It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Boy, do I love December in Switzerland. Because the whole month is Advent, and that means every single day I get a little present. This year Mama and I found this calendar at the Christmas markets, and Mama filled it up for me with cool presents. So far I've got hair clips and headbands and bracelets and cookie cutters and a little book about a girl called Yasmin. The first of advent was very special because my friend Nepheli's mum Effy put a fairy snow dome in there for me. It is so sparkly and pretty and now I keep it by my bed.

We love checking out Christmas markets. A couple of weeks ago we went to Freiburg in Germany to see what they were like there. I went for a fun ride in this Kombi!

On the night of the 5th of December I left my boots out for St Niklaus to fill. In the morning I found toys and chocolate and biscuits there. St Nik must have known that I love the website http://www.uptoten.com/, because he gave me Boowa and Kwala, the two characters from there. Now I love doing shows with them, especially when Dada does Boowa's voice and Mama does Kwala's. Niklaus also came to my Kinderhaus and left a big bag of nuts and oranges and lollies and chocolate. I told Mama that I recognised that it wasn't really Niklaus, that to me he looked like Caroline (who runs the kinderhaus)'s husband.

Mama let me decorate our Christmas tree all by myself. There are ornaments that we bought at different markets, plus ones I have made and even some that you can eat, because when my friends Sophie and Nicole and Isabelle came over the other day we all made spicy biscuits together.

Dada's work had their kids' Christmas party last Sunday at the zoo. I liked seeing the animals but I did NOT like seeing St Niklaus. As you can see, I was not sure about him at all, and when he tried to talk to me I didn't say anything back.

I didn't mind taking a present from him though.