Oh the joys of Spring

William and I are SOOO enjoying the budding spring ... so much new stuff is happening!!!

For example : Nathan smashed his head to pieces and had to see Dr Franck to have it all stitched together again ... Of course, this meant Mama had to take the day off work, so the three of us spent some 'quality' time at the little fair which seems to have moved into the square in front of the mairie ... now these photos do tend to contradict some recent ones illustrating Nathan's coming of age ... regression seems to be the name of the game here!!


I had a wild time just observing in amazement all the things my brother was doing that were more my age (and which quite frankly, I'm not interested in doing - I found the permanent swishing noises and loud music really quite frightening to be honest). But it was interesting to watch my Big Bro Nathan behaving more like a two-year old than me!!!

I will confess, however, that I found the sunlight a bit trying, which is why I look half asleep in these pix ... my eyes are being thoroughly tested by the children's hospital at the moment to see if some of my medication is affecting my sight ... so all this week I'm taking drops which do something weird which not even Mama understands ... on Friday they'll be checking me out to see if I need glasses or not, but in the meantime, everything is very very blurred and sunlight is really hard to deal with ... roll on Friday when we can stop the silly drops at last!!!Impaired sight has not, however, stopped me developing my climbing skills ... look at this newest accomplishment : the coffee table!! My new favorite place to watch the Teletubbies!!!

Having said that, one of my favoritest places in the whole world is with Papa on his favorite place on the sofa watching the evening news!!! Ok Lena, its your turn for some stardom now ... last weekend we went to Mami and Papi's for Sunday lunch ... here is my cousin Lena before we landed, looking quite serene ..

The angelic expression changed the moment The Bernard Bunch landed!!!

"Mama PLEEEEEEAAAAASE help me!" yelled Lena "My godmother is trying to eat me!!!"

Then MY Godfather decided it was his turn to turn evil on his Goddaughter (erm, thats moi!)

ending in similar results ... not even Mami or Papi could console me ..

even Mama had a hard time consoling me!!!

Aren't my two girl-cousins just gorgeous?????? almost as gorgeous as myself really ...

Right ... this space is going to be even longer soon cos Aunty Valerie and Aunty Anne-Sophie have both promised Mama their weekend photos ... come on!!!! You know how impetuous and impatient this Bernard Bunch is!!!

My gorgeous cousin Alexis gets to meet some really famous OL football players!!!!

OL Fondation
21/03/08 - 14:53
Hatem Ben Arfa rend visite au centre Icom
Dans le cadre du partenariat entre l’OL Fondation et Handicap International, Hatem Ben Harfa est venu rendre visite aux enfants du centre Icom.
Le centre Icom fait partie du « Programme France » d’Handicap International et vise notamment à former les enfants à l’outil informatique afin qu’ils puissent poursuivre leur scolarité. Après une visite des lieux, Hatem a rencontré individuellement chaque enfant pour en savoir plus sur les travaux qu’ils réalisaient et les outils dont ils se servaient. Hatem a par la suite participé au tournage de l’émission OL Fondation sur Handicap International dans laquelle il a pu répondre aux questions préparées par 6 enfants du centre Icom et revenir sur sa volonté de devenir le parrain du programme football mis en place par l’ONG en Tunisie. L’OL Fondation, le centre Icom et Handicap International tiennent à remercier Hatem Ben Harfa pour sa disponibilité et son accessibilité auprès des enfants. Crédit Photos : JJBernard - Handicap International

Nathan celebrates being SEVEN!!!

First things first, Nathan had to make sure the house looked easily recognizeable as 'The Birthday Spot' - sorry, did I say 'Nathan'? I mean, of course, 'Superman', visible here doing a quick inspection ...
Then he and Papa made sure the party nosh was up to scratch

Superman has a jolly close inspection of the birthday cake ..

Gramma helped to scrub me squeaky clean for this special occasion ..


My charismatic personality meant that I stole all nathan's friends ... here I am with Wonderwoman (also known as Anna), Princess Laurene, and Raphael in the background who's expression fully illustrates how stunned he is at my overwhelming beauty (for the record, this is NOT a brewing tantrum on my face AT ALL)

Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls .. so Anna and Laurene did some nice peaceful drawing ...

and smothered me for a while with Gramma

While the supermen all played a round of rowdy football

Here's big Nathe with Lucas (left) and Yanis (right) his two rugby mates (although I'm told that Nathan and Yanis together tend to transform the rugby matches into a boxing ring ... hmmm ... not a peaceful friendship that one) - cute threesome though, don't you think? Lucas is a true angel and my Mama is quite smitten with him and planning a secret kidnap ... sssshhhh!!!

Superman with his Super Women ...

Nathan with Yanis (again!) and Daryl, his chum from down the road

Nathan with classmates Raphael (who's top of the class!) and Remi (who Nathan tells me is his bestest, bestest buddy)

Then there was a series of games ... pass-the-parcel, treasure hunt, who am I? musical statues, and in this series of piccies, musical bumps accompanied by Nathan's favorite pop singer MIKA!! Daryl won the musical bumps ... and Nathan sulked for a while cos it was his party after all, so why can't HE win all the games?????





hmmm ... run out of photos ... have I told you that Mama bought a cheap second hand camera which can only take twenty photos at a time? Well, these are her twenty photos! Now we are waiting for the pix that Gramma took and I should be able to pad this out for all my readers! Watch this space folks!!!!!

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More birthday pix just sent in by Gramma! Thanks Gramma! Here we go folks ....