Parenthood - welcome to the group!

There's a list of shows I watch weekly, not too bad thanks to DVR and skipping commercials makes into nothing more then 5 hour/week which I don't consider bad!

But I'm specially in love with this new show on NBC called Parenthood. They being working on it for quite a while, if I'm not mistaking on of the producers even had an aneurysm and died on the set and they had all kinds of set back- but all worth the wait - it's an awesome show!

The history of 4 siblings, 2 women and 2 men with each of their families. There is a little of everything! A stay at home dad and it's hard working wife, the party Crosby that just now found out he has a son as well, the mother of 2 teens that married the rock star and it's parenting all on her own and the family with a special needs child. The grandparents are always involved and they have problems of their on!

Great cast - they have among quite a few popular stars it's Lauren Graham as Sarah, Max Burkholder as Max doing a terrific job and my favorite Peter Krause as Adam!
Real
To top it up the series has a great sound track! Lot's of Bob Dylan and lots of other good songs!

So go to the site to catch up with the passed episodes and make sure to set "record" on your DVR because sure it's worth it! ;)

Autism Awarness - Cool

Did you see that??????????

Did you know Brasil now has an official Curling team??? I find this pretty cool news!

* Have you seing this comercial? Very cool!


* Aubrey Coleman (Cougars) steping on Chase Budinger´s face? Very painful!


* SO intresting!


* This poor little guy!!!!

Book & TV

The kids are in love with Peppa Pig - I found a DVD with 15 episodes all in Portuguese; it also included a book with 2 stories and a little Peppa doll. They watch it at least once a day! =)
Benji is doing amanzinly awesome with his Portuguese. He will actually ask to watch movies or for me to read books in Portugues.
Noah in the other hand says "Mom - it's not working" LOL



Here is what I'm up to now: In English this book is called : "Exorcize your fat soul" - I hope it helps on something -LOL

Hes got it right…

I just watched an episode of this show called Eli Stone – and I’m hooked! Totally cool!!!! It’s already the season finally and that is good because I don’t need another show to my list – lol)

* Survivor it’s HILARIUS! Man I never laughed so much watching it as I did this past week!

* Hells Kitchen it’s fired up!

* Carpoolers it’s a pretty funny show…. And the food network it’s on if I have any extra time to sit in front of the screen.

* Lost and Grey’s Anatomy will be back in a couple of weeks! And that is more than enough TV for me!

-BTW, you can go to abc.com and check how Sawyer would nickname you!!! I’m….

So what we are not by the book????

Man! It sucks to be sick… I’M feeling better though!

I haven’t done much but here are some funny ones from the kids:
Benji
* Every time something goes wrong for him you will hear him say: “That wasn’t’ supposed to happen” (From Wubbzy)
* See something funny and will say: “This is some funny shit”
Man! We *SO* need to watch what we say around this kid…
He is also using some cute sentences like:
“Sorry mom, this as all my fault”
“I didn’t mean to do this” (How long until this one flies - lol)

Noah
* Says “Peeuwww” for everything he thinks it looks/smells good, while putting his hands on his nose…
* Imitates Ben, put his hands on the floor – “butt” up and say “GO” and runs like there’s no tomorrow… (I’m just wondering how long before stitches! Uhhhh!) - Funny funny! =P
Here goes another funny one… cute little Noah, goes to the bath, rips a tinny little piece of TP, flushes and claps for himself… over and over again!

Ahh, so cute uh? Yeap – sure!

… until the other day, Dan took a vacation day to help with the bys because I was just miserable and cute little Noah…

Unrolls the whole tp into the toilet, kept on flushing over and over again… (Dan heard but didn’t care much cause he plays like that all the time & I was upstairs)
Long story short:
We had toilet water all over the bathroom, hallways and going down the basement ceiling…

Well well…

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Breeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaath! Aaaaahhhhh =)
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Totally OOT now:

1. Hells Kitchen still rocking -n-

2. I got a film of this song I really like, my camera is still broken so it turned out like crap but it may do the job.

If you have time, watch it! This is from WWW and it’s just a cool cool song, my fav!
Because you know what? Society sets “standards” for everything… and that doesn’t matter!!! I try my best, but let me tell ya – It doesn’t bother me if it’s not by the book…

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire!!!

Hells Kitchen is BACK! =)   -Vanessa it’s my girl! (so far)
The LA times said:
“Hell’s Kitchen’: The dark lord of cooking reigns again!” -LOL

He maybe not as LOST as we think

The boys have been watching little TV here in Brasil, and the little they do is in portuguese (all the shows they love - but in portuguese)

Today Tia Claudia was watching a movie, in English, when Benjamin comes closer to ask:

B -Tia “Clau-jah” what are you doing?

C - Watching TV.

B -Are you watching LOST?

We are getting LOST…

… on the Season 3 of Lost! I want to catch up before the 4th starts!!!

I haven’t being this addicted to a TV show in

LOST

I talked to Angela last week about TV shows and she mentioned about Lost – it got me curious so Dan & I decided to give it a try…

Within 3 days we were done with season 1 – We watched over 1000 minutes of TV (Our wuote for the whole year - lol)

Everytime an episode would end Benjamin ran out to us and said :Yeahhh! It’s over!

Then a new one would start and he shouted : Oh noooooo another one!!! LOL

Poor kids! 

So we are gonna give it a break before starting season 2 (Even thou we are dieing to see) but the kids need family time!

TV

Of couse we set goals to limit our tv time this fall/winter, so at first we picked just a couple of show. But wait! We can DVR and watch 3x faster in a quiet environment after the kids are in bed! So that became 5x more shows that we expected! LOL So we are watching:


The Office – Awesome as usual. It’s the best!

Law & Order – Not need to comment.

Kid Nation – I really enjoy this show – so does Dan. Benji even watches it with us… don’t understand much but watches it.

Survivor – Just because we used to enjoy – but to be honest it lost it. This one is full of “beautiful & strong” people and it just feels like set up… people just talk about “the way I play the game” … anyways… it’s just getting old!

Grey’s Anatomy – Even Meredith being as annoying as can be I still enjoy this show.

Private Practice – So far ok. I’m giving it a shot, we’ll see.

Carpoolers – I’m LOVING it! A lots of: “man are the best and yes we(man) are animals, we love sex and woman are dumb” kind of jokes but wait – 2 & ½ Man is like that also and we watch it!!!

2 & ½ Man – The comment is just above…

Desperate Housewife – Not important but I like to watch when I have a chance

So here is at least 5 hours!! FIVE!!! Five!!!! Five hours in front of the TV every week! Way more then I would like to but at least Dan & I do it together cuddling in the couch. I enjoy listening to “Singing Bee” while I cook dinner or do dishes if that is on…

Besides that we don’t watch anything else anyways… so I guess it’s all right.

Hells Kitchen is Back!

…and I wasn’t expecting much after the first episode; the contestants seem so inexperienced - very desapointing - but then last night’s was really good!
Can’t wait until next Monday! - I shouldn’t have watched the “next week on Hells Kitchen”
- Now I’m anxious! =)

(Unusual) Too much time in my hands…

And I had so much to do and didn’t know where to start…

So this morning - exceptionaly I turned the TV and I saw Dawson’s Creek last episode <>

- Joey chose Pacey over Dawson… It made me wonder if Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper ever got together - hold on - I’m gonna find out

* 3 minutes later *
“Kevin quit his job working in Jack Arnold’s furniture store and struck out on his own. Sadly, for some viewers, he and Winnie Cooper did not wind up together.”

Read more at: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/wonderyears/wonderyears.htm

Music makes us happy!

I notice that we keep the TV on most of the day just so we have something in the background (is that right? Background?) Anyways… so it’s on and we ended up watching things that we don’t even enjoy it just because it’s there.
So now during the day I only have a radio on – Our TV is only allowed to be turned on 30 minutes every morning, 30 in the afternoon - some special ocasion and after dinner.
We are happy singing all day, playing and getting things done! Benji and Noah just love it! =)
Specially when it’s some good WRSP!!!

Lica's Anatomy

“Nobody knowwwwss….”


I don’t usually go to Drs., but within the past 6 weeks I being at Dr. M´s Office 3 time. The coolest thing – or not – is that all three times we met in the parking lot, got into the elevator together, and talked – side by side – like the Drs. On Grey´s Anatomy. So if you think they exaggerate in the show, believe me, they don’t! You can have a pretty long “small talk” in that minute or two!

Homeschooling on Ellen - by Roseanne Barr

I being debating about home schooling for a while, trying to figure it out if it’s my call or not!


Besides feeling on my heart to do it, I see how Benji is growing and on TV all those horrible things happening on schools (even the Amish school!)

God has giving me plenty of hints (Shelly, our neighbor, the mom I met at the car dealer the day my car went for service- Donna, people from church and just al around my surrounds) then today Roseanne Barr was on the Ellen DeGeneres show today, and this are her words:

R - Ya know, I homeschool my son, he is 11, so I don’t have time for anything – besides school, school, school, I don’t have time for a carrier, I don’t have time for a life, anything else
E - So you sacrificing it to raise your child?”
R - Yes!
E - And that’s important!
R – Sure it is!!!

(Then they talked about how Roseanne’s son is turning out to be like)

R - And I would recommend that for al the parents who can – to get their kids on homeschool!

Not that I personally would have Roseanne was a whole model… but
Lica says: Oh boy! =oP

TV

Believe me – I’m not a big TV fan – At all… really!


Survivor started yesterday, it’s very different this time and I enjoyed – I’m trying not to get “hooked” into many shows this fall – but I can already tell it will be hard. Between Survivor, Grey’s Anatomy, ‘Til Death & Desperate Housewives here goes all my free time. And whenever there’s more free time there is new season for CSI, Law & Order, The Simpsons, 2 ½ Man, Six Degrees & “many more”…

“Boo’s boos”

This morning we all set in front of the TV while we had breakfast – we cracked up with Benji’s new “words”:

“Boo’s boos”


He’ll move his hands as if he was doing Blue’s Clues!! - Waaaay too cute!!!
Forget about Backyardigans, this is the “hit” right now! The coolest is that we have lots of Blues Clues things around the house, a Blue Doll, books, a Note book…

Oh - Yeah, I almost forgot: He’ll also sign ‘Put in your notebook!!’ too
- You know what? He’s so smart!!! =)

Another new word: “come” in add to the hand sign…

Eating cheese bread for lunch and loving it! =)

Oh no1 Xuxa again???????

Benji distinctly points to the TV and asks for XUXA!

Oh boy! As much as I like him to watch videos in Portuguese I wonder how much of that for good!

Its summer! - It’s nice out! Let’s go play on the deck my dear! =)
We went to the pool today at Lisa’s house and he loved playing in the water - wasn’t jealous of the other kids playing or sitting by me and he was just great if sharing! Very brave into the water what may concern me a little!

More I learn about Benji’s needs, personality & feelings the more I notice he is happy & a very easy going guy, everything it’s cool for him unless he’s hungry! (that’s when the tantrums happen) -I guess he got that from Dan! =)