Funny Kids

Benjamin dit :
"On se moque des Allemands, parce qu'ils disent 'cheval d'eau' pour hippopotame. Mais regarde ce qu'on dit en français - hippo = 'cheval', potame = 'qui a un gros popotin.' On n'est pas mieux !"

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Noah is supposed to be making up a family tree for English class. He named one person Cranberry, and one person Booger. 

Noah's swim meet in Laon

Noah's group had a meet at Laon today. There are now five of them on the team in this age group, which includes kids born between 2008 and 2010.

Swim meets mean... food for sharing. Like these mini pains au chocolat Frédéric made. Yum!

The old hands know tricks - like bring a highlighter to see at a glance when members of our team are swimming. And bring flip-flops, since you're not allowed to wear shoes in the pool area.

Warm-ups - the pool is full of little fishes.

Breaststroke is Noah's best stroke

3rd place in 100-meter medley

2nd place in 50-meter backstroke

Snow!

Snow! I could have done without the white stuff, but the boys were happy. 

So was Gala!

Happy New Year!

We have some friends we try to get together with a couple of times a year, at their house or ours. We started planning in September this year, but the first available date we could find was New Year's. So they came over with their four kids for a few days in Puiseux with us. 

There were ten of us in the house, but all the kids helped out with setting the table and clearing up afterwards, and some helped with cooking. 

One of the highlights was the walk in the village.

They brought a game called Mysterium for Benjamin for his birthday. It's a cooperative game where the "medium" gives everyone clues to help them discover who murdered him, and you all win if you figure it out before time runs out. The first time took us a while to play since we had to read all the rules, but after that it was easy and fun to play.