henry

daniel looked at me during dinner on sunday and said "the primary president came up to me during church and said they were looking forward to getting henry this may..." i said "what?! primary?!" people! how is my baby almost in primary? yesterday was his half birthday. he is such a good boy. he is constantly singing just like his father. his favorites are bah bah black sheep, the wise man built his house upon a rock, twinkle twinkle, abc's, old macdonald, sunbeam, and rain rain go away. he knows every.single.word. he loves playing with charles and they love escaping from our apartment, going to the stairs and climbing to the very top floor. they dig in the dirt from our tree for a good two hours everyday.

henry ate 4 apples yesterday and loves hotdogs - brazilian style. again, just like his dad. yesterday i was watching him and chalres talk and suddenly henry put both his hands on his head and gave him a blessing. he loves to pray before he eats and still doesnt like to wash his hair or brush his teeth (those he got from me...). he falls asleep every night cuddled up next to me with his little hand on my nose. and now he wakes up to go pee pee at least two times. and somehow always ends up in our bed. yesterday we were playing sit across from each other and throw our cars at the same time so they run into each other in the middle game and after one crash he looks up with the biggest grin in the world and yells, "mom! das was amazie!" he is such a little sunbeam in our lives.

these are the pictures i took after i gave him his 4th haircut.

xo.

halloween!

hey there kinfolk. we wanted to give you our halloween lowdown because i am sure you want to know exactly what the neeleman clan did to celebrate. and boy did we celebrate! you know, its funny because i have always liked halloween, but it has never been my holiday, i mean, you know those people, right? they totally rock it, own it and completely kill it - yeah, that has never been me. untilll this year, and then friday night after all our celebrations ended, i thought, now this halloween we killed it folks! we threw a party at our house with all the american families around, ate spaghetti and meatballs, tons of yummy homemade salsa, desserts and of course the "witches brew" with dry ice. the boys and i decorated the house all day and listened to spooky kids music and watched curious george boo fest.

let me rewind a day and tell you about thursday. our friend invited the boys and i over to make halloween crafts, so we went and cut out an orange pumpkin jack-o'-lantern and clued a black witches hat on it. it was simple and fun and all of the sudden i was extremely homesick for the halloween buzz that feels the air this time of year back home. growing up we never spent a lot of money on costumes, probably none to be exact, but we always had a "smoking pumpkin" did trick-or-treating and enjoyed the energy and excitement that the holiday brought. and then i realized that we weren't really going to get that buzz or energy this year because we aren't home... and there were no trick or treaters and no parties and no costumes as far as i could see.

so i thought, shoot! lets throw a party! so we did and it was a huge success. all our favorite people. everyone dressed up. so many chubby babies. and then after dinner we went to our basketball court downstairs and played halloween games such as "roll the pumpking with your broom" couple relay race, balloon stomp, and apple bobbing. but of course i was too busy playing that i didn't one picture of any of that.

 

xo.