Janvier

Mois de janvier à Paris.. Un peu de froid et un peu de pluie. Pas trop, mais suffisamment pour rester souvent enfermés à la maison.Vivement les beaux jours.

Alexandre prospere. Un bebe TRES bien portant comme dit le médecin ; un gros patapouf selon Eric. Il mange bien, grandit bien, a des moments d'eveil calme - et des moments d'eveil non calmes-, dort plus ou moins bien (pas bien en journee sauf dans la poussette evidemment, de mieux en mieux la nuit.. je reste en manque de sommeil mais pas a un niveau insurmontable),
J 17.

J 21.

J 25 et les premiers sourires, furtifs.

Un mois et deux jours, 4,890 kg exactement et 56 cm. Ouf.

Ruben quant a lui souffre un peu de n'etre plus le centre de notre univers.. Eric s'est beaucoup occupe de lui les trois premieres semaines de janvier, alors qu'il etait en conge, et c'est un peu plus difficile maintenant.
Petit chevalier, nous en arriere plan.

Seance de gym.

Au parc.

Balade aux invalides/ sur les quais.

A table.

Mais aussi KO / boudeur.

Et des visiteuses a la maison - Laurence, Emilie, Hadia, Juliette, Aude... nous n'avons pas encore eu de visiteurs cette annee!

Noel.. avant la naissance

Alexandre ayant pris son temps pour arriver, nous avions pu conclure les festivités de noel en décembre.
Zabeth and the guys.

Gouter de famille à la maison.
Brother and sisters.

Mahe, encore en jambes.

Les cousins.

Et la famille.

Reveillon chez Jacques et Laurence ; Ruben a eu plein de cadeaux à ouvrir.

Dejeuner du 25 avec la famille rue de Charenton.

Domi gere les petits, facile. Elle n'est pas encore d'accord pour les garder tous ensemble en vacances par contre..

Et diner de noel/ anniversaires avec Anne-Marie et Zabeth le 25.

Alexandre !

Alexandre kept us waiting but finally made it right on time for the planned term and for Eric's birthday! He was born on December 26th, at 5.38 pm. It was a natural water birth that went so fast that I had no time for epidural (ouch) and that Eric missed the birth (he had gone back home to fetch my blood type card). Luckily, Eric arrived after about 5 minutes and therefore did not miss much of Alexandre.

Same as Ruben, Alexandre opened wide his eyes and started looking at the world from the start.

Ruben at day 1.

I keep thinking back to Ruben as a new born. So many similarities yet there are differences. Some of their attitudes and postures are so alike...
Of course, a big focus area is sleep, or lack thereof. Same as Ruben, Alexandre does not sleep much - but, luckily, he has some quiet times awake and sleeps in longer streches than Ruben used to do. I am therefore not as exhausted as I used to be with Ruben.

With daddy.

Ruben came to see us in the maternity and pretended to ignore Alexandre. He is unsettled by the new family dynamic and gets upset easily these days..

Family picture.

 Alexandre again.

With Clemence.

Mahe very unfortunately broke her hip bone on the 25th and has not been able to meet with Alexandre yet. I was just able to go and see her in the hospital as she underwent surgery in a facility very close to our home. Now she is recovering in Fondation rotschild in the 12th and it is going to become even more difficult to visit her..

Virginie, Eric and the kids Mailys and very young Alban came to see us. One month older than Alexandre, Alban already looks like a big baby.. Virginie and I on the other hand look like exhausted new mothers.

We left the maternity quite quickly, on the 29th in the afternoon. As everybody says, things go much more smoothly with a second one than with a first born.

As usual, the grandmothers have been stellar. They have been taking care of Ruben a lot.
With Zabeth.

With Mamido.

We have had just a few visitors at home so far. Emeline came to see us and to see Mahe.

Aude and the girls.