Stacey's favorite thing about the Montreal apartment

I love a lot of things about this apartment. I love that it has lots of windows. I love that there are big, leafy plants all over the place. I love the decorations.
But if I could just take one thing with me when we go, this would be it.
Here, H shows off the very first dishwasher that I've ever had since living with my parents (I went to college in 1997 and moved to Florida in 2002). It will be a sad day when I part with this modern convenience once again! (As you can tell, H likes it too.)

Discovering fully furnished

H's discovery of what fully furnished really means...H wanted to be sure I knew where all of the things were in this "fully-furnished" apartment that she was capable of reaching. Here, she's decided to browse all of the tourism literature that was nicely arranged on the shelving for us.

Here, she reaches a desk drawer and is just centimeters away from a stack of tourism info that I had just picked up and put on the desk (I thought she wouldn't be able to reach it there!)

Wait, Mom - I think I've found something else... (Notice the portable chess set and karate book that are already at her feet - who knew that's what fully furnished meant? How great is that!)

Yep! This place is full of magazines! Oh boy!!!
(This was February 1 - which also happens to mean she's 11 mos. old. Can she really be almost 1????)

Our home for a month

We're in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for one month while Derek takes a course to become certified to teach English to adults. (This is necessary for our future work in SE Asia.) The school has contracts with certain apartments that come fully furnished. The one we are staying in is usually run as a bed and breakfast. We love it - it's beautiful! The above pic is the dining room, looking into the living room.

H and Mom check the place out on our first day there.

H loves that we didn't have room to pack the tray that goes with her booster - so she gets to sit at the table like a big girl!

The living room

One of our walls is brick - and some of the bricks have cat paw prints on them!