Above: Yannick, Marie, Lisa - below you can see Ludovic to the right:It was a costume party with the theme "change":
Thomas mixed all kinds of summer and winter clothes and went as "climate change".
I wrote about 15 different famous quotes about change on index cards and put them in an envelope which I wore around my neck and doled them out to people as conversation starters. Ex: "Be the change you want to see in the world" (Ghandi). "Change is the state of norm, not stability" (Heraclitus).
Above: Veronique, the birthday girl, with her costume as an intergalatic woman, changing from one galaxy to another!
Everyone's wigs got a lot of use:
In short, Veronique (below) had fun! Note the time on the clock - at that point Thomas had already biked back to relieve the babysitter, Hippolyte (yes that is really his name).
Saturday June 4th: Léna's little friend Louise had her baptism:
Does Louise look scared? She should be. The priest was half in the bag.
It was the oddest, and funniest, baptism I have ever attended!
Here's Lud playing it cool:
At this point, Marie had to turn her head to stop from laughing....
Cute kids!
At the party after at Marie's stepsister's house, the pool was a free-for-all:
Squirt guns were a BIG hit with Léna!
We also had a little cake for Eva's bday....
Dance Party:
Meanwhile....
Thomas gets into the action:
The "piece montée"
Louise goes for it!
The next day, we went to see my old Scottish boss Shona far out in the hills of the Var valley....
It was to be a BBQ but torrential storms kept us inside. Estelle & Léna got the royal treatment from Shona's amazing kids Martin, Rose & Sarah, all 100% bilingual incredible kids who have no TV and probably an IQ of god knows what.
Léna had a blast! Shona & Jeff's house is in a perched village, meaning literally hanging off the sides of a mountain. It is 5 floors with terraces or balconies at each level complete with plunging vertigo-inspiring views. None of which I have photos of due to the storm.
Rose with Léna:
Sara holds Léna's hand...
Above: Art and sticker work by Estelle....
Lastly, Friday afternoon at the park, Estelle was eating string cheese and pulled a piece out of her mouth and said "Mommy, here's my tooth." I said "No Estelle that's just cheese." I was wrong!
I them promptly let the tooth go flying out of my fingers onto the gravelly pavement in the park where everyone I know, children and parents dropped onto their hands and knees to find it. Marie was the lucky one to lay her hands on the tooth at last! Phew!
The tooth fairy came and gave Estelle a 2 euro coin!Video of her highness:
