Feeding time

Just in the interest of information (this was not a photographed event) ...last night was Alice's first feeding time at our home. Ryan, Emily and Andrew were fascinated by the whole thing! They watched and were amazed. I actually watched too. It was crazy to watch Alice open her mouth so big and get that mouse in without hands and arms to assist. We, I mean Erik, gave her two frozen mice. Afterwards I asked Andrew how he felt about seeing that Alice eat. He told me he thought it was cool. I asked him if it was yucky..and he told me that he doesn't like mice so it was good! He actually wants to give the snake alive mice to eat. I don't think I could watch that though. So even after witnessing last night's feast I am still thinking that Alice is a good gentle snake. Do you boys think you would like to see Alice eat? Mom, Dad you guys are always invited to come over and watch too!

Alice meets the family

We heard that Nico and Leo love snakes right now. The kids wanted share these pictures of our new pet snake Alice. Emily thinks you guys are going to love meeting this snake. Alice is a corn snake, and I have to admit she is a pretty sweet gentle animal..of course I have yet to witness a feeding time. I am also going to post a video of Andrew with Alice so you guys can enjoy that too.

Ryan is NINE!!!

A Scene by Nicolas

Here's a drawing Nicolas did last night during dinner at the crèperie:



It's a scene from the film Happy Feet. He did the drawing all by himself without any help or ideas from his parents.

Mosasaur

Varan, a big lizard

Last week we went to Zürich, in Switzerland, where we are going to move next year.
Nicolas and Léo saw the natural history museum, and the zoo.


Here is the zoo playground.




Here is a chameleon in the rainforest




Here is the march of the penguins in the zoo.




Here Nicolas is drawing mammoths in the math department of Emmanuel's new university.




And here is the view from Emmanuel's new office