Language games

Eve is taking part in family conversations more and more, and showing her personality.

What you need to know to understand the following conversation is that our kids are bilingual but very much keep one language for each person. So Simon and I always speak English to each other, and the kids too always speak English to each other.

I had just corrected something Simon had said in English.

Me : It's like that in French but you can't say it that way in English.

Simon : I prefer French anyway.

Me : D'accord, si tu préfères le français, on peut se parler en français ! ("Ok, if you prefer French, we can speak to each other in French!")

Simon : Mummeeeeee!

Eve : Je t'aime, Simon!

("I love you, Simon!", deliberately said in French, which is not the language she usually uses with Simon, and which he had just protested about my using to speak to him. Cheeky girl!)

Oops!

When you put the new signs up before you finish working on the road...



(We never did find that elusive speed bump ...)

Holiday fun

Our kids are on school holidays now, and Simon particularly is full of ideas of things to do. His projects often require the participation of his brother and sister, which is great, as it occupies them too! So far this holiday we have had:

A play







Butterfly catching



Simon heard that his cousins had been to the Lego Discovery Centre in Manchester, and so decided to create his own.



And finally, Simon produced artwork probably better than he had done all year at school!