Sinterklaas in Jakarta

Sinterklaas is back in town ! He arrived last Saturday at a new location in Jakarta, @ Taman Mani, which is some kind of amusement park not too far from where we live.
We went to see the arrival with Rob and his girls, Shayna and Saskia.

Noah and Ayla were very excited to see Sinterklaas and the Zwarte Pieten and when they came home, they started writing letters to Sinterklaas and inmediately put their shoes outside with a carrot in it for Sint's horse....hoping that Zwarte Piet would come by at night to put a present in it.
Ha..great stuff ...bringing back sweet memories from my childhood days.

I love Sinterklaas!

Here are some photos of the arrival.

Go Brazil !

In the JYS ( Jakarta Youth Soccer) league Noah played this year in the U-7 league for team Brazil.
Last year Noah played in this same league for team Netherlands. He was an absolute beginner and his team was very weak. They drew one match and lost all other matches and only scored 6 goals all season.
This year his team won 10 matches, drew 1 and lost 1. They scored about 40 goals and Noah scored 30 of them.....not kidding.
What a difference a year (and every Sunday training at Arsenal Jakarta) can make............!!

Here is some pictures of the final Saturday of the season.

Halloween

Last week I took Noah and his friend to a Halloween party at the American Club. It was really cool! They had a fashion show with the kids showing off their costumes and afterwards there was trick and treating in the parking lot out of the back of parked cars. The kids loved it. Noah just got way too much candy.....Ayla didnt go because she had her own class halloween party. Next year I am sure we will go to the American Club with the whole family!

UN Day @ JIS

Every year at JIS we celebrate UN Day.
The students can wear clothes from their home countries, share food from home countries and at the elementary campus we usually have a flag parade.
It is always a very special and colorful day!

Reading in Ayla's class!

Ayla has been going to JIS this year.after spending 2 years at the Dutch school.
Initially she was pretty hesitant about coming to JIS, she kept saying....."NIS is my school, NOT JIS.", but you know how it goes...After a few days she was fine at her new school and now she just loves it.

A while ago I had the opportunity to come in and read to her class. Here are some photos....

Star Wars

Noah has been completely mad about Star Wars for a while now. He reads books about it, watches Star Wars DVDs (the cartoon version) almost every day and dresses up as his favorite Star Wars characters.
Wanna know what it looks like? See for yourself.
Of course he is always a fearless warrior...hence the angry look.
Ha, pretty funny!

Tooth Fairy

Noah is starting to lose his baby teeth and he loves it!
Why?
Well for obvious reasons.....when he loses a tooth he can put it under his pillow at night and the tooth fairy will come and leave him some money for it!
Yes, our little man already loves his money.......