New Year's in Hamburg

.... I recovered quickly (clearly have my Dadda's genes...) and we headed off to Wolfgang and Saskia's after all!

What a lovely couple they are and what a crazy party we had with infinite fireworks being lit up all night by those crazy German folks!!

... and how kind they were to sing me songs at home to make me feel love and welcome!!!

Ear infection

... my ear is in agony and Mamma is worried we won't be able to go to Hamburg to celebrate New Year's Eve...

Christmas 2009

... I've only just turned one and I'm already celebrating my second Christmas!!  

Looks like I am ready to go places!!  I'm almost standing!

Not feeling great (an ear infection is on it's way!)...

... and while we are all expected to go to Leo's for lunch I could happily sit here all day!

Christmas at Leo's....

My First Birthday!!

One year since I first appeared on the planet!!!  What an odd thing it is to be born around Christmas in the western society... whether religious you are or not!!  You simply get inundated with presents all the time....

Even more so as Nonno, Nonna, Oma and Opi all fled in for the occasion... such as shame I wasn't on top of my game with fever for most of the festivities!!!

Waiting Dadda...

...can't tell you how exciting it is to wait for Dadda to come back home every day!!!  Particularly on a Friday night!!

Tino the red nose rain deer!!!

.... I started nursery at just over 11 months as Mamma had to go back to work... they put me into The Nursery at St Paul's in Dock Street (http://www.selectivenetworks.com/), not far from St. Kathrine's Docks, near tower bridge...

Nursery turned out to be pleasant and everyone there made me feel totally welcome and happy, both carers and other children that were there like me...

.. but I can't forget my first week and day 3 in particular when the Christmas party was put out with all the kids and carers and someone must have worked out I was to be Santa's rain deer...

Do you think I enjoyed it!?!

Christmas Function at my new Nursery

... leaving your Mamma after almost a year of daily contact, 24 hours a day isn't that simple.  Starting nursery in full on East London cockney populated teachers doesn't make it much easier after having heard German and Italian for the greatest part of my first year.  Add to that that I picked up all sorts of bacteria and a terrible cold on my first day and then if you thought that was enough then there is one more... 3 days into my new life we had the Christmas function which required all toddlers to take part by dressing up as Santas or fairys singing along to all the songs... except one.. it seems the last one was to dress up as the rain deer..... the last one being me!

Does it look like I am enjoying myself!?!

get me out of here!!!

... at this stage I think I started hallucinating... surely this can't be my new life.. Mamma?!  Where is my Mamma?!

I got the beat!

... I have the music flowing through me.. I'm all my Mamma!!

Check me out but tilt your head 90 degrees while you do it!!!

Emirates Stadium

.... my first time at a football game!! With Fabio hosting at the Emirates with Joyd, Pippo, Gav and a bunch of other York folks I couldn't miss on the opportunity to go down with Dadda so off we went with the 277 bus and before we knew it we were in a stadium full of lots of noisy people and huge green football pitch..

Not sure the first impression worked particularly well to be honest.. I was a little overwhelmed!! 

...despite Fabio's attempts to get me into the right spirit!!

...come on Arsenal!!