Sofía is here !

Sofía Ana Isabel was born August 11th, 2006 at 18:10. She weighted 3.710 kg, measured 50cm. She came with a head full of hair and she brought pure joy to the family.

Sofía, her mom and her dad are all happy and doing more than fine. Carolina and Pablo are slowly getting down to this incredible business of parenthood, which is quite fun, very rewarding, and perhaps a tad exhausting, specially when one does not yet know very well neither what the problem is, nor the range of possible solutions.

Anyhow, so far, so good! Much better than good! Will keep you all posted.

Molly in Brussels

Our good friend Molly was in Nice taking some french language classes. On her way back to the US, she made a little detour and passed a few days with us in Brussels. It was really nice to have her with us, hopefully next time Patrick will come as well !-)

Uploaded Some Older Pictures

We have uploaded some older pictures!.. You can access the albums direclty by clicking on the thumbnails below.

França vence o Brasil por 1 a 0 e acaba com sonho do hexa

Com um futebol medíocre, quase sem chutar ao gol adversário, o Brasil perdeu para a França por 1 a 0, com gol de Thierry Herry, e deu adeus ao sonho de conquistar o hexacampeonato. Mais, de quem é a culpa pela eliminação da seleção brasileira? Do técnico Carlos Alberto Parreira, que escalou mal o time !

The US Supreme Court Blocks Trials at Guantánamo

The Supreme Court today delivered a sweeping rebuke to the Bush administration, ruling that the military tribunals it created to try terror suspects violate both American military law and the Geneva Conventions.

Read the article on the New York Times.

España cae en el mundial

Una pena pero España se vuelve a quedar en las puertas del mundial. Juega como nunca, y pierde como siempre. Bueno, dentro de 4 añitos quizas.

Bueno, lo unico positivo, no tendremos animos divididos en el proximo Brasil-Francia. Vamos Ronaldinho!

Tirar de orejas

Tave cumple hoy sus 33 años. Lo festejamos ayer todos en familia (menos papa que esta de viaje en Brasil, pero llamo por teléfono), aprovechando que mama estaba en Bruselas. La pasamos muy rico: comimos gazpacho, gambas y de postre… una deliciosa tarta de ciruelas. Mama se trajo unas ciruelas del arbol de casa en Palma Sola, y estaban como siempre: muy exquisitas.

Hoy almorzamos juntos Tave, Carolina y yo, nos volvimos a ver Pulp Fiction, miramos un poco de fútbol y claro esta, le tiramos las orejas a Tave con mucho tesón, para seguir con la tradición. Aquí una foto de Carolina y Tave en el acto:

Mas fotos aqui.

“D” day is fast approaching…

“D” for “Delivery”. Seems quite a big deal from here! Some pics of Carolina with 34 weeks. To compare with the pictures of 27 weeks look here.

Ya se acerca el día “D”, de “Delivery”. Poco mas o menos tan importante como el desembarco en Normandia. Al menos desde aqui parece. Unas fotos de Carolina con 34 semanitas, y para comparar con las fotos de 27 semanas haz click aqui.

Sourire, c’est beau de vivre

Carolina ma vie mon amour et moi, allons tout en grandissant,
Un peu, beaucoup, à la folie, aimer en chavirant,
et depuis peu, entre nous deux, aimer en attendant,
une petite fille, qui sera là, tout simplement,
en pleine chaleur, en plein été, à la moisson…

Présente, proche, en s’agitant,
elle cogne, elle se remue,
nous dit bonjour à sa façon,
sourit déjà, serrée dans son cocon…

Et de sourire, c’est beau de vivre,
et de rêver, c’est fou d’aimer,
et sans savoir, c’est fou d’y croire!

C’est simple et naturel,
c’est si neuf mais si réel,
à la fois calme comme c’est fébrile,

d’ainsi languir et découvrir
ma fille, cette vie nouvelle,
qui va venir.

Pablo

Websites as graphs ?

Here is a neat graphic visualization of my blog. The different nodes represent different html tags. Each color has a different meaning: links are in blue, tables in red, DIVs in green, images in violet, and so forth. Quite an interesting representation, don’t you think ?

You can view the graph and how it is created by clicking on the image…