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| bubbles |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:08 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Says, Misc |
| Tadpole and I are in a taxi, speeding along the A1 on the way to Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. Tadpole is chattering away, nine to the dozen, and I am marvelling at the ease with which she has slipped back into English after a three week holiday spent entirely in French mode with mamie [...] |
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| drip |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 6:43 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Rearing, Misc |
| Tadpole scowls at me across the dinner table. She hasn’t touched her food, despite the fact that I let her choose the dinner menu. Instead she pushes it around her plate listlessly, scattering baby peas and grains of rice onto the tabletop. Every few seconds, it seems, I have to ask her [...] |
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| red |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 6:31 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Says, Tadpole Rearing |
| Tadpole and I are making our way home from “daddy’s house”. We make excruciatingly slow progress, as she insists on pulling her Miffy wheelie weekend bag along herself rather than letting me carry it. My eyes are riveted on the pavement ahead so that I can give advance warning should we encounter anything [...] |
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| zizi |
| Published: September 24, 2007, 4:31 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Says, Tadpole Rearing |
| from Mr Frog to Petite Anglaise date 19 Sep 2007 21:16 subject Quote of the Day “Aujourd’hui dans la cour de r cr ation Matthias il nous a montr son zizi…. C’ tait tr s rigolo.” I chuckle aloud, paste the quote into my ongoing MSN chat with the Boy (his response: “let’s hope |
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| abduction |
| Published: October 16, 2007, 4:47 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Rearing |
| One of the reasons I have been feeling low since the school year kicked off in September (and yes, I realise this has had some incidence on the frequency of posting here at petite anglaise) was that for a few excruciating weeks, I became increasingly convinced that my daughter had been abducted by aliens. Gone was [...] |
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| princess shoes |
| Published: November 6, 2007, 4:58 pm |
| Tags: Tadpole Rearing, Tadpole Says, On The Road |
| It is a week in which I’ve already made two Paris-London-Paris trips on the Eurostar, complete with identical on-board meals of hachis parmentier and a very bland slice of bakewell tart on both Sunday and Wednesday evenings, and adjusted my watch five times (albeit a little slow on the uptake the day that daylight saving [...] |
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| amoureux |
| Published: November 15, 2007, 6:45 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Rearing, Tadpole Says, Misc |
| say that Tadpole rarely shares insights about her secret life in the moyenne section of our local maternelle would be something of an understatement. Invariably, on the way home from school, we have a conversation which goes something like this. Me: “So, what did you do today?” Tadpole: “Just some things.” Me: |
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| hump |
| Published: November 28, 2007, 5:03 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Says |
| While Tadpole splashes merrily in the bath, her legs pressed together into her best impression of a mermaid’s tail, I decide to get changed. I take my MILF status very seriously, which means my cotton underwear must make way for something a little more transparent and titillating before the Boy returns home from work. I [...] |
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| poup e de cire |
| Published: December 4, 2007, 3:42 pm |
| Tags: Tadpole Sings |
| Tadpole came back from “daddy’s house” this weekend singing an unfamiliar song, over and over again. The tune sounded consistent, but the lyrics a little approximative in places (including a reference to ketchup which I strongly suspected had no business being there whatsoever). By way of explanation, Mr Frog emailed me a link |
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| Tadpolecast |
| Published: January 26, 2008, 4:18 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Sings |
| Tadpole has a Chinese classmate called Evelyne. Evelyne didn’t start the moyenne section in September with the rest of the class. Her name was on the register from day one, but she only arrived shortly after the Christmas holidays. Every schoolday, when I stumble down the hill to drop off [...] |
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| secret |
| Published: February 18, 2008, 4:46 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Rearing |
| princess dress,” Tadpole has been telling everyone who will listen. “And a tiara. And when mummy gets little bit busy, I’m going to help with carrying the flowers…” Tadpole’s Disney Princess phase has lasted upwards of a year now, and shows no sign of abating. Given every self-respecting princess |
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| permission |
| Published: February 22, 2008, 4:15 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Rearing, Mills Boon |
| The Boy and Tadpole return from their pilgrimage to McDonalds. The Boy is looking disproportionately pleased with himself, far more so than the feat of having hunted and gathered a happy meal and a couple of burgers would usually warrant. “What have you two been up to?” I ask, suspiciously, as I unpack Tadpole’s chicken |
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| special k |
| Published: March 31, 2008, 4:22 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Rearing |
| says Tadpole, her voice a half-yawn. This would be true if her bed wasn’t an extra short lit volutif from Ikea, which I really should lengthen one day soon, as Tadpole is tall and willowly. My (shorter, stumpier - do I sound jealous yet?) legs are currently bent at the knee, so even if she is lying in a sort of |
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| chouette hibou |
| Published: April 16, 2008, 9:21 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Rearing |
| suspect the inspiration for Tadpole’s picture came from the fact we are currently reading about Plop, the Owl who was Afraid of the Dark, at bedtimes, which is bringing back all sorts of lovely memories of reading the same to my baby sister, many years ago. But it’s the other, cartoon-like bird on Tadpole’s picture that amused |
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| three |
| Published: April 14, 2008, 5:07 am |
| Tags: Tadpole Sings, City Of Light, Misc |
| my big nichons mummy,’ Tadpole shrieks, fingering her (papier m ch ) breasts. It is 10.30 am on Saturday morning and Mr Frog and I have come to watch Tadpole’s annual school carnival, while The Boy, not wishing to step over any invisible lines, remains at home. This year the children are all dressed up as works of art and the |
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