I braved my first French toddler group yesterday. I probably would have done it sooner, but it has taken me this long to find one! They really don't go in for the whole baby club type thing like we do back home. When Max was tiny, I had somewhere to go every day.
Me, Max and Luke turned up fashionably late (didn't want to risk going for the full two hours, in case I hated it) and found ourselves welcomed by lots of friendly faces. Luke was going all out with the charm offensive which was handy as Max (who had been up since 5:45am) decided to act up, not sharing toys and kicking off big style if anyone invaded his personal space. I had to stop him twice from making a run for it out the door as he wanted to go home. He eventually got into the swing of things though and found a little girl to play nicely with.
Anyway, the people were lovely. A couple of the girls spoke a bit of English, and one of them had spent six years in England as an au pair. It's a great way for me to practise my French and for Max to improve his social life. We've even been invited for café et gateaux at one of the girl's houses this afternoon, so looking forward to that!
(It's a bit of a shame that Max spent most of the time yesterday trying to avoid her little boy and getting extremely pissed off when he came anywhere near...fingers crossed he will be a bit friendlier today!)
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