St Nicholas

Yes, it's my name day - well my second name day - Tiago Nicholas. I celebrated two times - once at

mamã and papá's work and I got a fantastic face painting and a horse tattoo. I think I scared St Nicholas (although I had just seen the day before a different one in Stockel shopping centre, plus I had not written a letter asking for a lego game which is what I got...not complaining though, as I assmbled it as soon as I got home). On the 6th December, St Nicholas came to our school throwing sweets and giving us a bag when he saw our tangarine on our shoe at school. I also left a picture for him at the fireplace and I got a 3in1 creator lego in the morning (I got out of bed very quickly).

What do you think of my drawing too? Spot the differences with Father Christmas?

Walking with Dinosaurs

They are soooooo big and I loved the roar of the Tyranosaurus Rex mamã and then the baby - very funny. the narrator (a new word for me) even put his hand inside the 'poo' of the dinosaur.
I was happy to eat popcorn, popcorn and popcorn.
Also we saw the 5 Guardians - beautiful with Father Christmas, Tooth Fairy, Sandman (Dreams), Easter Bunny and JAck Frost.

School photo

It's time for the official school photo - Greetings to you all for Christmas Holidays and Best Wishes for 2013.
(and this time my parents planned for me to wear different clothes than last year :-)).

I am doing very well at Maths at school and not bad at french - written, understanding and doing well in reading. After only 1 year, I can pick up most books and some comic books and read. Still learning to read and understand everything automatically. I love to drawer. I had to describe myself at school - 3 not so good and 3 good things. I said: distracted, boisterous, 3rd? for bad and intelligent, funny, sporty for good.

29 kg, still lost only 4 teeth, hair getting darker like mamã's. I love stories at bedtime. Love to play Wii for hours. Love my football and swimming on Saturday. I am learning to do butterlfy and crawl better and better each week.

I also gave my first kiss on the lips to my girlfriend, Alaïs :-)

My 7th birthday

Yes, my birthday time :-). Mamã and I made cakes for school - small fairy cakes...Mamã was not so impressed when I told her 37 were not enough and we had to make some biscuits to be close to 50 for the two classes and teachers. I had skeleton cake for the day. Vovó came on the day and for the weekend. THANK YOU everyone for all my presents and cards. I loved everything. I also had a great party with my friends at the Puppet Theatre - Le Peruchet - with the 3 Pigs Story. We had loads of fun and were laughing a lot with the bad wolf. After the story, we had a special party with cakes, bicuits, crisps and my birthday cake arrived on a train behind the curtain of the theatre. We then had a walk around the museum of the puppets. When I got home I opened all my presents. thank you.
My favourite toy/game is Pokémon cards - I got some special ones from vovó. I even spent my own money to buy cards and to trade food for cards at school (a bargain for my friends as a biscuit costs 1 euro and a card costs 90 cents :-))
I got from grandma and ti'pah this warm lazing around Saturday/Sunday morning TV lounger :-) Plus Pirates of Carribean game which I won against mamã :-)

Holidays in Morocco

We had a wonderful time in Morocco - all inclusive hotel Iberostar in Agadir with 3 swimming pools and one was heated; made friends every day talking in french and english, played in the pool, played cards, chatted, played football, danced at the disco, watched two shows, dressed up for Halloween.

We also went on a trip for 3 days to Marakech and Ouarzarate. In Marakech we visited beautiful Saadian tombs, a Palace, walked around the city and around Koutoubia Mosque, had a dinner outside overlooking the church/tombs with music and big meat skewers, we walked through the bazaar for miles (and people all friendly). We saw the main square Place Jemaa el-Fna in the day and at night, so crowded at night with orange sellers, snake dancing, stalls selling many different things. We visited the Film Studios of Ouarzarate where they filmed Asterix (Cleoptra). We stayed in the old town by the old castle, all made from mud. I happily joined in with 3 boys playing football in the main square at night. We also visited Aït Benhaddou town where they were also making a film. Here are some pictures of us.

Grandma's birthday

Ti'pah and Grandma stayed on after the parties and we could celebrate grandma's party with cake of course. We also went to Paris on the train to meet mamã and papá who had gone the night before. I saw the Eiffel Tower - very excited - so tallllllllllll. We had a lovely lunch before taking metro and bus and going to the horse races. I tried to guess the right winner, got it wrong each time. One horse won millions of euros. Wowwwww. We had dinner on the train coming back travelling first class to celebrate.

40th + 10th

Party time - it's papá's 40th birthday and mamã and papá's 10th wedding anniversary. We had loads of friends and the close family come to celebrate. We celebrated all weekend and partied in the Old La Fermette - lots of food, drinks and cakes, chocolated....yummy. Stayed up to after midnight to celebrate papá's birthday with a cake with a picture of him as a small boy.

Mamã and I made chocolate little bags for everyone.
Look at all the wonderful cakes we made also with grandma and kids ate in 5 minutes all the small ones.

I love my mamã and papá very much.

Summer is over

Wow 2 months have passed and I now am starting to understand days, weeks, months and 365 days in a year. I spent a whole month in Portugal and England with the extended family. Had a wonderful time, playing, swimming, eating, playing, talking, reading....My reading has improved - I can read most things in french. I like to try a few things in english etc...I lost my 4th tooth in Porto while eating soup. I am 1.27m and waigh 27.3 kg. I love to make chocolate chip biscuits. I was happy that I could move from 1st to 2nd class and immediately went to buy all the pens, pencils, ruler etc for 2nd class. I got a gift of new rucksack etc...and here I am on my first day on 2nd class.

End of School, Teeth and Asterix Park

School is finished and I passed the 1st Year - YES. I got a good report and was told to continue my recent very good behaviour.
We went to the dentist and he told me to clean my teeth in the morning and evening (so I will be very dilignet now) and wiggle my loose tooth for 3 days....and yes, on the 4th morning, my 3rd tooth fell out...look at my big gap :-).
I went to Judo/badminton/minisports stage this week - I had loads of fun. We did a show at the end of the week showing our Judo foot and arm movements + made "grants". Mamã picked me up on the Friday and we had a coca cola/beer outside the gym in the cafe' and then we had pasta and salad. We had been to Cook and Book for dinner with Papá on Wednesday too when the weather was beautiful. I played in the little park by the restaurant. On Saturday we went to Asterix park outside Paris, France. Lots of fun buildings, decoration and we watched Roman soldiers, became Roman soldiers, went on a ghost train, went on water ride and flying carpet round and round. Lots of fun besides the multiple downpour of rain. I bought a Roman outfit.We had dinner in Senlis, in a tiny creperie restaurant which was a nice change. Fell asleep straight away in the car trip home.

Moving Roman soldiers on the right are us 3 :-) Here is a better picture in a different uniform of Papá and then of me :-)

My drawings

I continue to love to draw and my skills are improving....I like drawing people and I like to draw scenes around circus since our school circus trip. I am also using the ruler a lot and wanting to write text with some help on the spelling.Here are two examples that are now hanging on our fridge in the kitchen.

Wedding Istanbul

School finished at 12.10 and then home for lunch before on the aeroplane to Istanbul. We had a great hotel (HHK) with my own individual room. We looked over the Golden Horn, a few hundred metres from Suleimaniye Mosque. Beautiful with a little pool and very friendly people. We visited the city including Haghia Sophia, the Archaeological Museum (with some amazing tombs), Grand Bazaar where I got football top and shorts of Portugal from Euro 2012 with Ronaldo #7. We went to Berna and Dany's wedding on the Bosphorus, Portaxe. Beautiful time - a very happy big party with loads of great company (playing with the other kids) and dancing and food and...eventually I fell asleep on my inflatable bed. The next day we went across the Bosphorus to Besiktas to Ortakoy (market stalls and lazy cafés) and naval museum, to the Blue Mosque at night after kebab dinner. We visited the wonderful frescoes of Church of St Saviour in Chora and then had lunch overlooking Golden Horn at the Pierre Loti restaurant. We walked down through the BIG cemetery and took a very small powered boat to Miniturk. Loads of fun walking around Miniturk that I drew pictures back home. Then it was time to leave and back to the airport after visiting the spice market.