07/07 1ere semaine/ 1st week

Semaine plus courte que d'habitude, car la compagnie me fait demarrer la semaine plus tot que d'habitude, pour aller faire du simulateur la semaine prochaine. Du coup, je n'ai pu qu'aller une fois seulement faire du planeur, et j'en ai profite pour aller faire un vol avec un copain du boulot, lui aussi sur Citation Excel, encore qu'il vient juste de recevoir un changement de flotte, et qu'il va faire du Gulfstream.

Florence, ca pousse toujours. Y'a des jours ou ca marche bien, soit elle dors plus, ou bien on a un bon rythme ensemble. Et puis d'un coup, on peut avoir une nuit d'enfer, ou rien ne va plus, 3 hrs de sommeil tout au plus, et ou on se demande comment ca marche tous ca. Florence continue de sourire; on se demande ce qu'elle deviendra plus tard... Caissiere a Auchan? Pilote de ligne? Elle semble deja curieuse, et calme tant qu'elle est confortable. Introverte plutot?

Hello there. And welcome to 1999. We're gonna party like it's 1999. Oooooo. Oooooo. (No, this makes no sense but it's a really, super cool Prince song and, frankly, Prince is the coolest dude in the Universe so I enjoy repeating it here.)

So, how's everyone doing? Some of you may have noticed that my correspondence has slowed a bit, perhaps only once a week. Well, this is due to dear, sweet Florence. She keeps me rather busy and, frankly, since I take this "job" very seriously my day is full of many activities I must partake in to ensure she doesn't vote Republican (just kidding, Dad!). This includes reading time, which is done in French and English. Richard reads some French history books and the French version of the Brother's Grimm. I am reading her Dr. Suess and Winnie the Pooh (my personal favorite).

Also on the agenda is tummy time which, one would think, would be so easy to accomplish but, apparently, since babies sleep only on their backs these days (at least in America) many babies are now terrified of being on their bellies. However, if they don't spend time on their bellies their stomach muscles don't develop well, their arm muscles and neck muscles, etc. so development is delayed. So, I am pushing our dear sweet to get used to tummy time and, alas, she is learning sllllooowwwly and now only screams a fifteen minutes instead of twenty (egad!).

Anyhoo... It is fun to watch Richard read to her in French (I don't even bother. With my accent she sound like a drunk Canadian). She always has her eyes wide open when he does, as if she is literally swallowing the words.

Lemme seeeeeee..... Unfortunately, at this moment Florence has had a marathon without sleep, mostly due to a late nap the day before and some bad timing on naps today (one which included Richard accidentally setting the motion alarms so that, after I put Florence down for a nap, upon stepping from her room after gingerly closing her door severely LOUD claxons sounded BUMPPP BUUUMP BUMMMMP and, alas, she was awakened again. And last night didn't go too much better, as neighbors decided to take their 4th of July celebration quite seriously which included setting off a lot of BOOOOM! BOOOOM! BOOOOMS! So, sigh, I'm just a wee bit tired..........................

On that behalf, I shall sign off for now. You know, at this moment of about four hours non-consecutive sleep for the last two days which includes carrying Florence while running around the house for about 10 of t hem I can honestly say that I would forgo chocolate for a year if she was sleeep tonight................

To sleep, perchance to dream. Yeah, that Shakespeare was really onto somet'in..........

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