Friday, January 22, 2010

Big move ahead!

A couple of years ago, we came to the conclusion that the UK was not going to be the place we wanted to settle and raise our children. Having that in mind, we planned to take a sabbatical before settling in 'whatever place' we decide it to be. Both Jason and I have been moving (countries and homes) often in the last 10 years and now that we have 2 little once, we will soon have to 'settle down'. For various reasons we postponed our sabbatical twice (the last reason being our wonderful little girl Josie!) and now we are ready to go! We leave the UK on the 31st of January. We are planning to take 6 months off in Brazil. The main aim is to spend some quality time as a family, spend time with my family and our friends, Jason wants to learn Portuguese, we want to travel in south america and we want to decide what our next step in life is!
It is very exciting and are so happy we will be able to do this. I am so excited to spend so much time with my children, husband and family.
Today is Jason's last day at work and we have next week to finish up packing and say our 'goodbyes' to friends and the city we have lived in for the last 4 years! We take great memories from this place, including Kaio's and Josefine's birth (they do top the list!).

Both Kaio and Josie are doing well. This week they both received tuberculosis shots (a requirement in Brazil). We are adjusting nicely to a routine. Kaio has had a couple of 'melt downs' (I guess these are the infamous 'terrible twos') but he snaps out of them quiet quickly. We also have a 'time out' approach where we give him a warning and if he continues his bad behaviour he goes to his room for a couple of minutes and is only allowed out if he apologizes for what he did (tips we got from the programme 'Super Nanny'). But overall he is a very good toddler and I really can't complain! This week we had a catch up with his carer at nursery and she has found he has become much better since Josie's arrival and him being part time at nursery. She said he is much happier, is not aggressive and really enjoys playing with other kids.
This week we also had our leaving do with our NCT friends (who we met at our antenatal classes when I was pregnant with Kaio). There are 12 'mommies' with 12 toddlers and 5 babies under 1 year and 5 of them are pregnant with baby nbr 2. They have been such a great group of friends and we will definitely miss them!

Kaio is definitely ready for potty training. He is able to lower his pants and sit on the potty (without removing the nappy) and he has done 2 poops while sitting on it! He also was sitting on his potty when we had some friends come over with their little girl who is potty trained. We are waiting to go to Brasil to really focus on it and get him 'dry'

Josie is a very happy baby. Every time we talk to her from close by she opens a huge smile! We mentioned it a couple of posts ago and she continues having these huge smiles and with much less effort required form our side. It is very unusual for such a young baby to smile so much, but the pic below is the evidence! (I also have it taped and will ask Jason to post it!)

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