videos part um

"Honey, do you think you can figure out how to put a video up on our website?" Pish posh! Little does he realize how cool I truly am.

The view of mommy's lap:



And some witty reparteee as we take Solei home from the hospital:



She's already over a week old and already so pink and squishy - I'm so excited to take her home for Christmas, but I'm scare she'll be so different by then - I want my family to see her NOWWWW! Is it bad that she'll only wake up once or twice in the night, just to eat or get a diaper change, and then goes back to sleep without screaming for too too long? Well, maybe she's just being nice to us right now because we're new at this... I'm not complaining! Thanks baby!

way too much exposure

Solei is a week old now and we are becoming old pros at changing dirty diapers and dirty clothes about 67 times a day. No time to talk, just thought I'd post a mazillion pictures to do that chatting for me!

On the way into the hospital...


Check out the funny baby!


Sure does like her mom though....


Likes her dad too!


In the car, arriving home for the first time!! Soooo little!!


Mommy and baby at breakfast


I'm trying to teach her how to do pushups.


We sure do love her...


The family at my 27th birthday party!


This is what she looks like from mommy's lap. I can't tell if she's weirded out or not...


And just to prove how little she is, here is how big my hand is compared to her head. She liked this shot, can't you tell???

She's here!

Soooo- People told me that once I became a father I’d never get a good night’s sleep again. They never told me that the reason that I couldn’t sleep was that there were nurses coming into your room at all hours of the night checking on your wife. The baby was down the hall (probably getting a good night’s sleep). Actually I don’t think anything really is going to stop the baby from sleeping at all. Our prodding and oogling hasn’t slowed her sleeping down one bit.

Mommy is doing wonderful. We were both amazed at how easy the labor was. Again, no one mentioned to me that it was the recovery that takes it out of you. Epidurals are blessings from heaven.

Here are some pics.
Baby burrito:


Diaper time!


Grandma, daddy and baby:


Mommy and baby, after their baths:

Pictures GALORE!

So, my mom sent a frantic e.mail to Jared's mom this morning (who is currently hanging out at our pad) begging for pictures. So mom, here you go!

Last weekend we headed to a nearby town to do some tourist-y shopping, but the view was splendid. Here's our brave heroes at the top of a very big hill, overlooking Pedreira:


And this was the ant Jared pointed out that was right by my foot. He took the picture (with his finger nearby to show how huge the size was) while I was running screaming to the car.


Mom brought all the baby things, so now we get to actually be READY for baby!!


Here's the "final" product, including way cool flowers mom painted and hung all over the room:


Aren't those flowers fabulous??


Now, if this doesn't entice baby to come out, I don't know what will... they're waiting for you, girl!!


Here's a pic of our dining room area - mom made a cool art piece to work with the rug and the wacky tile:


Here's a closeup of her masterpiece:


And this is the not-friendly-for-babies stairways to our living room.


Okay, our living room is a tad messy, but we LIVE in it! Here's mom typing away - note the awesome rug that matches the ONLY COMFORTABLE COUCHES in all of Brasil!!


Last night we went to the Campinas temple. Gorgeous night, here's mum!


And this is my fatness as of about a week ago. Baby is over a week late now, and ready to come out! I'm having pretty weird contractions today, so maybe she will!


Last but not least, we've told a few people the name, but I've been pretty secretive about it. If you want to know, click
here to see the decoration I made on her door - that's her name!

Hope next time we blog, it's from the hospital! Jared has a business meeting today in Sao Paulo (that's about an hour and a half away, probably more with Sao Paulo traffic) so it's probably when our daughter will want to grace us with her presence;) Just like her mom, I love to make an entrance!

Still No Baby

Still No Baby.

That's the news of the day. Yesterday was the due date and we are all a little anxious to get things underway- like somehow once the baby comes everything will magically be resolved and we won’t have to worry about anything anymore. I can only imagine that attitude is probably exactly the opposite of what will happen. Being extremely impatient, I tend to want to move on with things and get them over. That is probably the worst attitude that I could have in terms of kids. Before we know it our little girl will be off getting married and having kids of her own. Man how time flies…

Life here is good. We are in our home, have furniture, have gotten used to the rooster who crows at 4am, and even figured out hot showers. The only thing that seems to be lacking is the internet. The Brazilian telephone system isn’t known for its customer service nor its speed- so we are waiting for DSL. It honestly was our last resort. We even looked into some strange satellite thing. Alas, we got everything we needed and still no connection. They are sending out a tech to help- we’ll see how that goes.

We’ve even managed to make a few friends. The church here has been great. A group of women came over to help us clean last week. They’ve been super friendly with Reva and have been gems overall. Everyone is looking out for us here and doing their best to help us where they can.

My mom came down to help us out with everything. She brought two full suitcases of baby clothing and stuff. The baby’s room is all set up and ready for our little ray of sunshine. She’s washed a ton of our clothes and cleaned up and done dishes. I mentioned the other day that I don’t think my mom has washed any clothes for me since I turned 12.

We will update everything as soon as we have internet and more things to say. Every now and then I step back and see how truly insane I am. New country, new job, pregnant wife. What was I thinking???