Paces in Argentina

First off, a bunch of baby pictures:  Introducing Ian to our friend Cesar He really is smiling now! Not just in his sleep :) All my babies to compare. We don't stray too far from the mold. Starting at top left: Ian, Charlotte, Imogen, Wesley, Jack. I got really adventurous last weekend and Ian and I joined everyone on a river/campo/asado day trip. We took a water taxi out to the delta where we could ride horses, paddle along the river, zip-line, and have lunch made for us.  View of a gorgeous art museum along the water taxi route Where we spent the day Working on his teenage angst Special blanket from his great-grandmother who is part of the original Argentina saga Zip-line pro. I was shocked she did it, but she loved it! Argentine asado, with a smorgasbord of meat--steak, chicken, chorizo, tripe, blood sausage Our air shipment finally came and Imogen represents us all in enthusiasm. Our sea shipment will probably come in another 2+ months.  Nana celebrated her birthday w...

Ian Randall Pace born March 1  8 lbs 12 oz, pretty long and practically perfect After watching my due date come and go we decided our baby had cooked long enough and asked if the doctor would be willing to induce me. This happened to be the second day of Carnival and his clinic wasn't open, so he made a house call to decide if I was in a good place to be induced. We've discovered house calls are one of the perks of Argentinian health care. He gave us the green light and that afternoon we headed to the hospital to have our baby.  The doctor has a midwife that helps him. She turned out to not be my favorite person....but she did her job and essentially got that baby out all by herself. Maybe she had a Carnival party she wanted to get to that night, but she was bound and determined to have baby come....which is what we asked for I guess. All turned out well in the end, but baby swallowed some amniotic fluid and had to spend the first night in the NICU. He's 100% okay and doing...

We have our Nana here! She arrived Tuesday morning. It's so nice to have her help and calming presence in our home. Grandpa is due to arrive in two days and then baby boy is welcome to come any time. Hopefully sooner rather than later.  Dropping Imogen off at preschool The kids have spent a lot of time in the pool and this little lady is now putting her head under water and swimming a decent distance on her own. If she's not at school, she's usually in her swimsuit.  Paula, a sweet primary leader in our ward offered to teach the kids to crochet (Jack's dream). Wesley was a bit jealous so I worked on finger knitting with him :)  We had been told by a few people that there was a decent little zoo near downtown with lots of great animals (white tiger, rhino, hippos...) so we tried it out yesterday. I'm not exactly sure what was going on, but everything was boarded up and this was about as good as it got:  We saw the head of a giraffe behind the closed-off areas, so we...