Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2009

School!

Hi!
It has been almost two months since school started. We all are getting settled in the new routine and all is going really well.
Ola!
A escola ja comecou ha quase dois meses. A nossa nova rotina esta a ficar bem estabelecida e tudo esta a correr lindamente.

This was on the first day of school. My daughter was quite excited, it was a new school for her. My son was more like "OK, it's back to the old same thing, what's to be excited about????...." but he was very happy when he saw his buddies in his classroom and in fact he ended up realizing that it was not really like "the old same thing", not even for him...
No primeiro dia a minha filha estava mesmo entusiasmada, para ela era o comeco numa nova escola. O meu filho estava aparentemente indiferente "OK, estamos de volta a mesma coisa, qual a razao de tanto aparato?... mas ficou mesmo contente de ver que os seus melhores amigos iam estar com ele e de facto ele acabou por verificar que tambem para ele nao ia ser a mesma coisa dos anos anteriores...

We're together and we like it!
Estamos juntos, e mesmo fixe!

OK, you are almost my height, time to let you do your stuff by yourself...
Bem, estas quase da minha altura: ja e tempo de fazeres as tuas obrigacoes por ti proprio...

Look what I have: a nice surprise from my teacher! I am loving all this...
Olha o que eu tenho: uma prenda surpresa da minha professora! Estou a adorar isto...

On the way back from school we usually "decompress" at the playground with some friends.
No caminho para casa geralmente relaxamos a brincar no parque com alguns amigos.

There was a long weekend and our family went to the Springs with some friends.
It was fun...
Num fim-de-semana mais comprido, a nossa familia juntamente com uma familia nossa amiga foi visitar umas nascentes de agua.
Foi divertido...
... and very pleasant!
...e muito agradavel!
Oh, the mornings are getting cold....
Uhoh, as manhas estao a ficar frias...

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A very nice weekend

It was "Memorial Day" weekend: three full days of freedom (at least in my kids perspective!).
Foi o fim-de-semana de "Memorial day": tres dias completos de liberdade (pelo menos na perspectiva dos meus filhos!).

One cannot have too much of a good thing: thus, we went back to the strawberry farm and picked more delicious strawberries: we ate them "as is", in a smoothie, as popsicles and with whipped cream for dessert!
O que e bom nunca e demais: por isso voltamos a quinta dos morangos e apanhamos mais dessa deliciosa fruta: comemo-los simples, fizemos batidos, gelados e com chantilly para sobremesa!


In the afternoon we wnet to see the show "Hi-Yo, Silver!
Music of the Wild West
" by the Winston-salem Symphony.

A tarde fomos ver o espectaculo pela simfonia de Winston-Salem, Hi-Yo, Silver!
Music of the Wild West
,


Afterwards was time to play and celebrate friendship.
Depois do espectaculo foi tempo de brincadeira e fazer amizades.
Sunday morning I woke up early (against all odds!!!). So my son and I decided to use that time to go for a walk in the trail. We brought the binoculars and the camera.
No domingo acordei de madrugada (nao e normal!!!!). Resolvi aproveitar para ir com o meu filho dar um passeio pelo trilho. Trouxemos os binoculos e a maquina fotografica.

We saw a few footprints of deer (above picture).
Vimos pegadas de veado (foto acima).
A flock of Canada geese (Branta canadensis). We also spotted a gorgeous Indigo Bunting male (Passerina Cyanea).
Um bando de gansos (Branta canadensis). Tambem vimos um lindo passaro azul Passerina Cyanea.
We saw a dense "community" of these bugs, which I could not find in my "Insect pocket guide". If you can help the identification, let me know...
A beira do trilho vimos esta densa comunidade de insectos, os quais nao consegui encontrar no meu guia de campo dos insectos. Se puder ajudar na identificacao, diga-me...
My son likes the bugs. He remembers that we had a lot of these populating our flower pots outside of our home in Florida.
O meu filho gosta muito de insectos. Ele lembrou-se imediatamente de que estes insectos tambem eram abundantes nos nossos vasos de plantas que tinhamos a volta da nossa casa da Florida.


On Monday it was raining and we went to the museum "Sci works". My son experienced the mechanics of riding a bicycle.
Na Segunda-feira estava a chover e nos fomos ao museu da ciencia "Sci works". O meu filho experimentou a mecanica de guiar uma bicicleta.

They played some musical instruments...
Tocaram em alguns instrumentos musicais...

...but we spent most of the time at my daughters favorite room, the one health care: she loves dental matters: (maybe Francisco will have an apprentice, in a few years?!...)
...mas passamos a maior parte do tempo na sala favorita da minha filha, a relacionada com a saude, mais precisamente do cuidado dos dentes: (talvez daqui a uns anos ela venha a ser uma aprendiz com o Francisco?..).

When we left the museum they were as perspired as if we were leaving a gym (they really worked hard at the Sci-"works"). To cool down, they put the swim-suits on and went play in the rain!
Quando saimos do museu eles estavam tao transpirados como se tivessem ido ao ginasio (fartaram-se de trabalhar no sci-works). Para se refrescarem, vestiram os fatos-de-banho e foram brincar na chuva!

Rain is great fun!
Chuva e mesmo divertida!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

My girl!

Bird-watching: I wasn't this young, but I have great memories of my work with the birds. Maybe she will get me back to what was one of my biggest passions as a student.
Observar as aves: eu nao era tao nova, mas adorei o meu trabalho com aves. Talvez com a minha filha eu volte a dedicar-me as aves, uma das minhas grandes paixoes do meu tempo de estudante.
...and her choice was a bird painting!
...a pintura escolhida foi a de um passaro!


Painting is one of her favorite activities. The (recycled) box of chocolate is perfect to mix the colors!
Pintar e uma das suas actividades favoritas. A caixa (reciclada) dos chocolatinhos e perfeita para misturar as cores!

My artist.
A minha artista.