Lilah has been crawling like this for the past two weeks and I think she will be up on her knees any day now. She is doing many new things since she turned 8 months. She can clap her hands, pull herself up to a stand, wave bye-bye (we say "tchau"), drink out of a cup by herself, and feed herself little pieces of food that I put on her tray. Still no teeth yet but oh so cute nonetheless!
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Happy Ressurection Day!
I want to make sure that James and Lilah have the same American traditions that Rick and I had when we were children. So of course, I threw together an Easter egg hunt for the kids that live in our building. When luggage space was available, I brought down plastic eggs (can't buy them here) and my neighbor Debora and I made these baskets for the children. I filled the eggs with candy, homemade play dough, coins, and little toys. They were SO excited. Wouldn't you be too?!
I love this photo Rick captured of James running to meet his friends that just arrived.
We took the children to the Parque Cidade (city park) for a picnic and egg hunt. There were 5 families that participated.
Anyone who has two or more children know how impossible it is to take a photo with both kids looking and smiling at the same second. There were 4 of us waving chocolate candies and Lilah's binky behind the camera to get their attention!
James had so much fun. I love this sweet photo.
Here James and Lilah wait for their chocolate Easter eggs. The Brazilian tradition is to receive a chocolate egg which, depending on the size, has a little toy or candy inside.
Yay, we got our chocolate eggs!
Yay, we got our chocolate eggs!
James wasted no time digging into his egg.
"How do I eat this thing Mommy?"
I love this little face.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Back in Brazil
We are happy to be back home in lovely Brazil. James and Lilah did extremely well on both flights and Rick and I were able to get some rest too. We had a welcoming party waiting for us back at our apartment at 11:30pm! Bem-vindo (welcome home) signs were made and placed on our door and our dear friend Rosi made some caldinho for us. This is a type of soup made with beef and yucca which is like a potato. It sounds horrible but it is really tasty, believe me! We were praising the Lord for our safe arrival and for the love and support shown by our Brazilian family! 
Lilah had fun "helping" her big brother put together his puzzle.
Lilah met her neighbor and new playmate Vinicius for the first time. He is my best friend Rosi's new baby. Lilah then managed to steal his sock right off his foot and started to eat it!
Double click on this photo to enlarge it and see this mean storm roll in. I took this photo from our kitchen window. We had a few strong storms this week and this one was the worst. We are at the end of summer and it is still quite hot and sticky. We are doing our best to adjust but it's difficult when there is no AC! I mentioned the heat to a lady at church and she suggested that we take a walk through the downtown shopping mall to cool off! (It's air-conditioned.) Funny, huh?
Lilah is back to bathing in a bucket! Just kidding! This is a baby bath but since there are hardly any bath tubs in homes here, this works just fine for James too!
James is old enough to take a shower but he enjoys splashing with his sister.
We had a really rough time this week trying to get the children back on schedule. Lilah was eating dinner at midnight and going to bed at 2:30am the first night back in Brazil! After a whole week of letting them skip naps so they would be exhausted enough to fall asleep a little earlier we are now going to bed between 9-10pm. Lilah loves to sit and play in her room. I recently got all of James' baby toys out of storage and Lilah is having a hay day!
I still have several photos to post from the time we were in the states. My sister-in-law reminded me that I hadn't posted any photos of Christmas. Whoops! Look for them soon!
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