Ethan and Isabeli:

Me sinto terrivel?? Ah..com certeza!! Minha irma cacula vem laaaaaaaaa da virginia p/ passar a pascoa aqui com a gente e eu nem falo nada a respeito. DESCULPA MELHA!! Tem sido uma loucura aqui ultimamente... eu to exausta e preciso que mainha volte p/ me ajudar com as criancas p/ eu poder trabalhar e descansar mais!! Estou muito feliz de falar que em breve estarei lancando meu novissimo e BELISSIMO website. Esperava poder lancar semana passada mas com Isabeli estando tao doente eu nao pude. Ela precisava da mama dela!!:( Ela esta quase terminando o antibiotico dela e finalmente se sente melhor. Ela teve bronquite e a tosse dela estava horrivel...parecia um cachorro doente! :( Minha bichinha! Para piorar o segundo dentinho de cima resolveu nascer essa semana que passou tb...e isso piorou muuuuuuuuuuuito as coisas. Estava inclusive falando sobre isso com John um dia desses...como Ethan era tao facinho qdo estava com dente nascendo. Nos nunca sabiamos que ele estava com um dentinho rasgando. Qdo a gente via ja estava la...Isabeli, por outro lado, ela deixa a gente a parte (ah! com certeza ela deixa a gente a parte!) que tem algo incomodando ela. Entao nao preciso nem dizer que tivemos uma semana miseravel aqui.

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Do I feel awful? Oh man...yes! My little sister came all the way from Virginia to visit and spend Easter with us and I didn't even post ANYTHING about it here. I AM SOOOOOOOOO SORRY MELHA!!! Things have really been hectic over here... I am exausted and need my mom to come back and help me with the kids so I can rest and WORK!!! I am very excited to say I have a brand new BEAUTIFUL website coming out pretty soon. I was hoping to launching it this week but with Isabeli being terribly sick I just couldn't. She needed her mommy! :( She is about done with her antibiotics and is finally feeling better. She had Bronquitis and her cough was just awful...sounded like a sick dog!:( My poor baby girl!) On top of that, her second top tooth was breaking through and that made things sooooooo much worse. John and I were actually talking about this... how Ethan was such an easy kid when it came to teeth coming IN (inside joke!). We never knew he had a tooth breaking through. We would just one day see it there... Isabeli, on the other hand, she will let us know (oh yah! REALLY let us know!) that there is something bugging her. Neederles to say...we had a miserable week here at the Elkins' house.

Agora... voltando a Amelia. Shannyn foi super doce de mandar amelinha p/ ca por uma semana inteira.. Se eu fechasse os olhos por um momento dava ate p/ me sentir em casa. Eu acho que ja passou tempo demais desde que eu estive no Brasil dessa ultima vez. Dia 4 de marco marcou 1 ano que retornei de la. Da nem p/ acreditar que painho e nanda ainda nao conhecem a Bela. Meu Deus...como eu detesto essa distancia! Enta... Amelia e eu pudemos passar bastante tempo juntas e fazer coisas de irmas e tb deu p/ eu fazer umas fotos muito legais dela...e ela ARRASOU! Olhe por vc mesmo: Now...going back to Amelia. Shannyn was sweet enough to send my baby sister here for a whole week. If I closed my eyes for a moment I could almost feel back home. It really has been long enough since I was in Brazil last. March 4th marked a year that I came back from our last trip there. Cannot believe my dad and nanda have not met my 8 month old baby yet! GEE...I can't stand this distance! So, anyways...Amelia and I got to hang out a lot and do some sisterly things together and I was also able to take some very cute pictures of her... and SHE ROCKED! see for yourself:

Finalmente pude leva-la a Solvang em um dos dias que ela estava aqui...nos divertimos muito la! Ah como eu queria que morassemos mais perto...tenho tanto orgulho dela por se tornar essa pessoa tao linda.

I was finally able to take her to Solvang one of the days...we had such a great time! Oh I so wish we lived closer...I am so proud of you for becoming this beautiful person.

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Aqui estao algumas das fotos que tirei dela com as criancas...coloco mais depois, bela esta mechendo na minha gaveta enquanto escrevo isso. Nunca vi...tao ocupada!

Here are some pictures I did of her with the kids... will post more later, bela is going through my drawer while I type this. She is such a busy body!