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 :-)).  

Spring is here

Wow 2 weeks of lovely spring weather....Anaël, my best friend, came to play with football kickers, pirate ship, transformers, cars, gogous (? spelling plastic little space creatures)...

Here I am in my "Rupert" pyjamas and holding mamã's teddy bear with his tartan troussers too.
I helped mamã in the garden collecting the leaves and then I enjoyed rolling around in the grass and just contemplating (well showing off for the camera). 

Here I am in my two favourite outfits.
"I am a Pirate and Captain of the Seas" - I have my sword and I have my ship and men ready to defend our honour"....And "I am a Knight of the Maltese Guards" with my latest acquisition from playing catching the ducks in the water. I always have a BIG smile.
I am counting very well and learning how many syllables there are in each word.
I know not to eat a lot of sugary things and chips and drink coca cola/ice tea as I am still growing but mamã and papá can as they are not growing any more.
I love to dance looking into the mirror after my bath with my hair sticking up :-)

Carnival

Carnival has begun.....yoohoooo....I can wear my Pirate outfit...I am the Captain of the Seas....I had loads of fun marching and dancing with my friends from school. We stopped all the traffic as we walked across the valleys and streets of Wezembeek-Oppem. At the end we arrived in a magic kingdom with castles (bouncy) and fishing (ducks) plus loads of yummy chocolate cakes. After I carried on overseeing my pirate boat and men with my castle in the distance.

St Nicholas

St Nicholas....more parties and presents. We watched a magician who kept 'making' pigeons. I had a batman face and my very first tattooooooo. I sat on St Nicholas' lap and was very shy but still said thank you for my present of mechanico.
I am 1m18 tall and about 23.5 kg...I am one of the tallest in my class at school. I come back from school most days with a small cut somewhere on my leg, arm, face...I love to run around and have loads of energy. I am a big eater and love bread. I know my routine to go to sleep. No teeth are loose yet. I love to hear stories every night. I draw pictures most days at the guarderie and Max copied me...we draw batman, boats, laser guns, rainbows, pirates, sun, trees, houses....many different things.

winter holiday - Algarve

We went to the Algarve and had lots of fun...visiting the towns on the coast, playing with the sand and in the sea. I went driving a racing car (as well as papá). We looked at many appartments to see if to buy one (not yet...). Vovô and vovó came to visit us too...we visited Algarve old city centre and said goodbye to mamã who left earlier for work...I went back to the racing cars :-)

My birthday - I am 5 years old

Yes, yes, yes...it's time for presents and cakes and games and cards and phone calls...wow I am spoilt. I am now a big 5 years old. Mamã and papá bought me a football kickers/pool/hockey/tabel tennis game...I play nearly every day after school the football kickers. I can twist my wrist faster and faster every day and getting stronger and stronger...Mamã is learning with me and was worse than me to start with. For my party we played at an indoor adventure place with cake and crepes. In the morning, mamã and I made 50 small cakes for my school classroom - I ate at least 4 at school. In the evening we had a pirate cake too.
Here I am with Max and Christoph and then Anael

Halloween & Bon Fire Night

It was really cool....we went by boat across to Grandma and Ti'pah's house for dressing up and fire works :-)
Auntie Vicky, Uncle Keith and Lauren came to visit too. Look how scarey Lauren and I are -ohwhwhwhwhw (yes I am learning the letters and numbers at school but this is suppose to be a sound - I am good with the numbers and can count up to 60 and more....). We also went to see FIRE WORKS (Mamã's favourite thing and I like them too....) We also saw a big fire that was very nice and warm. I went on the 'dodgers' (bumping cars) with Papá and Lauren with her Papá. I also went 'fishing' for the ducks. It was loads of fun :-)

My castle room

You have seen my castle bed...now I have stories on my wall and also added a guard on my door under my name....I am learning the letters in all 3 languages. I am much better at my numebrs now...I can add up and I can count to 20, 30, 40. I emjoyed the Christmas calendar where I could see all the numbers to 24. I am better at numbers than with the letters. Sometimes I like to play a game of letter and word where we draw the word...like A for apple and draw an apple or first draw something and then I say the word and therefore letter.
Here is also a sunny picture in October in the park in Vilvoorde close to Drei Fontainen restaurant...yes we sat outside on the terrace in the sun.

Sports

I love to play football....here I am in our graden poised for the camera....Yes, I am left footed (and I write with my left hand). I play at 10.00 every Saturday with the St Pauls British Primary Football Club in Vossem for the outdoor season and Morsel for the indoor season. Papá is a coach - there are 4 coaches and about 20 children 4-5 years old. I have scored a few goals. I like the pirate game where we have to kick the balls onto the island where the coaches are...it's funny.
After football at 11.45 I go swimming...I have started to enjoy it again and am swimming without a float and starting proper arm strokes. We also practice walking on the bottom of the pool. After we have our lunch at our favourite restaurant and I draw, colour or watch "Archos" (kind of DVD player).

School First Day

Grandma and Ti'pah with Papá took me to my first day at School - I am now in the Troisiéme Maternele Classe (3rd Maternele Class) and my teachers are called Genevieve and Marielle.
Mamã came to the parents evening and saw all the following: The classroom is great - it is like a amphitheatre and then has 4 corners with different activities - one is a kitchen, another playarea of balls. We go into the cloakroom to hang our coats, put our rucksacks and change our shoes (when it is snowing). We have also an area upstairs with tables and chairs and we can look down over the amphitheatre. We even have a computer :-) and do exercises on the computer. Every Monday we go to the gym and we also spend an hour playing with our friends from the Primaire Classe (1st year - 6 years old). We also are told Monday an activity to complete by Friday and I am quite good on doing it without the end of week reminder.

Princess and Wedding

Here we are all very smart waiting from the Princess in her white dress. Wow...I followed her around all evening and night. Church wedding started 7 pm and I ate and partied until the bus home to our hotel in Madrid, Spain, at 3 am in the morning....I am in most wedding photos of the happy couple :-) I smiled all the time and was very well behaved. I had loads of fun...thank you Princess Tania and Rui for inviting me.