Swimming Update

Here is an update of the kids swimming.  Andrew is one week from his swim competition that he will be doing the front stroke and back stroke.  He is doing really well and we are going to do a couple extra days with him to help get his breathing down.  Nov 5th 8am is the competition wish him luck.

Lainey now diving down to pick stuff off the bottom of the floor.  She doesn't ever want arm

 floaties anymore she is a swimmer.

Cooper is finally putting his head under the water, he is not quite getting the swimming part down but I'm just excited he is getting more comfortable with the water.

Kid's Day

In Brazil they celebrate Kid's Day like we do Mother's and Father's Day its a big day the kids don't have school that day and some schools for the whole week.  Anyway we went to the club for the day and swam.  Here is a couple videos from the day, the kids had so much fun.  I wish that I knew about kids day because I would have brought presents but stuff is so expensive here I didn't really want to buy anything.  The rest of the kids here got big present like DS's but the kids were fine with the small things they got and we had such a good time at the club I don't think they knew any different.

Costume Party (Brazil Halloween)

So this last weekend we went to Franca which is about 3 hours away and stayed the weekend for Dani's birthday. It was a blast it was a costume party which was nice since they don't really have halloween here it was nice for the kids to dress up. Andrew was Bam Bam and Lainey was Pebbles, and Cooper was a vampire. Cooper fell asleep about 8pm and the party didn't even start until 930 so he missed the whole thing but he was at least dressed up for a picture. Lainey then fell asleep about 1030 so she missed all the dancing but Andrew stayed up with us like a rock star until about 3am. Its crazy how late everything is here but we had such a good time. The place we stayed slept all of the people that came from Uberlandia and was also the place that the party was at so it was huge. Anyway here are some pics of the weekend. FUN times oh Happy Birthday Dani!!!

Our House

This is when you walk in the front door.

 Our living room

 A little bar area that we use for toys and now the computer area.

 Part of the kitchen.  Its a tiny refridgerator which sucks, probably the worst

thing about the apartment.

 Rest of the kitchen.  For Brazil this is big.

 Laundry room, the dry racks are attached to the ceiling and use a pulley system which is awesome.  Probably the best part of that apartment.

 Cooper's bed

 Lainey's bed.

The other part of the living room that we made the toy area.

 Andrew's bed.

 The rest of Andrew's room.

Bathroom one.

 Our small super uncomfortable bed =)

Master bath.

So here is the lastest from Lainey swimming =) she's doing great.

Lainey's first swim competition!!!

The first video is Lainey's second meet and she went with three girls cause the first girl freaked out and wouldn't swim so she went with the next group.  They won this leg and she did great she get a boost of energy right at the end on each one and really pushes home. 
The second video is awesome, she is paired with the girl that didn't go last time and again she freaks and Lainey jumps in without her and the teacher was going to make her wait and then Lainey was going so she let me go and the announcer was chanting go Lainey's and so even with the delay at the beginning she won!!!  She did so wonderful this is only after two classes at the upper level. 

A few random pics

 Ready for swim =)

 Andrew with all of his friends at one of the clubs we go too.  He has made so many friends everywhere we go and there are quite a few that speak english. =)

 Cooper and his friend Matheus

 Lainey, Cooper, and Matheus

The whole gang =)