Seperated at birth? Pierre Craig and Charles Muntz

If there's one thing that I've learned as a father it's how children continually amaze us. Our 4 year old, Florence recently proved again how their little brains, still in development, are capable of picking up the most minute details.

About a week ago, as we were about to listen to Ponyo for the nth time, Florence noticed a reporter on TV (SRC's Pierre Craig from the La Facture show) and started shouting that he looked like the man in the balloons! In the what? "The man with the mean dogs daddy" she answered back. I stared back at her, switching from her proud little face back to the paused show on TV with Mr Craig's face.

Then it hit me! Of course! Yes, it did look a lot like him. We switched to the PVR, selected Up and skipped through until Charles Muntz' face was on TV. Lo and behold not they looked like twins separated at birth!

Kids I tell you, with their sharp little brains!

WikiLeaks Reveals Santa's Naughty List

This is too cute, so I had to share!

My ever growing Trance Playlist

Thought I'd embed this playlist I created a few weeks ago when I was asked by friends to be their DJ (well VJ actually) for a Hawaiian Party they were putting together. Ever since, I've been tweaking and adding videos to it.

The little pleasures of life

With Halloween just a few hours away, and Christmas just around the corner, I'm using the children's afternoon nap to finally update this blog. I say nap, though as I write this I can hear Sacha chatting away, the one on the left in the above photo, through the room monitor here in the basement office.

Stephanie and Florence are on their way back from visiting my in-laws and should be here shortly. So depending on how long I have, this post may or may not be long!

In the time since my last update, Sacha has started walking, just over 2 weeks ago, but in the period of time he has gone from crawling on all fours, to making a step or two, to an actual run. It's quite the event, and we're still amazed as we see him stand up, and walk away. It's now become more efficient for him to do so than to crawl. We're pretty sure that yesterday, for the first time ever, he said his name out loud while looking at the photos of himself in his bedroom.

Florence keeps amazing us with her signing, and her ability to both speak and understand French and English. Amazed because, though we knew she understood English, as her vocabulary in French has expended, so has her English vocabulary. Last night, as we were watching Caillou on Tree House, Stephanie kept asking her in French what Caillou was saying in English. She got pretty much everything right!

Life's been pretty hectic these last few months, especially with Stephanie's return to work after her year of mat leave. After struggle with the morning routine for the first few weeks, we're now using just one car to drop off the kids at day care and get to the train station. It's allowed Stephanie and I to share our commuting time together, since we're privileged to be working practically in the same downtown building.

So we try to make due with all the little moments we get to spend just the 2 together, as well as those with the kids. In the end, in the hustle bustle of life, you have to focus on those, even if there spread out, or don't come too often. Cause I  read once, we tend to reminisce about the past, dream about the future, but forget we're here in the present.

And life is live today, not tomorrow, nor yesterday. And the little pleasures of life are what it's all about!

What are yours?