Teeth!

Well as if going to school wasn't enough to prove I am a big girl now, today I lost my first tooth! It was verrrrrry wobbly and then I brushed it and brushed it and all of a sudden it wasn't there anymore. We had to look on the floor to find it!

Meanwhile Zahra is busy getting her teeth and wants to chomp on everything. Yesterday Mama couldn't even get her in the front door without her munching on the tasty door handle.

My first day of school

Guess what? Today was my very first day of school. Here I am with my Schultüte, a special present that German kids get when they start school for the first time. It is filled with cool stuff for school and a few lollies and chocolates too.

Here I am ready to go, outside the house.

Swiss kids are supposed to walk to school on their own, but my school is a bit too far away so Mama and Dada are really behind me. See the cool backpack I chose, with a dragon on it?

I was pretty excited to be a schoolkid. The school I go to is bilingual German and Italian. That's pretty tricky for me, since I don't speak any Italian yet, but I am going to learn I guess!!! It was pretty scary at the start, but once I got in the classroom I was happy.

I am sitting next to a girl who is called Janette, like Mama! Funny hey? I made 3 friends today and had a yummy lunch of squiggly pasta with pesto. At the end of the day I wasn't so sure I wanted to come back again, but tomorrow is another day.

Meanwhile, here is a photo of Zahra looking very cute. Mama and I love it when she is all wrapped up in a towel after her bath.

Summer holidays

July was all about holidays. First, Nonno and Marilyn came to visit us as part of their holiday. That was very cool because Zahra got to meet them for the first time.

Zahra felt very comfortable with Nonno, as you can see here. They both liked doing the same kind of thing!

Then we went on our family holiday to an area in Italy called the South Tyrol. It is very beautiful there and we liked it a lot because they speak Italian AND German and have Italian and German food. We stayed at an awesome hotel that had so many good things for kids that I didn't want to leave. This was the view from our room.

We also stopped at a town called Brixen (Bressanone in Italian) which was very pretty too.

There was a festival on the night we were there and I did some painting with some other kids.

After that Mama and Zahra and I went to have some holidays with our Swiss friends, on Lake Constance in Germany. It was great because I had my friend Zoe to play with all day and Zahra had her friend Lyn and Mama had her friend Noëmi!!!

The house we stayed at was beautiful, it was right on the lake and had a big garden with lots of fruit trees. Zoe and I played and played and played and then we played some more. Again, I cried when I had to go home.