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Lutèce, RIP

Today we lost our beloved Lutèce to kidney failure. Here are a few pictures of her. Benjamin will miss his brief (and rare) "câlins" (cuddles) with "LuTess."

BenTub

tricycle

2 years old

Thanks grandma and Jerry for this great photo of the boytiger 2 days before his birthday:

- papa

PS Sammy asks what Benjamin is doing with the stick. Maman informs me that it was his trumpet.

His 2 strongest themes right now are tigers and trumpets.

Why trumpets? Because of Trotro, of course:

Benben se deguise

Benjamin doesn't watch TV on a TV set, but we do let him watch short videos originally from French television that we can download from the Internet. His favorite by far is L'Ane Trotro and right now his favorite episode is "Trotro se déguise" where Trotro dresses up as a tiger and announces "Je suis un tigre!"





Benben has been announcing the same to us for the past few days, in French and English.



When he was pretending to vacuum last night, I said, "I thought you said you were a tiger. Tiger's don't vacuum!"

He replied, "I'm a tiger vacuum!"