You can see it was just a light case of the chicken pox. Lucky him and us!!

Varicelle "chicken pox"

Well it has been a fun couple of weeks for Mathieu and his parents. 2 weeks ago he had a cold and following that he came down with the chicken pox. To start, a little background. His Nanny has 3 kids. 1 two year old, 1 ten month old and Mathieu. Well, the 2 year old had chicken pox in which the Nanny conveniently forgot to tell us about. Val found out when the 2 year came up to her and said “boutons, boutons”, which means zits or in this case chicken pox. Anyway 2 weeks later Mathieu and the 10 month year old came down with it. Overall, it didn’t affect Mathieu too much. He still has a lot of bumps but he didn’t really seem to suffer too much other than being a bit lethargic. I saw the other kid yesterday and she looked liked hell. Her face was covered. Her mother said she had had a fever for 3 days and wasn’t sleeping. I guess Mathieu got lucky and got Val’s immune system and not mine. She never gets sick. I will post a pic as soon as I get a chance.

I am bored with all these pics but since Mommy and I look so cute I will endure one last pic.

My name is Coolican....... Mathieu Coolican.
No more comment needed.

Just look at this face. I am too cute for my own good.

American sports

I had to have a pic of Mathieu and me in our Raiders gear (I have the Kings gear as well). This is one thing that worries me about living in France. He will probably be a soccer fan which I am not. Hopefully one day he will share some of the passion I have for watching the Sac Kings and the Oakland Raiders.

Parents just over 3 months

Well we have been parents for over 3 months. I can’t say that it has been easy but it hasn’t been too difficult yet either. Overall Mathieu is very quiet. He doesn’t cry too often and he sleeps through the night (sometimes 13 hours) which he has done since Xmas. One of the hardest things for us is to leave him at the Nanny all day. I feel like we are going to miss all his progress by doing this but we both need to work. I find it is nice to have a bit of a break but I also feel that I am missing him during the day. In fact the best part of my day is to go pick him up at the Nanny and to watch his face light up with a big smile when he sees me.

In the last month he has become really talkative and he is trying to grab everything around him. We have been trying to get him to say “hello” in coo language. Val made a video the other night and he said it. It was really cute.

Both of us are dying to show him things. We took him to the zoo the other day and showed him all the animals. Not sure if he really enjoyed it or not but he definitely was staring at them and probably wondering what they are. Anyway I am going to post a few pics to go with this so everyone can see how much he has grown.