Multicultural Festival

A couple of weeks ago we went to Cesar's Little School to participate in their Multicultural Festival. Quite a few different countries were represented and each group of kids performed songs and dances from those countries. It was a lot of fun! Cesar had been telling me for a while that he was singing "Frere Jacques" in school and I never believed him. Honnestly, why would they sing in French, right? I knew we were singing this at home all the time and just thought that since he didn't know the names of the songs that they were singing in school, he used "Frere Jacques" as the name. Well... isn't there a saying that the truth always comes out of the children's mouths? He was telling the truth. They sang "Frere Jacques" in French and English that day. Anyway, here are a few pictures from that day.

Cesar and his friends Shawn and Alex before the presentation

The performance

After the performance



Rosa just chilling in a baby rocking chair

She absolutely loves books, can't you tell?

Aunt Lisa's Birthday

These are a few pictures of my best friend's 50th surprise Birthday party. It was a lot of fun! She thought she was having dinner with our family... when actually it was with 25 more persons! And of course we made her wear the silly "50 year old" tee-shirt. Sorry Lisa.... We love you!

Easter

I know, I know... I'm just VERY late in posting again... My parents are visiting and are taking a million pictures (and I'm not exagerating) so it's taking me double the time to sort through them. At the rate I'm going, I'll probably post these pictures in July! :)


Anyway, here are a few pictures we took at Easter. Not many, I know, but we video-taped everything and the file is soooo big I can't post it here. Sorry...

For our dear friend Eliot Mohr

We were walking in our neighborhood the other day and saw this statue in someone's front yard. We think it's a copy of one of the Backyardigans... or at least it looks like it to us. We know Eliot loves them, so here it is... for you Eliot. We miss you!

Oh my....

... there's two of me!!!

Portraits

We were just having fun and took those pictures the other day.

A year ago

Today, a year ago, at exactly this time, I was in tears. We had to leave our beautiful children in Guatemala and come back to real life... for the second time in as many months. I hated leaving each time. It always felt like someone was riping my heart open and leaving a part of it behind. But even though there were tears, this time was different. I had just whispered in Rosa's ear that I would come back within a month and would never leave her alone (and I mean NEVER) after that again. I kept my promise, but I'm saving that for another blog entry next month. In the meantime, here is a picture of us as a family (even though not legally yet but definetely in the heart) that very last day in March last year.

A visit to the park

Last weekend was beautiful, sunny, perfect temperatures, not too hot, not too cold, just the way we like Florida. It was a wonderful day to go to the park, so we did! Here are some pictures. Enjoy!

First the swings...

And then the slides...



...and why not all together!



Rosa was having fun taking the bits of shredded tires that are on the ground and putting them on the bottom of the slide

... and Cesar was pretending to be Peter Pan

Eating and drinking habits!

Rosa has been showing us her good eating and drinking habits recently. It's always fun to watch!

Let's try with the left hand this time...

Yes... the Cheerios are there...

Hmmm... so good!

All gone!

Two cups is so much better than one!