It's Summer time!!!!

Of course, it is that time of the year, when we enjoy more time together, sun on the weekends (and some weekdays) to enjoy swimming at the pool or walking at the beach chasing birds and observing the wetlands and beautiful horses riding by the shore.
These are some of the initial pics from the summer time:

Christmas Celebrations

After a while i'm back at the family blog posting. What a better opportunity than the Christmas holidays. We spent Christmas eve at the abuelitos' house and enjoyed being with mama's family. Great food (as usual) and company, christmas mood and more helped us reflect about the important things: family, health and love.
Merry Christmas 2010!

As christmas is mostly a happy and very expected by children, here are some pictures of that evening:

Making movies

The kids love the website for making movies from text, it is called Xtranormal, and we'vce used it before. This is the last creation:

Enjoying Movies

It's been a long hobby for our family to enjoy the stories, scripts and FX from movies. We went to see AVATAR a couple of weeks ago. I left the theater happy because I had seen a movie that offered a story with many interesting ingredients: great FX, a good script, innovation and entertainment for us and the kids.

Avatar - Trailer

Official Avatar Movie

They were very excited watching the movie. And so the rest of the world, check the numbers here.
So we decided to avatarize the whole, and here are the results:

Fabrizio:


Dada:


Bruno:


Mama:

Long time no see..

It's been a while since I posted something new. Kids are growing a lot, many things have happened. We have been very happy, and very busy too. But overall, together.
Bruno and Fabrizio never cease to amaze me with new words, phrases, thoughts and actions. They are very clever, but they need to make mistakes to become better.
Good and bad will always be present for them, and it is never early to plant the the right and wrong voice in their heads, hopefully helping them to take good decisions.

Here some pictures from our last visit to the Museum of Natural History with the super doopers to see plants and animals, as they love them.






















And here the last movie I produced for Bruno's English Speech:

ICT skills in the family

I've always been curious about technology and children. I know from my work that they can get to be very savvy (boys), or very uninterested for it (usually girls).
Bruno and Fabrizio are a clear example of boys' interest in technology and thier initial steps in the ICT world are supported by their curiosity, easeness to use basic functions in a computer and endless imagination.
I've been using a movie-making website, Xtranormal, because it was entertaining, easy to do and potentially useful for academic purposes, especially in the area of digital expression.
Anyway, this morning I woke up after Fabrizio jumped to my bed between me and Jenny and started his day at 7:30 am. So I figured, might as well entertained him at the very beginning of the day with something different.
Fabrizio and Bruno had been practicing doing movies with a digital camera for a few weeks already, but never digitally. And, even though my assistance in the process was required, most of the script is theirs.
Here are some of the examples, enjoy!

Movie 1: Fabrizio and Dadda.


Movie 2: Bruno and Fabrizio.


Movie 3: Bruno and Dadda.

Monkey in the Middle - Park visit

The video from this postcorrespond to one of our park visits last april. We went there to have fun with my kids and stepbrothers.
Measuring forces, enforcinf physical activity and allowing them to relax playing in the sandbox is a routine.
Nothing like holding them upside down, while I still can. They grow too fast, at their current age, 7 and 5, I have trouble carrying them in my arms.
They told me time flies, and the minute you realize they're moving out of the house with a driver's license and a college life to begin.
Anyway, that is still a few years away. in the meantime, I'll be the monkey in the middle.