Easy Peasy And So Forth...

Oh and Bob turns into Super-Bob-The-Artist!

We drove to a neighbouring village for an English lesson yesterday. Great kids and all still in kindergarten. At the moment their repertoire is restricted to numbers (1-10 ), names of the major animals and of course the different colours - dark green and light green included. English, that is. But they are bright sparks indeed and understand a whole lot more then we might think.

We do take crayons and paper along to do a round of drawing. Always a good idea with the little ones. You do need an imagination of course, because what they say is " a picture of you ", sometimes looks nothing like it. In fact it is jolly hard to keep up your smile when the drawing resembles everything and anything but you.

Between Bob and I, he is the chosen one when it comes to drawing. It was so cute yesterday because the one kid especially wore a t-shirt with a picture of chimps in different guises. The minute he saw us, he beelined it to Bob and commanded him to draw the apes.

After a few minutes of drawing, he was a bit dejected:

" Biggi, please tell Bob that this looks nothing like
the monkey I wanted him to draw "

I tell you, Bob was in a bit of a pickle. Try as he might, his drawn monkeys didn't look like the requested ones. Throughout the hour, different requests were bandied about and one could see a lively imagination at work: A shark / fighterplane / shark eating a fish with a diver next to it / castle...you get the idea. Bob was stretched to his artistic limit....

We had three kids for the lesson, and I was doing a puzzle with the little girl at the next table. All of a sudden, I heard Bob utter:

" Easy Peasy "

( he was maybe drawing an orange? ) and wouldn't you know it, this turned into the preferred phrase of our afternoon. All three of them were throwing the " Easy Peasy " about like seasoned English speakers.

After we had explained what it meant to them, there was no stopping them. Everything was easy peasy, and at one stage when a piece of puzzle didn't fit, this bright little gal said to me:

" Nicht Easy Peasy "

If this was a Twitter report, I would end it with the hash tags #speechless and #proud!

Biggi