Xmas

Getting into the Xmas spirit as a Father Christmas helper.

What? another hat I do not want to wear. Lots of pretty christmas trees in Portugal. Mama and Papa had 36 hours of cozy time visiting a few places like Guarda.

Back in Porto

Can you believe it - 15 degrees warmth at Christmas in Porto? I am spoilt by my aunt and uncle in Ribera.

Sint Niklaas

Here I am at my first Sint Niklaas' party at my parents work. I was not sure why I had to sit on the bearded man's lap but I was very happy with the balloons and my gift -a rider Bambi car - with a horn and lots of noisey tunes.

Dublin

Off to Ireland and back to the medieval times - I think I look quite cute in my new clothes. Papa has always wanted to be a knight. Papa met up with his football pals for a weekend of "drink, drink, drink...for a birthday celebration" - oops, mama asked me not to repeat what she said.

1 year old - Birthday PAAARTY!

It's my first birthday! I had loads of family and friends for the day. Mama had made a special cake with a blue train on top with the help of grandma and avo'. We had lots of food -full of calories (I still do not understand what those are ?*!) from greece and portugal with a few flavours from england and belgium - yummmmmmy. I especially liked playing with the balloons as bolas. We had streamers, teddy bear gifts and whistles. What an exciting first year - thank you for all the wonderful wishes.

Getting ready for winter

You caught me on a good day when I am happy to show off my big smile under my winter hat :-) Well, actually, I am just pulling off the hat... again... and again.... I don't see anyone else wearing one???

11 months old

Here's a more recent "portrait'... how different do you think I look?

Oct 06 - Greek holidays!

I am enjoying travelling around the world - so many things to see! This picture was taken during our holidays in the Greek island of Rhodes.

Fooling around - exercise!

I have started practising for the 2024 Olympics... what do you think? Swimming (even though to be honest I just like to splash around)? Gymnastics?

World Cup fever!

World Cup fever is all around us, and today I had a very tough test... Portugal played England so I had to use my diplomatic skills to keep daddy and mummy happy!

Reunião de família portuguesa

On holidays in Portugal

I am now venturing into the sun, with my factor 40 suntan block and my hat. My parents showed me Porto, grandma+grandpa's beach place and we travelled for 2 days to Leira and Obidos -I spent a lot of time "bobbing" in front of my daddy and looking at everything... a real tourist.

7 months old - making friends

You can see me here at the creche, along all my older friends - I have been going there since I was 5 months and I'm having a great time there!

I am 71 cm tall and 8.1 kg heavy - well I think I have a good looking figure!

6 months old - studying hard!

As you can see, the only thing that I like more than reading a book is to show off for the camera!

English family reunion

Grand-ma and grand-dad celebrated their 40 year wedding anniversary, and I couldn't miss that, could I? Here we are, where you can also see cousin Lauren and aunt Vicky.

I also went to visit Jim & Caroline up north, which you can see in the next picture.

5 mths old - visits from California!

I am quite flattered to get visits from aunt Helena and uncle Raymond, who came all the way from California to visit me... here's a picture of the 3 of us.

Aren't my eyes beautiful?

Well, I am currently busy making friends and practising on my charming smile, as you can see in the pictures... in the meantime the color of my eyes is changing: from bright blue, to greyish-blue, to greyish-green.

4 months old - back in Brussels

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Trip to Greece!

Well, slowly but steadily I am starting to make use of my passport: after having been to Portugal and the UK, I have now spent 10 days in Thessaloniki, seeing most of my Greek family. In the pictures you can see several generations of Sioundas, including mummy, grandma, great-grandma and her brother and sister. By the way, I had my first solid food there!

3 months old - part II

Yeap, I also got visitors from Portugal: grandma, great-aunt Dina and great-grandma!

3 months old - Part I

So I am 3 months old now... I am getting used to the Winter cold in Brussels; and in a fashionable way, as you can see on the picture!

I am also getting quite some visits... I've recently had Grandma and Grandpa over, as you can see.

2 months old

This is an assortment of pictures taken at home - in my rocking chair (making a pause from reading a book to pose for the picture), in my cradle, sitting up holding my head perfectly, and taking a nap in my playpen.

I weigh almost 5kg now and I am 58 cm tall. I smile all the time (well, not as often as crying) and I am very active now, studying everything around me.

New Year's Eve in Brussels

I spent my first New Year's eve in Brussels with mummy, daddy, aunt Claudia and uncle Ricardo. It was nice but freezing cold as you can see...