Léna has become a roll-over pro since turning 5 months. Can't stop her!
Very proud of herself:
Like a water plane coming in for landing:
At Léna's 5-month check-up, she tipped the scales at 8.5 kg (18 3/4 lbs) and 69 cm (27 1/4 inches). It's almost 3 pounds heavier than Estelle at the same age. Datz won big bébé! No wonder my back hurts all the time.
Meanwhile, Estelliot on the move. Don't get in the way of these two on their way home from the chateau park on Wednesday afternoon last week (remember, no school on Wednesdays).
Here they are shouting French nursery songs at the top of the lungs, much to the delight or alarm of passers-by.
What else does Estelle do on Wednesdays? This week she played almost all morning by herself in her room with her building blocks. Here are some of the things she did while I was doing laundry, dishes, blending baby food, making the bed, and stopping all those things so as to turn a hollering Léna back over and back over and back over:
This next one was a village, she told me:
This tower she did all by herself and it stayed in her room for 2 days and we all managed to walk around it and not knock it down.
Our musician neighbors came up for dinner Tuesday and here is the cake they made, which is filled with something called "CaramBar" (caramel taffy candies very popular here and very old school). I think it would be like melting down Werther's Originals and putting them in a moist cake filling inside the cake. The decoration on top is thin hardened leaves of melted CaramBar. This girl don't mess around with her cake-making. One of the reasons why I love her. 
2 quick videos: the 2nd one is just sisterly fun on the playmat. In the first, however, Thomas catches Estelle celebrating Léna's birthday 7 months early. He eventually (with my reminder) remembers to turn the camera the right way. Please note that Estelle is watching herself in the mirror the whole time, which is really what she finds very fun. Like mother like daughter. Many a time I was accused of watching myself in the huge picture windows at our house in Jericho. Listen, I know I good entertainment when I see it, always have.
