Marble and Banksy

Stage fright

My class doing our Christmas assembly

Round and round and round

Neo - "Round and round and round"

Birthday picnic on the beach

Old Grandad Bill's Birthday

Old Grandad Bill, Uncle Neal, Mummy and Old Nanny Olive

I'm 4 !!!

Happy Birthday Pretty Grandad

Me and Pretty Grandad

Mummy's National Day

National Day

Me and my best mate Khalifa

Dubai trip

Eid Dinner

Monster

Neo - "Rrrrrrrrrrrr"

Batman

Shain

Happy Birthday Mr Boo Boo

This is me with my little cheeky monkey

Happy Birthday to my BIG cheeky monkey Uncle Neal

Red Smurf

Another school day but nothing special on just normal school, though when daddy picked me up he looked all funny, I had my spare change clothes on as I had got covered in sand and water during lunchtime play, I thought it was fun but Miss Bashir said I had to get changed. Daddy's face was a funny colour when he picked me up, I think he'd spent to long in the sun today. When we got home I went and played with the girls for a bit (their mummies face was also all red too) before mummy came home, I went down there as I knew mummy would have a go at daddy for getting all red in the sun hahahaha.

Neo - "Daddy looks like a red smurf"

Car fix

Back to school, not much going on today, but did have P.E. which I like but it does make me tired, not that I had a day sleep thou - lots of my friends do, but I'd rather play so I just leave them to it and play. On the way home with daddy I saw Elsie, me and her ran around alot and had fun, I ended going to her house to play for a while, which was good. But she didn't have many cars to play with so we just played with her dolls. When we finished and got to our house mummy was already there. Me and her played and mucked about while daddy did something to the car, why he didn't do it while I was at school I don't know, but at least it meant I got to spend some time with just mummy, before long it was time for tea and 3Bs.

Neo- "Why didn't you fix the car earlier daddy? I want to play"

Mummy's stuck

Today mummy really wasn't doing very well, I let her have a lay in and even then when she got up daddy sent her back to bed - me and daddy got bored in the flat so we went to Mushrif mall to buy mummy a treat to make her feel better and even better for me I got to play on the rides in the play area. When we got home I popped in to see mummy and asked her if she wanted to get up yet, she did so we had lunch and then went to the beach for a couple of hours.

Neo - "Lets bury mummies feet, and then she can't go anywhere"

Fun at school yesterday

Neo - "My friends"

Swimming lessons

Today I got ready to go to school but daddy put me in my swimming shorts instead of my school shorts I thought he was going crazy until when I got to school Ms Bashir said that we were going swimming first lesson - YEAH !!!! I love swimming. The rest of the day was normal but after school daddy left me at the girls house whislt he went off to play football, when mummy got she looked for daddy then gave up and took me to a party which was really good it was Maya's 1st birthday party, everyone from our block of flats went (adults and kids) - everybody seemed to have a great time, thank you Abbey and Pete for letting me come and thanks daddy for letting me stay instead of going to rugby training x

Mummy - "Which teacher did you have for swimming?"
Neo - "Mrs Brown and the other one"
Mummy - "Mrs Brown and Miss Hepburn? ...... do you like them?"
Neo - "No, coz I have to do what they say, and I like to do what I want to do"

Baby?

Today was a normal day at school which was good, but afterwards I had my first swimming lesson which was brilliant as my friend Noah is in my swimming class. In swimming we did some underwater stuff to collect things from the bottom of the pool and lots of swimming, by the time I had finished I was VERY tired.

Neo - "How do you get the baby out of your tummy?"

Tummy

Another school day, though didn't get up early daddy even had to get me up, mummy didn't seem very well this morning and kept laying down, I tried to make her better but I don't think it worked, she went to school anyway. Not long after she went daddy took me in and then I left him to go find all my friends, school was good. Today was library day and I got to swap my book from last week for a new one, I like this as it means I get a new book every week and I love books. When school finished dadddy came and took me home, when we got home there was a great supprise as mummy was there, although I think it was because she wasn't feeling very well. After playing for a bit mummy and daddy sat me down and they told me that there is a 'baby in mummy's tummy', this is good news as I've wanted a baby for ages - and I have been moaning at them about one for months - and I'm going to get one although they said I am going to have to wait a while. Later on I even got to chat to my bestest friend Abdullah, I miss Abdullah LOADS, I wish he was still here.

Whilst chatting to Abdullah
Neo - " I am going to have a little brother or sister, my mummy has a baby in her tummy"

Playing in the sea

Cake

No P.E. today just normal school, but still lots of fun. When daddy took me home there were lots of cakes in the kitchen, but daddy didn't let me have any of the nice big ones, though he did let me have the cut offs and a small one but when he wasn't looking I ate all of the other small ones hahaha, they were really nice and if he didn't want me to eat them he should have put them away - where I can't get them. Well when I'd finished the cakes, I played with my Lego while daddy finished decorating the cakes, this takes him ages as he's not arty like mummy, when she got home she had to check the cakes to make sure they were good enough, I guess they were as daddy then took them to someone else, so they could eat them I think only I should eat them.

When daddy found out I had eaten all of the bits of cake
Daddy- "One of them was for mummy"
Neo- "Not any more ... (cheeky laugh)"

My artwork

Well I was good again this morning and got up around 7am and kept quiet, I even playing with my new Lego. When mummy and daddy got up we played in the flat for a bit, before going out so mummy could go shopping again, first stop was 'Masdar City' which is OK as I get to drive the special cars, but once there mummy dragged me and daddy around an organic shop, she wanted some milkless cheese and a block of strange stuff, I think daddy could get cheese and the other stuff when he does the boring shopping (while I'm at school), and save me having to do it. When mummy had found what she wanted we went to the coffee shop for drinks and I had a lolly pop, mummy and daddy didn't seem up for playing so I left them inside the cafe and had fun on my own outside. After that I wrote my name on a computer and it made a picture from my writing which was cool (see above). Next we went to the gold souq so mummy could have her watch fitted, the man did that quickly and we went to get some lunch I had a lovely chicken, cheese, and olive subway. Then we went to the fun bit of the day - off to the beach, which was better then I hoped as Theo and his family were already there so I got to muck about with him, much more fun then just with mummy and daddy. When he had to go me and daddy made a big dinosaur island while mummy had a swim, I had to keep running bach to the sea as the water kept going away (from our moat), when we were done daddy made a massive NEO in the sand which we left so everyone will know I've been there, that was about it as it was getting late and I had to get to bed ready for school tomorow.

Neo- "Why are you two looking at each other?" ... pause .... "It's OK for you to look at mummy, daddy. But mummy your driving so you have look at the road"

Fun Shopping

Today I had a lay in till 7am which  mummy and daddy was very happy about, today we went out to   delma mall, I like this mall as there is a massive toy shope (Toys r Us) and mummy said that I could spend some of my money - I bought a mixed bucket of lego. After the shopping we had lunch here and then went to the playarea. Then we went out to the Carpet Souq, to buy me a carpet/rug for my room, I liked a 'Tom and Jerry' one so I told mummy and mummy managed to get the man to agree a price which she wanted to pay, I don't know why but mummy loves the haggling and bartering for everything - she never pays anywhere near the price that they start at. She must have done a good job as the shop man warned the other shopkeepers that mummy was a tough customer - I think the shop keeper should just ask what does she want to pay and then just add a little bit extra to that as mummy will only ever go a little bit higher than what she starts at, she got my rug at a great price but she got one for her and daddy at an even better price (starting price was 1200d mummy payed 475d - the rule of thumb is suppose to be start haggling at half of the start price, but mummy always starts at a third and doesn't usually get to the half way mark). When we got home I played with my lego, and then it was tea and bed time - I decided that I wanted to sleep on my new rug in my play tent so I got my
self my pillows, sheet, torch, books and stitch and settled down for the night.

Neo - "Mummy would you like some apple juice, for your head ache?"
Mummy - "No thank you Neo"
Neo - "But mummy apple juice makes everything better"

Fun at school

Because I had SO much fun yesterday, I woke up early (5:30am) today so I could go to school - to be with Miss Bashir and my friends. Today we had swimming but we didn't get to go swimming as they were just showing us the pool and explaining the rules to us, I already know these as I went in the pool the other day.

Neo - "Sometimes my mummy calls me a silly billy and I don't like it"

Mucking

Today I tried to have a lay in this morning but daddy was not letting me, he told me that I had to get up for school. Once I was at school I had a fantastic day and even got to play with Edward again.

After lots of mucking about at the end of school
Daddy -"Come on Neo, are you coming home?"
Neo - "No its more fun here"

Lego

Back to school today, which is good as I can only cope with so much of mummy and daddy two days is enough, so back to Miss Bashir and all my school friends. We Had P.E. today, which I love but it does make me tired.

Neo - "Daddy when you come home from dropping me at school, you can play with my Lego if you want, but you have to tidy it up afterwards"

Meet and greet

Today was back to normal - got up early, had breakfast, got dressed and went to school. today was a fun day, so much so that I didn't even sleep during nap time. After school I came home like normal but then had to return to school for a swimming trial/assessment as mummy has said that I can do extra swimming lessons after school - which is good as I love swimming - after swimming we came home for dinner and then we had to go back to school AGAIN for something called a 'meet and greet', where mummy and daddy got to meet my teacher and see my classroom, which was good as I got to show mummy where everything was as see hasn't seen my classroom yet, she is normally already at school but upstairs with the big kids.

Neo (said to Miss Bashir during breaktime) - "My mummies class is over there above the sand pit"

Mummy's birthday

I got up nice and early so I could give mummy all her cards as it was her birthday, I thought she should stay at home and not go to school, but she had to go in and so did I. I had a good time and at break time I got to play with my friend Edward (he used to be in my old class at nursery). I had an Arabic lesson today and we were learning some of the letters, they are not the same as English but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon. After school me and daddy chilled out at home and played cars, until I got bored and decided to go and see Amelia, after playing there for a bit daddy came and got me as mummy was home and I gave her more cards and some presents (which she watched me open, hehe), she got a new watch, a new purse and a duck, these were OK but I think she would have wanted at least some Lego and a few cars, but she seemed happy with them. After all this I had dinner and got ready for bed as normal and then mummy and daddy took me downstairs to the girls, as mummy and daddy were going out, I think they should have taken me but they said I had to sleep so I was ready for school. Well I had fun with the girls until it was time for bed, and then Nicky brought me upstairs to bed, mummy said that dinner was the yummiest ever - I hope they take me there for dinner one day.

Neo- "Why didn't you ask for more fun presents?"

Where's daddy

Today was a school day YEAH !!!!! and daddy must have known I was having a good idea as he didn't come and collect me at 12pm like he was suppose to, so Miss Bashir had to call him to remind him - I didn't mind as my daddy wasn't the only one so there was still a couple in my class, hehe.

Daddy - "How was your PE lesson?"
Neo - "It wasn't swimming we had to do running, I wanted to do swimming"

Early morning

Today I got up early again 6am, eager to go to school again, but mummy said NO again and told me to go back to bed to I suggested

Neo - "You should get up take me to school and then come back home and go back to bed, how about that? Does that sound like a good idea?"
Mummy - "Neo, school is shut the only people there is the security guards"
Neo - "That's OK I will wait with them"

Missing Teacher

Today I woke up at 6am so I would be ready for school, but mummy and daddy were still in bed I was NOT impressed as they said there was no school today. So instead we went to a brunch with my friend Shain, she got married in the summer holidays so we went out to celebrate her wedding - the brunch was really yummy. the day didn't end there as after we left we went home and collected my new friend Theo, his little sister Evie and their parents (it is really weird as they have just moved into our block from Maidstone - all of 2 minutes away from our house - Theo is a year older than me, so he is in Theo had seen the beach so we all had a great time in and out of the very warm (bath temp) sea.

Neo - "I want to go to school, I really miss my teacher, when I'm not at school"

It's OK

Today daddy just dropped me off again and left this time he went away for longer, he said that he had to go shopping - I am glad that daddy is doing the boring stuff whilst I am at school having fun.

Neo - "Its alright daddy you can go away now, I don't need you here"

Transformer Car

Today daddy dropped me off and left so I could play with my new friends for part of the day, before collecting me and Amelia for lunch, and baked some fairy cakes.

Neo - "Mummy why can't our car be a transformer car?"

Mummy - "You can't really get one of those car's"

Neo - "Yeah you can just put a robot under our car and cut a couple of bits of the metal and it will make it into a transformer car"

Daddies coffee

Today me and daddy went to school for a couple of hours together, just so I could meet everyone in my new class, there are lots of new people in my class.

Neo (after daddy left me for 10 minutes to get a cup of coffee) - "Where have you been daddy?"

Miss Bashir

Today me and daddy went in to school to meet my teacher, she is one of my mummies friends who I did a visa run with daddy at the start of last year, anyway I now have to call her Miss Bashir.

Neo - "I like my new teacher"

We are back in the land of heat and sun

After 5 fun weeks of travelling around England we are back in Abu Dhabi, I will over the next couple of posts share with you some of my fun, games, photos and quotes. But as mummy is very tired after our travels and her first day back at work I shall just leave you with today's quote

Neo - "My eyes are burning"
Daddy - "What?"
Neo - "They are on fire because you are making dinner" (Daddy was chopping onions)

Old grandad

Uncle Neal

Old Nanny

Old Nanny Sue

Aunty Chelle's wedding

Neo - "Mummy lets live in a castle like this one"

Cookies Mob

Benny

Cuddly Banksy

Eva

Neo - "My old friend from the teddy bear nursery in Maidstone, EVA!!!!"

Back in England ...

Well after what seems like a lot of planes we have arrived in England, but the men who move the bags seem to have forgotten to put one of ours on the plane from Doha to London (I'm not sure how they missed it as it is massive and BRIGHT pink), so daddy has no clothes. When we got out of the airport Friday granddad was there to take us to 'my Friday's' house where we are staying for a few days, it was good to see them, and I've been giving them lots of cuddles and kisses. Mummy and daddy left me there and went off to get daddy some clothes, and mummy a haircut, and while they were out me and nanny got Freya from her playgroup, it was really good to see her. Mummy and daddy went back out, this time they went to see one of mummies old work mates at her school so mummy could look at so more artwork. Once me, nanny and Freya, we got back to the house we spent the rest of day running around the garden, playing and catching up.

When we landed in England

Neo - "Are we in England?"
Mummy - "Yes"
Neo - "But its not raining"
Mummy - "We've bought the sunshine with us"
Neo - "Its too big, even for our big case"

Boring Day

Well Today has not been very exciting, washing clothes, shopping and getting ready for our trip to England.

Neo - "I want to be in England now, with my old friends"

Sad

Today we went to Abdullah's nannies house to catch up and say goodbye as he won't be in Abu Dhabi when we get back - for those of you who don't know he is moving to Africa :(, I'll miss him as he is one of my best friends, mummy says she is going to miss his mummy too. Well I've got more adventures coming up as we are going to get a plane to England  in the next couple of HOURS, we are currently sat in the departures lounge in Abu Dhabi airport, WOO HOO I can't wait to see all my old friends and family, so if you are about in England watch out I am coming your way - which means you too could be on here soon. XXX

Bubbles

After breakfast we packed up and got ready for a day at the beach, which was just a quick walk away, but we had to cross a train track which reminded me of England as when we went in to town from our house we had to cross one, and Abu Dhabi doesn't have any, I've missed trains. We walked all along the beach until we climbed up onto the tracks, which we walked along as we were trying to get to a big hotel that had its own rock pool, but the security man wouldn't let us in - we ended chatting to a nice Sri lankan man (all people are nice here) who recommended his friends bar so we went back along the beach to the 'Shelton Seafood bar', daddy chilled in the sun with a beer (or 2), mummy relaxed as normal, and I made new friends with all the men working there. Me and daddy went to play in the sea, but the current was too strong, so daddy said I couldn't stay there. So I just played on the beach, I did try to put my head through the fence to pull faces at mummy, but I broke a piece of the fence off, so I went to my new friends and got a hammer so me and daddy could fix it, I thought this would be good practice for daddy, as he needs to get a job. After a while it was time to go back, I think mummy was bored (with sitting in the sun), so we went for another walk around the town, but I just slept, mummy and daddy went back to the cafe for lunch and I think they had most of the menu (even the chef Limal, said they had tried most of the food on the menu plus some extras), they woke me up as they said they couldn't carry me and all the food they just ate, we spent the rest of the day chilling at the hotel, I fed the fish and we waited for Chaminda to take us to the airport to go home.

At the bar drinking my sprite

Neo - "Do you know what the bubbles are?"

Daddy - "Carbon dioxide"

Neo - "NO, they are drinking bubbles"

Boat trip

I had a lay in today, daddy was already up, but mummy was still sleeping so I decided to wake her by pretending to be a crocodile, don't think she appreciated it thou. We packed while the man made breakfast for us, which we had outside our room on a small terrace. After that it was another drive, this tine we stopped after about an hour and went to see a moonstone mine, which was really small but they seemed to get loads of moonstones which mummy liked especially the blue ones, next to the mine was a small cinnamon plantation and processing place where they made sticks and oil from the plants, it smelled really nice. The man then showed us how they make the stones shiny, on the way we saw a big lizard, daddy said it was a baby water monitor, the man then showed mummy some jewellery but she said that the man was too pushy and she didn't like that, so she didn't buy anything. We then had another drive and we stopped  at a big river, where we went on a boat to do a river safari, where we saw some full sized water monitor's, some sea eagles, lots of big birds, and men fishing, but we didn't see any crocodiles this made me sad as that's what I really wanted to see, mummy said that they were all having day sleeps, I'm not sure I believe that. But I did get to hold a baby monkey which cheered me up. We stopped off on a couple of the islands one had a man who live there alone and made all the cinnamon stuff like at the plantation, we also stopped at the temple island and looked around that, mummy and daddy walked around and chatted with a monk, while I played with the cats, then I got to have a go driving the boat which was fun, and I didn't crash, we then had to go back to Chaminda to drive to the next place. The next place turned out to be one of my favorite places in Sri Lanka, it was a turtle hatching place, where all the eggs are taken to protect them (until they hatch into turtles) they are let out into the sea when they are 3 days old, I loved all the little ones they must have been 100's, and they were all been released the following night. They also had some rescued big turtles, but I didn't like them so much, I even wanted to take a little one home but mummy and daddy said no. We then went to a lovely restaurant 'Aida' at Benota for lunch, it was on the banks of the big river and there was a man fishing and I went to watch him, he got a few and showed me but didn't listen when I said he should move near the boats as I saw loads of fish there. After lunch we went for another drive, I slept the whole way, when I woke we were at the last hotel of our holiday the 'Ivory Inn' at Mount Lavina, after settling in we went for a walk and explored the little town and had some dinner in a little cafe, I don't think they normally get non Sri Lankans in there it was full of local workers (which daddy says is a sign of a good cafe), but the boss loved us and we had a great meal and then it was time to go back to bed.

 

At the hotel

Neo - "I want to come back to Sri Lanka to see the turtles again"

Mummy - "What about the elephants?"

Neo - "They're OK, but I'm not fussed to see them again"