Cheers to a great New Year!

As 2016 finishes, most people like to reflect a bit, and review their accomplishments and re-think resolutions for the brand new year.

This is the year I started to attend big school. I am really enjoying big school. I have learned a lot of things: writing my own name independently, writing other names with some help, numbers, shapes, and some easy math calculations. I continue to have a very vast and intricate vocabulary for a 4-year-old. Mom and dad say I am a pretty clever little man.

This was also year we did a lot of awesome family things together: we went camping for the first time, took a short family trip to Washington and Virginia, went to movie theatres for the first time.

We did have a few bumps along the way, particularly in the second half of the year. We had a few heath issues, but all of it helped us grow stronger together.

We ended our year with a nice Christmas gathering at our house and a New Year's party at tia Marcia and tio Raul's. We also had friends over for both holidays. For Christmas, Tia Catarina, Tio Gustavo, Gustavinho & tia Fatima vieram nos vistar, andfor New Year's, tio Tiago and his girlfriend, France, came. We had such a great time with our friends.

Cheers to a great new year!

 

 

 

 

Canadian life

Today i had the curiosity to see what the metal fence tastes like in my school. The only problem was that it was -20 celcius outside. I literally got stuck to the fence and sustained a minor toungue and lip injury.

My first award

Vovo Lucia in Canada

The It has been a while since my last post. We had a very busy minth on Nov. mom went to Nyc for a girls' wekemd with her friends, and when she got back, i was very sick with croup cough. That made me stay home from school fir an entire week. Then mom had a few issues herself, and so we mostly stayed sick for the entire month.

On a good note, vovo Lucia arrived on Nov 21 for a brief 2-week visit. Despite not being the greatest time healthwise, I loved her visit. We got to cuddle up together at bedtime and read stories, she picked me up at school a number of times, always mellowed my parents down when i got in trouble, made mebreakfast a few times, played cars, dinausors, lego, etc, all the good things a grandparent does for a grandchild. Growing up away from that sure is tough, but then I get to have this wonderful 24/7 attention for a few days.

Along with her wonderful visit, she brought presents from all my family members in Brasil.  Holy! Did i feel loved? It was like early Christmas. 

Thank you, Vovo Lucia, for making our days a little brighter and happier while you were visitting. I miss you terribly, and cant wait till we reconnect again.

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Há um tempo desde o meu último post. Nós tivemos um mes de novembro muito ocupado. Mainha foi a Nyc para um finak de semana com as amigas, e quando ela voltou, eu estava muito doente com a tosse crupe. Isso me rendeu uma semana em casa. Em seguida, mainha teve bem doente tb, e so se recuperou ha pouco. 

O bom foi q vovo Lucia chegou em 21 de novembro para uma breve visita de 2 semanas. Apesar de não ser o melhor tempo do ponto de vista medico, eu amei a visita dela. Nós nos aconchegamos juntos na hora de dormir algumas vezes, vovo leu histórias p mim,  me pegou na escola algumas vezes, sempre conversando com meus painhos p eles terem mais paciencia comigo, fez cafe da manha algumas vezes, jogou carrinhos, dinossauros, lego, etc, todos As coisas boas que uma avó faz para um neto. Crescer longe deles eh bem dificil, mas qdo vem nos visitar tenho atencso toda p mim.

Junto com sua visita maravilhosa, ela trouxe presentes de todos os membros da minha família no Brasil. Puxa! Qta generosidade! Será que eu me sinto amado? Era como se o nstal tivesse se adiantado.

Obrigado, Vovo Lucia, por fazer nossos dias um pouco mais iluminados e felizes durante sua visita. Eu sinto sua falta terrivelmente, e mal posso esperar até sua proxima visita!