Week 6 — Back to Reality & Happy Birthday to Will!
After our week of adventures, we’ve returned to normalcy. We have one more international trip to do (Uruguay) but are saving that until the end, when we’re sure some kid sickness will derail us. This past week we transitioned back to home, got settled, and visited Japanese Gardens, a French food festival, and spent the weekend with our friends the D’Ignazio’s in the park. Oh and Will turned 2!
Just as we settled in, we’re now feeling the time pressure as we are within 3 weeks of home. Emma and Mae do miss home and friends (Mae more). We’ve found that having such concentrated family time, just all 5 of us hanging out, has been the most valuable part of the trip. And not having to think about mowing lawns or cleaning cars.
Exciting small update for next week: The girls are spending their last three weeks in a school! It’s a story for next week, but emerged from Amy visiting school’s, meeting the founder of a school’s who’s the daughter of a Hungarian journalist who invented the ball point pen…and has resulted in Emma and Mae having a place in this amazing school. We’re super lucky. And the girls take taxi’s to school every day! Which they think is the cool, even if they can’t understand anything in the school.
Now, onto highlights of the week!
MALBA — We went mid-week to the Museum of Latin American Art, Buenos Aires (MALBA) to see some contemporary art in a really cool building. There were lots of interesting pieces, and lots of pieces involved some nude body parts. Mae wishes she had a picture to share :-)
Japanese Gardens — We met our friends the D’Ignazio’s at the Japanese Gardens to take a walk, and make some serious oragami. ps: Will was sleeping most of this time, so he’s not in any pics, which was nice. It was a peaceful walk.
French Festival — after the gardens we were walking down to a street market and came across a french festival with food and live music, and next to some street culture that Emma and Mae loved. Will…sleeping :-)
Park, Ice Cream and Bikes — for Will’s second birthday we hit the park for soccer, a walk through the rose garden, ice cream, and renting some go carts (and a group bicycle thing that we hated so much we took no pictures of).
Happy 2nd Birthday Will! — Finally, when home on Sunday night we had a nice cake and a gift for Will to open. He’s a third kid of course, so we had nothing until the walk home. Bare bones celebration. Let’s see how we deal with Mae next week.
Finally, here’s an unedited (read: we’re lazy) video of Will singing and blowing out his candles!
Until next week,
Love, Emma Mae Amy Will Paul
ps: Girls are back to school :-) and will is now part of mom’s exercise routine!
