sunday's will come.

hey folks. im super pregnant if you can't tell.

today i am feeling grateful.
sheesh, pretty blessed i am.

BUT

sometimes i have real bad bad brazil days (its a phrase the other american mom taught me), and actually sometimes i have bad brazil weeks... now that is a phrase i made up. but then some days i remember how incredibly blessed this little life of mine really is. like today.

it all started when i was eating my premium mcdanolds salad outside on our front porch after i put henry to sleep. (mikey's is super fancy here, like pizza hut. henry is sick so he only eats a few things- chicken nuggets is one of the items, so we made a mcdizzle run tonight for dinner. duh.) i had a few contractions (totally stopped now, no worries) and started thinking about meeting baby boy. oh!  i am so excited. only because i know how much joy he is going to bring to our little family and it just makes me smile.

henry is my best buddy. he is the brightest little sunshine ball, the sweetest hug giver, the best kiss giver and the funniest, smartest, cutest explorer. from the moment he wakes up to the second he falls asleep, we are together. and we never get sick of each other. i mean, yeah it can get tiring sometimes, because i am also so huge pregnant right now, but i always want that little dude close. i have enjoyed being his mother more then i could have even imagined possible. and now i get another one. in 3 and a half weeks.

i told henry that baby was kicking mommy yesterday at dinner. he looked at me and his eyes got so big. silence. then he looks at my tummy and says... "baby?!"

yep. always kicking me, so. much. kicking going on in there. this jr can rock!

p.s. i read this talk by elder wirthlin tonight and thought it was so fitting for this moment. read it. it's amazing.

our first month in brazil // last month of pregnancy. boom.

well it’s about time, right? today we celebrate one month in brazil, well one month and one day to be exact. i can’t believe that it’s been that long and also that it’s only been that long, does that make sense? days are going by like years and weeks are going by like seconds. yep, it’s all true.

daniel has been working like a dog, which means he works all the time. he leaves around 7:30 (AMMMM) and then doesn’t get home till about 10 (PMMMM). terrible. we have a little, cute house in alphaville onze, and we are safe and healthy. henry and i don’t have a car (because d man has to drive it to work which is about an hour and a half away) so we have really been getting some good one on one time. he loves me and i love him. when i get depressed (usually around wednesday) because i havent left the house in a few days, and i never see my husband, i just listen to henry and try to really live in these little moments when it’s just he and i in the house. we don’t have too many days left till baby brother comes to greet us (!!!), so we’re really packing in the qt time. not knowing the language makes things a bit more complicated as well, henry and i look at each other when the mail man asks us a question and are just so grateful that we at least have each other to talk to.

sheesh, and henry only knows about 20 words…but 20 words we both understand, that is key! but we seem to entertain ourselves all day with those 20 words. i have a lot of funny “eu não fala português” (i dont speak portugese) moments, but those are for another day. i mean i have a lot! ha! help!

last weekend daniel’s grandparents, sister and cousin were here in brazil so we met them in a town called paraty to spend some time together. paraty is such a cute little place, cobblestone streets and right on the beach. what more could you ask for? it's about 3 1/2 hours away, we were so happy to see family. and we got to see and say good bye to sister vanessa, she is leaving on her mission in 2 weeks! she is going to be the best missionary brazil has ever seen. we love you, ness. 

also, as we enter october, we enter the last month of pregnancy! yesss! we can't wait to hold him and kiss his little face. henry pats my tummy all the time now and says "baby!"...you got it bro, baby is comin our way.

and this weekend i have the flu, really bad, so i feel like i might die, but i know i probably won't.

how is that for an update? 

miss you all like crazy and have been craving chick-fil-a. of course. 

 xoxo.