Uptading...

Well I got 1 year older this week. I am 28 years old now! But can you tell? Hahah! My gray hair certainly can!

Luiz has just finished one more semester at school. Wow, only 2 more to go! He will be graduating April 2011. We still don't know what we are going to do from there. Maybe Master's, maybe Brazil...We will see...

Cecilia and I had a wonderful time back at home in Porto Alegre. She got to know a lot of new people. She learned a lot. She loved hanging out with grandma and grandpa. She is crazy about dogs now! Actually every animal she sees now it's a "uauau". She loved playing with her cute little cousin Caio. He is just adorable. She wanted to hold him and kiss him. We had her One Year birthday party there. It was great! We had a lot of friends and family over. She had a lot of fun. She did pretty good during all the flights. But it is good to be back home. Home is where the heart is, right? And right now my heart is here in Rexburg, Idaho. I missed my hubby so much.

Cici is almost walking now. She (we) spent the whole day walking around the apartament, she holds my hand everywhere she goes. Sometimes she just goes and doesn't care if I am holding here or not until she falls down. She is trying to say some words. She likes to copy everything we do.

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Bem, eu fiquei um ano mais velha essa semana. Tenho 28 anos agora! Mas dá pra perceber??? Pelos cabelos brancos dá. hahaha!

Luiz acabou mais um semestre da faculdade. Só faltam mais 2 agora. Ele se forma em abril de 2011. Ainda não sabemos o que vamos fazer a partir de lá. Talvez MBA, talvez voltar para o Brasil. Vamos ver...

Cecilia e eu passamos por ótimos momentos em Porto Alegre. Ela conheceu muitas pessoas. Aprendeu bastante. Ela adorava brincar com a vovó e o vovô. Ela adora cachorros agora. Na realidade qualquer animal que ela vê é um "auau". Ela adorou brincar com seu priminho lindo o Caio. Ela queria abraçar ele e beijar. Fizemos sua festa de 1 ano lá. Foi muito legal, teve bastante família e amigos. Ela se divertiu bastante. Ela se comportou muito bem durante todos os vôos. mas é bom estar de volta em casa. Afinal, o lar é onde o coração está né? E agora meu coração está em Rexburg, Idaho. Senti muitas saudades do meu maridinho.

A Cici está quase caminhando. Ela (nós) passamos o dia inteiro caminhando pelo apartamento segurando a minha mão por tudo que é lugar que vai. As vezes ela não quer saber se eu to segurando ela ou não, ela só sai andando. Ela já está tentando falar algumas coisas e adora copiar tudo que fazemos.

Trip to Brazil with Cici

Cecilia and I are in Porto Alegre, Brasil visiting family and friends. We had a very long airplane trip that it actually started with a car trip to Salt Lake City last thursday. Our flight to NYC left Abril 16th at 8:30 am. We were at the airport around 7. Thankfully they allowed Luiz to pass through security with us. It was a great help and we could kiss goodbye on the last minute.

Cecilia was a joy to travel with. She slept through the first take off and first landing in NY. She had a lot of fun in the airplane and was very successfull with the flight attendants.

We arrived in NYC about 4 hours before our next flight. I thought it was going t be plenty of time but it wasn´t. That airport is huge!!!! And to help there are no signs, people were just telling me where to go. After going down in the elivator the door opened and I am outside with a hungry, tired and crying baby, it was cold and very windy. There was no sign showing where I should go next. I was getting so frustraded and just wanted to go back home and a man shows up from nowhere and ask me where I needed to go. I told him and he said: Okay, I´ll take you take. He had no name tag on him, no uniforn, I didn´t see where he came from...I was so nervous he was taking me and my daughter some place else I just started do pray....I was in NYC....He took me to the right place where I needed to take the train and go the terminal I had to. I was so grateful!

After that, another long line to check in. After one and a half hour I think I finally got to go to the boarding area and it was almost time to board. I still needed to call my hubby to let him know we were okay. He was getting nervous with no news from us he called the airline company and they told him it was time to start the boarding process right when I called him.

Cecilia was a joy to travel with. So sweet and calm.

We finally arrived in Rio where people were not very friendly with a mom traveling alone with a 9 months old baby! Not even the flight attendants! I was already so tired and sore that anything was driving me crazy and I needed to stay calm for my daughter.

We finally arrived in Porto Alegre and saw all the family there waiting for us! I was happy to be there but already missing my hubby!!

Preparando-se para Páscoa - Getting ready for Easter

It might be too early but I am so excited for Cecilia's first Easter, that we had just started on a few Easter projects! Yesterday we (me) made a wreath that I think it's so cute and super easy to make! I am still thinking about the next project...I think I am going to make some chocolate eggs later for Luiz and I. Cici also loved to play with the plastic eggs! Any other suggestion?

Pode ser meio cedo mas eu estou tão animada para primeira Páscoa da Cecilia que já começamos alguns projetos! Ontem nós (eu) fiz uma guirlanda que é muito linda e fácil de fazer. Ainda estou pensando no próximo projeto... Acho que mais tarde vou fazer uns ovos de chocolate pra mim e pro Luiz. A Cici adorou brincar com os ovos de plástico. Alguma outra sugestão?

What's for dinner?? O que tem de janta??

I have decided to make a meal plan!! Anna gave me the idea! Sometimes I spend the whole day thinking about what I am going to make for dinner and nothing comes to my mind! So, I am writing down everything I like to make and new recipes I want to cook and I chose one recipe for each day! I hope it is going to make my life easier because I always have a hard time deciding what to do!!

Eu decidi fazer um cardápio! Anna me deu a idéia! Algumas vezes passo o dia inteiro pensando no que fazer de janta e nada me vem na cabeça! Então, estou escrevendo tudo que gosto de fazer e receitas novas que quero tentar e escolho uma receita pra cada dia! Espero que vá facilitar minha vida porque sou muito enrolada pra decidir o que fazer!

**The picture is Cecilia eating beans for the first time! She loved it! Na foto é a Cecilia comento feijão pela primeira vez! Ela adorou!

Porto Alegre é demais!!!

This is the most beautiful song about our city. It was written by our current mayor and it is sung by his wife. It won't be the same if I translate it.

Porto Alegre é Demais

Isabela Fogaça

Composição: José Fogaça

Porto Alegre é que tem
Um jeito legal
É lá que as gurias etc... e tal

Nas manhãs de domingo
Esperando o Gre-Nal
Passear pelo Brique
Num alto astral

Porto Alegre me faz
Tão Sentimental
Porto Alegre me dói
Não diga a ninguém
Porto Alegre me tem
Não leve a mal
A saudade é demais
É lá que eu vivo em paz

Quem dera eu pudesse
Ligar o rádio e ouvir
Uma nova canção
Do Kleiton e Kledir

Andar pelos bares
Nas noites de abril
Roubar de repente
Um beijo fadio

Porto Alegre me faz
Tão Sentimental
Porto Alegre me dói
Não diga a ninguém
Porto Alegre me tem
Não leve a mal
A saudade é demais
É lá que eu vivo em paz

Porto Alegre me dói
Não diga a ninguém
Porto Alegre me tem
Não leve a mal
A saudade é demais
É lá que eu vivo em paz

Porto Alegre é demais!

Sick girls - Meninas doentes

A Cecilia ficou doente pela primeira vez! Coitadinha... Está tomando Amoxilina pra infecção no ouvido e depois ainda pegou um resfriado. Ficar doente fez ela comer mais sólidos e menos mamadeira...que bom, fórmula é caro!
Cecilia is sick for the first time! Poor girl! She is taking Amoxilin for an ear infection and then we found out that she also has a cold! Being sick made her eat more solid and less bottle...that's good because formula is expensive!

Learning process...

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