She´s NINE!

Today is a very very special day , my "baby" girl turns to 9!
I just can´t believe how quickly time passes and how grown up she is and always being the same good girl, patient, loving, smart , making jokes and still jumping from the stairs!
Now she is a good sister, too! And I am so proud because she takes good care of her little brother even when he lets her angry she looks at me and tries to be patient.
Happy Birthday my special little girl, I love you so much! And I really wish I could have more time for you but you know, babies need more attention and sometimes I may look busy ( and almost always I am) but I really love you!

Just to say hi!

 Summer is still here in our home, our hearts , everywhere we go... I can feel and see the warmth of the season when I look at the watermelon piled on the farmer´s truck, the green leaves on the surrounding trees and when I feel the heat when I walk barefoot on the ground outside.

 Pears, peaches, oranges and apples : we have been eating them a lot!

 And daisies, don´t you love them?  They are so simple and adorable and I would love to send to each one of you , just to say thank you for being here and visiting me everytime!

Wishing you all the good things and also hoping you are enjoying your season, maybe it´s winter out there , well, please send  some fresh , chilly breeze for us, please!

What I see (almost) every day

 How are you ? Here are some things that I see at home, in the playing room and in the living room, my daughter´s crayons ( and her brother´s curious hands...) , playing blocks , all so colorful and cute, I love them!

And outside, in the garden I am enchanted by this wild berry I´ve got from a special blog friend , Shi, it came in a small vase beautifully wrapped and now, you can see how gorgeous it is on the ground?!!! And I´ve already ate some berries, very yummy!!

 In the backyard I have this acerolas growing , plenty of them and after the rain, it grows much more and it´s something very healthy so, why not making some juice of them?

 Today we went to São Roque and Ibiúna and I bought some of these eggs, I love eggs!! These ones are sold in a supermarket that Shi told me, it´s close to her lovely house. They have so many interesting , wonderful and cheap things ... Small towns , I do love going there!

Camila wanted to eat some donuts and we went to a small Cafe in São Roque town called Café Donuts and while César was sleeping inside the car, I bought some donuts to go . Yes, I´ve ate it already with decaf coffee, here at home! yum!!

 Oh, and I bought at the supermarket some lettuce for dinner , the salad will be delicious tonight!!

 And when I arrived home, the postman had just left this postcard for me!!! It´s from the Netherlands, a postcrosser that sent me this adorable postcard from a very famous children´s book illustrator, Fiep Westendorp

Happy 2013 !!!

 Happy New Year!!

Hi, everyone! 

We´ve been spending our hot summer days at home, making short trips to my mother in law´s home, meeting family members we meet once a year and talking a lot and also, we spent some great time at Catavento Cultural, an ongoing exploration of science, art and human perception that feed our curiosity, a great place for kids and adults. 

 Exploring , exploring, exploring...

 Touching a meteorite...

 Dad took a picture of us and

 here is the garden outside the museum with thousand of roses, I love these roses very much!

So, welcome 2013 and I wish you and yours a wonderful year and may all your dreams come true. Cheers!!!

Happy 91 years !!

 Today I went to a birthday party, but, not just a simple party, the lady turned 91 years old and she is as beautiful as she was when I first met her when I was a kid.
I remember going at her house and in the backyard she has this amazing secret garden when she was always surrounded by lots of flowers, trees and everything green and magical for a child´s eyes...

And today we celebrated her 91st birthday with a delicious Paella made by her daughter, my good friend Keiko and all these yummy food you´ll see below.

The second lady from the left, the birthday lady. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

And here she is with one of her grand grand sons!! cute boy, isn´t he?

Have a great weekend and for some of our Brazilian friends, a great holiday, too!!!

At the hospital

 In November, the 2nd, César couldn´t sleep and he couldn´t stop coughing so we took him to the hospital and then we stayed right there for 2 nights and 3 days.

 There were terrible days for us, he´s got Bronchiolitis and  I stayed with him and he wasn´t allowed to get out of the room , isolated and only watching TV or sleeping , there weren´t toys so his dad got some from home on the next day.
But I can tell that this Hospital Sabará has surprised us for the excellence of treatment, cleaning, size of the room and private bathroom ideal for babies and toddlers, nice food and friendly nurses and doctors and physiotherapist.

Below  ::  the sign on the door for the visitors asking them to put masks, gloves and apron.

 This is the view from the window, São Paulo city and the sky scrapers, lots of them!

 Here he is, eating some bread and spending his time watching TV, poor boy...

 Kid´s meal and...

Mommy´s breakfast

It was a great experience, we learned a lot about Bronchiolitis that is basically the inflammation of the bronchioles that reduces the amount of air entering the lungs, making it more difficult to breathe. It affects babies and young children and there is no medication to kill the viruses that cause bronchiolitis, but the infection usually clears up within two weeks , in his case he had to do a lot of inhalation which was the terrible part of the treatment.

But I´m very happy to say that now he is feeling well and he is running and playing around the house as usual, phew, what a week!!

Wishing you many wonderful days!!!

Today is Halloween !

 Kids are ready for this funny day of the year, they will walk through the neighborhood asking for trick or treats properly wearing their costumes.

Here are Camila and her friend wearing Pumpkin and Black Widow costumes, don´t they look great?!!

 And I bought lots of freaky Halloween themed treats  and one of them : the tongue becomes blue...

 then we put into plastic bags with black strings , all set !!

Happy Halloween to you!!!

Happy Friday!

 It´s been a long time I wanted to visit some friend of mine who I´ve met at the blogland and finally on Friday we could meet and she has received me on her beautiful house in the woods. You may see the pictures right here of the yummy cakes and juice she set up for me, just for me!

And here are all the sweet things she made and gave to me, the cutest sheep ever above ( it´s a fragrant candle) and a wildberry jam, you´ll see on the last picture how yummy it was, look at Camila´s picture!

 And she makes adorable soaps like this one, with passion fruit scent, it´s just so cute that I don´t think I will use it! it´s beautifully decorative.

As we walked in the woods we talked about so many things like old friends, I wish I had more time to spend there...

And she took me for a new cafe + bakery that is wonderfully decorated and the coffee is sooo great, and, she asked for a yummy nutella chocolate drink!

I just want to thank her for all the kindness and joy she gave me on this cloudy Friday , it was so unforgettable, thank you Shi!

pic nic dinner - part two

 So, finally we´ve got home at about 5:30 PM and dinner was served! We took the small picnic package outside , bike and balls to play on the yard.

 Some of the special moments of the boy and girl, he´s giving his snack for his big sister and of course she has to accept!

Now it´s my turn... says the boy ( well, he doesn´t say anything, he just "thinks" himself...)

 This beautiful Steam Locomotive postcard has just arrived from Prague, capital of Czech Republic, isn´t it awesome?  I love it!

And this next one Camila received from Estonia Postcrosser, you can´t believe how big it is! Yes, the size of this postcard is about 15cm x 22cm !!!And it´s so adorable, she wanted me to show you!!

Today it´s very windy and after weeks of no rain, I hope it does today or tomorrow...
Thank you for stopping by and have a great week!!!

Pic nic dinner

 Spring is just around the corner and I just love the idea of going outside and have a Pic Nic Dinner party!!!
Kids are at school right now and I´ve just prepared some easy and simple things for our pic nic :

                                          ::  Carrots, Tuna Sandwich and seedless grapes

:: Apples , Bubbles to play in the yard and Cheese Sticks, delicious!!   

    

 :: Now it´s all packaged, I added some water and juice because, boy, it´s hot today!!

Oh,  I wanted to show you guys  this cute little monkey that came up in the woods while we were picking some wild berries. Actually we ´ve got pretty scared when it came out from the leaves of the tree, you should´ve seen our faces!!

Well, I´ll pick up my kids in a few minutes and I will tell them about our dinner plan , I hope they have lots of fun playing and eating together outside our house, sometimes it´s nice to do something different, right?  Simple but different...

So, if you do something interesting in your ordinary days, please share it with me , I´d love to hear about your dinner plans!!