Brazil Again

Julianna told me that she wants to go to Brazil tomorrow...I explained that we need to save $$$ to go to Brazil, I told her that the Airplane tickets are expensive plus the hotel and the food. She thought about a minute of what I said and asked if we can get more $$$. She said that she has a lot of money in her piggy bank and that she could find coins in the floor.

I wish that was that easy :-)

Brazil

We are in Buzios right now.. The kids are watching a movie and I am relaxing a little bit.
Julianna, Giovanna and Pedro Enrique played the whole time they have been together. It is amazing how well they get along even with the language issue. They slept in the same room last night and were very excited... giggling non-stop whenever I went to check on them.
Julianna is very stabanada (clumsy)...

Alessandra keeps trying to follow them and she thinks that she is a big girl too. She wants to walk everywhere and is only fussy when we try to restrain her. Alessandra smiles so much lately (all the time!). Last night we wanted to go to sleep and she kept laughing at eveything and would not go to sleep. She thought eskimo kisses were hilarious!

Julianna and Pedro spent hours getting shells and getting very dirty with mud right after the shower.

I am very sad that we are leaving so soon... I wish I could spend more time with my sister and her family.

Note from school

Julianna received a note from school saying that she had a hard time listening... I told her that if she had a good day, we would buy books at her school ( They are having a book fair this week) but after I saw the note, I told her that she would not get a book and she got a very upset. She promised that tomorrow she will try harder and maybe ...we will get a book.

Today I was talking with Julianna in bed about Brazil, she was counting the days and telling me what we are going to do on Friday... Drive to the airport, get into the airplane, walk to the car, drive to the hotel ...
I told her that I needed to go take a shower and she asked me why.. I told her that I was stinking ... she leaned over to smell me and she said : HUMMM ... you smell so good !!! Anything for me to stay just a little longer :-)

Jason is studding today again.. I can't wait for his classes to be over. I am very proud of him and how he is taking it very serious

Fun day at the fair

Today was a long day !!!

Jason had to study so I decided to do something fun with the kids. A friend of mine stopped by to bring a birthday present to Julianna and she told me about a fair near my house.

I loaded the kids into the car and decided to go... I am used to going anywhere with Julianna. She is a very easy girl and it is always fun. Well today I discovered how different my kids are. Alessandra DOES NOT STOP and she wants to do everything that Julianna is doing. She wants to eat and touch everything also.

Julianna got her face painted, planted a flower, decorated a tile, went to 2 jumping things and ate a corndog. The day was fun but I am exhausted.

At the end of the day, I took the girls to eat frozen yogurt from Yogurt World in Mira Mesa (and btw... I am so addicted to that place) and it was fun. I had to give some to Alessandra and she loved it. Since she can eat normal yogurt, I thought that Frozen Yogurt would not hurt.

Sleeping out

Yesterday, after Patrick's bithday party at the water park, we drove to Murrieta to stay with some friends.

Alessandra slept on the way there and the kids went to sleep pretty easily (and early)... which left us some time to enjoy the Jacuzzi and some movies.

Alessandra woke up once during the night but went back to sleep again pretty easily.. I was worried that it would mess our " training" but everything went smoothly.

We came back home around 10 am Sunday morning and Julianna was not feeling very well. She is watching a dinosaur movie now with her favorite blanket and her Mr. Moo. Meanwhile, Alessandra is walking around the house with a big smile and trying to find things to put in her mouth.

We are going to the park later with Julianna's friend Kelley from school.

It was fun to go to Laura and Skrat's house; it is a beautiful place and they seem very happy.

Sleeping through the night

Julianna’s grandpa was here for her birthday… it was very nice to have him over.
He was able to spend some time with Julianna and I think they bonded very well. Julianna keep saying that she misses him.
Ken left a present on his bed before he left and the next morning, she founded and said that it was very sweet of him.

While Julianna is getting a lot easier, Alessandra is getting harder. She wants to see everything, touch everything and on top of that, she started walking last week so she wants to go everywhere.

Tonight will be the third night that we are “retraining” Alessandra to sleep through the night. She was doing very well, only waking up at 5am for a feeding. But then, she started teething. I was worried that she was in pain so I started feeding at night. Since I was very tired, I kept bringing her to sleep with me and … one day after the other… she got used to that and was waking up 3 times during the night.
I started the pick up and put down system … with the “Baby Whisperer” book. The last 2 days was brutal and I am hoping that today, she will start learning how to soothe herself.

Julianna's birthday party

Ok.. Julianna is now 4 years old and we celebrated her birthday party on Saturday, April 18. Cyndy helped me make the cake and it looked very cute. I decorated the cake table and also put a lot of balloons on the living room where Tinker Bell read stories to the kids. When Tinker Bell arrived, all the kids surrounded her. I was a little disappointed with her looks, she was older than I expected ( I know it is kind of mean). I was so happy with Snow White last birthday that I expected more.

We had 20 kids in my house and Julianna was really enjoying every minute of it. It is very cute how she interact with her friends. She is very bossy and tell them what to do. After opening the presents she told me that she had something to say to all her friends and she thanked them for coming.

Ah.. after the 1st time her friends sang Happy Birthday, she asked them to sing again...she loves being the center of attention