Ronnie's gap toothed smile!

Ronnie lost his first top tooth today. I'll post a picture when I get around to it. He already lost the bottom two teeth. He's been complaining that three teeth have been wiggling for awhile.

Off to vote today. My first presidential election in France! I'm still vacillating between Sego and Sarko. Everyone at school is pro-Sego and Daniel and all his buddies are voting Sarko.

I accompaigned Talia's class on their excursions to the pool. This has made me very popular with them, as well as the oragami crane-folding (and who thought that was a useless skill?) I actually now answer to the name "Maman de Talia".

The kids were chanting "Segolène! Segolène!" marching down the street. The teacher scolds them "Quiet children, there are people around who-" then I interrupted "...are voting for Sarkozy!" which got its fair share of giggles.

I think I've written about my buddie Kenza. The first time she saw me, when she and Talia had just started school, she turns to me and says "Hey you! You're not speaking French like you're supposed to! Why not??" I had to explain, in front of her red-faced mom how I was from a foreign country. Kenza's parents are originally from Morocco so it was a bit amusing having this white blond woman justifying to this non-white child why she lives in France...

Kenza is just a fountain of cute comments. She calls me her "pote", very slang. So she comes up to me and says "Salut mon pote!" and the teacher scolds her "You don't talk to adults like that!" I had to explain...

Last Monday, we went to a friends' child's Bat Mitzvah. We thought we'd bring our offspring but then the mom said that there wouldn't be any children, just kids Sarah's age. I had a babysitter lined up before we left for Spain, only to cancel 48 hours previously (for a new boyfriend's birthday, an even definitely anticipated). So luckily the mom came up with a couple of names. Hate leaving the kids with a brand new babysitter for a long evening do but it went great. The kids loved her and the house was clean when I got back.

I've decided I'm not a Bar and Bat Mitzvah loving person. I just find them so long. We got to hear Sarah playing violin and watch a montage of her baby pictures...The food was heavy and the meal long. It's great to have kosher because my Lactose Intollerant feelers can take a night off, but still...

We went ahead and "booked" her for Saturday, to go car shopping.

Yes, I'm getting rid of my Polo! So sad. My first car. I would keep a Polo but I need something a bit more powerful. No, I will not be doing 200km on the Autoroute at 2am but I'd like to be able to do curves without downgrading to 3rd.

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new_cars/polo

I tried this, but not thrilled, although it drives nicely;
http://www.skoda.co.uk/skoda3g/content/showroom/newfabia/fabiang_intro.aspx

Here are the finalists;
http://www.citroen.co.uk/level3/modelpage.asp?pagetype=c3
Daniel likes it. I'm not so sure.

Here's what I have my heart set on;
http://www.toyota.com/yaris/

A lot are U.K. sites and yes, they're called "super minis". These are high end, small cars popular with us city folk who are cursed with never-ending parallel parking.