In this edition you'll find: letters, crawling, gluten-free, and work

It's a highlights reel kind of week.

This week we:

• Played at the park. Sometimes with friends sometimes just us.

  

  This is the little park across the street from out house.

  
  

  

  Joined by Piggie. Reunited after a few months absence. Thanks Grandma!

• Kiersten is working! Training a client in the mornings and teaching a saxophone/piano student in the evenings. (Same kid, two instruments, two different nights.) So fun to earn money for things she loves doing... and helping people. That too. And being her own boss.

  

  Helping Mommy carry her heavy gym bag.

  

  Prepping for the lesson.

• Finley is crawling up a storm. Everywhere. Trying to crawl over things and so proud of herself.

  

  Under the table at dinner...

  

  ... in the hallway with a spoon...

  
  

  

  ... and at church in a dress.
• Scott and Kiersten had a wonderful lunch date on Friday. Went to our favorite little cafe, Cafe de Aca.

  

  Huevos rotos. Best thing on the menu IMO.

• Because Kiersten is teaching saxophone this encouraged Scott to pull out his horn for the first time since we moved.

  

  Not sure who enjoyed it more.

• Mackenzie now recognizes the letter "M" and identifies it all over the place. "'M' para Mackenzie!" ('M' for Mackenzie!)

  

  Found at the park.

  
  

  

  Practicing her letters with Daddy.
• The weather has been all over the place.  It's hot, it's cold, it's windy, it's cloudy.

  

  Some hang time on Friday.

• Friday night pizza night!!

  

  This is the best meal. Mackenzie can get in on the action. (Yes that's an ice cream scooper.)

  
  

  

  Mommy's pizza. Gluten and dairy-free because I can. And still yummy.

• We added some more Paraguayan home goods to our collection this week. Weaved placemats!

  

  So cute! I'm in love!

• Finley experienced sand for the first time. She's a fan. Didn't eat any this go around.
  
• Scott gave a talk in church on Sunday! It was about the Temple and in Spanish and very good.
• Packages from Grandma Hammond came! Cue Princess dresses.
  
• At the beginning of each month Mackenzie's school has an art showcase where they display all the art from the previous month. It's really adorable.

  

  Piggie has been her constant for two days.

  
  

  

  We love this little school!

• At bedtime this week, Mackenzie told Daddy her version of the three little pigs. It had all the major plot points; dog instead of wolf, house made of sand, chinny-chin-chin, puff and puff, etc.
• Kiersten is learning that gluten (in foods) affects her negatively so she's on a quest to find and make gluten-free foods. She made a batch of gluten-free cookies which came out flat but tasted fine. A woman in our ward owns a gluten-free bakery and has offered to teach K how to bake. We visited the store and tried out some treats today.

  

  Alfajores are a traditional Paraguayan dessert. And they were...

  

  ... Delicious! And she said she'd teach Kiersten how to make them! Dream come true!

• Finley is teething again? Just show up little pearly whites!
• Finley doesn't mind "flying" anymore. She used to get stiff and shake when we tossed her up and now she doesn't mind it.
• AND!! Finley has said, "mama"! We are counting it as her first word. She has since moved on to "dada/tata" and other babblings. AND! she can kind-of, sort-of wave! So cute!!

  

  Practicing her waving skills with Nanima.

And that's a wrap!

We leave for Bariloche in 2 days! So excited to see and play in snow!