Wow a new year already. So much has happened since I last wrote. Spent Christmas with nanny in England and got lots of presents. Shortly before leaving for England we met father Christmas in the mountains above Montreux and he gave me a certificate to say I had been a good boy, which was not strictly true. Mum made a film about it.

Had my birthday on 8th January and got lots more presents including a nice bike from mummy and daddy which I drive very fast indeed. Mummy can't catch up with me.

Had a birthday party at the Gymboree in Bern. Some people from the Saturday gym came (Tess and Janosch), plus Merle and Lelia and Max and Lilly. They liked the parachute and train games and I got lots more presents. Mum had to buy a new shelf unit for my bedroom to put them all on. I have lots of memory games now but my memory hasn't got much better.

Last night my toys fell out of my wheelburrow so I said Bugger, which I'd heard mummy saying once. When she asked me to repeat what I had just said, I repeated "Bugger" and she loooked at daddy in a funny way. It seems to be a pretty important word so I'll hold on to that one.

Last week we went skiing in Rosswald. We stayed in Gillian's house and she had a lovely jacuzzi bubble bath which sucked my toys under water. I liked that a lot. We went sledging a lot and I played with the girls next door, Jenny and Joy. Mum and dad took me skiing a few times but I kept falling over and getting wet and cold and that wasn't so fantastic.

At the end of the holiday mummy went to buy me my own ski gear so we wouldn't have to rent it. I told her "No Thank you" but she still bought it.

Yesterday we went to the thermal baths at Yverdon and had vegetable soup in the cafe for lunch, then went to the zoo at Servion and saw the same lemurs they had in the film 'madagascar'. It was very cold so the monkeys stayed indoors and looked through the windows at us. They were wondering why daddy was outside the cage.

Back to the garderie today. Hopefully my best friend Roselie will be there. Next weekend we are going skiing again in a place near Rosswald in the Valais. Hope they don't take me skiing again but I've a feeling they will as they bought all that gear for me. Bugger!