Baby Jack Arrived

Bonjour,
OK, where do I start. So much has been going on in my busy life, I will try to remember it all........here is some of it.....

1. I have a brand new baby cousin. His name is Jack Darcy and was born on 18th April and is very very very cute...(just like me!) He came out of Aunty Emily's belly, (yes, I am not sure about that one either!!) I love to go and visit him and I have seen him have his bath and his nappy changed which I find very fascinating. I am also allowed to hold him but I have to be very careful and there has to always be a grown up sitting next to me. So now I have 2 boy cousins, one older and one younger. I am a lucky girl...(so Mummy keeps telling me!!)

2. Maryse and Dan have gone back to Canada. They went on a big plane like the one I have been on before. I am sad that they have gone as I miss them a lot because I liked to play with them and they made me giggle.

3. I turned 2 and a half years old (april 29th) and am getting so big. I weigh 12 kilos am 84 cm tall and have a size 6 shoe. I go on the big toilet every single time and never have any accidents!!!! I own 3 pairs of Nemo knickers and 4 pairs with Mickey mouse on them but the Nemo ones are my favourite!!! My favourite dinner is spaghetti bolognaise but I will also eat whatever is put in front of me, I just get more excited when it is spaghetti. I LOVE to eat green stuffed olives and I like to snack on seaweed rice crackers. I love to play with my babies and take them for walks, put them to bed and feed them and change their nappies. When I am shopping for groceries with Mummy, I am allowed to pick out my own apple from the fruit section.....it is my special treat!!
I like to watch cartoons and do drawings of Sasha, Mummy and Daddy. I know my full name is SOPHIE EMMA BELLIVEAU and I live in Heathridge. I know that Memere and Pepere live in Canada and I remember playing in the pool with them. I like to play with Sasha and boss her around a lot which Mummy and Daddy say is not very nice. I go to church every Sunday with Nanny and Grandpa and I am always a very good girl.

I know that this Sunday is Mother's Day and that I am supposed to remind daddy because he is not very good at remembering things like that....( so Mummy says!!!)
Anyway, today I have playgroup with my friends and I can't wait to see them. I hope I get to wear my new pink boots!!!

Lots of love
Sophie
xxxx

Bonjour,
I just came home from Julie's house which is where I go for my daycare and I can now say a new sentence. The sentence is "I don't want to"!!!! I have only been home for 2 hours and I have practised saying "I don't want to" at least 20 times. In fact the minute Mummy or Daddy ask me anything I just say "I don't want to". It seems to get a fair bit of attention but I think Mummy and Daddy are getting tired of hearing it.......oh well, repetition is what us 2 year olds are into!!!!!
Tomorrow I go to Nanny and Grandpa's house while Mummy and Daddy go to work. No doubt I will be able to say "I dont want to" to them as well and see what their reaction will be!!! They will probably take me to the beach so that will be fun.
I have to go and have a bath now.....yippeee, I love having baths!!!
PS: Hey, but the way....WHO is the Easter Bunny and why are all my friends talking about him?????

Bonjour,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY PEPERE!!!!! It's Pepere's birthday today and I hope he has a great day and that he get's a birthday cake so that he can blow out all the candles......not sure how many he has but I bet you it is more than 2 because that is how many I had on my "Nemo" birthday cake when it was my birthday. Oh, I also hope that he gets some good presents and lots of toys (because that is what I would like if it were my birthday!!!!)
I have something very important to tell you all........(stop reading if you don't like talking about poos and wees!!!!) I have been doing poos on the potty all the time now for at least a week. I mean I was doing it before but sometimes I would forget and sometimes I would wait for my nappy to go on because I wasn't really sure about doing it on the potty, but anyway, now I am so clever at it I go on the potty all the time and have had no accidents at all.
I have been helping Mummy today. First I helped with doing the grocery shopping and I might add that I am very good at shopping and if I am really good I get to eat an apple while I wait in the trolley. Today when Mummy was looking for some steak a lady walked past my trolley and said to another lady, "Hello Lorraine" and I copied her and said" Hello Lorraine" as well to the lady and she thought that was very funny.....I am not really sure why, but she called me a "cheeky monkey".
This afternoon I have been helping Mummy make dinner. I get to eat carrots when she chops them and I also get to stir the gravy. Mmmmm we are having Roast Chicken with vegetables. Yum Yum.
Bye Bye
Love Sophie
xx

Bonjour,
I have had my very first hair cut. It was quite the experience and very frightening I must say. Mummy had been telling me what was going to happen and I was quite excited about it.......until....we walked in the hairdressers and I saw a lady with a pair of scissors cutting hair off a lady's head and I thought to myself....there is no way that lady is doing that to me!!!! I mean, is that even safe, I know I am not allowed to use scissors and my 2 year old instincts made me think it was not going to be a fun experience. So, I cried and cried and cried and cried as loud and as best as I know how. I cried so much we had to walk out of the shop and into a shop that sells chocolate frogs and jelly snakes (my favourite treats) (By the way mum, I have figured out how bribery works!!!!!) I even got one of each (wow) and stopped crying only long enough to gobble them both up and started howling again once we re entered the hairdressers and the lady with the scissors said to mummy, "maybe if she sits on your knee's she will stop crying" and Mummy said, " we can do that but no, she will only stop crying if we leave". That's my mum, she is so clever and even knows me better than I know myself!!!! As she was right and I would not stop crying and then Mummy said, if you sit still and stop crying Mummy has a special new toy that you can have when we get home....ooohhh I thought she really is pulling out all the tricks and bribes for me to stop crying and I thought about is for a few seconds in between deep sobs....meanwhile scissors lady had already chopped off my lovely locks from the back. I have to say it really was all over in a matter of minutes and I look really really grown up and my new bob style really suits me. I kept admiring myself in the mirror and then it was time to leave......oh yeah, and get my new toy!!! So then we went to show Nanny and Grandpa my new look and they were very impressed and I heard Mummy tell Nanny and Grandpa that that is the last hair cut I have for a very very very long time because it was a torturous (what does that mean????) experience for her and everyone else in the hairdresser's shop. Anyway, that is OK as I am going to grow my hair long now, just like Mummy's!!!!
Bye Bye
Love Sophie
xxx

Bonjour,
I am so clever because I received my first swimming certificate last Friday at swimming lessons. The certificate was given to me because I am able to climb out of the pool all by myself with no one helping me at all. Mummy put the certificate on the fridge and everybody that come over gets to see it and tell me again how clever I am. I LOVE swimming lessons and almost everyday I ask mummy when I wake up if I am going to swimming lessons and she always says, not today, on Friday. Friday usually takes a really long time to come around as it seems a long time to wait.
Tomorrow I am going to Julie's house as that is my day care. I love going to Julie's house as I play all day long with my friend's Ella, Will and Casey. We do paintings and drawings and we dress up in funny clothes. We all have a sleep after lunch in the playroom and we all lie next to each other and Ella always makes me laugh when we are supposed to be sleeping and then Julie always says, "eyes closed please" and we do it but only because she says please.
Love Sophie
xxx

Bonjour,
Last night I was little bit naughty and kept waking up and calling for Mummy. I started at 11pm and kept going every 15 minutes until 1.30am....not sure why, I just wanted Mummy to come and see me and then I would ask to go and sleep in her bed. Anyway, Mummy was not too impressed and she seemed very tired this morning at 5.30am when I woke up...........
Anyway, I have had a busy day today as first I went to play at Nanny and Grandpa's and Grandpa took me to the park. Then I went back to Nanny's and Mummy was there to take me home again, except we didn't go home we went to a big play centre with lots of bouncy castles and fun things for me to play with. We saw my friends Will and Jayde there and I had so much fun running around and jumping and playing. Then we had chips (fries for the Canadian readers) for lunch and they were very yummy. I had so much fun I didn't want to go home. Mummy would say, "Sophie, time to go home now" and I would say, "Not yet, but soon"......I say that for a lot of things. So then Mummy would wait a little bit longer and I would keep running around and then all of a sudden I got so tired I couldn't find mummy and I couldn't stop rubbing my eyes and waking in a crooked line. Mummy picked me up and I fell asleep in the car before she even started the car up. When we came home I slept for over 2 hours.
Bye Bye
Love Sophie
xx

Bonjour,
Hello again. Well, I am one month older since my last journal entry. Mummy was unable to use the computer due to some technical difficulties, but now I am back to tell you all my news. The biggest news is that I have just come home from a holiday on Rottnest Island, ( an Island 11 km's off the coast of Western Australia....for all my non Aussie readers!!!)I went with Mummy and Daddy but Nanny, Grandpa, Aunty Jane and Aunty Em and Uncle Carl were there as well and I had lots of fun. We had to get there by boat and that was my first trip on a big boat. We stayed in a little chalet and we went to the beach everyday. Daddy even buried me in the sand with only my head sticking out. That was pretty funny because I couldn't see my legs...so I kept saying, "Daddy, have you seen Sophie's legs???" and Daddy would say, "No, I can't find them" and then I would laugh a lot because it was very funny.

I did lots of bike riding as well on Rottnest Island, actually daddy does all the riding and I sit on the back in my own special seat. Daddy can ride very, very fast and sometimes I give him a running commentary about all the things I can see along the way, like, trees, dogs, other bikes, babies in prams, colours of cars etc.........but sometimes he goes so fast everything is just one big blur. I also liked to go to find quokkas, these are a little animal like a very small kangaroo and they come out in the afternoon and they are very friendly. Everyone would take turns to take me out to find some and I asked about 100 times if we could go to find them.

So now I am back at home and Daddy had to go to work again this morning on the plane. I am a bit sad about that but Dan and Maryse are here to play with, so that is good fun. Tomorrow all my friends are coming over to play and I just can't wait, a brand new baby is coming as well because Haileys Mummy had a new baby and it came from her belly. ( I know this because her belly was very big and then she had the baby and the belly went away!!!)

Bye Bye
Love Sophie
xxx