Play time ...

So today we had a different day all together it was a lazy chilled out but loads of fun. We all went downstairs to go to a playground, I went to get into the car but I thought mummy and daddy had forgotten which car is ours, its not even that it is a little one, they continued walking across the car park and into the other flats we got into the lift and went to the 2nd floor and when we got out of the lift mummy knocked on Abdulla's door, I didn't know why we were there, but then the best thing happened Abdulla came with us to the playground (which is a play area inside a shopping mall) we went on a Carousel,
a roller-coaster, a log flume (and yes this really is inside a shopping mall) and then we went into a soft play area. Me and Abdullah played in there for almost all hour, we had so much fun and when we went back to Abdullah's house his mummy and maid had cooked us dinner (yum yum).

Neo - "In England wolfs can blow down houses"
Mummy - "Just in England"
Neo - "Yeah their too big in Abu Dhabi for wolfs to blow down"

BBQ

So today I got up really early like normal at the moment, and then when mummy and daddy finally got up we loaded up the car with our BBQ and beach stuff then off we went for a long car drive, I got bored so I had a day sleep and when I woke up, daddy said we should have bought our passports as we were about 20 minutes away from Saudi Arabia, mummy said 'no' and then muttered something about her not being able to drive in there, I don't know why not as mummy drives everywhere on everything, in fact I woke up because the I was bouncing around in my seat when I looked out the window we were driving on the sand. We found a private beach to have a BBQ on and a posh hotel with a children's park, which had great slides. On the way home, in the dark (it was so dark that there was even stars in the sky, there are no stars in the sky in Abu Dhabi, mummy says its because of all the lights or something) -
Neo - "There's a fly in the car"
Mummy - "It will have to stay in the car now until we get back to Abu Dhabi as it's too dark to see in here"
Neo - "I can see him, he's on your steering wheel""
Mummy - "Well I can't see him"
Neo - "He is on there he is walking on it at the top"
Mummy - "Oh, I can't see him"
Neo - "He flew away now mummy"

Driving

Check out a photo of ONE the police cars here and read the tail.

Me and daddy went out swimming, mummy was lazy as she was still in bed even when we got back at lunchtime, (Mummy has today and tomorrow off of school, so she went out last night with some off the other teachers, they went to a ladies night - which daddy says is not fair as all of the ladies get FREE drinks for the whole night, or if they do have to pay, they are only about 20p per drink - hence why mummy was still in bed at lunchtime, she says that she had a great night). Once mummy got up we went to a place called Masdar city, its a futuristic university and building programme, So futuristic take they have cars which run on electricity from the sun and even better they drive themselves, you press a green button and they go, and even better as the cars can see if there is another car in the way so one of them stops and the other one drives around.
On the way home -
Neo - "Are you tired Daddy?"
Daddy - "Are you?"
Neo - "Yeah, can I have a night sleep? You can't as you have to keep looking at the other cars, some of the drivers are silly and might crash into us"
Daddy - "There are some silly drivers"
Neo - "You look at them and I'll sleep"

'I Love Shain' ...

Today I went to nursery, but just as daddy was collecting me, me and my friend Edward were have a competition - who can get the dizziest quickest by spinning around and around, when all of a sudden we hit each other, then hit the wall it really hurt so both of us were crying, My teacher was panicking as we were both crying but when daddy heard why we were crying he was giggling and smiling - I don't know why he was giggling when I was in lots of pain.

Later on mummy came home from school and then Shain came round -

Neo (talking to Shain) - "I don't want you to go home, I want Shain to stay"
Mummy - "Why do you want Shain to stay"
Neo - "I love Shain"
Shain - "Ahh I love you too, but I need to go home"
Neo - "Can I come with you?"
Mummy - "Maybe we can go there at the weekend"
Neo - "No, I want to go now" At this point he walked over to his books collected a couple then got his Trunki BoostApak and continued to pack some toys and pyjamas.
Shain - "I guess he's coming home with me then"
And off we went .....

Mr Strong

 My favourite day of the week PONY CLUB!! I took Sammy to pony club so daddy could take some photos of us for Sammy's passport (something which mummy has to fill in at the end of the week saying what we have been up to), I had a great time as normal - but I couldn't ride Pepper as he wasn't at the stables but I rode a different horse and got to play with my friends in the park.

Todays random quote -
Neo - "We need Mr Strong's phone number, in case our house falls in the water coz he can get it out again and if it's full of water he can use it to put out any fires"

Ponyo

So when I went to Shain's on Monday we ended up going to Kristen's house as well which was great as I spent hours playing with 'Ponyo' her dog, which in England wouldn't be a big thing as so many people have dogs but here not many people have pet dogs as it gets to hot in the summer to walk outside and none of the parks let dogs in, and so many people live in apartments with no gardens - anyway me and Ponyo chased each other about for a couple of hours, to begin with Ponyo was scared of Sammy (nursery's soft toy dog) but after an hour or so she was trying to get Sammy.

** STAR **

Yeah ... So today I didn't want to go to nursery, well daddy has just given it away I was playing up saying that I didn't want to go whilst mummy was still at home but once she left to go to school then I was telling daddy 'yella yella' (hurry up).

When I was at nursery today I was awarded with the class (soft toy) dog 'Sammy' and the STAR necklace - for star pupil of the week. My teacher said its because of all my hard work and fitting into my new class so well,
Neo - "I have the class dog, coz I am the star"
Mummy - "Wow that is amazing"
Neo - "I got it because I am nice to my friends and not everybody is nice"
Mummy - "Wow mummy is so proud of you"
Neo - "Daddy said that you would say that"

Bowling ...

So massive sand storm again today, which means more of mummy and daddy moaning about the lack of something called sealant around the windows - as not only does it apparently stop the non-existent rain coming through the windows but it would also stop all of the dust and sand.

Today we decided to stay inside and go bowling, I had a great time mummy and daddy was laughing so much at me throwing the balls down the lane, some times they bounced with a really loud bang and other times they went so slowly down the lane that mummy and daddy thought the barrier was going to come down before my ball reach the white things and even better I beat mummy and daddy.






On the way home  -
Neo - "Mummy please can I have a day sleep?"
Mummy - "No Neo, its too late to have a day sleep" (mummy won't let me after 2pm, something about me not sleeping at night time if I have one after 2pm, and it was 3:45pm)
Neo - "Mummy can I have a night sleep then?"
Mummy - "No Neo, its not night-time"
Neo - "But if its too late for a day sleep and too early for a night sleep, what sleep can I have?"

Neo 65, Mummy 56, Daddy 56

Time difference ...

ROYAL Wedding Invites and Favours

So I have to say sorry for not blogging yesterday, its because mummy received a last minute invite to a royal wedding so she said that she had to go to that instead of blogging to you all, I have had words with her to get her priorities right.

Mummy says that she now has to add -
How amazing and surreal it was to attend a royal wedding banquet for Sheikh Nahyan bin Saif Al Nahyan and Sheikha Fatima bint Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan wedding. Her wedding dress was stunning with so much sparkle.

So yesterday I didn't really do much at lunch time I was messy about and not eating my dinner daddy pretended that he was on the phone to nanny and granddad -
Daddy - "Say hello to nanny and granddad"
Neo - "Hello"
Daddy (in a silly voice for granddad) - "Eat your dinner"
Neo - "No, it's day time still there I don't have to"

Haha daddy could say anything to that as England is after all 4 hours behind us, which is funny as when it's breakfast time at nannies it lunch time here and it's tea time at uncle Neal's (in Thailand).

So today we have spent the day just messing about in the park and then later on we went to the Red Bull Abu Dhabi Drifting, which was down at the Corniche in one of the car parks, when we were watching all of the fast cars I said todays quote -
Neo - "Mummy can you drive one of those cars"
Mummy - "No neo I'm not allowed"
Neo - "Can you learn how to drive like that in our car"
Mummy - "No Neo, our car is to big to drive like that"
Neo - "Is Nicky's cars the right size?"
Mummy - "Yeah Nicky's car is the right size"
Neo - " But Nicky can't drive like that, she'll drive over all the cones"

I will add some photos/videos of the cars later

Scary things ...

Today I have been back on form -

Neo - "Mummy that white car in front is the boomer-run man's car"
Mummy - "Boomer-run man?"
Neo - "Yeah he drives to everyone's house and runs around in the corridors going boom boom, at night time and he wakes me up"
Mummy - "Why does he do that?"
Neo - "I don't know, I don't know everything I'm only 3"

Neo - "A wolf can't blow our house down"
Mummy - "Why not?"
Neo - "Our house is big and its made of stone, so he can't get me"
Mummy - "Oh"
Neo - "But the dragons can fly through the windows"
Mummy - "Daddy won't let them in"
Neo - "How will he stop them? Will he use a red light?"

These are the only two which mummy wrote down but I must have had a good one at least every hour today, mummy and daddy either need to get better at taking notes or they need to record me ALL day.

Tigers ...

Had a good night sleep woke up bright and early, pony club today. Pony club was good, I got to catch up with my gang and cause trouble as usual but even better today I rode Pepper for ages and even got to go fast for ages, daddy says its called 'trotting' but I just think he makes words up "its just called going fast daddy". When pony club was finished we gave Max, his little sister, and mummy a lift to the big park by the Corniche; me and Max played some more before it was time to go home. Later on me and daddy were in our park (at home), playing with some of the other kids, daddy turned into the tickle monster and was chasing everyone and making us laugh, after a while I turned into a little tickle monster and helped daddy get everyone. It was really good fun and everyone wanted us to play all night (but we had to come in as I'm only 3), on our way home in the lift told daddy about the tigers:

Neo - "Did you know tigers can climb trees?"
Daddy - "No, how come they climb trees?"
Neo - "Because they have stripes"
Daddy - "What about leopards?"
Neo - "No daddy, they can't climb trees they have spots"

Morning ...

So last night I decided that mummy and daddy should not sleep through the night, I kept going into their room shouting 'it's morning' and then running back into my room before mummy or daddy could even get out of bed, I did this about 7 times through-out the night, hehe.

The rest of the day was the same as normal; get up - breakfast - nursery - home - park - play with Abdullah - home - tea - bath - book - bed.

I don't really have a quote other than
Neo - "it's morning"
Neo - "ha ha"
Neo - "it's morning"
Neo - "ha ha"
Neo - "it's morning"
Neo - "ha ha"
Neo - "it's morning"
Neo - "ha ha"
Neo - "it's morning"
Neo - "ha ha"
Neo - "it's morning"
Neo - "ha ha"
Neo - "it's morning"
Neo - "ha ha"

Caterpillar noses ...

I haven't done very much today, apart from going to nursery. My friend Amelia started nursery today - I didn't see her as she is in a different class, but she was probably busy making new friends.
When mummy came home from school I was already in the bath, I welcomed her home by throwing water all over her.
Mummy - "No Neo, don't throw water out of the bath"
Neo - "Why? Granddad lets me, I'm allowed to soak him"

My clever quote came later after I had tea -
Neo - "Caterpillars have noses on their backs"
Mummy - "Why do they have noses on their backs?"
Neo - "Because their special"
Mummy - "Special?"
Neo - "Yeah its so they can sniff out the yummy leaves"
Mummy then repeated what I had said to daddy
Neo - "I know I'm right and daddy hasn't even taught me that yet"

New friend ... ANOTHER video of ME!

So this morning I woke up early which was good as I got to see mummy before, once again she went off out to be with her school kids AGAIN but at least this time it was only for the morning to go diving she apparently had to do something called dives 3&4, for her open water diving thingy, but because mummy has caught mine and daddies cold she couldn't do the diving.

Me and daddy spent the time that mummy was out on a boat playing and sunning ourselves (daddy enjoyed chilling out especially as he was out until the morning last night), I made a new friend at the beach she was really nice and lucky coz she had lots of buckets and toys to play in the sand with, and I didn't as daddy left all of mine at home, so I got to play with hers. When mummy phoned to say that she was back and could we go and get her.

Daddy - "We need to go and get mummy"
Neo - "No you go and I'll stay here and wait with my friend"
Daddy - "No, you can't stay here"
Neo - "But her mum will look after me"
Daddy - "No Neo, we're going to get mummy"
Neo - "I'll be good"

After we got mummy we went out and had some lunch and they went to a different beach and park, this is a video of my falling off the slide, mummy says it's a bit dramatic.

Sun, sand and scooter ...

This is my video from yesterday, of me and cheeky monkey, some of you will know him as I have had him since I was a month old.

So today was a chilled out but boiling day (with temps around the 30' mark), I spent the morning lounging and watching television on the sofa, then onto the beach and water park at the beach. When we were walking/scooting down the Corniche (the beach) I saw my friend Max from pony club so we played a bit and chased each other until we went onto the sand and paddled in the sea.

After this we walked/scooted back to the water park, when we got there some of mummies work mates were there - which was good coz that means so were their children, so we all played in and out of the water for a couple of hours. When we got home daddy got changed really quickly as he has gone out to Dubai to see someone called Kasabian, I'm sure that can't really be someone's name.
Today's quote happened when I was having dinner, me and mummy were playing Shain's eating game, which is where mummy puts food on a spoon and then whilst she not looking I eat it and then mummy looks shocked that the food has disappeared -
Mummy - "Ahhh where has the food gone?"
Neo - "In my mouth"
Mummy - "Where does the food go then?"
Neo - "It goes down my neck and into my intestine"
Mummy - "I thought it goes to your stomach?"
Neo - "No, don't be silly"

Mummies been away AGAIN ...

I thought mummy was going to be home when I woke up this morning, so I got up nice and early, (as I’ve been missing her loads) daddy said it was still night time (4:45) and mummy won’t be back until later, so I should go back to bed. I didn’t like the sound of that so stayed awake and kept going in and making sure he was also awake, I’m don’t think he liked this as after a while he gave me his phone and said I had to stay in my room till the alarm went off, I didn’t like that idea, so again I kept going in and telling him the alarm was going (hehe), I thought this was really funny - daddy didn’t - eventually the alarm went off (7:00am) and daddy let me stay in his room and we played tents on the big bed. Later on I did some drawing’s to give mummy, when she gets back I hope she likes them, I think they are really good but she’s an art teacher. After lunch I had a little sleep then daddy woke me up to get mummy YEAH!!! As soon as mummy got home we had loads of fun, we went to the park, played with my toys, read some books and I had a bath and that’s when mummy recorded this video for nanny and granddad, and this is my quote/question/advice for today ... SO I will have to post this video tomorrow as there seems to be a problem but I will get it on here as soon as I can, now I understand why daddy gets angry with this thing.

Poorly daddy

Feeling even better today, but I don’t think daddy is he really didn’t look good this morning and the two of us just veg’d on the sofa and watched Kung Fu panda 2, which is good (did you know that, there’s a bad peacock in it) Po (the panda) wins in the end after finding his inner peace, I have no idea what it is and asked daddy where mine was because I want to catch rain and roll it up my arm, but daddy doesn’t know where it is, so he’s no good I will ask mummy when I see her. Mummy called and spoke to me which was good as I won’t see her till tomorrow, she said daddy needs to go to the doctor, daddy said no, but we went anyway but when we got there the queue was really long. Daddy decided not to wait, so we went to a shop and got some medicine. Hopefully daddy will be better tomorrow, then we can have some fun. Today’s quote : Mummy – “You have to take daddy to the hospital” Neo - “But I can’t drive”

No quote ...

I've not done very much again today as I'm still poorly, mummy bought me 'Kung Fu Panda 2' so I spent this morning lounging on the sofa watching my favourite panda fighting a peacock baddie. When mummy came home she asked daddy "Have we had a quote today?" and I said "No, mummy no quote today, I'm poorly".

So sorry folks, but that is my quote of the day :(

Better

I’m feeling a lot better today which is good, today is pony club day and I get to see all my pony club friends and the ponies of course. Although before we can do all of that me and daddy took mummy to school, she is going away AGAIN, I think the kids at school should stay there, I don’t get to go away with nursery and that’s not fair L. Pony club was good as all my friends brought some cars and when we finished with the pony’s we got to play with them and have races to see which car is the fastest, nobody had lightening McQueen, so I think MY Francesco was the fastest. I also decided to give all the flowers I picked to the mummy’s, which they all liked. They said something about daddy needs to do the same but I’m not sure daddies are allowed to pick flowers. After a long sleep me and daddy played with my Lego and I made a big castle which I hope you all like, I think they should build one like it in Abu Dhabi, as they like building weird buildings here.

Quote of the day,

Neo – “Why are you coughing daddy?”
Daddy – “I’ve caught your cough”
Neo – “No you didn’t you caught the ball, my medicine had a fight with my cough”

Tired

Still not feeling to good, so I slept in until 8am - which is really late for me, when I got out of bed I went and gave daddy a big cuddle as I needed one, then he phoned nursery to tell my teacher that I wasn’t well and would therefore not be in today. I didn’t do very much at all today - In fact I even went back to bed for 2 hours at 10.00am, after my lunch I got to speak to both sets of grandparents which made me feel better, they all have snow (and its warm here, hehe) although when I’m feeling better I want to have some snow, because its lots of fun to play in, even when you get really cold. Later I went to play outside (and get some fresh air) for a while and got to play with Abdullah. After a while I got totally worn out (which is not like me at all), so I went home and that’s it for today. Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow.

Neo – “When I’m better will my voice come back? Who will bring it back?”

fight ...

Today has been a chilled out quiet one, which is just what I need to help me get better. I was prescribed five different medicines (pain killer, antibiotics, cough medicine, nasal spray, antihistamine) last night. Today on our way to the park, I was coughing and then I said today's quote
Neo - "There's a fight in my mouth"
Mummy - "What Neo?"
Neo - "My cough is fighting my medicine in my mouth"
Mummy - "Oh"
Neo - "Do you know who's going to win?"
Mummy - "No, who?"
Neo - "The medicine will win"

I hope I'm better soon as, I don't like being poorly - it's not any fun!

Poorly ...

So today I've not been up to much as "I'm poorly", this morning I had a green swamp jelly bath (Gelli Baff) it was great and after a long slimy soak, we went to the park and then onto a big toy shop. I spent some of my Christmas money there on some more 'cars 2' cars.
I am suppose to be going to Dubai tomorrow to see the penguins and SNOW at the ski centre, that's because pretty nanny has seen snow this week, I want to see snow, so we were going there to have a snow ball fight, but I'm too poorly :(

Earlier I was on the phone to Shain and she was trying to cheer me up :
Shain - "I'm behind you"
So I looked ...
Neo - "No, your not"
Shain - "No, I'm under the sofa"
Neo - "No your not your big, you can't fit"
Shain - "I'm not big, I'm little"
Neo - "No your not, your big, I'm little"

After my chat with silly Shain we had tea and then went to the hospital as I was VERY hot and my throat really hurt, at the hospital the doctor said that she would give me a suppository to reduce my temperature:
Neo - "Mummy, what is it?"
Mummy - "It's a special tablet"
Neo - "Why is it special?"
Mummy - "because your throat hurts, so they put it in your bum, but shhhh its a secret"
Neo (at the top of my voice in the waiting room) - "I had a tablet up my bum"
Mummy - "shhhh I said be quiet, its a secret"
Neo - "but I want to tell everyone"

Crazy Noah

This mornings quote :

Neo - “Daddy your sleeping on mummies side of the bed”
Daddy - “That’s ok as mummies not here”
Neo - "It doesn't matter it's mummies side, your supposed to be on your side"

Today I went to my friend Noah's house, I love playing with Noah as he is crazy like me. I think Daddy likes it too as he is always smiling and laughing at the two of us. whilst I was at Noah's house mummy finally came home, and phoned daddy to tell us, but just then Noah's mummy asked would I like to stay for tea.
Daddy - "Neo would you like to stay here with Noah for tea? Or would you like to go and see mummy?"
Neo - "I want to stay here and have tea"

Reis's party

Me and Reis at his Party on the beach

Daddy's Hair

Today is Wednesday, swimming day another fun one, but it was even better than normal as I spent most of the day in water. It didn’t start as a good day though as we had to take Mummy to school early because went away for 2 days with some kids from her school, I’m not happy about this but I’ll let her go this time. When me and daddy got back home I had a really big long bath with loads of bubbles, then when I got out we went swimming (even more water) which was really good as the lifeguards all know me now, and one gave me a swimming woggle, I’ve not used one since we lived in England and they help me swim loads and loads, I was chasing daddy all around the pool he’s not a good swimmer like me. When I got tired we got out and then daddy got his hair cut he has needed that for ages, he was looking a real mess (it looked like a birds nest) and I was thinking about stopping him coming out with me in public, he looks much better now. I then had a little sleep in the car and daddy let me sleep a bit more on the sofa when we got home, sometimes he’s nice like that. When I woke up we played with my toys then went out to the best coffee shop, where again all the staff know me and asked where I’ve been as we’ve not been there for ages, I had juice and daddy had coffee and we shared a cake, it was carrot cake - I’ve never used carrots in the cakes I’ve made, you have carrots with dinner not in cake, doughnuts have strange ideas about things sometimes. When we finished daddy let me go to the play area for a while which I loved.

Oops I almost forgot my Quote of the day:
Neo- “Do you like me?”
Daddy- “Yes, I love you. Why’s that?”
Neo- “You sometimes have angry face” 

Tidy up ...

Today was pony club one of my favourite days of the week, because I get to ride pepper the best pony ever. I also get to play and cause chaos with my friends Reis, Maxim, Garbhan, Noah, and his brother Liam; we were all climbing trees and playing with cars and the slide, and just having fun (whilst all the daddy’s and mummy’s to do boring talking). Eventually it was time to go home, which isn’t as much fun, but daddy has said I can go to see Noah sometime this week (Yeahhhhh)  I can’t wait for this, as we have lots of fun together.
When we got home the quote of the day happened -
Daddy - "Neo you need to tidy up all of your toys before you get out more"
Neo - “Why?”
Daddy  - “ I clean up my mess, mummy cleans up her mess and you have to clean up your mess”
Neo - “Mummy doesn’t clean up her mess, you do, so you can clean up mine”
Daddy didn’t say much to that but I did clean some up, just to stop the funny look on his face.

A bit later on we went down to Sophia’s house, because it is her birthday today (she is 4), so she had a party with all the other children from our block of flats and some of her other  friends. She had some yummy food and a cake with a BIG number 4 candle which she blew out after we all sang happy birthday to her.

Not juicy

"No daddy go away, I don't need your help!"

Not been up to much today just nursery so no juicy stories today just my quote of the day, daddy going out for a night out
Daddy - "Right give me a cuddle and a kiss"
Neo - "Why?"
Mummy - "Daddies going out"
Neo - "But who's going to look after me?"
Daddy - "Mummy is"
Neo - "But mummies going out too"
Daddy - "No, she's..."
Neo - "Yes she is, she's going on a boat trip"
Mummy - "No that's on Wednesday"
Neo - "Are you sure?"
Mummy - "Yeah"
Neo - "Ok daddy you can go out. Bye, love you"

Puffer fish ...

Sunday 29^th January
Today was a nursery day, but I got up early to say bye to mummy as I keep missing her, I think she’s trying to play a big game of hide and seek, but she doesn’t know your meant to tell the other players first, silly mummy. Well this morning she tied my hair up before she to work, and when it was done she said I looked strange without my messy curly hair, she went to school and I got ready with daddy then when we left I looked in the mirror in the lift and thought I looked silly :

Neo-“Do I look silly?”

Daddy – “Yeah, a bit”

Neo – “Will the children at nursery think so?”

Daddy – “Maybe”

Neo – “Then I want my normal hair back”

So daddy took out the hair tie and we went to nursery as normal, I had a good day but the best bit was Abdullah’s mummy picked me up not daddy. So I got to go to Abdullah’s house and play loads, much more fun than going home with daddy, and even Mummy picked me up (I guess she has got bored playing hide and seek). Later on I spoke to pretty nanny when I was in the bath, which is funny, and I even gave her an up to date recipe for bubble juice. I was also talking to her about my underwater project I’m doing at nursery, which leads me on to todays quote -

Neo – “Nanny I made a puffer fish at nursery, but you can’t eat them as they might make you poorly coz their spiky”

Golf ...

So today started with an early start mummy had to be at the port by 7:30am (I don't think the people mummy works with realise that it is the weekend, for two reason 1 its too early and 2 its the weekend therefore mummy is all mine not theirs, they have her all week) anyway this morning was the foggiest day we have ever had here in Abu Dhabi, driving down to the port you could only see about 2 buses (daddy says that's about 50ft, but they must be massive giant feet and not my size 11's) ahead of us.
Neo - "Why are the clouds on the road?"
Mummy said that the fog was even worst when her and her school kiddies got out on the sea on a boat, today was mummies first sea scuba dive. Mummy said it was so foggy that the coast guards kept getting them to stop and that they had to use something called GPS to find where they were going (and it wasn't far at all) when they to the edge of a coral reef and then they swan down to the bottom. Mummy said her first fish she saw as a scuba diver was an Angel fish (pretty granddad, will be glad) but they also saw loads of other little fishes plus a massive dolphin, a white turtle and a shark (just about half the size of me, wow).
 
In the mean time me and daddy went to the golf championship, we were going to the car park by the entrance but it was far to busy and the police men were pitting bits of paper on lots of the cars so daddy said we need to park somewhere else which meant we got to go on a coach which was fun as I like coaches. When we got in we had a drink from a really cool bus thing daddy said it was a VW camper, I just thought it was big and red and not like the normal places you normally get drinks from. There were lots of men with sticks hitting balls a long way, daddy said they were playing golf - I never knew my stick and ball game I play already had a name, as I invented this game they should let me play but daddy said I'm not allowed, but I got to play a bit with some children in another part. I also got to go on the big boat (Sanya) we saw a few weeks ago, but it was on grass and I said it won't go very fast its meant to be in the water. After a while I was getting bored, as they wouldn't let me play so I said we should go and get mummy and then just at that minute she phoned daddy could we come and get her (yeah).

I fell asleep in the car and when I woke up mummy was back so we went to a restaurant for some food and then to the park.

Tiger fish ...

Today I had fun with mummy as well as daddy, we went to the park and aquarium. I saw a spotted turtle and loads of different types of fishes, one of them was called a lion fish, he was all stripy like a tiger not a lion so that's a silly name, but mummy said it was because of his things like a mane and she said he was very dangerous, but he was only little, so I don't think that he can be.

On the way to the park, mummy told me that she is probably going away for a couple of days with some of her students -
Neo - "Why?"
Mummy - "Because they need to study beaches and the mangroves for geography"
Neo - "Are their mangroves in Abu Dhabi?"
Mummy - "Yes there are"
Neo - "So why are you going away for beaches and mangroves, when their here?"

Tonight me and mummy were having a tickle fight, but mummy was winning so I said "Mummy, I am only small", hehe, this worked so she let go and I jumped on her and pushed her down, so I won!!

Free ....

Today me and daddy went to see the cricket (it was free), on the way in there was a man waving a wand over daddy which was bleeping but they pointed me straight in without bleeping me.
Neo - "daddy why was they waving a wand at you"
Daddy - "It is to check I wasn't taking anything into the ground that is not allowed"
Neo - "But what if i'm taking something in?"

When we were at the cricket lots of people were looking and smiling at me, its my lovely long blonde curls again, lots of people asked if they could take photos of me, I didn't mind that but then a TV video man started to video me and I told daddy, "I don't want to be on TV as it's not on our TV", I know that because daddy looked this morning when he said that we could go to the cricket today, to show me what it was like I said "I know they have a ball and a bat".

Cricket was good and daddy spotted some famous golfer (called Darren Clarke), I think that golf is kinda the same as cricket, but with smaller balls, but daddy says we are going to see that on Saturday as that is free, as he banks with HSBC and daddy likes free things.

On the way home, the radio was really loud and rubbish "Daddy this music is rubbish, is it Nicky's? Why are we playing Nicky's music?" (Todays quote of the day).

silly student

25th Jan Quote -
Today me and daddy were singing lots of different songs, sometimes when we sing together, we take it in turns for each line so this is my version of baa baa black sheep -
Daddy - "Baa baa"
Neo - "Black sheep"
Daddy - "Have you any wool"
Neo -"yes sir yes sir, I went to the market"

Mummy says she has to tell you all about what one of her students said during have scuba diving pool session tonight -
A student - "Miss do you know how they take those photos of the swimmers in the Olympics, you know the ones of them swimming in the water with them looking down at the bottom of the pool with bubbles coming out of their mouth?"
Mummy - "Yeah with a camera"
A student - "Yeah, a man wearing the scuba diving stuff takes the photos"
Mummy - " No there are cameras in the walls on the pool and on a track at the bottom of the pool"
Student - " Really ???? I thought that there was a man at the bottom of the pool"
Mummy - "What for each lane?"
Student - "Um yeah"
Even I know that as I look at the TV's at the swimming pool, there is a whole room full of TV's showing the bottom of the pool, some of her students are silly.

This reminds me of another quote today, me and daddy went swimming today and as daddy was packing everything into the back I said  " daddy you do that and I go and say bye to everyone" (the lifeguards and Abu Dhabi swimming coach) Daddy thinks that maybe we spend to much time in the pool that I know them that well, but I think its good and the coach says when I'm bigger he will train me.

Bubble Juice ...

Jan 24th -
One of my stocking fillers (from Santa) has broken,
Mummy – “Should we send a letter to Santa”
Neo – “No, a email ……… Dear Santa and 2 reindeer, where did you get sticky buzz, my sticky buzz balls pulled off, I need a new one, and Jessie and a big Bullseye, today!”
Mummy – “We need to find out where Santa got him from then we might be able to buy a new one.”
Neo – “No, when I go to sleep Santa comes, and when I wake up there’s lots of new things.”
Just for your info the toy is a Buzz Lightyear with sticky hands which walks down the wall.

Whilst I am having my evening bath

Neo – “Mummy, Daddy do you want a bubble juice … to make bubble juice, you have to have a jug and a dish. Then you take the dish and add a little bit of water and some bubble then pour it into the jug, then add some more, then add a little rubber duck, but not a giraffe as he’s too big. Then you need to add eleven more bits of water and bubbles …That’s how you make bubble juice.”

Message for Eva, and a smelly quote ...

Here is a video of me for Eva, for tomorrow.

I love and miss Eva, she is my best friend in England.

Me and daddy in the kitchen making lunch, whilst mummy was at school, all of a sudden there was a loud flatulence sound.
Neo - "Was that you daddy?"
Daddy - "No it wasn't me, it was you"
Neo - " No, it must have been mummy"


Daddy is just on his way out of the door, on his way to a pub quiz. Mummy is just sat down reading a book with mummy before bed.
Daddy - "Night night Neo"
Neo - " Night night daddy"
Daddy - "I love you"
Neo - "I love you more"
Daddy takes a bite of a biscuit
Daddy - "No I love you more"
Neo - "No daddy your talking with your mouth full, and I love you more"
Daddy chews more
Neo " haha you can't talk ... I love you more and you can't speak"

Cuppa

Mummy arrives home from work and clicks on the kettle
Neo - "Mummy please can I have a small cup of tea with 1 tea, some hot water and milk and 1 ice in it. That's how I like it"
Mummy -"OK, anything else"
Neo - "A biscuit too, I will get them for me and you"

Now how good is that on a chilly day, yesterday the wind was blowing, there were clouds in the sky and no sun, its 15', and the same weather is due today - Mummy is wearing a thick jumper to school today and I am going to be wearing a coat to nursery!

"A clown fish is not funny but I am"

 21st Jan - 

Me and baby Musa

I walked into the living room with my clothes covered in large splashes of water, doing a wee dance. Mummy - "Do you need a wee?"
Neo - "No mummy, this isn't wee (pointing to his wet clothes) this is water, I was just washing my face.

Neo - "Daddy what have you got on your arm?"
Daddy looks at his arm
Daddy - "Nothing"
Neo - " Yes you have, you've got an elbow!"

Me, Abdulla and his baby brother Musa

What I have to say ...

Mummy says his fur was so soft, she was stroking him for ages

On the way to the Zoo, me and Shain are sat in the back of 'The Beast' (mummies car) playing with 3 little soft toy mice
Shain - "would you like to have a pet mouse?"
Neo - "No Shain, I have a pet hamster"

Mummy made her typical silly random comment that only makes sense in mummies head
Shain - "Neo what's mummy like?"
Neo - "She's stupid"

Mummy is not happy with pretty granddad for teaching me that word, and Mummy is not happy with me for calling her it, but she is silly.

Check me and the Giraffes out

This one is for Pretty Granddad - I feed him lots of greens.

Nemo

Whilst walking through mummy's school Neo points out an underwater display
Neo - "Mummy those fishes are like Nemo"
Mummy - "Yes they are, do you know what type of fish they are?..."
Neo - "Yeah"
Mummy - "... or do you want me to tell you?"
Neo - "No, I know they are called clown fish but they are not funny"

After applying a 'Mr Bump' cold compress to mummy's ankle
Neo - "See mummy I told you Mr Bump is called that coz he takes away peoples bumps"
20th Jan -

DVD

Neo - "Mummy the DVD isn't working properly"
Mummy - "it isn't?"
Neo - "No daddy said so"
Mummy - "Oh"
Neo - "but I told daddy you just need to press that other button"
Mummy presses the play button - DVD starts playing
Neo - "See I told daddy to press that button you just did

Yella Yella

Whilst riding my horse at pony club
Neo - "I want to go faster"
Daddy - "Well he's an Arabic horse"
Neo - Yella, yella, yella, yella"

After my normal horse riding session me and some of my friends go to the park.
My friend Reece - "can I play with Lighting McQueen?"
Neo - "No you didn't say please"
Reece - "Please may I play with Lighting McQueen?"
Hands over Lighting McQueen
Neo - "Say thank you"

Shains house

So I didn't get to post last night as mummy and daddy went out with their friends whilst I got to stay at Shain's house, Shain had her friend Nina around as well and I really wound Shain up, as I took round Stitch (who most of you will know I am very protective of, and sleep with every night since I was 3months old, he used to be bigger than me but now I'm bigger than him (just), mummy has had to re-stuff him 3 times already) and Scorch (a blue soft cuddle dragon Shain bought me for my birthday, now I have to sleep with both of them every night), I let Nina play with them BUT not Shain I think she will take them as she only has James, and her bed is a lot bigger than mine so there is more space in there for stitch but she's not having him. I tried really hard not to fall asleep at Shain's house just in case she took advantage, and stole them, I even asked Nina to stay so that she would keep an eye on me and more importantly Stitch and Scorch.

Together we watched Toy story 3 and played loads of games, but in Toy story 3 there is a naughty boy (and this is the quote of the day) I pointed him out to Nina and said "he's talking with his mouth full that's naughty, I don't talk with my mouth full" and even Shain backed me up on that I don't talk with my mouth full.

Old Nanny's Birthday

Sea life

At nursery I have just started doing a new project based on sea life
My Nursery Teacher - "There are lots of different fishes which live in the sea, there are dolphins, jelly fish, sharks ..."
Neo - "I eat sharks for my tea ... to eat sharks you have to cut their head and tail off!"

When I was looking for me stool
Daddy - "It's in the bathroom"
Neo - "No it's not"
Daddy - "Yes it is look again"
I look again and finds my stool

mummy and nanny chilling

Daddy - "I tol..."
Neo - "Don't say it"

Below are a couple more photos of my Christmas holidays

Kangaroo

14th Jan -
After a discussion with Shain about Kangaroos and the fact that baby kangaroo's are called Joey's
Shain - "Neo are you a Kangaroo or a Joey?"
Neo - "No Shain I am a boy"

After passing wind, whilst sat on Deena (very loudly)
Neo - "Deena did you hear that"
Deena - "Yes I did"
Neo "that was my bum" (said with a massive smile)
Just after watching the latest 'Chronicles of Narnia'
Neo - Mummy make a wish and make it snow, I want loads to come out of there" (as pointing to the ceiling)

Giraffes

After waking up at 2am, 4am 5am and finally at 7am, I got up and watched 'Cars 2' (like normal) mummy and daddy finally got up at 9am at which point I climbed into their bed and said "I'm going to stay in bed all day"

Pretty Granddad - "Why do giraffes have long necks?"
Neo - "They have long necks, so they can reach the apples in the trees"
Pretty Granddad - "But how do the baby giraffes reach the apples?"
Neo - "Their mummy's get some apples from the market, coz their necks are not long"

Sleepy (Hungover) Nicky

Neo – “Amelia keeps trying to wake up Nicky, but she won’t get off the sofa, why is she angry”

Balloons

After granddad asked me if I still had his dolphin helium balloon

Neo – “When some balloons go down they don’t go back up”

Shark

After mummy returned from work

Mummy – “What are we having for tea?”

Neo – “Chips and sauce”

Mummy – “What else?”

Neo – “Shark”

Mummy – “Oh no ... it might bite me"

Neo – “No it won’t he’s heads cut off”

Helicopters

Neo – “Daddy did you know that helicopters land on water, when they don’t know where they’re going?”

Yella

Neo wakes up early

Neo – “mummy please may I have some more milk”

Mummy – “yes you can, you get back into bed and I will bring it to you”

Neo – “yella yella” (which means hurry up in Arabic)

Mummy ????

Mummy was laid out on the beach hanging after a night out with Shain

Neo – “Mummy please may you pass me my shoes”

         No response from mummy (fast asleep)

Neo – “Why isn't mummy talking to me?”

Babies

Just as mummy is walking out of the front door to go to work

Mummy - “Bye bye babies”

Neo – “were not babies, I’m Neo and daddy is daddy”

Old Nanny Sue's Birthday

Olg Nanny Sue much younger

Water planes

Neo – “…planes land on water”

Mummy – “Neo what are you talking about?”

Neo – “I’m talking about planes that land on water”

Nicky's driving

Just as mummy avoids crashing, by performing an emergency stop and swerves

“Mummy, why are you driving like Nicky?”

Willy

Just after I had been to the loo.

"Nicky, why does Grace keep looking at my willy? She’s naughty"

No Fun :(

2nd Jan -

Neo - "Why do we have to do boring paperwork? Let’s go to the park that’s fun"

This was as mummy and daddy were trying to sort out the visas.

Neo's quotes for 2012

Due to the fact that I come out with some cracking quotes most days, mummy's new year thingy is to record my 'quote of the day' everyday, so every day I don't stop talking which enables her to get a random 'Neo quote' (HOPEFULLY) everyday ... (I will also try and keep you all up to date with the fun and games here in Abu Dhabi as well that's when we don't just do the normal - nursery, nursery, ponies, swimming, beach, weekend) so here are my quotes so far...

1st Jan -
Mummy - "Neo leave daddy, he is hanging this morning"
Neo - "No he's not he is just lying there"

More of the christmas holidays ...

Sorry still not put on any photos mummy and daddy are a bit rubbish at letting me play with the new camera so there all still stuck on it I will get hold of it and sort this out soon, well I’ve been busy with Christmas, parties, presents, parents and grandparents, it is lucky I have mummy to drive me around because I’m not sure we would all fit in the old rental car. Anyway I will tell you some of the stuff which I have been up to – this is in no order as daddy forgot to write down when we did what.

One day mummy and daddy took me, nanny and granddad to the royal stables then mummy and daddy went off and left us three there it wasn’t the same as my normal pony club but I got to ride (Dr) pepper, and we went for a long ride along the forest trails, it was really good, later on we all went out for dinner to a place called ‘The Meat Co’ which turns out is really good place to eat as they do lots of meat which me and daddy love (unlike veggy mummy), daddy and granddad had a steak called ‘Tomahawk’ which was almost as big as me (well kinda it was still on the bone and the bone was bigger than the WHOLE of daddies arm and the steak was bigger than a normal size dinner plate).

Another day we all went out to a big hotel ‘Al Raha beach resort’ for something called brunch, we all had loads to eat and then went to the pool and beach where I pushed daddy in but no way was I going in it was freezing, I then spent time on the beach with nanny and granddad whilst daddy warmed up, sunning himself on a lounger.

Now I know this day this is the day Santa came …. He left me loads of presents which made me happy and he left snow all over the floor which made granddad grumpy, hehe. So in the morning when I woke up, I waited day we went to the Hilton beach club which was really good as there pool is warm and they have slides I had loads of fun there splashing everyone and going down the slides so many times and granddad was also going down them too, I tried to tell him that he was too old but he was having none of it.

And another day I took everyone to the zoo as only me and daddy have been there before (it is the place where I cuddled a lion cub) and I thought everyone else would like it and I think they did, mummy spent the time trying to tease and play with the lion cubs, I got to hold a massive snake and a baby chimp, granddad feel in love with the tortoise’s they must have been very old as they were bigger than me.

On new years eve Pretty nanny and granddad went home back to England I really didn't want them to go and I got upset saying goodbye but we gave them all a massive cuddle and kiss goodbye, and when we went outside I saw their plane taking off (or so mummy said, but that was very quick of them to go through all of the checking in desks but I suppose it is granddad and he doesn't like to hang around) so we all waved and blew them kisses and got into the car and came back home, it was very strange as our house seemed really empty without nanny and granddad here.

Driving home for Christmas

Thursday 22^nd December - Today we did the drive to Musandam, in reverse not literary but it was a long drive back home, everyone said that I was very good and Santa must think so too, as when I got home there was a message from Santa for me – he told me a was on the nice list YEAH !!!

Dolphins

Me swimming with the fishes

Today I woke up in the morning after a good night’s sleep and keeping mummy and daddy up, I have manage how to talk and kick in my sleep without waking up very pleased with myself. We had breakfast then went on a bus to the boat park, I think mummy called it a port but I think boat park is better (like car park where you keep the cars but you park boats instead), there were lots of boats there and we had to climb over a couple to get to the one we were going on. Our boat was comfy with lots of cushions to sit on, then the man with the wheel daddy called him a captain, got the boat out of the park there were lots of big waves and our boat was jumping up and down and side to side, which I thought was lots of fun to begin with but after a while I wanted to get off as my tummy felt all funny (but not a good funny), some adults (including my mummy) did not like it and some of them went a weird shade of green, after lots of bumps, we ended up somewhere with no waves which made most people a lot happier, there were other boats there and after a while a family of dolphins came to see us. After a watching them, we set off and left the dolphins alone. The captain stopped the boat by a small island and then daddy and another man dived in to the sea, this looked fun so I said I wanted to join him so mummy and granddad got in and FINALLY I was allowed to jump off the side of the boat, to swim with them it was great and I saw load of fishes (big ones, small one, stripy ones, spotty ones), we spent ages in the water. When everyone was tired and back on the boat we moved off again and had some lunch after that we looked at all the mountains and sat in the sun keeping warm till the captain stopped again and said we could go swimming again so I pushed daddy in and decided I wasn't going in as it might be cold so mummy threw me in (I always thought pushing was my job and I'm not happy about mummy taking my job) but daddy swam with me and we got to a small island and saw more fishes, then mummy came in and swam to us and she took me swimming but it was getting cold and I wanted to go back, but on the way back we got surrounded by jellyfish (I know that the top of them won’t sting you, I told mummy as she kept getting stung, she was trying to stop them from getting me, but one got me on my leg it hurt) when we got back to the boat nanny helped me up the ladder and then the captain helped my shower and then we went back to see the dolphins.

DOLPHINS !!!