, two fish......
We brought out tea thermos, our bananas and yogurt and enjoyed people watching in the sunshine. Delightful. At that hour it's only the old people and the leathery tan-fiends so it's pretty funny. Meanwhile, hangin' in the tent.....
Last week on Wednesday I went to nearby Grasse and hooked up with Melanie/Emmanuel/Maxence and new baby Berenice, down from Paris.Somehow Maxence eluded my camera but here is Berenice, born 2 weeks before Léna at an impressive 11 pounds and 3.5 ounces. YOWZA. Léna's 8lbs3.5 looks measely in comparison, and Estelle's 6lbs10 almost laughable.
And yet now Léna weighs as much if not more than her. At the end of the afternoon Thomas came and joined us. We had a lovely BBQ topped off with a fruit tarte I made us. Here's Melanie with 2 men who have 2 daughters each that look just like them:
Here's 2 women with 2 daughters who look nothing like them:
Oh well! We have a rendez-vous on Monday once Estelle returns to reunite Estelle and Maxence. Should be fun.And once again I'll close with a video that shows Léna doing her thing and has an audio track of me being a moron. Watch at your own boredom risk.
