Pequena leitora - Little reader

"Hora de estudar! Hoje vou aprender os números."      

"Time to study! Today I'm going to learn about numbers."

"Aaahh! Que coisa complicada!"

"Aaahh! What a complicated thing!"

"Hum... Agora ta ficando interessante..."

"Hum.. Now it's getting interesting..."

"Ufa, terminei! Esse livro foi longo!"

"Phew, I'm done! This was a long book!"

Why mothers need their sleep

This video is hilarious!!! Every father should see this to make sure their wives get the rest they need. Hahahaha

Introducing Solids

After 6 months of exclusive breast feeding, Leah began to discover the world of flavors, and it has been very entertaining!!  Every day when I give the first spoonful she makes a funny face, but eats it just the same. The first thing she ate was sweet potatoes, she didn’t really know what to do and ended up just trying to lick the spoon, but she caught on quick. She’s already tried sweet potatoes, apples, bananas, plums, rice cereal and carrots, in that order. Until now the only thing she really didn’t like was the rice cereal.  But I think it was because I didn’t get the texture right and it ended up being to thick.  Poor little Leah, she was so excited to eat and when I gave her the cereal she just about threw up.

Giving her food is a battle. Not because she doesn't wanna eat, but because she's very active and she can't sit still. She doesn’t stop moving, throws herself back, hangs off the sides, drops her head, licks the chair and always wants to grab the spoon. When we’re done I don’t know if there is more food in her tummy or on the table.

Two years have gone by

Everyone dreams of their wedding day and plans a lot so that on that great day everything comes out perfect.  Well, our great day didn’t turn out how we had hoped, but without a doubt it was the best day of our lives.  I’m so grateful for the things that went wrong that made my wedding unique and fun to remember.

The day began early, I had to leave American Fork and drive 45 minutes to Farmington where I was going to do my hair, makeup, get dressed and afterwards go to Bountiful, where I was going to get married at 1:00 pm.  So I ended up leaving the house without eating that morning.  With all the chaos trying to get ready and get to the temple on time there wasn’t any time to even think about eating.

In the sealing room there wasn’t any room for any other feeling outside of pure joy of being sealed to the love of my life for all eternity.  But after the sealing finished I began to feel sick a little bit.  It was after 3:00 in the afternoon and I still hadn’t eaten anything, and that way to tight dress didn’t help at all either.  One of the temple workers gave me some crackers and orange juice, but I don’t know if that helped or just made things worse.  The feeling eventually passed and there I went, to go take pictures outside and around the temple, it was a beautiful and sunny day. 

While we were taking pictures somebody stepped on my dress train. Yep... I went the rest of the wedding with a big footprint on my dress!

So with the pictures done it was time to go to the reception.  As soon as I got into the car I began to feel sick again.  When I got to the reception hall I went straight to the bride’s room to loosen my dress and try to breathe better, then all of a sudden I felt like I needed to throw up… I ran to the bathroom and… guess what?  There was a little sign saying that the toilet was broken and couldn’t flush.  My friend Aline was with me, she looked to see if there was water in the bathtub and said “Dinda!  Throw up over here!”, so… I did.  When I was in the bathroom throwing up my sister in law ran to get something for me to eat, a few minutes later I was laying on the couch feeling great and with people serving me food… I felt like a princess!

So way past late, I finally went down to the ceremony.  It was supposed to be a simple ceremony just to exchange rings and what happens?  The groom forgot the rings in the car!  Hahaha (the best part was the video of our wedding where you can see through the window someone running to get the rings) Comedy!  It was still a calm and relaxed ceremony, the bishop had to improvise and draw out his words while someone went to go get the rings. 

Ok, enough with ceremonies, lets eat and have fun.  Alex made a beautiful video of the two of us to play in the room where the food was.  The only problem was that when the video finished, the staff at the reception didn’t turn it off and the same video and music played over and over again… all night long!!  Oh heavens!! 

Time to cut the cake.  But wait a minute…that wasn’t the cake we chose.  They didn't decorated the cake.  We didn’t really have much of a choice to do anything at that point so we just ate it, and it was tasty!

We danced our waltz, of course I stepped a lot on his toes, but after that we all had a lot of fun dancing together and having all of the Americans dance forró (brazilian dance).

So this was our wedding.  Besides having reason to be so, I never was sad, stressed, or frustrated, not even angry.  I took advantage of the day and it was marvelous! The day after we were flying to the most perfect honey-moon anybody could ever have.

Yesterday we celebrated 2 years of our “Happily Ever After”!

New Year, New Blog

The new year is here... we finally got the courage to start this blog after months of sitting here blank.  We hope that this year will be full of great things to be able to share here.

The year even started with a milestone!  On the second our little baby turned six months old!  Half a year!  Everybody has to be tired of hearing this (especially moms), but... time really fly! 

Leah 6 month. (My poor little baby had her first cold).

She is in such a cute phase.  She is very happy, she smiles and jumps into everybody’s arms.  She loves being held, she also loves pulling hair, lips, and the nose of the person who is holding her. If there is one thing that she isn’t, is delicate.  Some times we call her Piranha because she attacks quickly anything and everything with her mouth, especially people’s hands.  She loves, loves chewing on fingers, whether they’re hers or whoever is close by.

She already sits up by herself and loves to do so while she plays.  She loves the little tags on  toys, pillows and blankets, and when she sees one she throws herself at it to grab it.  She’s still practicing holding herself up on her hands and knees, and she drags herself along the floor like a dizzy caterpillar to get to where she wants to go (or at least to where the toys are). We just started her on solids. It’s so funny to see the faces she makes.

She is the joy in our house,  she fills our home with smiles.