tattoos

they aren't really for me. ick. the idea of getting one freaks me out. jacob has a couple though. see, i don't mind when he gets them because they are never tacky and always with good interest. he has a bunch of maori designs on his bicep going down to his chest which i understand because it's a cultural thing and when he participates in the maori ceremonies he wouldn't look like a true maori person of course. he also has a maori phrase on his back that says "te tapuna atua koe e manaaki" which means "the ancestors are watching over you" and on the opposite chest of the design he has "bulletproof" because that's where his dad was shot. in the middle of the maori designs on his bicep he has "14/7/01" (the date his Uncle Hemi died) and "16/12/99" (the day we met) my dad always tells him "you better keep in shape or else those tattoos are going to get saggy!" haha. my parents hate tattoos. when he was a teenager, my dad begged his parents to let him get my mom's name tattooed on him. HA. of course they said no. so my rebellious father carved in "Mathilde" onto his arm and colored it in with ink. it's not very visible, but it's still there!

anyways, he told me today that when the triplets are born he is getting their birthday inked in with the rest of the dates that go through his bicep design. i think that's sweet.

but yeah. sabbath today was nice. except the most OBNOXIOUS little boy i've ever met was bothering me after the service. I swear, if my kids ever act like that...

ARGH

WOW, i hate my computer. It's so bipolar! Sometimes it works just perfectly and then others it doesn't. Some sites work okay but others don't. anyway, it's just soo obnoxious and who knows when it will work normally again?
On the plus side, I succeeded in all of my finals and will be graduating soon! YES!

The 18th was Shavuot so I didn't do much. It's the anniversary of God giving the Torah to the Israelites. Every year for Shavuot we have cheese blintzes, it's an Ashkenaz tradition from my mother's side. After that last night we went to the synagogue for the Confirmation for the tenth graders. Then we had an all night Torah study which is another tradition. Except Jacob fell asleep, haha, fail. But I almost did too. We have some Sephardic neighbors that don't celebrate it like the Ashkenaz so they sort of gave us looks as usual, haha, specificially one of my ruder neighbors who doesn't understand Ashkenazi Judaism anyways. Blah, so yeah i'm pretty tired now.

Tomorrow i am 13 weeks pregnant! Time is flying by, but i'm hardly even there yet. The doctor says that I will have my c-section probably around 35 weeks, which means I'll probably have them around mid-late October.

I've been spending a lot of time helping Mathieu and Emaline adjust to parenthood. Well, that's a lie, but I have been cooking for them and changing the occasional diaper :) Cléméntine is adorable. She's a red-head! Once Mathieu starts working again I promised Emaline i'd help out until I begin to waddle, in which case i'm retiring to the sofa :)

Hope you all are doing well! I miss talking to people since once again my computer is dumb :(

woke up to a knock at the door...

Babysitting Prune and Capucine overnight with Jacob. My mom woke us up in the middle of the night. My grandpa had a heart attack. He's all right now. But the reality of him someday leaving me just hit, and it's scary. I'm so angry. But I don't know at who.

Ooh baby baby!

Cue Salt 'n' Pepa! (PUSH IT!)
Anywayyyy.

There is a lot of baby stuff going on around here!
Emaline went into labor yesterday, and in the middle of the night gave birth to a beeeeautiful chubby red faced little girl!
Cléméntine Félicie was born at 8 lbs 13 oz!

here is a photo of the cutie with Mathieu's niece Maëlle.

And in other baby news, Aurélie is coming to visit in a few weeks and I finalllly get to meet Agnes! I've been dying to forever! it's unhealthy for a niece to be separated from her aunt for so long. Luckily I have Cléméntine nearby :) I'm going to spoil that girl rotten.

I woke up early to begin the tedious process of studying for finals again and working on my graduation project! One more week, ONE MORE WEEK! ahhh. I'm just extremely nervous for my physics labs. Oi.

Baby names!

Even though i'm still barely pregnant (although my belly says otherwise) I've already had the baby names picked out! haha, all six of 'em :) What do you guys think?

Auguste Léon: (Girls at the Piano by Pierre-Auguste Renoir) Ah, how I love Auguste. I've loved this name forever, and when I suggested it to Jacob he said "huh, well that's kind of cool!" Yes, Jacob. It is cool. It reminds me of the lovely month, and for some reason the movie August Rush which was good, haha. I also lurrrrve Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Perhaps one of my favorite artists. Léon is for my fabulous grandpa :) When I told him that if we have a boy his middle name will be after him, he got tears in his eyes! I love it.

Jonas Armand:
I came across Jonas years ago when I read the story The Giver. I fell in love with it, the book, and the character. Jacob was actually the one who suggested it and I was so pleased that he did. Oh, and I love the song "My Name is Jonas." I think it's so cool. Armand is for my dad.

Caspar Hemi:
Caspar is just one of those cool names. I kind of like Gaspard better, but Jacob likes Caspar so ah, he wins. It means "Treasure" which is so sweet. Hemi (pron. HAY-mee) is the name of Jacob's uncle who was a really important person to him but died when he was younger. We were thinking of going with Caspar Rawiri instead, after Jacob's dad who was murdered when he was ten, but even though he loved Jacob he wasn't there, and Hemi was.

Charlotte Valéria: She'll go by Lottie. Isn't that just so cute? Lottie Lottie Lottie. Hehe. Charlotte is just one of those timeless names that I love no matter the popularity. Jacob and I just made a list of all the famous Charlottes...Charlotte Bronte, a million royal women, Charlotte's Web, etc. Valéria is for Jacob's grandmother Val who stepped in and raised him. She's a fantastic lady, and i'm sure little Lottie would be honored to have her name in there.

Arielle Odette: (Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen) Arielle makes me think of the Little Mermaid, and what little girl doesn't want to be a mermaid? haha. It's just so gorgeous. ahry-ELL. ahry-ELL. ahry-ELL. it just sounds so pretty i can't even get over it. Jacob says it a little differently but it still sounds cool. We might call her Ari sometimes. Odette honors oodles of people...an Auntie who died in the Holocaust, some ancestors ages and ages ago, Angélique...

Serena Adèle: Serena is just so light and I think of a little fairy or something when I hear the name. Adèle is for great-grandmother Marie who was everybody's favorite and died in the Holocaust.

Any opinions on these names? Not that i'll really care what you think if you hate them, haha :)