Merry X Mas!!!

So I fell asleep .... what can I say, December is exhausting! Mom had to fix our X Mas wish all by herself and I couldn't have done a better job, well maybe apart from the singing (which was attached in our e-mailing) *^_^*
Have a LOVEly time!!!

Xmas prep

Ho Ho Ho one more hour to go and the holidays are a Go!
We went to this crazy Xmas market with auntie Nienke and Jobje and got ourselves the cutest little Xmas tree and we have a real big one in our classroom as well. This week I had my first Xmas dinner at school which was super cool: mom and I made heartshaped Xmas-wentelteefjes with heartshaped ham and cheese and cucumber starts and moons, it looked and trasted great! Now getting all set for the Xmas weekend, including producing our official Xmas wish!

Sinterklaas madness

It's over, Sinterklaas went back home to Span again. It was such an exciting month where dad and Nolan and Jobje and everybody joined us to welcome Sint's steam boat full of Pieten in Amsterdam, and all those nights I was hoping for a present in my shoe (and there were many, as well as tons of pepernoten and chocolate and really cool cards and letters), and all the creative fun we had at school, and then Sint came by at the grandparents and then, at his real birthday yesterday, a big bag of presents was dropped in our hallway. I will never get used to that heart jumping moment when the Pieten bang the door... but then mom and I had the greatest time unwrapping presents and playing with all the new toys and watching the new super cool Ghibli movie I got. And then today Joff came by and he had found yet another present for me, in his shoe! So weird, because we had found a little present for Joff in our bag as well. Seems like Sint had made a mistake and guess what: I got the biggest box of Farao Quest Lego I could possibly dream off! We spent the next two and a half hours building everything like a big pyramid full of traps and secret doors and a huge scorpio monster and a desert truck.... ok, I know I haven't been the sweetest boy all the time but I am sure going to try and be real good because Sint said he'll be back again next year *^_^*

Hello Halloween

Mom and I have a saying and it goes something like: "It ain't fun when it's not a little bit scary" but of course that is only to swear of my fears for really scarry things. like.... well like for instance a real Halloween pumpkin! Uncle Kyle and his friend thought I should have the real childhood experience (in fact it was a first for mom too) so he invited us to the market and got us a huge and super heavy pumpkin that all of us then carved into a fun mean face that I designed more or less... and well. what do you say. Scary hey? We love it! Thank you Kyle and Ferdinand!!!

Trips and Treats

We just had a great herfstvakantie the week before and we did a bunch of nice trips like the archeological museum at my grandfolks, the Cinekid event where I met a bunch of famous characters from the telly and discovered all sorts of special effects they do. And we made a trip to the newly renovated Marine Museum here in Amsterdam, where a big whale's tail for kids to climb on was among the highs for me but grandpa and grandma and mom were really impressed with that place. I wanna go again some day to see the real VOC pirateship they have there ;-)

The Gang

Don't come and mess with our street, this is where we rule!

Fun vintage sound machine

Super heroes and book worms

We were just in time last Saturday (after we dropped in on the Occupy Amsterdam demonstration briefly) for the 'children's books week' with the super heroes theme, meaning mom baught me a cool bedtime read about a kid wearwolf and I got another fus heroes book for free so I was all stoked. The coolest is my school who had a surprise act planned early in the morning the day this book fest started. There were actual super cool super heroes ... but non of them could open the school doors. Duh. They forgot the key!

Back to School bubbles

By now I'm getting used to being back in school but when we took these pictures I was still getting ready for the big blue monday. Then we bumped into this huge party in the Vondelpark for all the new freshmen and women in town. They were all being incredibly cool sipping champagne in the sun while throwing oehs and ahs my way for getting totally excited about this mad bubble blowing machine! So school isn't that bad... I knew that! ;-)

My first... holiday in France

So Legoland fell through because of the utterly foul weather in our Northern regions and 'uncle' Paul suggested a better idea: we went south, to the very middle of France, and we stayed in a little castle with a super cool pool in the garden overlooking the valley and it was 35 degrees Celcius all week! I spend most of the time jumping in the pool and actually learned to swim because it was a tad bit too deep for me and we made some trips visiting medieval villages with ruines and castles and restaurants and a brocante antique market. It was great although I had an anger temper or two so Paul calls me Deven Von Drakenstein now but we made up and I've been a big boy since ;-) Enjoy the pics! These are mom's, we're still waiting for Paul's serious camera work.

Pretty Boy

Look how awesome, today I got a great haircut by mom's hairdresser, Holland's best hairdresser in fact, she's a real champ and super cool because she knows I have to look cute but also a bit rock n roll ;-)

July wrap up 3: Bad Boy

This particularly hot friday afternoon in July I made a big scene when mom came to pick me up from school. She hurt her back trying to get my bad ass on the bike so we decided to cool down in the near by park. Well.... the problem was I took the cooling down a bit too literally. The other moms there seemed to think I was really cool, but mom really couldn't appreciate my punky wet but ;-)

July wrap up 2: B-B-B-day!

Of course we wouldn't forget my Big Bro's Birthday! He got a real mobile phone for his 12th B-day so we had a good time exchanging app tips and all ;-)

Juli wrap up

Oh oh, it's already august! July has just been crazy, mom was super busy with work, the weather was awesome, hot and sunny, and I had my first big musical at school. My class did two songs, one cool rap on taking a bus ride and in the other act we were all acting out doves on Dam Square with a funny song. Mom and dad saw the early show - I did two in one day!- and were super proud. I just thought it was big fun. I have also been having great fun with my favorite class mate and regular play date Duco. Enjoy the pics!