Game shows, fav food & TV

The French love their game shows!!!! From "How to be a millionaire" to Temptation Island and Fort Boyard. For this week, Fort Boyard will have Tony Parker and Eva Longoria as participants. Fort Boyard centers around a fort with obstacles for each participant to finish within a certain time frame. It will be interesting to see how Eva will fare as the obstacles are never easy.

One game show I don't miss is a karaoke game show where the participants choose songs from a wide variety and must not miss out on the lyrics. It starts off with just one or 2 words missing then as the prize money increases, the number of missing words get higher (13 words for 20,000 euro) Each participant has the chance to win up to 100,000 euro everyday, but so far the most a participant wins is 20,000 euro.

New word for Lucas - FOUR. We were kinda confused at first as he kept holding out his square block and rectangle block and kept saying "four". But we watched one Barney episode where Barney holds a square block and sings " this one has four sides and it is called a square, a square's four sides are all the same..." so Lucas now calls a square/ rectangle "four"

Its official - Lucas' favourite food is pizza and pasta. I've never seen him get so excited over food except for when he sees the pizza box or he sees spag bol. He's still struggling with the spoon and prefers to use his fingers instead but he's eating. Not much, after a few mouthfuls, he starts to play with food and I still have to supplement with his milk + cereal in a bottle. But everyday he eats a little bit more.

Its also great that Lucas is waking up later these days, so mama gets to sleep in. He would wake up and talk to himself first or play in his crib. Most days now he wakes me up at 8 am. But he is going to sleep later and fights sleep. I think he feels that he's missing out when he goes to sleep so now every night its a battle to get him to sleep. He calls me into the room repeatedly and gestures at his sleep sack to ask me to take off the sack and bring him out to play. Some days when he wakes up late from his afternoon nap, I give into his request and bring him out for another 30 mins to play.
First thing when he gets out of bed, Lucas will ask for the TV... sigh. He seems to always be asking for the TV, so I distract him by a game of tickles or hide and seek or take him out for a walk. But right after the distraction, he asks for the TV again. This is the one time where he actually sits quietly while I give him the DVD casing and he chooses what he wants to watch.

Tonight the shops in Tarbes will be open til late for Summer late night shopping. More things to look forward to, summer night markets and Summer sales.