Playing

The boys have been playing a lot by themselves. It's nice that they don't need me as much (of course, it means they are growing up - FAST) and it's quite entertaining to hear. Here a sample



Yep, so they mix the languages. The plot of the dialog is: the big firetruck is daddy, and the smaller ones, one is Nathan and the other is Matthew.

Later on, they found a small Lego with wheels and that became the baby. Nice to see that they are naturally adding the new baby to the mix :)

Real vs plastic

Engraçado as associações que os meninos fazem ultimamente. Quando estávamos no Children's Museum, tinha umas comidas de mentira (maçã, frango, etc) e eu disse pra eles que não era de verdade, era de plástico, por isso não podia comer.

Daí em diante se eu digo que alguma coisa não é de verdade, seja filme, desenho, etc, eles perguntam "mamãe, é de plástico?" :)

First Baseball Game

So on May 12th, we took the boys to their first baseball game (Angels). We've been wanting to take them for a long time and Daddy found a great deal for a day game. The time was perfect, 4 PM, so after their nap and by the time we got home, bedtime!

They were so excited! Of course, as soon as we told them we played the "behave, so you can go to the baseball game" (yep, it works!). We printed the tickets the night before and on the next morning, Matt told me he had to get his ticket for the ball game - went to the printer and got it (I didn't even know it was there).

The game was great, they did very well for the 3+ hours we were there. We missed the "take me out to the ball game" song in the beginning of the game, but they enjoyed every minute of it on the 7th inning (and asked for a repeat - too bad they don't do it). They played the kid's games there and Nathan even scored in the "argola game" (ask daddy for the translation). We got hot dogs (I told them we had to wait till the 5th inning and they were really good about it) ate raisins and had juice.

The Angels ended up losing, but that's only a detail. They were really amused by the rally monkey and attentively looked for it in the big screed. Daddy, as always, was really good in the cheering and teaching them all kinds of chanting and game lingo.

I can already see baseball fans in the making. The next day we saw they kids playing in the park next door and they were eager to play too. It made their baseball toy very appealing again. I should get ready to boy some gear soon :)

Rebirth of a blog

The idea was good: make a blog to register all the important happenings in the boys life. The execution was horrible: like a lot of past journals, albums, scrapbooks, it started and stalled.

But I am coming back to this again. Now that I am full time at home, it feels like I can (and should do it). The boys are so entertaining and learn so much that I must register these special moments to enjoy it later. And you two too!

Enjoy the reading, this might be in two languages (hopefully you can read both)

much love!

chandra (mommy)