Happy Independence Chile

Salud!

We are back home (in Cusco) after spending 2 lovely weeks in Santiago. We had a great time with Ricky's family. And Isabella finalized her Chilean citizenship. She is officially American/Chilean!
Bueno, estamos de nuevo en casa en Cusco despues de dos semanas muy lindas en Santiago. Tuvimos un buen tiempo con la familia de Ricky. Y Isabellita finalizo su nacionalidad Chilena! Ella es officialmente una gringa/chilena!

Claudio celebrated his 26th birthday... Claudio cumplio 26...
We celebrated Chile's Independence day on the 18th at home with a BBQ. There aren't words to explain how great it was. YUM! Here is Peter dressed as a Huaso (typical men from the south of Chile).
Celebramos la Independencia de Chile el dia 18 en casa con un asado. No hay palabras para explicar cuan bueno fue. Que Rico! Aqui esta Pedro vestido como Huaso (ustedes saben quienes son, cierto)
We also got to see Maria Laura's pregnant belly! We are going to be tios. Ricky's brother, Angello, is looking forward to being a daddy.
Tambien, pudimos ver la guatita de la Maria Laura. Vamos a ser tios! Angello esta emocionado por ser papa.

We went to a fonda (kind of like a fair) where they sell empanadas and other yummy food. There are games and kiddie rides. I had a cheese empanada, actually two of them. They were fantastic.

Fuimos a una fonda donde vendieron empanadas y otra comida rica. Comimos empanadas de queso. Eran fantastico.

Isabella behaved like an angel (as always).. she did well with changing her bedtime and with all the new people. She goes to (almost) anyone and is always super smiley, so people love her (why wouldn't they?? haha)

Isabellita porto como una angelita (como siempre)... ella ajusto bien su horario de dormir y con todas las nuevas personas. Ella se deja tomar por cualquier persona y siempre esta riendose, entonces a la gente le encanta (y porque no, cierto? jeje)

More pictures coming as soon as I'm able. Now that we're back home, Isabella is trying to readjust to a schedule. She slept in till 8:30am today and only took a 20 minute nap in the whole day! She's also waking up like a thousand times (only 2 but at one point was awake for like 45 minutes) during the night, not wanting to eat, but wanting to be in bed with us. The reason is because she slept in bed with us almost the whole time while we were in Chile, so she doesn't want that to change! Ugh! Oh and she doesn't want to nurse much anymore, she's eating 3 meals a day and nursing a few times but even though she doesn't want to eat during the night, she wants to nurse for comfort. Anyway, it's tough, but we'll get through this.

Voy a poner mas fotos pronto. Ahora que estamos en casa, Isabella esta tratando de reajustarse a su rutina. Hoy, por ejemplo, durmio hasta las 8:30AM y solo durmio 20 minutos durante el dia. Esta despertando mucho en la noche, como mil veces (no es verdad, solo dos... pero eso es suficiente). No quiere comer en la noche.. ella quiere estar con nosotros en la cama! La razon es porque ella durmio con nosotros casi todo el tiempo en Chile. No quiere cambiar eso. Otra cosa es que no quiere amamantar tanto, esta comiendo como 3 veces al dia. en la noche quiere tomar papita para relajarse mas que alimentarse. Es un poco dificil, pero lo soportaremos!


For those who are interested, Isabella has 2 teeth that arrived the beginning of September. She also started clapping, waving hello/chao and is giving kisses. I love how she's growing... but it's just going too fast! Now she wants to feed herself. She loves finger foods. How did that happen so fast??

Isabella ya tiene dos dientes, que llegaron al principio de Septiembre. Tambien comenzo a aplaudir, saludar hola y chao, y esta dando besos. Me encanta como esta creciendo... pero pasa demasiado rapido. Ahora quiere comer sola, le encanta las comidas que puede agarrar con los deditos. Como llegamos a este punto tan rapido??

Well I'm tired but I vow to blog again soon. We have a million fotos of which I need to sort through and choose a few to post here.

Bueno, estoy cansada pero prometo escribir de nuevo. tengo un millon de fotos que necesito ordenar y elegir algunas mas para poner aca. Chao