France update

We still don't have internet at home except on the iPhone, so it has been difficult to find time during the day to post, but here are the broad strokes: Chloe's mom is here helping (a lot!) with baby wrangling / other stuff. We moved into our new apartment in le Fontanil. There is an absolutely mind blowing market on Sundays with *three* cheese trucks, a rotisserie chicken mobile and various other awesome things. We are 20 feet from a fantastic boulangerie/patisserie. The town itself is lovely.

We still have a lot of things to unbox, but things are getting settled. We made one big trip to Ikea for a sofa, lights and other really exciting things like a hanging pan rack.

Alex is not sleeping very much, but is eating well. He had a bottle for the first time yesterday while Chloe was out talking to someone at the CNRS about applying for a position in their lab next year (it went well). He is still sleeping during the day and having baby poop/feeding parties all night long.

Zoe is adjusting well and is enjoying french food. She has a decent vocabulary of french words now, most of which are food related, and I suspect that it will not be much longer before hers surpasses mine. She goes to a nanny during the week and just had her second birthday. For her birthday, Chloe and I bought her a train set. How did we know she likes trains? It's a sad story involving a train set at a toy store and a full arching-back-pounding-on-the-floor-crying-meltdown at the suggestion that we leave. Unfortunately, while she really seems to like the train set, she uses it in unanticipated ways, such as chucking the train cars and tromping godzilla-like through the train circuits that I set up for her.

oh yeha, and chloe and I climbed some limestone routes near us! Only 6a, but man did it feel great to get outside climbing again.