Friday was a really good day. I think that I am always a little happier because it is a Friday. Even though I am a stay at home Mom now, I still look forward to the weekend just as much as I did when I worked. Having Ken home gives me some extra help with the daily routine and sometimes I can even escape during naptime! Anyways, Beckett and I took the tram to take Ava to school. We had the "tram ticket enforcers" sweep the tram and make sure everyones tickets were valid. I had never seen them before, but there were 4 or 5 of them in matching coats that start at the back of the tram and work their way up, checking all the tickets. I must admit, there was a time or two that I ran out of change for the machine and bought a 1 way ticket instead of a round trip ticket. Thankfully, I was legal this trip! After we dropped Ava off at school, we headed to Meghans house for playgroup. It was nice to talk to other English speaking Moms that are in the same situation and have kids the same age.

After we picked up Ava from school, we picked up some lunch. Ava and I have been indulging in desserts with lunch. I never did that at home, however the pastries in France are so good that I just can't pass them up. I try to justify it with the fact that we do so much walking here. There has to be an end to the dessert with lunch. Maybe next week we will do better...

After naps, we had a visit from the "rentokill" man to take care of our mouse problem. He put a box of poison behind the cabinets in the kitchen area and another in the bathroom. I am not sure what "rentokill" means in French, I just hope that he takes care of it and I don't find it dead next week.

Friday night we walked around downtown. I think that is the best part of living down here. It is so easy to put the kids in the stroller and learn the city. We are not pros yet by any means, but we are starting to be able to get places without taking out our map every 5 minutes. The difficult part of living downtown is that most restaurants do not open for dinner until at least 7:00 which makes it very challenging trying to feed 2 little ones before they get too cranky. Another hard part is that most of them don't have high chairs either. We have been to a chain restaurant called "Hippopotamus" a couple of times and that is pretty kid friendly. Last night we found Le Gruber - it opened at 6pm and had a high chair! The high chair was from the 40's and wasn't very sturdy, but Beckett was contained, so I was happy.

Ava was very happy with her meal!

There's a man that goes into all of the restaurants at night and sells roses. Beckett kept reaching for them, so he gave him one.

We all slept in this morning. I think that everyone needed to catch up a little bit after our first full week here. We met Keith and Meghan in the city for coffee and chocolate croissants. I know I have to stop but they are just so good! They have a daughter in Ava's class, so we let Ella and Ava run around with the hope that they would tire out and take good naps this afternoon. Well, Ava had her hands in her pockets, tripped and landed on her face. She let out the most horrific cry! When Ken got to her, her whole mouth was full of blood. When we cleaned her up, we checked and none of her teeth were loose, however she chipped one tooth. Once she calmed down, she didn't seem to be in too much pain, so I will take her to the pediatrician this week to have it looked at. I am sure that will be interesting!

Ava did pretty well the rest of the day. She took a nap and we have been giving her ibuprofen. She didn't really bring it up until we were walking and trying to find a place to eat tonight. She was in the stroller and goes "I know why I got hurt today. The ground didn't like me today." Poor girl!

We ended the night at Europ' Cafe. Alot of the cafes have outdoor seating with heat lamps in the winter. So, instead of dragging the huge stroller inside, we decided to eat outside - Ava thought that was pretty cool.

We got our washer and dryer delivered on Thursday, so tomorrow is going to be laundry day. The French could take a lesson from the Americans when designing washers and dryers. Mine here can only fit a quarter of my normal laundry load and it takes over 2 hours for the washer alone. I am glad that we paid the extra 50 EU for the quiet washing machine because it is going to be running every day.

As I was finishing this up, the mouse (aka Mickey) made another appearance. I guess the poison didn't work yet. I thought that mice slept at night. Ken promised me that they did so that I would sleep. It is almost midnight...I guess they stay awake at night:(

Our air shipment is getting delivered on Monday and our sea shipment was scheduled to arrive in France today. Once our sea shipment clears customs (should take about a week) we can get out of here! I can't wait!