Well, this last week or so has been very busy:
Last Friday after school me, Mummy and my little sister went to Mummy’s friend’s house for tea. Mummy made scones because she said that’s what English people eat. I think that’s rubbish because I’d never eaten a scone in my life, even when I lived in England. Mummy’s friend’s son is in my class. He is having a birthday party on Wednesday and I am going – I am very excited about that. Every time I’m a little bit naughty Mummy says if I do it again I won’t be allowed to go to the birthday party. I don’t really believe her though so it doesn’t really work to make me good.
In November another friend at school is having a birthday party too. Mummy says she’s getting a bit worried now because if I get invited to everyone’s birthday party in my class that means when it’s my birthday she’ll have to do me a party for TWENTY children! I think that would be brilliant, though – I don’t know why she’s worried.
Then last weekend we went to the Retour des Alpages festival in Annecy. This is when they bring all the animals down from the mountains because it’s going to be winter. There were loads of animals in the town, I really loved seeing the big horses and the cows and the pigs, goats, ducks, rabbits and everything. It was a bit smelly though, because there was a lot of animal poo (ha! that made me laugh!). We met our friends there so I had lots of children to play with, and we ate sausages and drank apple juice which people were making in a big bucket. Then there was a parade with everyone dressed up in funny old-fashioned costumes and all the cows and other animals walked through the town. There were too many people though – I could see the parade because I was on Papa’s shoulders, but all the other grown ups said they couldn’t see anything.
It’s a good job they bought the animals down from the mountains last week because on Monday it was really snowy! We still don’t have snow in our garden but you could see the snow on all the mountains around us, and it was really really cold. I was really excited because I thought it was soon going to be time to ski but then on Tuesday it was really really hot again and now all the snow has gone.
Me and Mummy and my little sister went to Annecy for lunch with Papa on Wednesday, and we had a picnic by the lake in the sun. Then me and Mummy and my little sister went shopping to buy me a hat for the winter. We found one which is really furry and I wore it all afternoon even though it was sunny and hot. I wouldn’t take it off. Then the next day I took it to school to show my teacher. It was hot again but I really love my new hat so I didn’t want to take it off. Every time we went outside to play I put it on again. The teacher told Mummy and Mummy laughed at me and now I think she’s hidden the hat so I don’t wear it unless it’s cold. That’s not very nice.
What else? On Saturday we all went shopping to buy some ski boots for Mummy and Papa. Mummy bought herself a woolly hat and even though it was really hot she said she really loved her new hat so she didn’t want to take it off. Ha! Now she understands what it’s like to have a new hat you love so much.
Then we went to Decathlon to buy me a new fleece. Mummy says going to Decathlon is like going to Ikea – you go in there for one thing and four hours later you come out with bags and bags of stuff having spent far too much money. Well she was right this time – we wanted a jumper and we came out with everything from a tennis ball to new skis for me and Mummy. Well they’re old skis really because they were second hand. I love my new skis! I can’t wait to put them on! I can’t yet because I don’t have any ski boots – they didn’t have any cheap ones and Mummy and Papa say they refuse to spend €75 on a pair of ski boots I’ll wear once a week for one season. That’s not very nice. I hope we find some cheap boots soon, otherwise we’re going to have to just tie my skis to my shoes, and I don’t think that will work properly.
It was quite late when we came back from the shop but because it was so hot and sunny we went for a walk in the mountains anyway. Papa carried me on his back in my Léo Bag on the way up, but I walked all the way down. I had a very big stick. I like big sticks. All the leaves in the forest have gone yellow and red and orange, it’s really pretty.
Then on Sunday we all went to my friend Chloe’s house for tea and cakes and we played in the garden. I rode my bike all the way there, and I wasn’t grumpy or shouty all day. Well, only a little bit. (Mummy says that makes a change.)
Next week is holidays, for two whole weeks! Mummy says she can’t wait to have me under her feet for two weeks. I never know when my Mummy is joking…
Léo xxx