Family

It has been a while since I posted any blogs - for good reason. We have been spending a lot of time visiting family this summer. More to follow soon. But in the meantime, here are a couple of pictures from our most recent trips. The first is a 4 generations photo taken in July and the second is a Pereira family self-portrait taken in August.

Note: Sofia has about a million outfits and it is just a coincidence that she is wearing the same rainbow dress in each of these pictures. She also smiles, almost all of the time. It is also just a coincidence that she looks like she would rather be anywhere else!

All Joy, No Fun

'All Joy, No Fun' was the sub headline of this article in the New York magazine a few weeks back. Despite agreeing whole-hearted with the article's general premise, we thought we would try to break out of our humdrum routine and go on our first, short, family vacation. We choose the Catskills, a mountain range 3 hrs north of NYC.

We had a great time, staying in a ski lodge in the summer. One day we hiked to a waterfall and Sofia cooled off by wadding in. In this picture she doesn't look too keen but she got into shortly afterward.

We also went to a petting zoo - good though we didn't agree with their choice of keeping some bigger animals that most certainly did not belong (tiger, bear and bison). But we did feel a bit better when we saw that all of the animals appeared to be healthy. Here we are looking like we love our child and our lives.

Some of the better animals included giant tortoises, roaming around freely, and baby bunnies. We were able to take them out of their hutch and hold them. Sofia was trying to be gentle but still managed to poke everyone of them in the eye.

Here is Sofia literally trying to climb into the deer's enclosure. If you can see, she is holding on unaided. We suggested that we throw her in with the monkeys. She would be just fine.

So all in all, quite a lot of fun really. We were still asleep by 10pm and awake by 7am. But I think that is now life as we know it. Babies just don't sleep in on vacation. But we love her anyway.