New Year 2011 to 2012

I spent New Year with Grandma and Ti'pah while mamã and papá went to Bratislava in Slovakia. We talked everyday via skype on papá"s greatest toy EVER the iPhone. Mamã and papá went clubbing (partying) and even showed me the midnight partying in the square New Year's Eve (can you spot Ti'pah and me in the crowd?)
Well I could not resist to also share a photo of me and papá working hard during our Christmas break (yep, can you spot the iPhone)

Happy New Year to you all. Kisses and Hugs Tiago

Father Christmas arrived :-)

I put out two carrots for the reindeer, a cake and cup of milk for Father Christmas....wow the reindeer were hungry and left just a little part of one carrot, milk was gone and cake eaten into...Plus there were presents all under the tree and three stockings -one for me and one for my mamã and papá.
Here I am surrounded by my presents :-) Thank you all for my generous gifts.

I also got my kidibull champagne to join mamã and papá, Grandma and Ti'pah in wishing you all great time and happy new year.

Creativity

I love to draw and make things. I made a computer and I made a robot...look at all the details. He can move his arms, legs, head separately. Of course he has a tie and a belt.

Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for 2012

I have one more week of school until the holidays. I finish 23rd and will then take a plane with papá to join mamã at Grandma and Ti'pah's house for Christmas

Here is a photo of me with a touch of 'magic' and my favourite toy at the moment "Sweetie" (a girl) who mamã brought back from France (around the topic of Keeping Safe and helping each other keep safe). I am also with the school classroom mascot as I was a very good boy (and then not so good the next day :-()

I wish you all a great Christmas and lots of fun, cuddles, croissants, happiness and freedom for 2012 :-)

Here is my official school photo taken in November, wishing you (in French of course), Best Wishes.

Tintin and Christmas Markets

Winter is here and the Christmas decorations are everywhere....the hot chocalate, the Father Christmas(es) walking in the streets giving out sweets, the huts selling decorations for Christmas, scarves, hats, dolls, bags, tops...the list is endless. We had a lovely day out in Louvain-La-Neuve where the shops in the mall and streests were open on Sunday. We ate in a tapas restaurant where I was not too keen on my salmon lasagne...anyway....lots of things to see including christmas markets. We also visited the Tintin Museum well the Herge' Museum which includes the stories of Tintin. My parents liked it, I prefered the film which was great :-).

Party time

What a great day....chips and ice cream at the St Nicholas party of mamã and papá, as well as football goals from St Nicholas...I was all smiles for the camera as I sat on St Nicholas' knee. We had a whirl of a trip to then be "on time" for my birthday party at the "Magic Chateau" with 14 friends. Loads of obstacles to climb, go around/over/under, slides straight and round&round. Everyone sang "Bon Anniversaire" in french, then in english, with smarties cake and drinks. I got great presents and opened them all and played one by one with each of them :-)

Measurements

I am still 24.5 kg and now taller than 120 cm so I got into most of the Walibi rides already in August :-). My hair is mousy blonde, my eyes brown. I have long eyelashes :-) I am not fat and not overthin, even if I love to eat and eat.

Sunshine in the Leaves

Lovely sunny days with the leaves fallen all around...I put my beaver hat on from Brazil and off into the woods with my mamã. Kicked leaves, watched the chickens and fed the horses. Mamã took an arty picture of me :-) We are off to see Tintin 3D film later at the cinema. Made my birthday gifts for the birthday party last night for the kids (spiderman/princess socks, crackers, chocolates, sweets and balloons). Only 7 more days to my party. 
I played football indoor and we won 6-4. Plus I got my 5 m swimming certificate (for crawl, breastroke, butterfly). My mamã watched and was very proud - I was also very calm and straight as I swam also only kicking my legs. We also went walking in La Hulpe park and I was racing mamã and papá but they are still faster than me :-). We did loads of christmas food shopping at the British store and I visited the polar bear/penguins/walrus show.

My 6th Birthday

Yes, I am 6....I can use my new ID for the bus, metro. I made 48 cakes with my mamã for my class and the 2nd class in our year as well as the teachers. I arrived at school with TWO big tins. At home I had balloons with "6 Today" and many presents/cards. Thank you to everyone for everything as well as the calls. Kisses and Hugs to you all... from the 6 year old birthday boy :-)

Gran Canary Holidays

Wow, we had so much fun in Gran Canary. We went sliding down sand dunes, we went sliding down water parks, we went uphill into and across the mountains, we visited zoo with many types of parrots and dolphin show, I had a photo taken with a seal (that made my head very smelly of fish :-)), I had a dragon tattoo like papá (that is already disappearing), we joined cowboys and indians at 'stunt shows' and I got dressed up too, I also became a devil for the evening of halloween.
I got a Ben Ten watch early birthday present (and told my parents the time every minute for quite some time :-)), we played/swam at 4 different beaches, we had great food and sun (25-28 deg C) as well as I joined the mini-disco two nights following the professional dancer :-)....and now we returned to the cooler Belgium.

  

Family photos

Grandma and Ti'pah came to visit and help while mamã was away in Shanghai and Cincinnati. I helped in the garden and we went for walks and we did my homework in french and we went to Florian's birthday party and we made cakes....:-)
The day before we went to Gran Canary we went to Francisco and Kim's wedding....there was champagne and orange outside the church...of course I wore my cravate :-) I got a bag of sweets and St Nicholas speculoos biscuits and I shared them with my mamã and papá and new friends I met at the wedding + Aira and Miguel.

First Day at School

I am in the 6th Class at School and I am very serious about it....I dressed on the first day with my 'cravate' and smart shirt and troussers....everyone commented on how smart I was. I have my new rucksack, pens/pencilcase and ready to go. I have my own desk with an area below the desk to store my books, papers and pencil case. I am at the end of a row. My teacher is called Valérie and she is pregnant. We are 21 in the class. My friend Anaël is with me :-)
I will get homework Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday - I am immediately learning numbers/multiplications with numbers to 20 and how to read and write.

Family photos

My mamã wanted to share some more fun photos so here are family photos from over the last few weeks. Grandma and Ti'pah came to Brussels in June and also helped rebuild the front of our garden but mamã and papá wanted them to also enjoy some of the beglium summer activities too - we went to folk country festival next to the Atomium, new museum in Antwerp and with Ti'pah to Gentsefest.
Also in Porto, I loved going to the Saint festivities and seeing all the very welcoming, loving family. I am also enjoyed swimming - I swam the whole length of the pool without stopping not only once but many times + i dived and touched the bottom of the shallow to the deep end and I swam across the width holding my breath :-)
I also learnt to use chopsticks and wanted to use them at every meal time.
Enjoy :-)

Wow summer has been very busy with one week in England with Ti'pah and Grandma...Lauren also came to stay for a few days and Auntie Vicky came in and out to play and brought me a very fun frog neck pillow for all my international travelling. We went swimming, to the playground, shops and had a picnic plus played loads of cards and made lots of drawings (here I show one I made of the playground in Twyford). Then Tio Ricardo collected me from England and I spent one week in Porto before my parents cames to join for another week staying at Quinta da Mar and with Vovô and Vovó. Rodrigo stayed most days and we went to the beach, played tennis, swimming, even went to the zoo and I had a parrot on my shoulder. I also saw Cars 2 at the cinema. One weekend we were in Vale Cambra visiting family and I played with my cousins esp Tomas and danced and danced to VERY late in the night :-) (as mamã and papá were not there :-)).