Preparing for my big "mystery reader" debut at Le Lycee

Sidney's expanding vocabulary

Sidney continues to expand his vocabulary... He has never been very adventurous with words, but he is starting to mimic and repeat alot more of what he hears

• "No"
• "Me"
  
• "My"
• "Mine"
• "Oui" = yes
  
• "Tan" = Nathan (w/French accent)
  
• "Ana" = Ana
• "Eeeee mo" = Nemo (from "Finding Nemo")
  
• "Eh ya" = Tea, a neighbor-friend of Nathan and Sidney's
  
• "Hiyo" = Hi
• "Ai you" = Yaourt = Yogurt
  
• "Bye bye"
• "Nena" = little girl (Spanish)
  
• "Nigh nigh" = night night. He tells us when he's tired, and if we hurry he's REALLY easy to put to sleep.
• "Wowwy" = sorry (I'll try to capture this on film... it's too cute!)
• "Buh" = bus
• "Doo doo" = choo choo = train
• "Doo doo" = Tchoupi & Doudou
  
• "dacdor" = tractor
• "Pan" = pain = bread
• "Num num" = food
• "Nay" = nose
• "Oye" = Oeil = Eye
• "Boo" = bouche = mouth
• "Aa ee ooooh" = cereal (breakfast)
• "Pehh whin" = penguin
• "Rawr" = lion, panther, tiger
• "Mooo" = cow, horse, any other non-tiger beast
  
• "Tam" = hippopatame = hippopatamus
• "Phant" = Elephant
• "Paap eh" = papier = paper
  

The elder-brother-as-escort

I've got big eyes!

Num num!?

On the way back from the tienda we saw this sign.

"Num num?!" said Sidney.

Vamonos a la tienda

Hey, Nathan - stand still and say "cheese"

"Let's go appliance shopping"

Cause and effect?

Papa's car is a ... car?

For the past three or four months, our cars have been everything BUT cars.

"Papa's car is a train."

"Mama's car is a bus."

"Papa's car is a fire truck."

This morning when I put Nathan into the car and we started to drive off, he pointed out a big MUNI bus. "Is Papa's car a bus?" I asked, looking forward to a long discussion about the benefits of bus-ness.

Nathan looked at me and calmly replied, "No, Papa's car is just a car."

"Nathan, what did you do over February vacation?"

The answer surprised us. Great imagination.

"I got a parrot and I took a big, big airplane. I flew to Mami and Papi's house. We played at Mami's house."

Stupid?

Nathan had a replacement teacher today. He was not happy about going to pool in general and about getting a new teacher in particular. The start was hard but he got in the water and all went fine.
Me: "Nathan, you did really well today. Your teacher seemed very nice" (he hugged her at the end of the class)
Nathan: "Yes, but she's stupid"
Me: "No, Nathan, teachers are not stupid!" (what else can I say, they are not ALL stupid, only some are ;-)
Nathan: "Ok, teachers are just a liiiittle bit stupid"

Who knows where he got that from? We are onto a great start, aren't we?

Park Chow anyone?

Nathan hosts storytime

The cool dude

Nathan really loves his new sunglasses!!

Get yer motor runnin...

I found the cutest little kid at IKEA

Hopefully he comes with all the right pieces so I can put him together!!

IKEA-riffic

Chercher la chance!

I made a bubble bath for the kids.

Nathan felt lucky.

He exclaimed, "chercher la chance!" (J'ai de la chance = I'm lucky)

"Where's Doctor Salad?"

(Dr. Sollod)

"He's not going to go to Costco...!"

Ready for a "break-out" day 2

Ready to present!!

At induction cooking class

Nathans latest art

So relaxing!

"I'm little Suzy the princess!"

Followed by "I don't want to be a girl."