Zuleikha’s babybook

Wrote this when I was in Kindergarten last week. Excuse the misspelling tho.

Most children here have their own advent calendars and since we’ll celebrate a very special day this month, Mommy made a very special calendar for a very special person. She diligently made 21 of those 27 boxes herself but I helped her decorated them and the calendar. And each day this month I can open one box. I am so excited! I filled some of the things inside the boxes myself. Hehe.

I told Mommy, she can borrow those boxes for her own birthday calendar because I don’t know how to make them. She needs only five tho.

Now, I can start making the invitation cards for my birthday party’s guests. I wanted to doit in November already but Mommy said it’s much too early.

Since I can read a few months ago, I love reading. Now, I read bed time stories for Mommy after she is done reading to me. And when she isn’t around, I’ll read to Papa too. They love the stories or so they said. Here’s the list of books I love to read in random order.

• Dr Seuss’s Ten Apples Up on Top!
• Dr Seuss’s There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!
• Dr Seuss’s Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
• A Treasury for Four Year Olds
• Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever!
• Pedro’s Burro
• Clifford The Red Dog’s series
• Printout books from Starfall.com

We have many baby books, but they are too easy Mommy said. Papa said I should start reading books without pictures like the one Mommy is reading, but I like the one w pictures much better.

Maybe someone would like to suggest more books for me to read. You can send suggestion to Mommy dearest.

Last week, my soon-to-be kindergarten teacher called and asked if we would like to go and visit them before the new session starts. Just to familiarize ourselves w the new kindergarten. And yesterday she called us up again and when Mommy told me, I was so excited that I wanted to go right away. Then Mommy was lamenting how she would miss me when I go to kindergarten. So, I suggested that we get another Zuleikha (how? only God knows). She said, “Mommy will be w the other Zuleikha while you are in kindergarten?” Boldly I replied, “NO, the other Zuleikha goes to kindergarten and I stay w you” Haha. I am so smart at dodging kindergarten.
Anyway, today we went to the new kindergarten. We are really impressed. I will be placed in the Räuber (robber) group. Papa would be glad because sometimes he likes to call me Räuberin or Räubertochter.
But for now, I need to finish off my learning with Mommy before kindergarten starts on Sept 16 and we need to get the items on the list for kindergarten. How exciting!

My beloved Oma passed away on Monday 18th May 2009 after a complicated operation. Here are some pics, so I would never forget her.

This was when I first met her in May 2005 when they came to visit from Belgium. I was barely 5 months old.
Since they love me so much, they came to visit again in August 2005. and brought w them lots of goodies for me that we thought it was xmas, but what I liked the most was her pendant
Since her health didn’t permit them to visit, we decided to visit them instead on Opa’s birthday in August 2006.
Right after we came back from Malaysia in Dec 2006, they came to visit for my birthday. It was rather a short visit tho.
When we moved to Freising in 2007 they visited us again. So nice of them to drive such a long distance.

We visited them again between X-mas 2008 and a new year and tht’s the last time we saw her.
You will always be missed by your family Oma. May you rest in peace.