Sebastien is helping get ready for our party. Rice Krispie treats.

I think it counts as breakfast. I'm sure it did this day.

(I'm on a food kick. Imagine that).

We had an "American As Apple Pie" party to celebrate my becoming a US
Citizen. Our neighbors, the Mulhollands, kindly hosted.

We had hot dogs and Mac'N'Cheese for the kids. But they really just
ate potato chips (to our dismay).
And for the biggies we had chicken and Beef satay. Gado Gado
(Indonesian steamed salad). Corn. Zucchinis.
Yummy Apple pie, Stars & Stripes jello, USA Rice Krispies.

Something american and somethings not. All around too much food. but
delicious.

I think tristan must have been feeding himself.

Or his father had been hitting the bottle a little early in the morning.

Regardless, our little tyke likes to feed himself. and is quite
proficient at geeting little chunks of food to his mouth.

He does have a system of trying food with his tongue outside of his
mouth. Easier to spit out if it does not meet his standards. But as
he loves to grab fist fuls of cat food, I'm not sure where his
standards are.

Sebastien wanted to help top his brother off this morning.

you don't need the gory details, but there are my three men with just
one eating.

This past weekend we drove out to Beltsville, MD to the Goddard Space Center
to buy
Sebastien the helmet that he had earned for going to sleep for three
nights in a row without kicking and screaming. He had been sick those
nights, but whatever we could use to get him going to sleep without
pitching a fit. After calling seven nearby toy stores, and none of
them having the astronaut-helmet-like-nicholas-has, this was our last
try and lucky us they had it. The center is nice, but probably better
for older kids.

sebastien promptly lost the helmet that night with really bad bedtime
behaviour....

They did have an outfit that could be borrowed by the kids to wear around.

Tristan is now routinely pulling himself up to standing. Pictured here at
his kitchen.

Today Mihai caught him walking his play table across the floor,
probably not on purpose, but he is on the bipedal move (with zimmer).

Tristan also crawled up three steps today at daycare. And then showed
us his skills this evening by climbing up on sebastien's kitchen
stool. Not sure what to do about that new found skill.

from today
tristan is teething
something must be in his mouth at all times.

preferably food

One of Tristan's favorite things to do. Empty out the pots and pans.


i should mention, he is very quick to voice an opinion.
Take away his favorite toy, quick tears and cries. with a few 'ma ma ma
ma's' thrown in.
heart rendering.

Probably from the middle of our VERY BAD sleeping. but everyone is
tucked it, not for the night.

May 25