Nursery

Back to nursery today, mummy is back at work don’t know what daddy is going to do all day though Nursery was great, Abdulla was there when I arrived as soon as I saw him I ran over said hello and left daddy being a doughnut on his own, hehe. In the afternoon daddy came to pick me up I was having so much fun and he says I didn’t notice him I did I just wanted to stay because its lots of fun at Jigsaw nursery with my friends. After we got home we watched a bit of my new favourite film ‘Cars’, then we went out to the garden, Abdulla and his mummy came out to play, which was good as I love playing with him. About 5 minutes later mummy arrived and chatted to Abdulla’s mummy then I went to Abdulla’s house with his mummy, but my mummy and daddy went off somewhere, they are making a habit of this, I might have to do something about this (any ideas let me know). Well I stayed at Abdulla’s for ages I even had dinner and went to bed there, I really liked that and think I’ll do it again maybe he can stay at mine next time. Mummy FINALLY arrived really late, woke me up and took me to my bed. I asked mummy why could I not stay I had been good, even Abdulla’s mummy said I was very good and well behaved.

Mummy and daddy are up to something

 I woke up this morning with mummy and daddy in a funny mood they seemed in a real hurry to do everything, which is normal for mummy as she’s always running late for things but both of them is not right so I decided to have fun and take my time over everything and just ignored them trying to rush me. Finally we arrived at the hospital, mummy said it was a good job that we didn’t have an appointment, so we arrived and took a ticket and waited about 2 minutes later the doctor arrived and took us into a room, and daddy put me onto a bed, that when I decided to have some fun everyone wanted to know if I was going to be brave, sometimes I don’t think they know me. Of course I’m brave, I’m Neo silly doughnuts (this is what I call grown-ups, it sounds the same). Well the doctor started she asked if it hurt so I said yes, she looked all worried and I gave mummy a cheeky grin, the nurse started again so I just kept saying ouch, but gave the game away by laughing and smiling, whilst she took out my stitches. And the best news the doctor said that because my eye is all better so I can go swimming again and cause more trouble.

Later on mummy and daddy took me to Shain’s house, they said they had to go do more boring paperwork, I thought they had been getting much too easy of a week so I decided to try and upset them by having a really big paddy fit doing my best fake crying and saying don’t leave me I even ran out the door after the. I think it worked because they looked really upset, It’s about time I’ve been practicing my tantrums for at least a month now and think I’ve got it nailed now. Once they had left I chilled out and started having fun with silly Shain, I think she thinks she’s a kiddy like me as she’s got all the same kids films and more than I have.

Well when mummy and daddy got back they had a new t-shirt for me and were showing Shain a load of photos of racing cars, I WILL attach some of their photos on here, I don’t think they WERE doing paperwork, what do you think? I’ll let it go this time but I think I’ve got to keep an eye.

Lazy day

Today I went to the park in the morning, then went to the boring food shop for basic supplies bread and milk, but the bonus of this is that I got to go to Sparkle’s (the fun fair, in the shopping mall), then back home for lunch ‘n’ ZzZz’s and then we went to the beach, so today’s fun definitely made up for yesterday’s boring day.

Boring ...

Today we got up early and went to do some REALLY boring stuff we had to go and try to sort out mummy and daddies driving licence, and to begin mine and daddies visa’s. When we arrived (at 9:30am) there was only about 10 people in there daddy was told to go and wait by desk 9 to be told what to do, mummy did her normal thing got bored waiting and went off and had all the certificates attested AGAIN, mummy says that if we get any more stamps on our certificates we won’t be able to see the actual certificates. So anyway mummy got the attesting done, daddy was STILL sat in the same place still waiting for desk 9, so mummy came back waited for another 10 minutes and got bored again, so walked off again this time she went to a miserable woman to have all of the certificates translated, the miserable woman took our certificates and said that we can’t get them back until Saturday once mummy returned to daddy she waited 2 minutes before jumping in to speak to the man at desk 9 as during the time that daddy was waiting two Arab men jumped in front of him (mummy doesn’t like anyone pushing in front of her). So mummy spoke to the man who typed a load of stuff up in squiggles (Arabic), so final after 2 and half hours we left PART of the way there on mine and daddies visa, well kind of there are the following stages to getting our visas –

1.       Have certificates attested DONE
2.       Have certificates translated DONE
3.       Have application typed in Arabic DONE
4.       Hand in the application form, a copy of mummies salary details and translate certificates to immigration (receive a pink form)
5.       Take pink form to a typist, to type up application for an emirates ID card (receive a different white form for ID card)
6.       Go and have a medical (X-ray for TB and blood test for HIV & DNA)
7.       Go to the ID building (to be finger printed and photographed) and receive a receipt
8.       And finally you take the pink form, ID receipt and medical results to immigration
9.       WOO HOO have residency visa stamp put into passport

As you can see from the list above we have started but that’s it, we have a long way to go, anyway in the afternoon we did more car shopping. 

After I  went to bed mummy went out to something called a ladies night (not sure if mummy is much of a lady), ladies night basically means free entry and free champagne to all ladies for a period of time, mummy went to the yacht Club which gives free bubbly to all ladies between 7pm and 1am, mummy and her friends only stayed there until 11pm then they went to the beach to the ‘Yaslam’ stage to see that funny man who doesn’t know his name ‘Why Clef’ (Wyclef Jean) mummy says that he was amazing but very weird being at a gig without alcohol and that its really weird (but great) to go out drinking and not to spend a penny (or dirham).

Eid Party

Me, Mummy and Shain.

Mummy went to see a man in the bank, she says they are a waste of time I think they are mind readers and just listen to me because I had fun winding mummy and daddy up while they waited ages. A had a massive sleep which took up most of the afternoon and when I woke up and played in the park and then in the evening we went to Shain’s for an Eid party, which was great as I got to eat a lot of food which I had never tried before, I really liked some Indian sweet which was rice noodles with milk and cinnamon.

Car hunting

More car hunting Shopping booooooorrrrrrrrrring . . . though I liked the really big car. I slept a lot as the drugs the doctors gave mummy and daddy to give me make me very tired, so not much to say about today.

Al Ain Zoo

Today we had to go back to the hospital, for the doctor to look at my eye, they must have memory’s like fish as they only saw it on Friday, maybe they just like looking at me as I am the one everyone likes to see out here (blonde curly haired boy), after the doctor was finished. We went for a drive I was bored and tired, which is simple terms means I was hell, after years in the car we ended up in a big car park, after we walked for hours (about 15 minutes in normal time but in the heat it feels like hours) we ended up at Al Ain zoo. The zoo was great and my new friend Matt and his mates (mummies work mates) were there too, I think Matt is great he is funny and silly he thinks he is about 5 years old but actually he is mummy’s age. At the zoo, I got to see loads of animals but there was a ‘little sad monkey’, daddy said he was sad “because the big monkeys didn’t invite him to their party”, which is not nice. There was also some penguins, mummy said it was really weird walking into what seemed to be a giant freezer seeing a big group of penguins swimming and walking around two of them were doing a dance like the ones on happy feet. We also got to see a couple of camels (the first ones which mummy has seen), so me and mummy gave them some food but they seemed to think my hair was food and kept trying to eat it. I also got to feed some giraffes carrots, who knew they would like eating carrots. After the zoo we all went to get some food for ourselves, not very exciting but I got a new car seat its red (I chose it) it’s a racing car one.

Zombie

Today we didn’t do very much as mummy and daddy thought a day resting would be better for me and my poorly eye, surprisingly I haven’t woken up to a black eye today. Me and mummy spent the morning cuddling up under a duvet watching different kids films, daddy says they are junk, but mummy likes just cuddling up with me and being a zombie in front of the television (mummy says especially when it’s not the same films which I play over and over again). After our lazy morning we went out and met up with Shain, to go and check out the deals on cars but mummy and Shain forgot that it’s Eid (silly Shain she is a Muslim, she should know that) so everywhere was shut but we got to look at cars on display without being bothered by strange men trying to sell them to us.

Poorly eye

Today me, mummy and daddy went to a Brunch at ‘Le Royal Meridian’, Brunch here is nothing like brunch in England, you basically you pay one sum and eat and drink all you want between the hours of 12-4pm and have the added bonus of accessing the hotels pool for the day, there are two different costs one with adult juice (alcoholic drinks) and one with soft drinks mummy paid about 30 GBP for Daddy and 20 GBP for her and I was FREE (you can guess who was drinking the adult juice). I stuffed my face on sushi followed by Italian followed by a mountain of parma ham (PORK !! PORK !! PORK !! – this is something which as hard to find over here as they don’t like pigs – They don’t like them that much that customs took all my pigs out of our shipment) followed by roast beef and topped with chocolate pudding and lemon ice cream, oh yeah not to forget candyfloss. So after my mountain lunch/brunch I went swimming and had loads and loads of fun jumping in and out of the pool but that’s when the worst thing happened I banged my head in particular my right eye lid on the edge of the pool which unfortunately have a slightly sharp edge resulting in my eye lid splitting open (I have to say that the lifeguards there were great as they wrapped me in a towel to keep me warm and applied what mummy called gauze to my eye -  mummy says that there was a lot of blood). We drove to our local hospital Al Noor, as soon as we arrived in the emergency I was put onto this weird bed that went up and down, then a nasty man wiped my eye which started it pouring with blood again the doctor then came over and looked then said something to my daddy when daddy and the man who wiped my eye wrapped me into a sheet with my arms stuck by my sides then the doctor poked my eye and told me the keep my eyes shut, I felt a sharp  scratch followed by a funny feeling which I now know was stitches daddy said I had 5, I told him ”next year when I’m older I can have more”.

Eid

Woo hoo mummy has a week off of work as of today as it is Eid. In the evening I went to a surprise party for Matt, as he left mummies work (he was only working there covering for Abbi as she had a baby) any I was the one little person there, but I had fun as Matt played silly games with me.

Ponies

Yesterday I went to AD mums pony club AGAIN, this time we took Amelia and Nicky with us, Amelia cried when the pony started to move, I was trying to show her it was nothing to be scared of by giving her the royal wave whilst riding around the paddock, hehe. But the BIG NEWS of today mummy got back her passport today with an added stamp saying that she is now a legal residence of Abu Dhabi – that means that we can now begin to apply for residency so hopefully soon we too will be legal (we can hope).
Wednesday 2^nd November –Today I went swimming, nothing exciting to say other than I got wet.

Halloween

I went to nursery today as well, still no Abdullah but in the evening Nicky had a Halloween party, so when I got home from nursery we went to hers to help her set up daddy had a fight with a door decoration and I arranged zombie blood. I had fun at the party with Amelia, Grace, Thomas and Sophia.

Tennis Balls

Here is me holding the racing cup.

Friday 28^th October – Today we were going to have a fun packed day as mummy had planned that we were going to see the camel racing and then onto the dragon racing in the afternoon but instead her throat was bad, Daddy said it looked like she had tennis balls at the back of it, I think that’s what she says in there (which is a bit of a weird place to put them) anyway she spent most of the morning in bed poorly but when she did get up we went for a drive and ended up at the F1 fan zone on the beach. The F1 fan zone is basically the start to the whole car racing thingy, there is a lot of stuff happing in Ab Dab at the moment for the car racing daddy is getting all excited to see some Fat Boy called Slim (strange name for a fat boy) on the beach the day before the racing and mummy is going to see someone who doesn’t know his name why clef, mummy always calls me ‘why neo’ I think it’s because I like the word why and use it every 30 minutes (daddy says seconds).

Saturday 29^th October – Today mummy was ill with tennis balls again and stayed in bed until lunchtime, So we didn’t do very much as she was poorly.

Sunday 30^th October – Today I went to nursery, I was not happy today as my best friend Abdulla was off poorly and I missed him.

Jump

Today was another swimming day, with a repeat of lifeguards telling me to jump in, this time I did but daddy was behind me and not ready but it was OK as I can swim, and the lifeguards know it as they did not start panicking like all the others do when I go running and jumping into the pool or sea, so I jumped in then turned around and swam straight back to the side, mummy is so glad that I had swimming lessons from the age of 5 months old. Today we also went and collected Shain’s car from the airport, daddy had to go and sign something for her to say that she will not crash, but Shain is a silly driver as only 2 minutes after she got the car she knocked her mirror on someone’s car as she was driving through the airport.

Abu Dhabi Mums

Today we went to Abu Dhabi (AD) mums play group with daddy, Amelia, and Nicky, still not sure why daddy went as he’s the only daddy and it’s called AD mums, not AD dads, he is really silly. It was fun though and everyone follows me as I’m the biggest. When mummy came home from school, we went to get Shain a car, and give some money (the rent) to a lady for our one, but Shain didn’t have something (one of those bits of plastic which mummy says has money in it, I’m not sure how it does as its super skinny) so we have to come back tomorrow, Shain is almost as silly as daddy.

Royal Stables

Another day and daddy took me somewhere new at this rate they’ll be nothing to do soon as I’d have done it all, today's adventure we visited “The Royal Stables” for the Abu Dhabi (AD) mums pony club, not sure why daddy took me as he’s not a mum but guess he knows best, (mummy always says Abu Dhabi mums plus Dan, especially when we go out for lunch), it was great fun riding the pony’s I don’t know what all the fuss is about riding, it’s easy, loads of the other children were crying I think they just need to watch me and copy as I know everything .

Ghost?

Nursery again don’t know what daddy does all day think he goes to bed, but the house looks a bit different and all my things are in strange places when I get home maybe we have a ghost? We went to the splash park with Abdulla and his daddy who was very silly and didn’t bring any swimming shorts, did he think we’d let him stay dry? Grownups really don’t get how things work, Abdulla pretended  to be scared so his daddy had to come up to the top of slides just before the big bucket full of water tipped up, it was so funny, we then decided to go on the bumper boats and let him dry off, before we knew it they closed the splash park, so we went to the normal park with daddy while Abdulla’s daddy went off to the building with funny noises coming out of it, daddy said that he went to pray. We had fun trying to lose my daddy, then we went home in Abdulla’s big car I want a big car mummy wants the same one as me but daddy says Hummers are silly whatever a Hummer is, but if I know my mummy she will have the final say on which car we buy.

Jigsaw nursery

Today I got up really early and was so excited as my first day at my new jigsaw nursery, though it’s a silly name, I bugged daddy to take me till he gave up and we went then he made me stay in the car because apparently there was no one to let me in, till the cleaners got there anyway, it’s really good but not the same as my old nursery as no Eva fin or my other friends but Abdullah was there so that’s cool ,as he lives in the same block as us and his mummy works with mummy at her school, I had lots of fun and daddy says I didn’t notice him when he came to get me, which isn’t  true I just ignored him something I’m getting really good at specially when I’m been cheeky daddy says naughty but as I keep telling him he doesn’t know things I’m the clever one.

Dubai

Today I went out with one of mummies mates Tim (the music teacher), we all went to Dubai. Tim drove his car it was a strange car which the roof came off, it was really windy the wind made my hair really long. Dubai was really cool but I like daddy said I’m glad we live here there is hardly any parks or fun places, there is however a full sized ski slope with a black run, there was snowmen and penguins. Mummy says that we can go back there and go sledging at Christmas, mummy says it will be weird with no coldness or snow especially after last years and ALL of the snow we had in England. Whilst we were in Dubai we went to the old Souk (market) it was really cool as we had to ride on a boat up the river to get to the souk and back.

Beach

Tuesday 18^th October – Today we went to the beach not too much to say apart from it was sunny as per normal.

Wednesday 19^th October – Today me and daddy went to visit my new nursery again to hand in my forms, YEAHHHHHH I’m going to nursery on Sunday (remember Sunday is Monday here), we also went to a playgroup called Abu Dhabi Mums.

Thursday 20^th October – Today me and daddy went to a different playgroup with Amelia and Nicky (her mummy) and then we went to Abu Dhabi Golf Club for lunch.

Friday 21^st October – Today we went to the beach AGAIN …