Dear Brats,
Last night when I arrived home, Jean-Loup came up to me all excited. So excited he couldn't quite remember what he wanted to tell me...but finally he blurted out, "This morning I walked to school all by my self! Mom said I could!"
Wow he is getting to be a big boy.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Cute story
Dear Brats,
It has been too long since I last wrote anything here. But here's a cute story to share:
Jean-Loup is learning to read, and he's quite proud of his accompishments. He wanted to show me how well he could read, so he picked up this book,
Well being bilingual, he wanted to read it in English. So he began,
JL: Milk three wolves.
me: no it's not milk it's the three wolves.
JL, OK, milk three wolves.
me: No it's not milk, les is the in English.
JL: Milk three wolves.
I finally gave up. The next night I was speaking with Jeannine about his reading, and she said the title of the book. It's pronounced more or less "Lay twa lou" It dawned on me, he was using the sound of les(lay) which sounds a bit like lait (milk) in French. So his translation was phonetically correct.
It has been too long since I last wrote anything here. But here's a cute story to share:
Jean-Loup is learning to read, and he's quite proud of his accompishments. He wanted to show me how well he could read, so he picked up this book,
JL: Milk three wolves.
me: no it's not milk it's the three wolves.
JL, OK, milk three wolves.
me: No it's not milk, les is the in English.
JL: Milk three wolves.
I finally gave up. The next night I was speaking with Jeannine about his reading, and she said the title of the book. It's pronounced more or less "Lay twa lou" It dawned on me, he was using the sound of les(lay) which sounds a bit like lait (milk) in French. So his translation was phonetically correct.
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