Hello everyone! Julia turned one year old this month and we celebrated it Hawaiian style! We were thankful to have all our friends and our family from Portugal (grandpa, grandma, uncle Jorge and aunt Ana who is 4 months pregnant with a little girl) to celebrate such an important day in our little girl's life.
Julia is doing very well at 20 pounds (9 Kilos) and 30 inches (76 cms). She is saying "papa", "mama", "Dora", "Julia", "abua", which means "agua" (water, in Portuguese). She waves hi and bye, blows kisses, does "High Fives" and claps her hands. She understands a lot and is now trying to say "no" by shaking her head but sometimes loses her balance and falls down. It's pretty funny to watch, really.
She enjoys many types of food and fruit but is very stubborn about eating soup so mommy tricks her by dangling a cookie in front of her so that she can open her mouth and then mommy slides a spoonfull of soup in her mouth. It's quite an art, at this point, that has been developed in order to accomplish this feat. But hey, it works. And yes, mommy does give Julia a piece of the cookie after she eats the soup.
Joana is saying full sentences and is getting potty trained so that she starts her first day of school without any issues. That's right! Joana will be going to preschool on September 1st and she is very excited about that because there are "amigos" (friends) at school. And she loves her friends.
We are all very excited because in one week all four of us, plus dampaw (Grandpa Johnny), Vovô (Grandpa Jorge) and Vovó (Grandma Victoria) are all going on an exciting cruise to the Caribbean. We will have pics and videos of that fun vacation on our next blog.
