Freudian slips & other Noah-isms

When you're berating your son about lying, and he says, "Je ne mens pas, je travestis la vérité ! Heu... Non, c'est pas ça !"

("I'm not lying, I'm distorting the truth. Uh... wait, that's not what I meant!")

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This is what bilingualism really looks like:

 "Je me suis déjà brushé les teeth en premier."

Swim meet at Crépy-en-Valois

Great swim meet today for Benjamin, who improved his times on the 100-meter backstroke, 800-meter freestyle (1:01 improvement over his December time!), 200-meter medley, 50-meter freestyle, and 200-meter backstroke!

Homemade Ravioli

We weren't able to hold him off for long. When we found out a friend had a ravioli pan, Noah asked to borrow it. There was no school today, so here we are! Delicious!

The proud chef.

Spinach-ricotta cannelloni

Noah has high aspirations as a chef, but we talked Noah out of homemade ravioli and into spinach-ricotta cannelloni. And it was great!

11!

We celebrated Noah's 11th birthday!

Club Swim Meet #2

Benjamin and Noah had their second club meet of the year. This is mainly a time for the parents to cheer on their younger kids, who aren't yet in competition groups, and for the competition group to inspire the younger kids to join them. 

Seems like not that long ago Benjamin and Noah were the little ones looking up to the super-speedy big kids!

Benjamin, backstroke

Noah, butterfly

Noah, backstroke

Noah, breaststroke

Benjamin, butterfly

Benjamin, crawl

Benjamin, diving during the relay race

Chicken Pot Pie

Benjamin prepared one of his favorite dishes for us - chicken pot pie.

It was delicious!

Top Chef

We're trying out a new plan, where each boy is responsible for dinner one night a week. Benjamin made us pasta carbonara this weekend, Noah made us fried rice.

Swim Meet at Beautor

Today's swim meet was an "Avenirs" meet at Beautor, which is about an hour north of us. Noah went with four teammates in three different age groups.

Noah came in 2nd in 200-meter freestyle and 1st in 50-meter breaststroke.