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**New pictures of the kids added on May 2nd*** |
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The Impact are on a two-game road trip this week to Minnesota and South Carolina. These 2 games are the last away games before their first home game. The Minnesota game was tied up until the 90th minute. Impact ended up losing 0-1. Bummer.
This past week was an exciting one because the team started training at their new stadium (instead of on their indoor field). Every news channel and paper were at the first training checking out the new stadium, locker rooms, etc. The pictures in the papers are just awesome. I'm really looking forward to seeing the stadium in person. It's such an exciting time for the team. The MLS Commissioner will be at the first home game too. They are still in talks about adding Montreal to the MLS for next year.
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The Impact played in Puerto Rico tonight. They beat them 1-0 on a soggy and slippery field. Matt stopped a penalty kick during the first half and kept busy all game long. This is a photo from the penalty kick...
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What have we been up to? Well, Matt had a 10 day road trip so we kept busy while he was away. We have searched out new parks in this area, got a annual pass to the Biodome (an eco-museum in walking distance from our place), found our local library and we were introduced to a great kid's cafe. The kid's cafe has a play area for kids and a cozy lounge for moms to enjoy a cup a coffee and relax. They also have cooking classes for kids as well as Italian language lessons. I anticipate that we'll be spending a good amount of time there on these rainy spring days. It's such a great place!
Another thing that has been entertaining us is using Skype to "see" our family while we're here. If you don't have Skype....go download it. My log in name is lorijordan2551. You can see Syd peeking her head in and out of the camera's view and Myles occasionally sits still long enough on my lap to see him for a few minutes too! Sydney has become so used to using Skype that whenever the computer makes a noise, she assumes someone is calling us. I don't think she would even know what to do with a regular home phone anymore!
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We've been in Montreal now for 2 weeks and we're adjusting quite well. We are keeping busy with the start of the soccer season, Syd's school schedule, finding a gym to jump start my workouts again, and Mr. Myles is busy with exploring every inch of the floor of our apartment. Although we were here last summer; it still takes some time to get used to some of the differences here in Montreal. Here are few...
We are the only ones speaking English...especially in the part of town where we live
Gas costs $5 a gallon
All the parking signs are in French so, to avoid parking tickets, we keep a cheat sheet in the car with the days of the week in French!
Milk is sold in plastic bags
Yummy katsup chips are sold everywhere :)
You can't turn right on red lights and you CAN turn left on blinking green lights
A handful of change adds up to a lot of $
The people here are friendly but they are more friendly (& forgiving) when they discover we are from the states...and not just Canadians that can't speak French!
These are obviously all silly things. All in all, Montreal is a special place that feels very European...yet is only 90 minutes from the NY border! We're enjoying it, especially since we’ve connected with friends from last year and had some warm and beautiful weather!
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Sydney had her first day of preschool today and she loved it. We got her into a preschool here for 3-5 year olds. It's completely bi-lingual so she'll be learning in English and French. She even has 30 minutes each day when they learn Italian because the school is in the Italian part of town.
The teacher said that she socially did great. She made some friends and had a great time playing. She did have some difficulties with sharing though...which I suppose is to be expected with a 2 year old! She also thought that snack time should be longer. For those of you who know her well, you know the question she was asking...."just a little bit more milk?"
School is for 4 hours in the mornings on Monday, Wednesday & Fridays. We are excited for Sydney to learn and grow there. I think we were a little more emotional than we thought we'd be after dropping off our 'little' girl today. She looked so big with all the other school kids.
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Myles is officially mobile. I'm not sure you can technically call it crawling though. He uses a mix of crawling and crab crawling (like Norah did). I'm not a Lord of the Rings fan but his crawl looks a bit like that character that always says, "My Precious". Nice visual huh? I assure you that Myles looks much cuter when he does it though! Regardless, he is getting around on our slippery wood floors with delight!
He is very determined when he's scooting around. He's always looking for the next great thing to put in his mouth. His favorite thing right now is Syd's books...much to her dismay.
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