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 :-)

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.

Euro 2012 Football

England, England....or is it Portugal, Portugal....or is it Hello matey I am a Pirate....
Yes it's football mega competition and both England (a surprise) and Portugal are through to the QuarterFinals. We do not expect them to ever meet as they would both need to make it to the Final.
I also have my local Belgium team...well I am not sure how many of us are actually Belgium but if we all take belgium nationality when we are 18, here is the future national team :-)
Here I am after Anais birthday party showing off my tatoo and Pirate eye. One more week of school. I got all smiley faces for my talk on "Travel" to the class (5 minutes....talked too quick but I did it :-))

Medieval weekend

The witches against the knights...here is a friendly witch and then here is a 3-headed witch....our yearly Etterbeek medieval event. Great beers (so my parents tell me), sausages and fizzy drinks as well as games and music. There was a man playing 'drums' (symbals) across the floor.
We also joined the jazz events in the centre of Brussels and I had my first Thai meal (not impressed and ate the chicken without the peanut sauce). So won't be going to Thailand soon then?
It was another long weekend so we went to Walibi on the Monday.
It was such a beautiful sunny weekend, we got the swimming pool out for the first time. Anabel from nextdoor came to play one evening.

First tooth Lost

Wow, I am so happy and so excited. My first tooth came out last night. I was eating some hard crusted bread and all of a sudden I had blood pouring out of my mouth and my tooth was loose and painful (oh, I shed quite some tears). Then I stuggled to eat dinner...felt poorly. I saw in front of Canal Panda TV and started to feel better. My mamã came and we were watching together when suddenly my mamã said "Tiago, your tooth has gone". Ooooohhhhh. Yeepeeeeee. I am now really a 6 year old :-)
But we could not find the tooth. We looked everywhere on the sofa, under the sofa, in the sofa, moved the sofa....Anyway my mamã said I had to be in bed by 9.00 and be good for the tooth fairy to come. I was in my room 9.03 and we had a story on the bed (so officially I was kind of in bed). Well, we wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy (which I signed) to say sorry about losing the tooth and I went off to sleep.
Also I am starting to read with my mamã the bedtime stories...We read 3 Billy Goats Gruff....I guess some words as I remember them, others I try to read etc...
And in the morning under my pillow was my note AND 1 EURO :-) So when I lose 5 teeth, I will have enough for buying a playmobil. I am so excited :-)
I look forward to showing my papá tonight when he comes back from the UK.

By the way, it was -10 degrees today (yep, minus 10)....I am trying to smile but also show off my missing tooth in this photo.

My future career

Yes, I like to try different things, so here I am being a pilot for a few minutes at the Sabena Airlines exhibition :-)
We saw loads of different uniforms, aeroplane chairs over the years, models of aircraft, posters advertising pictures.

We also saw american indian show with loads of feather hats, even some made from teeth of monkeys.

Camera paparazzi

Ti'pah brought me back by train to home. I tried to help Ti'pah as we walked through the stations and took 5 trains (one to london, one metro across london, one train across the water to brussels, one metro and another metro to get home - phew, but i enjoyed it :-))
With Ti'pah and mamã we went downtown to try to get my Portuguese ID but no one available to take the photo. So we then met and had lunch in Stokkel. Then we went home and made 'shrinking dinasours' - loads of fun, you colour in a hand sized dinosaur and then put it in the oven and it becomes small and hard to make keyrings/magnets (thank you Max for the pressie).
Well, mamã loves taking pictures and since we had no luck for the ID she took a 'string'. She tells me she has to take loads to get a good one...anyway here I am showing off my tie and waistcoat as usual. Nearly everytime my mamã and papá tell me to choose what I want to wear, I get my tie (cravate) and today I took the waistcoat too :-).
At school, I am very good at maths. I am also not too bad with my french spelling and reading although I think my mamã and papá think I should be much better and it's a bit of a painfule experience. Every week I also need to mark green/orange/red on 10 behaviours/tasks. I have good weeks and then some bad weeks where I am not tidying my desk, not being quiet in the corridor and organizing my things or not listening and disturbing others. Not good, I know.
I still am a very good eater and still have loads of energy every day playing and running in any break we have (and getting more cuts and bruises).


Maybe you could tell vote on which is the best photo?! Enjoy the paparazzi.

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 :-)

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.