Well I must say that it has been a very interesting 24 hours! My brother and sister in law's anniversary was last week and they wanted to go somewhere over night and Gabe and I were supposed to take my oldest niece Noel for the night. But things did not work out and we were both a little bummed that we were not able to watch her. But we decided on Sunday that we would take her last night for the night so that my sister in law could get things done. She is such a doll. We had so much fun playing last night and had dinner and watching a movie. She went to bed at 8. Gabe and I decided that we should go to bed around 10:30 because we knew it was going to be an early morning. Sure enough at 3 am little Noel had a nightmare. So we were up till 4 trying to calm her down and putting her back to sleep. And then at 8 this morning she was up. We had a good day filled with shopping, playing and McDonald's. Funny story.... We went to Smiths today and when I was getting some fresh vegetables there was this lady with a child in her cart. The child was bald and wearing some mutual colored clothes. She told me that my child looked just like me. I just smiled and said thank you. If anyone knows my brother you know that he and I look alot alike and Noel looks like my brother so much. That Noel ends up really looking like me too. So she is easily seen as my child. But on the other hand she looks nothing like Gabe. Ha ha. Anyway so the lady proceeded to ask how old Noel was. I told her that she was sixteen months old. The lady said I am so jealous your child has way more hair than mine. So being the idiot that I am I turned around and said " oh and old is HE?" The woman gave me the dirtiest look I have ever seen and said " Well SHE is sixteen months as well!" oops insert my foot into mouth right at that moment. And of course Noel is smiling and waving at this lady and I all I could muster out was " Well that is nice. She is a cutie." Needless to stay I told Noel to stop waving and pulled Gabe over and said let's get out of here. It was so embarrassing. Watching her was so much fun and Gabe is so cute with her. Noel just loves him I think that she loves him more than me. Looking at Gabe with her I knew that he is going to make a great father. But after just dropping her off at home Gabe and I are exhausted. It just makes the choice of having kids right now that much easier. We are just not ready but we are enjoying just watching our nieces and playing mom and dad for awhile.
The other exciting news is that Gabe and I are going to Brazil!!!! I am so so so so excited. We are going for New Years and I cannot wait. Gabe's family is so excited to see us and we are so excited to see them. I miss them a lot. I know that Gabe misses them too. I am excited to meet the rest of the family that I was not able to meet at the wedding. It is going to be one of the best trips that I have been on. I really need to get working on learning Portuguese. Well that is life of Dani and Gabe this week.
