Author: Gabriel Misura

I guess you’ve been listening to the Carpenters with Vovô e Vovó in the car. You’ve been singing “When I was young I used to listen to the radio” (just that part) over and over.

I can’t believe how much anticipation I was experiencing just signing you up for Kindergarten at Rutledge today.
I can only imagine that it will be like when you really start.

Rutledge looks like a very nice school. Our friends that have/had kids there love it so I’m sure it will be fine.

I will be very sad when you have to say goodbye to Ms. Rachel at Bluebonnet. Similar to when Tati left and you started at Bluebonnet.

I just happened to look around the corner to see you sticking your tongue out pretty much touching the TV. I don’t know why you were doing it, the TV was blue (showing the AT&T Uverse screen saver). Not like something delicious was on TV.
Needless to say I was pretty pissed, but tried to calmly explain that you don’t want to do that because you could get an electric shock.
You seemed ok with that explanation. Hopefully you won’t do it again.

This ‘game’ is fun. Except when you made a poop and said that there was a daddy, mommy and baby poop. I did have a good laugh.

You were being relentless asking for candy during your snack. I told you several times you had candy in the car on the way home so you weren’t getting anymore today. You continued to annoy us. I told you if you didn’t stop you would go in a timeout. Well, you didn’t stop so I took you to your room. You said ‘I don’t want a timeout’ and then went into your closet and closed the door. I left. When you came out so sat on the white circular rung and told vovó you wanted me. I came there and you said you were ready to stop your timeout. You didn’t ask for candy anymore that night.

I was amazed you stayed in your room/timeout.

Yeah, I’m the type of dad…

Coined a new phrase: WJEI. Will Julia Eat It? She eats lots of different things but for some reason she will refuse to eat random things she likes. Last night, I made pasta with a spinach cream sauce. She love spinach and pasta and cream sauce. And she likes this dish as she has had it before. But, after putting her pasta in her dish, she refused to put the sauce on top and refused to eat the sample I gave her. She sat in her chair for 20 min until she tried half and then decided to eat the other half (clearly indicating she liked it).

So while in Brasil for 41 days, you slept thru the night 37 of those nights. One night you were in your own room and woke up to come to our room. The rest you woke up in a very weird crying state and couldn’t be comforted.

We have been home for a week. You slept thru the first couple nights. Then there was a big storm and that woke everyone. The past 3 nights you have woken up and when you come to our room I ask if you want to go back to your room so you can get chocolate milk in the morning. You say no. I ask if you want to sleep on the small bed be t to our bed so you can get chocolate milk in the morning. You say no. So instead of arguing/fighting in the middle of the night I let you sleep in our bed. Very full with you, mamae, Eric, gato and me.

You only watch nick jr at home. While in Brasil you watch discovery kids which has commercials. You saw one for ‘Simon flash’. You said you didn’t have one and wanted one to play with me.

Update: you ask for every single toy you see in commercials, and you said Papai Noel was going to bring you a Lava Lava (mini washing machine with real water).

We left mom’s purse at he aunts house and you cried. So strange that you were so sad we left the purse. We explained how we left Pretty in Paris and she came home. How we left you jacket at school and you got it the next day. You said the same about your sun glasses. Then mamae explained how Tia would find the purse, look inside and know it was hers and call Lucia. You made her tell the story many times over and over.