Back from Porto

Mamã and papá left Sunday 4 pm after the local party in "Amial" Vale Cambra with the family....we had big lunch in the back of Bivó's house. Here I am eating home made ice cream cake from vovó. Do you like my short, teenager haircut?
Mamã and papá stayed in Burgos on the way home by car. After a week vovô took me home by plane. I bought and brought a present for mamã and papá - 2 flowers for mamã and a tie for papá. Whenever I ask for presents from mamã and papá, I remind them I brought them presents :-)
With vovô we visited Gert, Maira and new arrival Tobias. We went to the 'beach party' along the canal in Brussels and I disco danced while the adults had a drink and then I went 'bungy jmping' for the first time - yeeeepeeee, so much fun and exhausting.

Rodrigo's Christening and Beach

Sun and sun....some wind....but loads of fun even in the cold Porto sea. I built sand castles and went walking in the rocks and played loads with my cousin Rodrigo. I even got my first Porto football clothes and I think I look very cool. I prefer the clothes to watching a full game at the stadium. I enjoyed Rodrigo's christening and thought it was very funny when he got water on his head....he did not cry and was very well behaved.
Mamã, papá and I went to Viagem Medieval de Feira (Medieval Voyage) and we had loads of fun....I got a knight's cross painted on my face, i played many different medieval games, we climbed upto the castle, we ate medieval cooked pork, we went for a walk in the magic woods and joined the fairies and wizard.

Drive to Porto

We went by car to Porto for holidays....1200 km each way. I joined mamã and papá in the car to Porto and they drove back alone leaving me at the local party in Vale Cambra for another exciting one week's holiday. I am a very good passenger in the car...I played, talked and played "I spy with my little eye something beginning with white, blue, green, red....inside and outside the car" - we had lots of fun and laughter playing this game. Papá did most of the driving...he preferred to drive at his pace versus mamã :-) We stopped in Versailles but there were so many people we could not visit the Chateau. In Niot we stopped to see the castle and try to look for dinner restaurant but it was sooooooo quiet that we could not find a place open so we drove onto Saintes where we would sleep....we found a good meat restaurant. We went for a beautiful long walk around 9pm in Saintes through the old and new city visiting the roman artefacts...a lovely way to wind down after the long drive. The next day we drove via Basque country and to Chavres on Portuguese side for dinner in the fort castle....great yummy meal. We walked around again at night to see another castle and arrived in Porto around 11pm....kisses to all and then to sleeeeeeeeeep in a proper bed (Tia's old bedroom). Wow.

Summer 2010

In June and July....wow it was very warm....I enjoyed ALL three swimming pools in our garden from the small pink fish from our holidays in Greece last year...to my pirate ship (here playing with Florian) and our luxurious lie-back swimming pool. I love to play although I am not ready to jump into big deep swimming pools without some type of float to help. Anyway enjoy these warm summery pictures.

I went to England to stay with Grandma and Ti'pah for a week when mamã went to America. Mamã and papá went on the motorbike and watched the World Cup Final in centre of Brussels - Spain vs Germany - Spain won....:-)

Last day in the second Maternelle and time to say goodbye to my teacher Geraldine who has been my teacher for my first 2 years. Here I am in the classroom and you can see some of our activities behind my head. Summer will now begin....and I am off to meet Grandma and Ti'pah with mamã and papá in Calais on Saturday. I had two days of 'stage' and then we drove to Calais. We took Grandma and Ti'pah out for lunch by the fort of Calais...I saw fresh mussels and other fish coming out of the boat and being sold. We had a yummy lunch with very decorative plates. Then I was ready to go and excited to go on the big boat with Grandma and Ti'pah to England for 10 days. I got a new green car on the boat. Mamã went to USA and had to run across New York airport to get home on a different flight to spend the weekend with Papá.
I saw Lauren at Grandma and Ti'pah's house and had loads of fun playing different games and going to new swings/slides at the park near the house. Grandma took me back to Brussels by the train...she was very kind. I was so excited to see my mamã when we arrived :-).

My castle bed

I have a new special bed and it is my castle...I am very happy with my new home - I sleep on top and I play underneath. I peer through the 'walls' for my bedtime stories and I can close my fortress walls to keep other people out :-)

I am also learning to write letters and words. I copy but I can already count and write 0-9 without any help (taught by my grandma). Here I am writing "dog, cat, leaf, water" with my mamã while papá is on an aeroplane to Dammam...

Cousin Rodrigo

My cousin Rodrigo came to visit - his first visit outside Portugal. I loved to kiss him and I got him to make 'gurgling noises' to Tia and Tio's great satisfaction. We had loads of fun with lots of warm weather. We went to Walibi where I had my photo taken with every single animal, as well as went on the roller coaster, Tutankahmum and Spongebob 4-D and the ferris wheel and the aeroplane and and....We also went to a mediaeval festival and I wore my knight clothes, we went on a train as well as visited the beach. Rodrigo and I played in the garden and on the bouncy castle. Lots of kisses to you, Rodrigo.

Yes I am enjoying one of my favourite things - ice cream and the big slide. It is the school fete and there are loads of games including fishing the ducks and bouncy castles of all different sizes, a disco and food but I am more interested in the coca cola (well they had no ice tea so I had to have coca cola).

Building

I love to build towns with blocks and cars. I also love to watch Charlie and Lola...while my mamã and papá were in India for Uncle Josh's wedding, Grandma and Ti'pah came to look after me....there was a lot of works in the house as we got a new kitchen and painted ceilings...
Below is mamã and papá at a place called "Taj Mahal" - suppose to be a romantic place...I am not sure what that is....something to do with the kisses I give the girls or girl at school although she is NOT my girlfriend.

I am now Knight Hardman Rodrigues of the Maltese Knights. I have my shield and dagger and have taken weaponary lessons at the Castle of Eftenberg. I am very friendly until you make me annoyed...or I am tired or I want chocolate or I want chocolate croissant, then I am deadly. I have loads of energy and can dance lightly on my toes around and around you to make you dizzy. I can walk miles and miles shouting as a knight in battle.... 

Brussels and easter egg hunting

Here I am again on my scooter - this time with vovó in one of my favourite parks (Tervuren) - I feed the ducks bread, I play football, I ride my bicycle and I ride my scooter. Look at my new gloves from Tia and Tio.
Also I had a party....I wrote the invitations myself (pictures and the names) and Mamã wrote the date and address. We did easter egg hunting and ate loads of cakes and crisps - I made the cakes with Mamã :-)

Brussels and Weekend Holiday

I have a trotinette (Scotter) and I am very happy - having used Tiago (Gabel and Ze-Miguel's) scooter at Christmas...I have been asking for one...Mamã and Papá say this is my easter present. Yeeepeeee. I am very fast but also lazy....after a few minutes on it I want to give it to someone to carry it...well you can guess who...Papá  is teaching me to "fly" with both my feet on it.
We went on a holiday - I packed my own small suitcase of cars, toys, books and doudo...I looked for the taxi to take us to the airport but we went by car....we went to a beautiful farm house with a swimming pool and a sauna (why do people like saunas, it was very boring). We had a big dinner and I had burger and chips in a basket and afterwards an ice cream - yummmmy. The next day we visited the "SeaLife" in Blankenberge and I got a very special badge after we watched the seals. We had lunch at the seaside and then I went cycling along the sand dunes path which was loads and loads of fun :-)

Carnival

Look at me - I am wearing my carnival shirt and a mask I made at school. Mamã and papá call me a 'harlequin' :-) I wanted to wear it every day. I wore it also out on Sunday when we all went out - grandma and ti'pah came too. We went to a music museum - this was loads of fun. I had earphones and when I ran from one place to another infront of different instruments I heard different music. I was playing the drums and dancing in front of different windows :-)

I also love my pirate ship and castles. Here I am lying behind them - I have lots of pirate men, I have cat, mice, food, barrels, treasure, flags, beds, bell, lantern....

Brussels

Snow again but this time sledging...it was not fun until I went head first down the slope - then it was fun....yeeepeeeeeeee. We also went on a snow motorbike - wow, that was so exciting. After we had hot chocolate in a cafe' in Malmedy - yummy.

We celebrated "3 wise kings' - I got to eat lots of great food - here I am sitting at the head of the table.

And now I can swim on my back fully clothed... mamã and papá were very proud of me...I played with the ball and floats in the swimming pool after taking all my very wet clothes off.

New Year

Happy New Year to you all...we went to Porto by aeroplane to see my NEW cousin Rodrigo. I like to stroke his face and give him kisses. I am going to boss him around when he gets older :-)

Look, I am already a natural cousin - taking care of him as he sleeps, drinks milk, sleeps and drinks milk.

We had loads of parties every day - all the relatives and friends came to visit. I already started to work too to make some money to buy my own car.

I also did cooking and made aletria with vovó...I like to stick my tongue out when I concentrate on anything.