Daycare is Fun!!

Daycare is finally fun. After a month of crying and kicking and calling for mommy and daddy both Joana and Julia are enjoying daycare. Joana, now 29 months old, loves to go to school and talks about her "amigos" (that's friends, in Portuguese), and Ms. Danielle (her teacher). She participates in all the activities and seems to have no problems in the classroom. I believe the sharing issue only arises if Julia is involved. A few interesting things about Joana at school according to her teacher and the school directo: she likes to walk around with her backpack all day and there was even a couple of times when she feel asleep with it. I had to insist that she leave her backpack in her cubby like everyone else. And after a few "but she's so cute when she does it..." they finally agreed that the backpack belonged in the cubby. She asks the questions "What's that?" a lot and when you answer, she says "That's right!" We think that's funny because she might be getting it from school. Below is a picture of Joana with one of the outfits I bought her for the fall. She is looking quite trendy when she goes to school and this particular outfit we call "Rock Star". And yes, those are tiny leather (pretend) boots. Below is a video of her account of the school experience.

I have been going to a gym everyday of the week to see if I can shed about 30 pounds and the gym offers daycare while you work out. Julia reached a milestone at the age of 14 months when she spent the whole hour ,while I was working out, without crying. Thank you, Ms. Billie for being so loving and so patient with our little girl. We knew it was only a matter of time. So what is new about Julia? Well, she likes to say "no", when she should actually be saying "yes" and she knows it, so she giggles afterwards. She defends herself from her sister by pulling her hair (we are trying to stop that, trust me), she likes to stand and sit on tables and she has no concept of danger. An example of it is how she will throw herself down the slide even if no one were there, but we always are, thankfully.

Two fun things about this month: we had a very successful garage sale where we were able to sell all of their baby clothes and toys and Namaw and Steve surprised us by driving for 12 hours....yes....12 hours, on their Harley to visit us for 4 days. We had a lot of fun with them here and made the most of each moment. Especially Namaw, who does her best to spoil the granddaughters in as little time as possible and she always achieves her goal! We love you, Namaw!! Below is a picture with Julia on the Harley. Very cool, huh? And Julia too. lol Check out the video where it shows a bit of how much she already understands. Her new words this month are "bubble" and "olá" (hello, in Portuguese).