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Bilingual children
Just love… While in Brazil, back in my teenage years, I already imagined that one day I would have children. What I didn't realize at the time was that I would have to deal with the fact that I was living in a country where you are two official languages and neither of them is Portuguese. When our family began to grow and how they were born here, we had no doubt that the Portuguese would continue as the official language of our home, after all, all our family members are in Brazil, we have friends here who and have no doubt that we want them communicate with them efficiently.…
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Travel with children | 2 and 5 years
For those who follow us here, on facebook or instagram, already know that we like to travel whenever possible. We prefer to travel than buy material things, so shopping is not our strong suit, but willingness to travel yes. Even with the arrival of the furry cubs and daughters, we kept the urge to go out there, taking with us not only suitcases, but also the daughter. The dogs have been on some short trips with us when we went by car, but the two are stressed out with other dogs, so they stay off trips most of the time. Anyway, with all this, I do not consider ourselves travel…
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Diana – 1 year
Our Diana, who looks like she was born yesterday (i can't believe!) completed 1 cuddle on Christmas Day. She arrived as a wonderful gift in 2014 and now every year we have the opportunity to celebrate not only Christmas but her birthday on December 25th. And what about our little girl, who is now 12 and a half months old. She is fearless, curious and determined. She knows what she wants and what she doesn't want (she really does not with her head or points out whatever isn't at her fingertips). There are few obstacles you can't overcome. If there's something on the couch she wants, get a toy to…
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What it's like to travel to Spain with children
For those who remember, in August, we were in Spain and it was another one of our crazy trips. I say this because, despite being a long and far away trip, we decided half a last minute and we always go to the whole human family. In the end, this was not our first long trip to four, had a small /large tour of the United States when Diana was not even 2 months yet … Jeez… you can check here the first post of that series … But guys, there are so many cool pictures to tell the whole story, I don't even know where to start. As I…
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Alice – 3 years old
The alice birthday party this year was a week before the anniversary date this year, for strategic reasons, as we will be away on the weekend of her date. Who missed the previous year – here's the link to her 2-year anniversary. Anyway, this year's theme was cowgirl/cowboy/Jessie from the movie Toy Story. Of course, if I had let her choose a few days before, it would have been frozen (what a fever huh?!), but I thought it's very popular these days and I don't like doing the same as what everyone else is doing. Alice saw all our preparation and running, so it wasn't a revelation when everything was…
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Travel with children | Long-haul flights
If you are someone who accompanies our page on FB, you may have seen that we have embarked towards Brazil this last week for a season of approximately 2 weeks. What you may not know is that Diego stayed in Canada for a while longer because of Dexter and his recovery (I still owe this post is not even) and because of that, Alice and I came alone, more than 32 hours of travel to our final destination (this counting 4 flights and a road trip). Today I tell you how to travel with small children on long-haul flights. Leaving Ottawa, we stopped in Detroit, then Atlanta, Rio de Janeiro…
