The big 5!

Sooooo I finally turned 5 this week and I'm a real big boy now! I had a awesome time, first at the grandparents who threw a surprise party for me and two days later my real birthday. Mom and I made real pretty treats for all the kids in school (21 TinTin pirate ships) and even though I was a bit nervous I had such a cool day. Of course it started real early when I discovered my present in the living room (got my very own iPod Touch, the spoiled little rascal I am ;-) and after a sweet day in school mom and dad picked me up and we had some friends dropping by for cake. I got a lot of cool Birthday cards in the mail and some awesome new Lego and dad even made me a life size Ninja Go helmet! My official party is still to come so we're not done with the visual update here. We're expecting to cut some more cake this saturday and next week I'll be taking a bunch of my friends out sailing on a big pirate pancake ship in the big Amsterdam river IJ! (mom and I checked out the other day, and it's clear: I am the grandson of a captain for sure!) ps. the usual 5 year Deven photo collage will have to wait until mom's laptop is fixed, it's the only computer with Photoshop... and it crashed! oeps.... ;-)

Sneak Preview my new room!

Oh we're so excited! Moms sweet friends Stef & Joren presented their design for my new room today - well and mom's new office and stuff - but my room was mocked up in 3D, including the furniture! Have a peek.. we are so high about it. Our mini house is going to be maxi cool ;-)

Cover model

I'm grumpily starring in the Kidscase campagne shot by Annemarieke van Drimmelen for my third season, in fact the grumpiest picture made it to the cover of the brochure. It was all acting of course, because this other red haired dude called Sant didn't want to model so I played along with him and then we had good fun being the moody lads ;-)

Chill weekend

I got to stay home from school last friday because I just wasn't having a good week and I needed to chill out a bit. We did some simple errands like Ikea (just so I could play in Smaland while mom was checking out some new bedlinen) and Saturday we hung out with our cool neighbors and Basje and I baked cool cookies (and a whole Petit Prince planet to be exact) and we got this new bathtub from the handyman store (very handy indeed ;-) So it was chill but I got a lot of super hero practice and went to bed early and satisfied (here chatting on the phone with grandma).

Cameraman

I discovered how to take pics with mom's phone or sometimes even with the iPad so look grandpa, let me show you around the house a bit! Check out the robot I made with mom, my awesome lego displays and my new toy cabinet in the living room with the cool Mothra coloring page! ;-)

Pirates beware

We made a second trip to the beautiful Scheepvaart Museum in Amsterdam, this time with Paul, only to see the super cool for real pirate ship. Good timing as I am totally into practicing my pirate skills with this new TinTin iPad-game. Okay so maybe this is not a pirate ship, it is one of this original VOC ships that made our country so rich, but they had to fight pirates and who knows what.

censorship

Wonderful white world!

The whole country is in havoc over the sudden attack of winter weather but I am having the time of my life!! Mom is in pain right now with her raggedy knees and sour muscles from pulling my sleigh but I've been all comfy and warm in my top notch winter gear (believe me, these fashion types don't know how to dress for serious occasions ;-) So here's this weekend's account in pics, today we even went iceskating!

2012 kick off

Just a quick update of the first month of this rumored year 2012, which flew by, probably because it was so much fun... like visiting my favorite museum Naturalis, going to a real cinema, modeling the latest fashion, having another ultra cool haircut by Holland's best hairdresser, playing with all my friends, buying our new car (a foxy almost brand new red one yoehoe!), my new hobby drawing!

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 *^_^*