late....

It has been reeaaally long since my last post, and many many things has been happening around....so i hope i get to remember something because right now my mind is all blank, but as always if i start writing i wont stop until is very late or my kids are hungry.....let see....

Sophie loves to try new things, foods and everything emily does...EVERYTHING, even if Emily cough or sneeze, Sophie will do it too...and to take anything Emily has on her hands (that is our big fight right now)....Sophie also likes to wear high heels! so she is not much of a tomboy as i believed....

I will start writing about my little car accident, then our 2 days camping outdoors WITH THE GIRLS!, and our trips to the museum, Local fair, and my emily's birthday of course!....i am so delay in my post, mostly because y decide to make my spring cleaning close to autumn, and then decide to do some rearrangements.....ufff all this months just cleaning, taking winter clothes out, washing them, looking every little paper around to see if i can throw it away.....not much fun....but i am almost ready! just few boxes more to enjoy it completely....ok, lets start before Christmas is here!

I really need to talk about this, and i think for some reason this part of my life i need to write and leave it on the paper, but of course the importance in my safe and others leave it very clear on my mind......On july i had a car accident, i didnt talk about it also because there were many things to do, fix the car, car insurance, doctors, pain, bad dreams .... so many things and i just had a very little accident, i "collide" another car at just at 25-30 max miles/h...could it got worse?, yes!, you should see the other car in front of me, it look like an accordion (it was a sedan model)...and i thank God for keeping us all safe, non of people involve in the accident had a severe injure...

i had my 4 year old on the back seat, on her car seat.....we were leaving the fireworks place for the 4th of july celebrations and some people couldn't decide which direction/exit to take on a 65 m/h highway, so they slow down all of the sudden, forgetting the cars coming behind, some of the cars could stop very close to each other and some of us just couldnt....there was a 3 car "accident" or "negligence" as a learn latter.

Emily on her gymnastic class....

Because this was my very first "offence" i went to an STOP class, a 10 hour class about driving. Over there, they told me i was negligent to stop, i fight that assumption with the officer but i was the last car on the line of the accident, so they say it was my fault....which i think still it wasnt....same as the 40 other people in the class, 90 % of them for speeding. When i heard their stories and how much they complain about the "stupid officers" who give them a ticket just for speeding from 5-10 miles/h, i start to think more about my case....

Watching TV......

This other people in the class believe they had no fault because there was no accident involve....in my case i stop thinking who's fault was it and think more how to avoid this situations, and that was why the class was for, to learn to be prepare for ANY situation, i think specially to watch out for those other 30-35 people in my class that feel speeding it is not an issue....i am so glad i took the class, i learn a lot, specially to take my time while driving, even when i am not a speeder, but for not to cross with one....

Double ride....Emily is not a good walker.....but Sophie is a good sharing...well sometimes....

I learned to do not look for my daughter water cup while i am driving (even if it is just next to me), i dont turn to see what she wants me to see, i always secure her very well on her car seat even if we are going close to home.....some of those things just take seconds, like giving her some tissue to blow her nose, but i realize we loose a fraction of our attention to the road, and that fraction could mean to be dead or alive, or injured.....as i said, my was a very tiny accident, but i had pain for 3 weeks over my neck, head and eyes, and then my body.....and i was using my seat belt.

In Peru just not long ago they made a law for everybody to always use a seat belt....just no more than 5 years ago......still, there is not law for the use of car seats, but in the last couple of years i saw more people using it, it think just like a fashion thing (not everybody has one).....and when something is a fashion on Peru, locals start making their own imitation, most of the times a really bad one...two years ago i wanted to buy a helmet for emily to ride her bike while we were on Peru, and what i saw was the most terrible products i had even seen, because it was meant to be for the kids to be safe....this "helmet" had a strong white interior like any others but the exterior was a copy of the picture of some kids idol in a plastic just as hard as a bottle of water!!!!!...i walked away just sad, i remember talking about this to every person to came in front to me but as the time past by cowardly i try to think in something else....

Please be careful and safe....for your kids, your family, those others kids, their moms and dads, and also for your own sake, not because you dont have kids or they are somewhere else allow you or me to be negligent, dont forget we are also someone else child....and it will kill them if anything happens to us.... STOP!...i do.....