WMD

do not be deceived the look of sweet innocence!
previously referred to as "pod" (prince of darkness) by his uncle mark, stellan has acquired a new nickname since arriving in canada.

he is now most affectionately known as WMD, the weapon of mass destruction. :-)

attempting to steer the golf cart at the islington golf club with porpor

peek-a-boo!

playing with titi iris

dancing to a remix of blue monday by new order

word of the week

as of this week, stellan's current vocabulary consists of the following words:

book

taxi
juice
bread

bubble

fa and shu (cantonese for flower and tree)

bus
COOKIE!!!
egg

voiture (french for car)

bike

bateau / boat

chat (cat)

plane (since seeing the bastille day airshow)

FISH

and with a wave of the index finger, "no, no, no, no no!"

in honour of stellan's new word of the week being - FISH,

we went the aquarium this afternoon.

having a moment with r2d2

with daddy along the fountains by the palais de chaillot at the trocadero

everyday is a play day!!!

this pasta pot started over his head and then wound up being some sort of percussion instrument instead.

snack time on the playground with ludwig

auntie lian's photo album

stellan, looking like a centerfold

another shot from the museum of childhood

getting ready to for a big trip

with auntie lian and munching on a baguette with jam at last sunday's "broc dej"

Museum of Childhood

on an old rocking horse

drawing at the light table

flipping through a roald dahl book

Tate Modern

Who says that it always rains in London?  Well, it does an awful lot but we were lucky on the Sunday afternoon at the Tate Modern where we were joined by my friends Lisa, Niklas and their 9 month old son, Charles Fritjof.  

These are the photos that she sent me of Stellan.  

Christian wielded the camera as usual that day so he'll be blogging shots of them on funkypastry.

messy, party boy!

day 2 & 3

dancing with uncle lars

breakfast on the terrace.

note: the few suspicious red spots on his face which confirmed as chicken pox later that morning at the soho walk in clinic.  

see saw up and down, stellan goes to london town

 stellan on the eurostar with christian and a financier in each hand

stellan's new friend lucien, at an installation in the tate modern

sharing some twiglets with lucien

 hanging out with lucien and his big sister, blanche

sunday brunch at the blicher's (copenhagen)

unfortunately helene, our hostess with the mostest was the one behind the camera so she isn't in any of photos from the scrumptious sunday brunch

pierre, henrik and elizabeth

uncle claus

ludwig watches over baby-man (as he calls stellan) while frikke looks on

baby-man!

stellan in many disguises

i had given permission to soraya to use my camera to snap photos of the boys during the day since she has more opportunity than i do to capture those kodak moments and this is sampling of what i found on my camera this weekend.

i guess, "while the cat's away, the mice will play!"

Stellan as the romanian gypsy

aunt Jimima...

...Guru Hanuman Joe
says Namaste!

now that the hunger strike is over.....

a bottle of the best white!

lunchtime with ludwig

and for dessert.....
all those yogis can eat their hearts out, foot behind the neck - no problem!

x-rated

ikea - swedish for common sense!

kicking back in his new chair

sunday morning

stellan in his shades (for the 45 secs that they were on before he tore them off)

first, mesmerized by the jazz band playing on la rue montorgueil, then he got into the rhythm and broke out into a little dance afterwards.

extended family

rina is the daughter of my very close friends, harry and shirley who are like extended family to me in hong kong. she was in paris for the weekend so we met up for coffee and then again so that she could meet stellan (whose in the process of nicking her cell phone case)

am feeling very old as she has just graduated from grad school and i remember when her parents were just getting her settled in the uk for her first degree!! how can her younger siblings be in highschool already and preparing to go off to uni next year or growing facial hair???? somehow, they'll always be under the age of 6 in my mind.

P is for PIZZA!

P is for PIZZA, that's good enough for me. Pizza pizza pizza starts with P!
(stellan's variation on the C is for cookie song by cookie monster on sesame street)

return to sender

dream on por por & gung gung! there is no way mummy and daddy are going to ship me off to you in florida!

kitchen help

i'm sure someone will report us for violating child labour laws but i think stellan does a better job with the laundry than helping us with the dishes after a dinner party.

now that he's mobile, you turn your back for one minute and this is what he gets up to!

kung hei fat choy!

on the occasion of the lunar new year's eve, stellan got to eat his first loh bak goh, which also served as the perfect food for practising to eat with a fork.

28 December

uncle michael does a great job of amusing stellan so that christian can help cook.

niklas, stellan and christian

all the cousins get into styling stellan's mohawk after dinner