Sunday, October 14, 2012

My Super Week

14 October 2012

Lots of things happened this week:  getting Jade, getting the convertible, having my seventh birthday.

Jade:  she is a dog, just in case if you are not on Facebook and you still read my blog.  She's not a big dog.  She's mostly black.  She has a tiny bit of brown and white paws and her muzzle is gray, even though she's only about five months old.  She is a Portuguese Podengo cross, although we're not sure crossed with what.  She's about two feet tall and Mommy says she weighs about 20 pounds, although she should weigh at least 25.  She had some very bad experiences before she came to us, but they are over now.  She's friendly.  I only taught her to sit on the boat.

She's learning about the boat.  She doesn't like the steps, but she likes my bed.  I don't want her on my bed, but she's learning where she can be and where she can't.  She has a bed in the guest room and she uses it.  That's where she goes when she wants to take a break.  She's been a pretty well-behaved dog, but after lunch today she stole a chicken breast which was full of ham, cheese, and bread crumbs too.  Mommy says it was her fault because she was the one who left it out.  She should have known better.  Her bad experiences were that this girl's parents left her outside alone without any food and water, so she's way too skinny.

She is a test dog, which means that she's not ours yet because the person who was fostering her let us borrow her from Saturday to Tuesday to see if she likes us and we like her.  Then if we decide to keep her she'll come back on Thursday because Mommy and Daddy have some things to do on Tuesday and Wednesday which can't be done with a brand-new dog.  Here is a picture of her and me.



Convertible:  there's not much to say about this one.  Very very very little.  It is red.  I like having the roof down.  Here is a picture of it.



My birthday:  I got loads of presents:  a remote-control boat, magnetic chess, money, gift cards for iTunes and Amazon, a motorcycle, some little animals for my zoo.  Mommy brought a cake for my birthday to school and everyone sang to me in four languages:  German, English, Portuguese, and French. My class burned a heart with the number 6 on it and replaced it with one with a 7.  When I am 8, I'll get a bigger one with an 8 and burn the 7.  And the first class was lucky on the day after because Isabella, my friend Dylan's sister, gave us the rest of her birthday cake that her mom had brought to school for her birthday.  After school, my friend Finn and his family and my friend Bea and her family helped me celebrate.  We had cake and opened presents.  Then later we went out for dinner and I ate spaghetti.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

School and Other Fun Things

7 October 2012

I'm sorry about the last two weeks, but now I am going to catch up and pretend that I wrote them by writing three posts.

School:  I've been in school for two weeks now. My favorite part of school is lunch, but my favorite day is Thursday and then Friday.  But I like Friday better.  Although it doesn't have my favorite food, we get rice cakes (that's what we think they are) for dessert.  Thursday we get pizza (my favorite food!).  Someone named Sara cooks.  I am learning about St. Michael and also I am learning Portuguese.  One of my classmates is a polyglot.  Artur and Mathilde are monoglots.  I think that's how you spell their names.  I don't know it, I think it.

Other stuff:  Today I am going to leave Estoi with Bea and Vasco.  We've been at their house in the country this weekend.  Friday we got the day off because it was a Portuguese holiday.  We came here and now we've been here for three days.  They even have a pool and we went swimming.  They also have cacti.  We went to a swimming hole yesterday, but there had been a fire and there wasn't much water.  We still got to swim at the swimming hole, though.  There also wasn't the waterfall that we expected.  The fire happened in August, but I'm not sure when.  Maybe the 26th, I think.  But I doubt it.

I fell in the water of the marina the other night. Daddy got me out and then I had to take a shower.

My birthday:  Tomorrow is me birthday!  I am going to be seven.